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Originally Posted by Pierre
It's horrific, any numbers of children killed, on both sides.
A very sad fact.
The israeli children were not in a war zone, and their safety couldn't be guaranteed either.
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The numbers of children killed on “both sides” aren’t even comparable.
A small number have been killed by terrorists a much larger number have been systematically killed by a 21st century military which, should, be adhering to international laws.
As a thought experiment it’d be interesting to know what the difference between what Israel are doing now would compare to ethnic cleansing that maintains itself just on the right side of plausible deniability.
You couldn’t, as an example, carpet bomb the place.
You’d pretend there were terrorists everywhere, hiding underground, and claim these were surgical strikes.
You couldn’t ban aid agencies.
You’d make it difficult for them to operate. Tying up aid in bureaucracy, closing some roads and discourage aid workers by devaluing your own “guarantees” of safety by creating situations where aid workers were “collateral damaged”.
You couldn’t just close hospitals.
However by waiting until everyone seeks refuge there the pretence that there are terrorists underground there would allow you to hinder their ability to function. Something that’d have a disproportionate impact on the young, the old, those with long term health issues and pregnant women.
The differences are wafer thin from this vantage point.