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I had written a devil’s advocate post for purely discussion purposes, looking at the bomb strikes in the refugee camp from Israel and from Palestine’s point of view (not Hamas, because other than being entitled to basic human rights they can fuck right off).
I’d put quite a bit of thought into what could be Israel’s most justifiable perspective, and had written a few paragraphs before I decided to delete the entire post.
Bombing a refugee camp to kill an enemy commander and their entourage is a horrendous act that would be borderline justifiable under the laws of war, if it were an isolated incident that would change the course of a battle or war. The reality as I see it, is that it’s not close to being an isolated incident, rather Israel has very clearly not been taking care to avoid harming innocent civilians, to say the least. There’s ample evidence to suggest that Israel has been wantonly killing and destroying anything they’ve wanted, non-stop, for weeks. To top it off, nothing has been said about the strategic gain they’d claim to make by killing the unnamed commander(s), which would need to be extremely impactful to minimally justify this heinous attack.
Any moral high ground that Israel, and frankly its allies, once claimed to have, they’ve lost. For years they’ve been encroaching on Palestinians’ rights, and the world stood by. Weeks ago they suffered unforgettable horrors at the hands of a group of terrorists, and from that day they’ve been brutalising an entire population in retribution for the acts of a few, and as a warning to many.
Netanyahu needs to be replaced. The US needs to rein Israel in, or curtail their support of the Govt. The UK and France need to stop adding gunpowder to this magazine.