re: Today’s Jerusalem Post

saw this in the FB

Hamas just released casualty figures for their dead between 7/10 2023-2025.
31,754 Men.
20,179 Children.
10,427 Women,
4,813 Elderly.
TOTAL 67,173.
Two comments;
1. They say there are two million Gazans. Assuming these Hamas figures are correct and not exaggerated, this is the worst genocide ever commited in warfare in a positive sense,
According to Hamas, the all powerful IDF could only kill less than 68,000 Gazans in two years of intense urban warfare by land and by air.
If this is a genocide, the IDF is truly the most incompetant army in the world.
2. As Hamas includes teenagers up to the age of 18 in their child category, and we know they recruit teenagers from the age of 15 into their terror units we can include a portion of their child figures as well as elderly into their dead combatant figures.
3. We end up with the ratio of one combatant to one civilian (as recorded by global experts in urban warfare, including Richard Kemp, Andrew Fox, and John Spencer).
This ratio of one combatant to one civilian death in Gaza, as the lowest ever ratio in the history of urban warfare, still applies in Gaza as the war seems to be coming to its current close.
The morality of the IDF has just been confirmed by no less than Hamas.
Barry Shaw,
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies

My position isn’t that an ethnic cleansing had taken place.

It’s that it was being proposed by Bibi.

That’s what Trump just averted.

1. there are no absolutes, in WWII on Okinawa the Japanese would strap a bomb to a kid or woman then make them walk towards US soldiers then remote blow it up when she reached them. This was portrayed in the Pacific and was written about by Eugene Sledge in With the Old Breed. What would you do?

2. Maybe Hamas shouldn't have slaughtered women and children from 0-12 on Oct 7, then ran back home to hide behind their own women and children of 0-12.


Not everything is black and white.

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1. there are no absolutes, in WWII on Okinawa the Japanese would strap a bomb to a kid or woman then make them walk towards US soldiers then remote blow it up when she reached them. This was portrayed in the Pacific and was written about by Eugene Sledge in With the Old Breed. What would you do?

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I would not liquidate the entire population of Okinawa. That's what I would not do.

You want to answer for that when you die that's on your conscience. I'm 100% opposed to whatever you would like to call that.

If you're a soldier and a child or woman refuses commands to stay back, that's a horrible element of a brutal war where the soldier is excused for having to make an impossible decision.

That's completely different than politicians proposing the outright elimination of an entire people which is what the end game proposal as per Bibi was here.

It was evil when the nazis attempted it with the jews and it would be evil if the Netanyahu government did it today.

Thank God and Donald Trump that we didn't see it take place in this case.

Someone needs to hit you in the head with a Jerusalem post.

Apparently Dr Demento is alive and well in Israel.

He’s just repeating what he’s told to say

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israel is just wholesale liquidating people in gaza?

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No. I clearly stated that is IS NOT happening. No genocide took place in this conflict period.

My concern was with what Bibi was proposing to do. His proposal was genocidal because the civilians couldn’t leave and I’m opposed to that.

Does it represent something?

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trust any group from that part of the world

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You don't trust the good guys? Cause the Israelis are clearly the good guys. The Turks, the Iranians, Qatar and the rest are not. Sometimes the Jordanians give a good effort. There is your cheat sheet.