I am just quoting this to acknowledge I read your post.



This post was edited by ferdia on Aug 1 2025 04:39am

Acknowledgment received, have a cola

does it taste the same as diet coke?

Hamas would struggle to fill their ranks without under-18 fighters. Doesn't make it any better, but worth mentioning for perspective.



Indonesia is in the midst of a rapid islamization anyway. Not surprising at all that they would jump onto the bandwagon. If anything, I'm surprised it took them this long.

Its one of those fundamental complexities of the conflict that gets thrown out with the histrionics on either side, and that includes both israeli propaganda and the new york times alike
Hamas uses civilians as human shields because they have no choice but to operate inside civilian areas, they can't exist as some well organized army on an isolated battlefield. And yet they purposefully maximize the exposure of civilians and build command centers under hospitals. Hamas uses child soldiers, because Palestinians breed like rabbits and almost half the entire population of Gaza is under 18 years old. They send children to ambush the IDF or strap suicide vests to them. And yet, western propaganda will run pieces about how its a self-evident war crime that Israel has killed so many children. The blockade vs Palestinians receiving arms from Iran. The rights of Palestinians and their apartheid, versus how they'd kill every jew if they took power. etc etc

I don't know all the solutions to the conflict or even the truth of what is actually going on behind the fog of war, but I do know when people are lying to us.
The BBC did a radio segment yesterday with their reporter being allowed to fly along as supplies were airdropped. He said how Israel wouldn't let him film the devastation he could see below, how they didn't want the world getting photographs of the destroyed cities. He didn't mention how the IDF has said they won't let reporters take aerial photos that would expose IDF positions to Hamas and give them operational intel. And whether you believe their motives and ulteriors, that's a plainly valid reason and the reporter is clearly aware of it, and yet, never said anything about it. I know he knows, I know he's lying by omission.

on that last point thats IDF bs imo. what hamas? like in a real sense they still exist in some number, whether its 100 soldiers or 2,000 makes little to no difference. they're currently entrenched in the civilian population in refugee camps just like everyone else. maybe some have AK47s hid away in their shack, but to suggest they have a standing fighting force that's waiting on orders from Hamas HQ to strike an israeli point that is exposed by a BBC aerial photo seems absurd. i havent even heard of the IDF facing serious resistance in months. internal reports show they're currently shifted towards just moving people to camps, sweeping mostly empty cities, and mostly dodging booby traps. even if a position was given up they lack any guided strike capabilities to hit it, they'd MAYBE launch a bottle rocket style homemade missile in the vague direction of where they think the IDF is based on a report that by that point could be hours or days old.

but 100% agree with the rest, and its abhorrent how little we hear both sides in context.

You have to understand that Israel has a siege mentality. In this mentality, Hamas is everywhere and has capabilities that no other entity on the planet has. It has embedded itself in the UN, It controls every NGO on the planet and dozens of countries and its standing right behind you as you are reading this sentence.

This post was edited by ferdia on Aug 1 2025 02:35pm

IDF has been losing soldiers every week. They really don't want Hamas getting ideas of where to set their ambushes, where to booby trap buildings, when to relocate their headquarters
In Khan Yunis on saturday they had two soldiers killed by an IED, another one killed in southern gaza "in battle" and two more severely injured in a separate gunfight

It would be wildly negligent for Israel to compromise their wartime security by allowing aerial photography of IDF positions. There's really just no scenario where they'd allow that even if they didn't have ulterior motives.

I condemn the side that uses drones to shoot children (Israel)