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[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really weird to carpet bomb a country BEFORE doing anything about hostages that were taken there especially when the country is smaller than the state of Rhode Island by almost a factor of 10. Other countries have already gotten people freed, Israel was busy putting the hostages in danger.

[–] degen@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Add on to that the REFUSAL TO ACCEPT HOSTAGES because "we don't want your dirty bargaining chips (our citizens)". Yeah, really fucking weird.

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, what? I haven't been following these last few days. Can you share a link?

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Israel (8550 square miles) is about the size of New Jersey. Gaza (141 square miles) is half the size of New York City and the West Bank (2182 square miles) is a little smaller than Delaware or two Rhode Islands.

For the west coast Americans, Israel is bit bigger than the SF Bay Area. Gaza is three times the size of San Francisco. The West Bank is roughly the size of Sonoma and Marin counties together.

[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The gaza strip is 140 square miles. No ones dropping years worth of munitions on the west bank right now. All those bombs that added up to more than a year of the US bombing Afghanistan are falling in 140 square miles. You know where the bombs are dropping. Lets keep on the Afghanistan comparison. They have a quarter million square miles and got in one year what Gaza got in two weeks. Afghanistan has over 1700 times the area of the Gaza strip.