• ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Why did you only add the innocent qualifier to the latter part?

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      10 months ago

      To differentiate between civilians and Hamas combatants to hopefully avoid “whataboutisms” from people who try to pick apart any innocuous statement on the Internet.

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        10 months ago

        Hamas combatants were not so long ago normal people, pushed out of their homes by foreign settlers and then have their entire families turned to glass for peacefully protesting. This is not a “both sides have valid arguments” matter.