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But, after the unborn Palestinian child is born then Israel can blow them up and claim they were human shields...and that there was nothing they could do to prevent it. Dr. Alexander seemingly has no problem with that.

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It is never a military’s duty to protect the lives of the enemy’s civilians. The can not intentionally target innocent civilians, but it they are with or near the enemy’s and they get hit in the crossfire, they are just SOL. If the enemy hides behind them, then the enemy is committing a war crime.

In short, it is HAMAS’s duty to protect the Palestinians, but they refuse to. They have dug miles of tunnels to protect Hamas, but not a single bomb shelter to protect Palestinians. Hamas is at fault here.

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Like hell! Military occupiers ARE responsible for the populations they occupy.

Sure, if the USA provided $4B per year in free weapons to Palestinians for defending themselves, then they’d have the arsenal they’d need. But the US has chosen to arm the lunatics who’ve seized control of US politics, media and foreign policy.

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Right now it is no longer an occupation. It is a war. Hamas broke the ceasefire agreement and restarted the war. Occupation comes after pacification. Hamas has not been pacified. Your argument holds no water.

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Such bullshit. It has been an occupation since invasion and everyone who knows anything about International Law knows that. And the law explicitly approves violence by those occupied against the forces of the occupation, while also denying that the occupier has self-defense rights anywhere within the occupied territories.

This is all from the ICJ in 2004.

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Facts on the ground differ greatly from your description. It is now a war.

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A war implies to armies. This is not a war. It is a turkey-shoot inside a brutal, sadistic, ILLEGAL military occupation and now a genocidal military occupation.

There is ZERO military justification for bombing 70,000 civilian residences. Zero. Israel thinks all they have to do is hallucinate a connection to Hamas and that covers them for as many dead civilians as they slaughter. But if they get away with what they are doing, every previously convicted and executed war-criminal deserves an apology.

Israel is conducting mechanized mass-slaughter of civilians, period. And if the US wasn’t fully politically-controlled by Zionists, it would not be supporting Israel’s war-crimes. If it still had any of the values it once had, it would destroy Israel’s armed forces and then arrest any surviving members of Israel’s criminal government and drop them off for trial at the Hague.

"If certain acts and violation are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others that we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

--Justice Robert H. Jackson

(The US may have had no such intention back then but ISRAEL SURE DOES TODAY.)

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Scott Ritter on the necessity of war crimes prosecutions of everyone in the chains-of-command from Netanyahu down to soldiers and pilots. “Just following orders” protected no one during the Nuremberg trials.

https://youtu.be/UVCSXYcGs78?si=rRRdRzMRVogc9t8w

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"War"

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Since when has Palestine been an actual nation state?

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You lie, as you do systematically. You are either illiterate in your history and geopolitics, and/or lying. You know nothing about international law, since it does not apply to designated terror organizations, only sanctioned military. Nor is there any *occupation* of Gaza by Israel, nor is the Levant occupied by any but its rightful occupant, Israel. Clearly, you are obstinately illiterate---or is it just deceitful?---about the history of the generic region of Palestine, as well as the history of the League of Nations.

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Israel left Gaza in 2005. How do you think Hamas was able to build all the tunnels if they were occupied? How could Hamas build all the rocket launchers and shoot rockets into Israel from Gaza if they were occupied?

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Palestinians say Israel broke the ceasefire agreement. Israel lies without ceasing. And there is statistical data on those breaches:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reigniting-violence-how-d_b_155611/amp

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Oct. 7th was the first breaking the led to the current situation. Hamas also carried out an attack that killed three within Israel.

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OK. So in the best case we now nuke the whole Gaza stripe. Its justified. They broke the ceasefire.

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Huffpost, really?

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You simplify and justify war crimes. You dont have any proof that "Hamas" broke the ceasefire. Even if, does this justify killing innocent civilians?

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What do you think Oct 7th was? They were not at a fight war at the time. And you too do not know what is and is not allowable. Killing innocent civilians is not a war crime, as horrible as it is. Intentionally targeting innocent civilians whether you kill them or not is the war crime. Killing them because they are in the way, or the enemy is using them for cover or they are mistakenly taken for enemy combatants is not a war crime.

Fact, civilians alway bear the brunt of a war. They die in far greater numbers than the warming militaries do. War is hell.

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This is for Tori. Look at who Israel is slaughtering:

Who are the Israelis slaughtering?

https://m.jpost.com/magazine/features/the-lost-palestinian-jews

This article, from the Jerusalem Post, mentions ben Gurion but does not go deep enough to drive home how important this is.

The first 15 minutes of this video, see link below, reaches and drives home the fact that ben Gurion and ben Zvi agreed the fellahin, the common folks of Palestine, were m o s t l y descendants of biblical era Jews. But don’t stop 15 minutes in. The best parts are in the genetic studies comparing Palestinians to a couple dozen different Jewish populations. Those data are amazing in the story they tell.

https://youtu.be/aBf8SeE3OAA?si=BMq2CCC6r5ag7pAp

What does this mean?

It means Israel is slaughtering exactly those people they wish and imagine they are - only the Pals have not been wandering Europe and Asia for 80 generations, intermarrying.

Whose claim to Palestine is superior? Whose claim is diminished or cancelled by constant massacres from arrival on? Who deserves a millenium in the penalty box or permanent banishment from Palestine?

Who deserves all their land back, now, and generous punitive and compensatory damages - in the $ trillions of dollars?

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You have got to be kidding me. No.

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Where in the world do you folks get this idea that one military has to stop shooting when the enemy military seeks cover behind civilians?

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Where in the world do you get the idea that a military can bomb civilian housing and kill thousands of innocent civilians and kids? Even if Hamas was hiding in those housing complexes, which they aren't, it wouldn't be justified. You know damn well that Hamas is in the underground tunnels, and not the civilian housing complexes, schools, and hospitals that are being bombed. Israel is killing 10 or more innocent civilians and kids per every one Hamas militant. One would have to be a delusional moron to believe that Israel is trying to protect civilians.

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The ancient castle Shurijo in Okinawa was bombed to smithereens during WW2 because the Japanese had a command bunker under it. Hamas dug those tunnels under the places you mention in part to hide under them. If the IDF bombs them, people react as you are. If the IDF does not bomb them, Hamas uses them to kill more IDF soldiers and more effective defended themselves, Hamas not the Palestinians.

Hamas is committing the war crimes by not using its resources to protect its civilian population and hiding within it.

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Agree

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Weird logic. According to your logic I may nuke all nations and the problem is the enemies military because they didnt protect "their" civilians which is their duty and its a war crime..

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Not my logic, it is true. War is a horrible enterprise. One that should not be undertaken except to defend the nation and its interests. It breaking things and killing people. It does have rules but what many on this thread or apparently believe are not among these.

It is a military’s duty break things and kill people of the enemy. It is the enemies duty to do the same and for both do take actions to protect their own civilian populations from the other. Germany, for instance, built their munition plants away from major population centers, at least for the most part. Japan did the opposite, turned each and every home into a munitions plant. Thus, Japanese crying foul over their homes being obliterated should fall on deaf ears.

Is your comment on nukes a logical progression to my argument in your mind?

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In Israel a termination committe approves almost all requests for abortion. Israel effectively has abortion on demand. You would agree, surely, that this is better than the Palestinian system. Abortion is illegal under Palestinian law and highly restricted in the OPT. Palestinian women are forced to turn to Israeli hospitals, to expensive private Palestinian clinics, or to self-induced termination when seeking an abortion. Surely it's time to support the extension to Palestinians of the Israeli system of free, safe abortion on demand.

SUPPORT PRO-CHOICE FOR PALESTINIANS.

WHAT DO WE WANT?

WE WANT THE ISRAELI SYSTEM OF ABORTION ON DEMAND, BORN ALIVE ABORTIONS INCLUDED, TO BE EXTENDED TO PALESTINIANS.

WHEN DO WE WANT TO ABORT MORE PALESTINIANS?

NOW!

WHAT DO WE WANT ...?

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So, now please tell me what the price of tea in China is.

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I love the palestinian child as I love the Israeli child, I have been clear on that...I am for innocence...adult and child...

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So, you are for a ceasefire then? Or, do you support Israel's bombing campaign that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and kids? If you don't respond, everyone will assume the latter based upon your substack posts over the past couple months.

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Do not respond to this fraud/troll. He’s here to mock.

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Jew hater

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Before this is over, most of the world will end up hating what Israelis DO. And that is as it should be because they have become mass-murdering psychotics.

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Yes, Israel propped up Hamas, funded their rise to power, as did the U.S. They’re using American weapons left behind in Afghanistan, bought with American money to fight the IDF. Both sides are being played. Both sides are funded. Hamas is evil, & so is Netanyahu!

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I have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry on my dad's side.

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Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA goes back to northern European, possibly German women. Of all the known groups of Jews, Ashkenazi DNA isn’t in the top twenty in closeness to the genes of first century Jews.

Who are the Israelis slaughtering?

https://m.jpost.com/magazine/features/the-lost-palestinian-jews

This article, from the Jerusalem Post, mentions ben Gurion but does not go deep enough to drive home how important this is.

The first 15 minutes of this video, see link below, reaches and drives home the fact that ben Gurion and ben Zvi agreed the fellahin, the common folks of Palestine, were m o s t l y descendants of biblical era Jews.

Watch this video through:

https://youtu.be/aBf8SeE3OAA?si=BMq2CCC6r5ag7pAp

What does this mean?

It means Israel is slaughtering exactly those people they wish and imagine they are - only the Pals have not been wandering Europe and Asia for 80 generations, intermarrying.

Whose claim to Palestine is superior? Whose claim is diminished or cancelled by constant massacres from arrival on? Who deserves a millenium in the penalty box or permanent banishment from Palestine?

Who deserves all their land back, now, and generous punitive and compensatory damages - in the $ trillions of dollars? Easy to see.

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I agree. Also, the word Semitic means "relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family." So, people who speak Arabic, like Palestinians are also Semitic people.

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So does the old demon Soros

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Give it up, hun, your Jew-hatred colors everything you say. YOU *seem* to have no problem in flaunting that, as you project your defects onto others. Immediately, you predictably hijacked this into a feral screed against *the joooooos*.

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Please note that I'm what Jews call a Jewish daywalker (Jewish on my father's side, but not my mothers), and I have family and friends who are Jewish. Being critical of Israeli policy and Zionism in general is not Jew hatred. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jewish%20daywalker

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Ignorance is bluss

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Goes right beside War is Hell. Humans have fallen from grace.

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Agree that illegals must go through proper channels but remember some of those third world hell-holes, shit-holes where help to be that way by US military/ financial incursions. 800 military bases?

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The easiest way to get all illegals out is to make conditions for them such that they self deport. Heavily punish any who hire them such that no one will. Having no income, they will go back home. Eisenhower did this successfully.

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Well, that would be nice except now the U.S. Congress is talking about allowing them to serve our military in exchange for citizenship! How bout that? Then they’ll weaponize these foreigners against ordinary U.S. citizens. This is what the uniparty wants to do to us! They aren’t being punished for being here. They’re given $5,000 money cards, cell phones, & care packages! They’re given food & shelter. Totally taken care of on our dime! Lovely huh?

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Exactly why we need to get them out of the US.

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I agree, but our government has different plans for us. This is my point. I do hope the next Republican president will deport them back out.

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Sure, who is going to put roofs on Tucson subdivisions when it is 110F outside? Ditto Chicago area factories. A lot of US GDP is earned on their backs.

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Yeah yeah yeah, the old canard of doing jobs Americans won’t do. What is the unemployment rate in the US right now?

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Unemployment is low.

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Is it? I know that there are many working multiple jobs but while I have not recently seen any numbers, what I am seeing and reading in the news paints a different story. Businesses closing due to crime leaving former employees jobless, for example.

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It isn’t a canard. It is a fact.

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I served in the engine of US men o war for 6 years. Hotter there, especially neat the equator and in the Middle East.

Further, I’d bet given the choice of working or starving, you’ll find a lot more choosing to work.

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Israeli leadership are bullies. Supporters of bullies are punks Peace to all otherwise.

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PEOPLE ENGAGED IN EITHER A CULT , AN ORGANIZATION, A RELIGION OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF ORDER IN TOTAL VIOLATION WITH THE ORGANIC CONSTITUTION, SHOUKD NOT BE PERMITTED TO FUNCTION ILLEGALLY-- THEY NEED TO CONFORM TO THE NATIONS HIGHEST STANDARDS

OR ASKED TO PLEASE LEAVE AND FIND SHORES FRIENDLY TON THEIR CAUSE -SIMILARLY NO ONE IN VIOLATION SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICE-THOSE IN

OFFICE MUST BE COMPELLED TO SWEAR AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE NATION’S CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OR KINDLY LEAVE AND DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOUR ASS ON THE WAY OUT-

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The deep state already sold Americans and the rest of us out to the CCP . This is all by design . Expect a war in the US/Canada . Then they’ll introduce the digital ID system . Or at least they will try . Some say this will be the final war - Your greatest enemy is your own government . Everybody else is just a pawn . You’re hatred is being directed against the pawns and not the rest of the pieces on the board which is odd Mr . Alexander

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All is moot here. Emotional sentiments over whose babies are or are not more or less valuable will evaporate when the battle is here in our communities. It is plowing ahead . Already here in many dimensions. Right under our noses. Lawlessness, chaos, massive civil unrest, barbaric behavior, all has has been planned over decades. Don’t let the plan to rip our civil liberties away replaced by tyranny become real in your neighborhood......Arm up. Train.

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You all love waiting for a hero to save you all... Tyrants don't wait around. They take actions. Why can't you all?

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