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The IDF has a serious child-killing problem

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Many commentators and journalists have noted how the IDF seems to kill an abnormal amount of children for the type of conflict that Israel and Palestine are involved in. No week passes by without reports of incidents where the IDF bombs children and kills children. And no other conflict sees this level of barbarism when it comes to killing children. Stories like this are all too common in this conflict

And what happens?? There are international condemnations, and there are justifications from the USA. And then nothing more. It is a brutal cycle and in the last 20 years 2500 children have been murdered by Israelis.

And worse?? The soldiers on the ground seem to know this fact and they do not care. Back in 2009, Israeli t-shirts made fun of killing arab pregnant women and young children. How utterly barbaric.

The typical response from Israel apologists is that the Palestinians use human shields, including children. This is basically a justification for Israel to put the blame of their civilian deaths onto Hamas. But as usual with Israeli/chosen people tropes, it is a lie.


"If the use of human shields was so wide as to cause hundreds upon hundreds of dead Palestinian civilians, then surely there would be a reporter or an observer on the ground that could have caught a whiff of it. But reporters on the ground could find no trace of such a supposedly widespread action, Jeremy Bowen of the BBC wrote that he found no evidence of the use of human shields while he was covering the assault on Gaza. Similarly, Kim Sengupta writing for the Belfast Telegraph interviewed Palestinians in Gaza and unsurprisingly came to a similar conclusion: Hamas was not forcing anybody to be a human shield, counter to Netanyahu’s claims."

The fact is that Hamas isn't forcing anybody to be a human shield. Gaza City is extremely dense so it makes sense how military infrastructure can get intertwined with civilian, but that is not the definition of human shields. Hamas isn't using them, and Israel is bombing non-military targets on the weekly.
 
You would expect God's CHOSEN people to act a little better, right?? (their words, not mine)
 
A strange feature of the Israeli-Palestine conflict is that Israel actually hires lots of Palestinian construction workers. This might be very short-sighted because Palestinian workers wouldn't be developing their own state. Israel also wouldn't feel as restrained in imposing economic sanctions on Palestine if they felt as if they were almost like benevolent slave owners towards temporary immigrants. There's further difficulty if macho Palestinian workers in Israel violently attack Israelis or inflame them with racist anti-Semitic abuse which would result in even more racist retaliatory bombings. People not familiar with the conflict might feel as if it was a sexy BDSM arrangement in how Palestinians and Israelis can work together and yet kill each other so often. The irony is that Israel may very well be hampering economic trade between the West and Palestine such that any employment offered by Israel is far outweighed by the lost revenue from sanctions. Israel simply isn't the size of France when it comes to tackling Islamic extremists. So one can only assume they're relying on the prospect of American aid to protect against major wars with Islam. Although they're forgetting that America can be very amoral such that Israel is being reckless in not fostering moral ties with Europe if such a catastrophe were to ever happen. America would likely be on no-one's side if it involved an American ally like Turkey or Saudi Arabia.
 
Not logical.

Communication between ships, aircraft and ground control show a pattern of confusion...

Once identity of USS LIBERTY was confirmed the torpedo boats quit attacking.
"It is an American shirp sir"

"No matter, fire"
 
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