Our Bufoon in Chief has spoken.
No more thinking on the matter will be allowed. It is time to start killing women and children in the Middle East again.
An alternative might be to partner with Russia and China to defuse the conflict. But that would be to appease “unmitigated evil,” if I understand Uncle Joe correctly.
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I’m glad to see you expressing these sentiments, but they’ve never really considered Palestinians people.
The kind of bloodlust we’re hearing from all “official” sources right now is concerning. It reminds me of the atmosphere after 9/11. Seems like we’re about to jump in with both feet.
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I have no sympathy for Hamas. I am simply anti-war.
And anti-propaganda.
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I sent the following LTE to the Pilot, but I doubt it will be published
Hamas is using hostages and Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields to avoid destruction by Israel. The UN and our own government, as well as others, are urging Israel to hold back to save those innocents, but is that the moral thing to do?
Sometimes, in deciding how to address such questions, it helps to reduce it to a personal level. Imagine you are armed and you confront a mad gunman intent on shooting a school full of children. Naturally, it is moral to stop him with deadly force, but he snatches up a little girl and holds her up as a human shield. Do you hold fire?
If you do, or if you even hesitate, he is going to shoot you, kill the little girl himself, and then go on to kill scores of other children. The ONLY moral choice you have is to shoot through the little girl to stop him. Yes, the little girl will die, and you will have nightmares about it the rest of your life, but you must stop him nonetheless, horrible as that may be.
Israel faces that same choice.
Destroying Hamas, because Palestinians have allowed themselves to be used as human shields, cannot be done without horrendous civilian casualties. But if Israel allows Hamas to survive by hiding behind civilians, it will continue slaughtering innocents decades into the future. Worse, by allowing the tactic to succeed, that invites continued use of human shields by other terrorists all over the world.
The use of human shields is universally recognized as a war crime for good reason. It must never be allowed to succeed.
Israel must reduce collateral damage as much as possible, but it must not allow the use of human shields to stop it from destroying Hamas.
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