• bobthened@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    At the same time Israel was releasing Palestinian “prisoners” (largely children and largely imprisoned for petty crimes like throwing stones) they were capturing and imprisoning from the West Bank (where there is no Hamas) roughly the same number of people as they were releasing in Gaza.

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      Throwing a stone is not a petty crime, it’s called assault with a deadly weapon

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        11 months ago

        If you’re a crowd who throws 100 of them, perhaps. Not one little boy, throwing a single stone. Don’t be ridiculous.

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          When people say children, it includes people who are 16 years old.

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            a grape can be a deadly weapon under the right circumstances. that doesn’t mean it is one.

            you’re still being ridiculous.

            Head trauma is no joke is.

            yet you’re not dead. I rest my case.

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                    Kids throwing rocks at the people operating the open air concentration camp they’re detained in with the food, water, power, trade and movement restricted (at best) as Israel levels their homes, displaces and kills them? You’re right - I think there’s far bigger concerns than the kids throwing rocks.

                    What do you think it says about you that you’d use a few kids throwing rocks as justification for shooting, shelling, bombing, and starving thousands of children, innocent civilians, and turning every building in the area into said rocks?

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          I don’t know, why don’t you ask Hamas, since they are the experts in killing children

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            Suddenly you’re all bashful about slapping labels on stuff?

            It’s OK - we can try another - what do you call a group that’s killed orders of magnitude more children than the “experts in killing children”?

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              11 months ago

              Also experts in killing children. Who said either of the sides is blameless?

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                It’s implied in you running straight past Israel’s actions to focus on condemnation of Palestinians comparatively minor actions - or is there another explanation?

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                    So what do you call the group killing many, many times more kids than the “experts in killing children”, and why did you deflect to the comparatively minor crimes of Hamas?

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            At this point, Israel has killed far more children in this war than Hamas. So I’d say they’re both experts, but Israel is the one with more experience.

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        Arresting kids for throwing rocks is petty enough as it. Labeling their actions as assault with a deadly weapon before you arrest them is just absurd.

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          How is it petty? It’s actually physically dangerous to people.