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Out of context: Reply #354

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  • i_monk10

    If Israel can infiltrate target Hezbollah members so precisely, it means their shooting and bombing of civilians in Gaza is entirely avoidable and therefore deliberate.

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    • They ended up killing loads of kids and medical workers, so seems more or less their usual style.PhanLo
    • It means they can do both.monospaced
    • Works both waysGnash
    • It means they literally don't give a shit about The Innocent.
      This is old testament smiting, writ anew. Again.
      Nairn
    • I don’t the get the impression either side is doing any better or worse in that regardmonospaced
    • Yeah, but one by far wields the bigger stick and so, imperatively, the greater moral weight.Nairn
    • If they are so capably-able to do what they have done just now in Lebanon, I find it hard to believe they were not also at least somewhat aware of what was ...Nairn
    • ... going to happen a year ago.Nairn
    • A couple of kibbutz and a hippie festival? More than an adequate price to pay.Nairn
    • They were alerted to the planned attack by Egypt days or weeks earlier.i_monk
    • It wasn't just Egypt warning them, Israel had the literal blueprint for this attack about a year prior to Hamas carrying it out. Top brass ignored it.garbage
    • https://www.nytimes.…garbage
    • I don't think this is necessarily true. Not defending the killing of civilians but they may just have much better intelligence in Lebanon than in Gaza.yuekit

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