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Apr 27 2026 02:41pm
BS. you think I believe your crap saying that Ukrainian troops do not hid in Hospitals and residential buildings ? :lol:


Has it happened at least a handful of times over the course of 4+ years of war? Sure. Does it happen all the damn time? Hell no, because hiding behind civilians is not part of the core strategy of Ukraine's military. It's quite the opposite: Russia's constant attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure leave no doubt about them trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people.



Your moral nihilism is a non sequitur. The fact that all sides use propaganda and commit warcrimes in armed conflict does not automatically imply that all sides are equally bad or engage in propaganda/warcrimes at the same frequency or magnitude. Believing that there can be morally superior sides in particular conflicts does not automatically imply that I'm a victim of "my side's" propaganda.

And just for the record: there are plenty of wars in which I considered the West, or the side the West was backing, to be in the morally inferior position: Syria, Libya, Iraq, or when Azerbaijan recently steamrolled Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh with tacit NATO backing. I just happen to prefer the Western/Israeli side in the two most salient wars of today (Gaza/Ukraine).

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Apr 27 2026 10:34pm
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-palestine-population/
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-down-by-6-since-start-war-palestinian-statistics-bureau-2025-01-01/


Gaza makes up almost half of the population of Palestine, so if the overall growth in Palestine is back at +100k / year, basically the same rate it was before the war, it is mathematically impossible for the population of Gaza to have shrunk noticeably in 2025 and 2026. The reuters article cites the Palestinian authorities themselves claiming that Gaza lost some 6% of its population from Oct 2023 through the end of 2024, i.e. the hottest phase of the war. At a 2.5% natural yearly growth rate, they will roughly have made up the population loss by now. And even if they haven't fully today, they will definitely have made it up by the end of 2026.

Simply put, a one-time 6% population loss (according to Palestinian authorities!), with half of it coming from displacement rather than casualties, does not clear the threshold to be considered genocide.


The 6% includes 150,000 that flee.


The legal term “genocide” refers to certain acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

When you slaugher 20.000+ kids the "in part" is very much in play.
The ethnic cleansing, the displacments, the complete destructions of 34 out of 36 hospitals, all the schools and universities ect ect ect
Most, genocide scholars including israeli ones, say it's genocide. So there's no argument left to had on this front. It's not a debate just like you won't debate that 2 + 2 is 4.. You could have clinged on to the fact that it was hamas authorities casualties and they cannot be trusted but israel has admitted to them being accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_health_facilities_during_the_Gaza_war
What israel is doing is beyond reprehensible it's unforgiving and sanctions must be placed on the country to force the government to abdicate.


Where is the intent?
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Apr 28 2026 12:44am
The 6% includes 150,000 that flee.




Where is the intent?


Israeli leadership has called for total annihalation of gaza and called all palestinians animals and netanyahu has called for Amalek against the population meaning there's no uninvolved citizens. That's for me intent enough.

But we can add to intent as it's definitely intentional when majority of the hospitals, universities, schools and in general all infrastructure has been completely destroyed.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1616491/gaza-war-infrastructure-damage-destruction/?srsltid=AfmBOooMwMIsvqE-YHeLLH5FKnq7RU7UhZdqi3xReI9oLHSq_ehY-6W2

81% of all structures destroyed.
77% roads
93% water insecurity
87% croplands destroyed
93% schools destroyed
37% primary healt care centers are partially functional
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Israeli leadership has called for total annihalation of gaza and called all palestinians animals and netanyahu has called for Amalek against the population meaning there's no uninvolved citizens. That's for me intent enough.

But we can add to intent as it's definitely intentional when majority of the hospitals, universities, schools and in general all infrastructure has been completely destroyed.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1616491/gaza-war-infrastructure-damage-destruction/?srsltid=AfmBOooMwMIsvqE-YHeLLH5FKnq7RU7UhZdqi3xReI9oLHSq_ehY-6W2

81% of all structures destroyed.
77% roads
93% water insecurity
87% croplands destroyed
93% schools destroyed
37% primary healt care centers are partially functional


Amazing if 81% of buildings destroyed how did 97% population survived?

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Apr 28 2026 01:12am
Amazing if 81% of buildings destroyed how did 97% population survived?


So you need to make your argument clear how this doesn't mean intent.
Also +20,000 innocent kids are fucking dead and counting so you better make one hell of an argument here..
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Apr 28 2026 01:17am
So you need to make your argument clear how this doesn't mean intent.
Also +20,000 innocent kids are fucking dead and counting so you better make one hell of an argument here..


How did 97% survived?
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Apr 28 2026 01:23am
How did 97% survived?


Repeating yourself doesn't make your argument clearer?
If your argument is that israel warned them, and therefor it was not intent, why did they bomb the buildings and hospitals to begin with?
If your argument is that israel could just kill them all if they wanted to, then go see a psychiatrist.
And why, since the ceasefire, has israel continued to bomb gaza incl designated safe zones?
That's "intent to in part destroy".
Out of morbid curiousity what percentage of the palestinian population should die before you would consider it genocide?
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Apr 28 2026 03:48am
Has it happened at least a handful of times over the course of 4+ years of war? Sure. Does it happen all the damn time? Hell no, because hiding behind civilians is not part of the core strategy of Ukraine's military. It's quite the opposite: Russia's constant attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure leave no doubt about them trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people.



Your moral nihilism is a non sequitur. The fact that all sides use propaganda and commit warcrimes in armed conflict does not automatically imply that all sides are equally bad or engage in propaganda/warcrimes at the same frequency or magnitude. Believing that there can be morally superior sides in particular conflicts does not automatically imply that I'm a victim of "my side's" propaganda.

And just for the record: there are plenty of wars in which I considered the West, or the side the West was backing, to be in the morally inferior position: Syria, Libya, Iraq, or when Azerbaijan recently steamrolled Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh with tacit NATO backing. I just happen to prefer the Western/Israeli side in the two most salient wars of today (Gaza/Ukraine).


Frenchy is way more consistent than you.
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Apr 28 2026 06:25am
Has it happened at least a handful of times over the course of 4+ years of war? Sure. Does it happen all the damn time? Hell no, because hiding behind civilians is not part of the core strategy of Ukraine's military. It's quite the opposite: Russia's constant attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure leave no doubt about them trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people.



Your moral nihilism is a non sequitur. The fact that all sides use propaganda and commit warcrimes in armed conflict does not automatically imply that all sides are equally bad or engage in propaganda/warcrimes at the same frequency or magnitude. Believing that there can be morally superior sides in particular conflicts does not automatically imply that I'm a victim of "my side's" propaganda.

And just for the record: there are plenty of wars in which I considered the West, or the side the West was backing, to be in the morally inferior position: Syria, Libya, Iraq, or when Azerbaijan recently steamrolled Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh with tacit NATO backing. I just happen to prefer the Western/Israeli side in the two most salient wars of today (Gaza/Ukraine).


i find it pretty funny that israel maintains any sense of moral high ground after the story broke about the "where's daddy" AI driven targeting system that purposely waited until they got back with their families to strike them, even in refugee camps, and almost exclusively low level suspected Hamas fighters. not even generals. they literally made a system to track henchmen and kill their families with them. then used it.
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Apr 28 2026 08:01am
Has it happened at least a handful of times over the course of 4+ years of war? Sure. Does it happen all the damn time? Hell no, because hiding behind civilians is not part of the core strategy of Ukraine's military. It's quite the opposite: Russia's constant attacks on residential buildings and civilian infrastructure leave no doubt about them trying to break the will of the Ukrainian people.



Your moral nihilism is a non sequitur. The fact that all sides use propaganda and commit warcrimes in armed conflict does not automatically imply that all sides are equally bad or engage in propaganda/warcrimes at the same frequency or magnitude. Believing that there can be morally superior sides in particular conflicts does not automatically imply that I'm a victim of "my side's" propaganda.

And just for the record: there are plenty of wars in which I considered the West, or the side the West was backing, to be in the morally inferior position: Syria, Libya, Iraq, or when Azerbaijan recently steamrolled Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh with tacit NATO backing. I just happen to prefer the Western/Israeli side in the two most salient wars of today (Gaza/Ukraine).


lol

Israel war has printed more civilian deaths in less than a year vs the Russian war has in over 4 years. Last i checked the number was literally ~5x in magnitude. I don't know how you can objectively say the latter is clearly targetting civilians. If that was the case why wouldn't they be dropping Fabs in the middle of Kiev residential high rises for max pain?

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