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By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem


The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He'd heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".

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[–] dontcarebear@lemmy.world -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Almost no one out there is supporting Hamas, and if you unilaterally support Israel, you are anti-Palestinian.

You are willfully ignoring my last comment to give your strawman some hay.

The fact that you think fighting Hamas includes indiscriminately bombing civilians shows you are in support of the ongoing genocide of an ethnic

minority Strawman, I never said that the IDF should or is bombing indiscriminately. That is YOUR belief and you're forcing it upon my words.

And to call yourself a minority to try to gain sympathy is pathetic at best.

Yet another misunderstanding. I didn't say that to garner sympathy. I said that to make the point that this situation is just a classical case of the Majority's tyranny. Granted, @risk suffered it worse, but the situation is just two sides of the same coin except I hang around in Lemmy and he hangs around in News websites.

The KKK is also a minority, so by your logic, we should all try to sympathize with their plight. Oh look, it's your favorite rhetorical instrument. A strawman.

[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Bombing refugee camps and hospitals is not indiscriminate. Got it. Those were legitimate military topics. Got it.

Now kindly fuck off.