This meme is from 2004. History repeats itself.

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No. Hundreds of thousands will die in response to hundreds dying. The comic is still fully accurate even if “a single missile” is still condemnable.

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Shall we begin an era of endless terror by proving it works?

Just look at the US military, we already have

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I felt just like this after 9/11. I don’t know enough about your country to tell you what the right thing to do is. But I wish that the USA could go back in time and just gradually assassinate Al Queda with the CIA instead or something. Those occupations were doomed from the start.

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Where did I mock the victims? Do not put words in my mouth. Can you not make a half-sound argument without lying?

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It IS NOT a disproportionate representation. THAT’S THE POINT.

I am very sorry you fail to realize what death Israel will doll out in response, but this comic is completely accurate in the proportions displayed.

You LITERALLY have fighter jets and bombers striking back against … paragliders with guns…

Again, NO ONE except fucking losers are saying Hamas did anything good. That doesn’t make murdering dozens of thousands of Palestinians OK.

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I don’t think disproportionate response doctrine from countries like the US and Israel should come as a surprise after more than half a century of conflict. Why murder 100 innocent people of your opponent when you know they will murder 1000 innocents of your people in response?

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The issue isn’t whether anyone is surprised by it.

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It may not be a surprise but it’s still disgusting and worth calling out.

Take 9/11 for an example, in response to a few thousand dying, America invaded Iraq (who was not even responsible) and killed several orders of magnitude more people. As well as looting their wealth, subordinating their government and economy to American interests, and effectively occupying them for two decades. Anytime an American says “never forget” they should be reminded how thoroughly soaked in blood they are.

Likewise, when zionists shed crocodile tears for a few hundred dead festival goers who were depraved enough to go raving only a few short kilometers from the world’s largest concentration camp. They must be reminded of what they have done to Palestine. Invasion. Displacement. Occupation. Ethnic cleansing. Apartheid. Imprisonment. Genocide.

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When it comes to war, there can be no holdbacks because hesitation means life or death.

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So anyone who follows the Geneva Conventions is a doomed fool?

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“history repeats itself” as in the people who only condemn needless killing when Hamas does it, but ignore the Palestinian cause the rest of the time.

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It’s almost like motivation, methods, intentions, and circumstances matter and not just body count. For example, intentionally targeting civilians to maximize civilian deaths is not the same as accidentally killing civilians with collateral damage while trying to minimize civilian deaths.

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Guess which side this is, then:

Scores of people, mainly women and children, have been killed in multiple air strikes on the main road connecting north and south Gaza, as people carried out an Israeli order to flee their homes.

According to the Ministry of Health, at least 70 people have been killed in three separate air strikes on the road, with the latest killing at least 40.

The Israeli army said in a statement on Friday that civilians must leave Gaza City in the north, and that they would not be allowed to return “until we say so” and until “a statement is issued allowing this”.

However, locals have reported a number of attacks on the Salah al-Din Road since then. Survivors, speaking to local media, implored others not to make the journey for fear of being targeted by the Israelis.

“Do not leave,” a distraught survivor of the attacks told local media.

“They bombed the convoy. They bombed it on Salah al-Din Road. They bombed the ambulances.”

Another survivor said the attacks were a “direct targeting of women and children”.

“I was in the truck. There were about 200 people. 90 percent were women and children. We took the main road that the entire world knew we were taking. My entire family were with me. Out of nowhere, they dropped a bomb. Everything was black and I lost conscience for 10 mins,” they told local media.

“When I woke up I saw a mother lying with her baby, whose brain was right next to him. I heard the ambulances then they bombed again. I took cover and after a few minutes tried to check the damage, then they bombed again.”

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When Israeli soldiers are bragging about raping and torturing people, it’s very clear what their intentions are

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while trying to minimize civilian deaths

If that’s what they’re trying to do, they really fucking suck at it.

And the motivation, methods, intentions, and circumstances don’t matter a bit to the victims and their loved ones.

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While they do certainly look different, the end result of a death by malice or by ignorance is the same.

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Yes, it’s not a perfect caricature, Crimea river

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Rules of the internet: you can safely discard everything that comes before the “, but”

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If ignoring context helps you feed your bias, go for it.

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The soundness of your argument should not depend on your stance. It is a common tactic to state that you are “pro-X” but criticize X, because people are more likely to sympathize with your criticism that way. The commenter you replied to is simply reminding us of this.

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Ignoring of course the countless children they kill who aren’t part of hamas. The ratio of children to adults killed by Israel can only be reached by doing it on purpose.

You “switching sides” because you don’t like the media reporting on these murders is a joke and I can only assume a lie, because it doesn’t make sense.

The media reporting stuff doesn’t change what is happening nor the morals and ethics involved. Silly to blame the media for you choosing to support the murder of innocents.

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Yes the Israelis don’t kill children for throwing rocks and then call them soldiers

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I’d like to add even more context: ~45% of Palestine is under the age of 14.

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