IDF: Whoops, tee hee.

  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    Yeah dude. “Only.”’ You’re right though, I guess Israel really has raised the bar when it comes to indiscriminate murder of civilians. Those are rookie numbers.

    When your enemy disperses themselves among the civilian population?

    This killed way less civilians than a traditional bombing that would have got the same Hezbollah fighters would have.

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      1 month ago

      It’s funny how Israel made it a “normal” thing, to use firearms and explosives around civilians for the purpose of getting rid of, what they call, bad guys.

      Imagine mass-shooting in a public school where a kid tries to hunt down other kids who bullied him for the past few years. Oh wait…

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        1 month ago

        It’s funny how Israel made it a “normal” thing, to use firearms and explosives around civilians for the purpose of getting rid of, what they call, bad guys.

        i don’t think they did normalize it though, russia has been indiscriminately hitting civilian places with artillery shells since the beginning of the invasion.

        the soviet union has an even more aggressive history of this, scorched earth policies and such, which are almost definitely very old.

        Imagine mass-shooting in a public school where a kid tries to hunt down other kids who bullied him for the past few years. Oh wait…

        yet another example, except i don’t even have to make the point myself!

        in fact, i would argue the concept of minimizing human losses in war is a relatively recent advancement in social theory. That hasn’t exactly been a regular consideration throughout most of history, afaik.

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      1 month ago

      When your enemy disperses themselves among the civilian population?

      Obviously, bomb the grocery stores and the shopping malls, then blame the people you were targeting for the collateral murder.

      FFS, I’m old enough to remember when Obama drone striking a teenage boy was considered at least mildly controversial for liberals. Now cluster bombing a flea market is the new gold standard for Ethical Warfare.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 month ago

        Now cluster bombing a flea market is the new gold standard for Ethical Warfare.

        so technically, and semantically, it’s not cluster bombing, it’s a highly distributed form of micro bombing. Similar to the idea of “incendiary explosive laden bats” in ww2, and various other crackhead ideas the US military cooked up.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb