Forward from: Palestinian Lounge 🇵🇸
To those kvetching and accusing the fighters of Palestine and Lebanon of positioning their assets at or near "civilian structures" :
Arguing from within the confines of a morality based off of Jewish accusations is pointless. Even if one were to satisfy these Jewish rules of engagement, that are only ever applied to Israel's enemies, it would not prevent or assuage the Jewish crimes that immediately follow the accusations from being commited.
So what if Hamas or Hezbollah attacks Israel near residential areas?
Where else would they fight from given where they're located and their current situation?
Should they paint a giant red X on a military base for Israel to obliterate?
Or should they just let their people get murdered and ethnically cleansed without ever fighting back?
Jews would kill non-jews regardless of their combat status. Just look at Gaza.
Granting their point validity also accepts their rhetorical framing, that this is a "conventional war," even though in practice Jews don't distinguish between fighters and civilians. This ultimately acquiesces to the Jewish framing of these conflicts as Israel vs Hamas, and Israel vs Hezbollah rather than what they actually are: Jews vs Arabs.
As if Hamas spawned out of nowhere, and took over a population that had no grievances whatsoever against Israel yet just happened to find itself in such a brutal situation! In a conventional war, with material objectives, there would be a degree of separation between civilians and fighters with respect to how the war is waged and why. In this case, however, both the Arab fighters and the civilians are fighting for their lives against the Jewish enemy, thus all means to defeat them are valid and moral.
Arguing from within the confines of a morality based off of Jewish accusations is pointless. Even if one were to satisfy these Jewish rules of engagement, that are only ever applied to Israel's enemies, it would not prevent or assuage the Jewish crimes that immediately follow the accusations from being commited.
So what if Hamas or Hezbollah attacks Israel near residential areas?
Where else would they fight from given where they're located and their current situation?
Should they paint a giant red X on a military base for Israel to obliterate?
Or should they just let their people get murdered and ethnically cleansed without ever fighting back?
Jews would kill non-jews regardless of their combat status. Just look at Gaza.
Granting their point validity also accepts their rhetorical framing, that this is a "conventional war," even though in practice Jews don't distinguish between fighters and civilians. This ultimately acquiesces to the Jewish framing of these conflicts as Israel vs Hamas, and Israel vs Hezbollah rather than what they actually are: Jews vs Arabs.
As if Hamas spawned out of nowhere, and took over a population that had no grievances whatsoever against Israel yet just happened to find itself in such a brutal situation! In a conventional war, with material objectives, there would be a degree of separation between civilians and fighters with respect to how the war is waged and why. In this case, however, both the Arab fighters and the civilians are fighting for their lives against the Jewish enemy, thus all means to defeat them are valid and moral.