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Empire Citizen's avatar

Agreed. End the murdering and maiming of thousands of unarmed Palestinians. I see the U.S. equally culpable for this abhorrent situation.

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David Fisher's avatar

I think all of this is a bit naive. Israel does actually have a clear military plan that it has made public from the beginning: eliminate Hamas' offensive capacity to prevent a repetition of October 7. Whether that plan can succeed, whether all current tactics being used are necessary for that goal, whether that goal could be pursued with fewer civilian deaths, to what extent civilian deaths are caused by Hamas hiding among civilians, whether Netanyahu and his more right wing cronies might continue the war for a variety of reasons (including genocideal ones) after that goal is achieved, all that is debatable. But there is a clear short term military goal and I find it surprising the extent to which so many left critiques feel within their rights to blithely ignore that clear short term goal. And so implicitly ignore any Israeli concerns about a repeat of October 7th.

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