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You can see footage of some Hezbobros blowing up in the middle of a supermarket, with the people standing around them being unharmed. They were intended to maim the user of the device, the explosives were too small to cause much more. Sure, there are a handful of civilians hurt or even killed but this is was a lot 'cleaner' than throwing bombs from planes or Hezbollah's own preferred method of firing rockets over the border.

As per Wikipedia, Hezbollah has to kill one civilian for every 2 soldiers. With the pager attacks, Israel hit 2750 Hezbobros and 'only' killed 2 kids.

Not improvised, and not on the civilian population, but you're correct about the rest lol

Pretty clear from the footage and lack of civilian casualties that the collateral risk was very low though

Can you imagine what might have happened in bibi just took the hit and tried to work it out peacefully?

I think they would just be emboldened to do it again, like they said they would. Sentiment in Gaza has only recently shifted to the idea that "maybe, it wasn't such a good plan". I'm afraid that in the long run, Bibi's reaction might turn out to be the best one for peace

I never said the jewish immigrants from Russia claimed the land was 'theirs originally'. It's a bit weird you make this jump. They were trying to find a place they wouldn't be genocided

And what makes you conclude that violent opposition from muslim fanatics prohibits the immigrants from being peaceful?

I'm not sure if you're really willing to open your mind on this, but the first large wave of immigrants were escapees from pogroms in Russia and they didn't 'steal' any land from anyone

neither I nor the person who originally used the word 'carpet' were claiming that israel was "carpet" bombing civilians

They literally are carpet bombing civillians

I agree that there would be unrecorded deaths, but I don't think Hamas has any reason to underestimate their number by a factor of five (5). There's still a lot of structure and quite a large (international) presence of aid and medical workers, and journalists. One can use numbers from food distribution or the polio vaccinations that would easily corroborate 10% 'missing' population.

I think you could write 100 comments but none of them would support your claim that Israel is carpet bombing civilians

Carpet bombing in WW2 wasn't called that because they dropped a large number of single bombs over a country over a large period, it was called that because it's a technique where you try to cover an area with a dense carpet of bombs all at once

I know, it's like Oprah giving away cars. But still, takes a special person to see that as an opportunity to scam them

Why would you need to lie about them carpet bombing civilians as proof for genocide if you're convinced that's the case without it?

I don't know about you but I never created Israel. The ones that invented and created it did so to escape bloodshed, so I don't think they're unwilling to pay the price

The normal definition of carpet bombing is dropping a 'carpet' of bombs over an area all at once. That's where the name comes from, anyway.

If you're just saying they dropped a lot of bombs, why would you want to call that 'carpet bombing' ?

Do you have any source on the carpet bombing you claim they've been doing for a while?

If Israel wanted to do a genocide, they could just roll out the carpet bombs and spread them over the refugee tent cities. They'd easily kill 50-100k every few hours. That way, it wouldn't take 50 years.

But in reality, we see 50-100 deaths per day. That just doesn't jive

Sure, I can understand trying to find ways to 'get' Trump, but seeing something that is still somewhat of an act of generosity as an opportunity to scam someone...

Anyway a) he was probably never going to pay this out of his own personal pocket and b) this just resulted in this family to have to pay for their absurdly lavish funeral themselves

This is not the most popular opinion on Lemmy these days, but it's still an immense stretch to want to call the war in Gaza a genocide.

If Israel wanted to kill off the Gazans, they would just have to start carpet bombing certain areas. At this rate, it would take them 50 years to do it, which would be immensely stupid.

What Israel has done is turn up the dial with regards to acceptable collateral damage - just like the US did themselves to break costly sieges like Fallujah, Mosul and Raqqa.

No-one who is appaled at the civilian casualties has actually ever come up with a valid alternative method to eradicate IS or in this case Hamas or Hezbollah without causing any or even less civilian casualties. The US government knows and accepts this, so in public they'll play the pacifist while in reality they're accepting the 'necessary' violence.

Quite easy really:

In the past they were a strategic counter against the islamic regimes aligned with the USSR & Today they are a strategic counter against Iran

Allowing Iran to destroy Israel and having them expand their influence in the region is considered worse

If someone offers to pay your lunch, or in this case for the funeral of your murdered child, trying to make it 'the most expensive in history' to fully abuse that offer just makes you a Sad. person imo. Imagine having it done to you.

To reiterate: It'd make me happy Donnie almost dies in a fire but is kept in a conscious coma for hundreds of years

Sure, and all disrespect for trump but say I'm rich and crash my car into your fence and tell you "it's fine just send me the bill", there's a difference when that bill turns out to be 60k

Sounds a bit like the family chose the 'Royale" because of his promise