• stevehobbes
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    1 year ago

    Their stated goals are to rescue hostages and regime change by eliminating Hamas. If the goal is to kill maximum civilians they’re doing a really poor job.

    If you just want the land, you just need to move people forcibly or buy it (it’s not like they’re particularly wealthy) and a plan to keep it. If your goal is genocide which so many people suggest, you kinda have to kill them no?

    This is part of my problem with all the reactionary takes here - they aren’t consistent with what we’re actually seeing behavior wise.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If the goal is to kill maximum civilians they’re doing a really poor job.

      Again, you’re focusing on it having to be executed in minimum time, and on that being a single goal, but as you say, there are more goals, and some of the goals may need to be accomplished before the others (like rescuing hostages), hence it not happening immediately or… as fast as you personally expect, or something. I also think some goals could be political bullshit, no offense. Just going by how racist both sides are towards each other, and hearing them both say the other side needs to be exterminated… 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

      • stevehobbes
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        1 year ago

        Fair enough. There’s a lot of animosity there. But it feels like all of the reactions here are focused on calling it and framing it as a genocide at all costs.