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Mountainguy

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16. If anything, Israel has been holding back

Reply to applegrove (Reply #15)

Wed Jan 8, 2025, 08:29 PM

Jan 8

They could have killed every person is Gaza 10 times over by now if that was their goal.

Beyond that, yes Hamas does was civilians in Gaza to die because it helps it in the propaganda war, as evidenced by things like this exact thread.

And no, it's not a genocide.

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8th Baby freezes to Death in Gaza, as Israeli Forces fire on World Food Programme Workers, Flour Warehouse [View all] applegrove Jan 7 OP

When will Netanyahu stop the attacks? brush Jan 7 #1

Once everyone in Gaza is dead Bettie Jan 7 #4

We're so complicit...continuing to supply the weapons and letting it happen. brush Jan 7 #8

When he has convinced a few countries to take in Palestinians for "humanitarian reasons" or because they have no choice. AloeVera Jan 7 #5

Another Nakba. The inhumanity is so infuriating, and the US has it's hand in it... brush Jan 7 #7

Looks like he already persuaded one country Beastly Boy Jan 8 #10

When armed terrorists quit hanging around food warehouses. Beastly Boy Jan 8 #9

BB, come on. You can do better than that. When will Netanyahu... brush Jan 8 #11

No, I cannot do better than this. And I suspect no one can. Beastly Boy Jan 8 #12

Let's just get it done finally. No more back and forth, then one side... brush Jan 8 #13

There can only be one end to the negotiations. When all hostages are home, dead or alive Beastly Boy Jan 8 #17

That insistence on the hostages being released before negotiations begin has gotten us nowhere. brush Jan 9 #18

What has gotten us here in the first place is the abduction of the hostages. Beastly Boy Jan 9 #19

Welcome to another 75 years of hostilities then. brush Jan 9 #20

If hostage taking is tolerated in any way, you are absolutely right. Beastly Boy Jan 9 #21

Freezing Temperatures and Malnourishment Will Be the Grim Reaper's Scythe in Gaza This Winter. C0RI0LANUS Jan 7 #2

Unjustified genocide uponit7771 Jan 7 #3

with malaise Jan 7 #6

When will Hamas Mountainguy Jan 8 #14

Yes. The genocide was their plan. Why else put combatants applegrove Jan 8 #15

If anything, Israel has been holding back Mountainguy Jan 8 #16