I concisely point out why the term "carpet bomb" is intellectually, historically, and morally lazy. Your cherrypicked deflection is much of the the same, suited to twitter or Wapo users who engage on that level.
Instead of engaging with the points raised, you literally respond by equating me to "college tiktok activists" while lumping me to the "river to the sea" folks ... engaged in the very same whataboutism that I literally noted in the original comment ... and you call ME "intellectually, historically, and morally lazy"?
LOL - Seems a bit of the pot calling the kettle black here.
But that's how you entered this discussion. You're making an unfounded accusation and embellishing it with jargon you don't really seem to understand.
If you don't want to be lumped in with the Hamas Youth, maybe you should try not parroting the same propaganda.
I don't know what you expect Israel to do. Hamas Youth wants it to surrender, so they can murder the rest of the population. Hamas itself operates out of mosques and schools and shields its fighters with women and children. They're counting on ignorant antisemites around the world to protect them with those whataboutisms. It's working.
Want peace? We all do. All it will take is for Iran and its proxies to say "Israel has a right to exist." That's it. I know it would be a crushing disappointment to the UN and the Ivy League, but that's what this will take.
We're not talking about Nazi Germany. Nor are we talking about two (or more) countries going to war with one another.
In this case, we're talking about - effectively - a country going to war with a state in its own jurisdiction. It would be closer to the US bombing Oregon ... or Portland ... in the event that Antifa decided to get truly violent.
Granted, that's a bad comparison ... but the take home is that Israel's responsibilities for the civilian population of Gaza are far greater than when two independent nations go to war.
I'll see your comparison and raise you. If Seattle elected Antifa as their government the way Gaza did with Hamas, they'd be traitors, renegades, and insurrectionists just like the Confederacy, and deservedly be treated as such. Gaza should thank their prophet they're facing the IDF instead of Sherman's March to the Sea.
""Carpet bomb" is a catchphrase used by college tiktok activists "
LOL - it's been A LOT of years since I've been in college. But thanks!
"Do you really think Hamas would do the same?"
Whataboutism: we're not talking about Hamas.
I concisely point out why the term "carpet bomb" is intellectually, historically, and morally lazy. Your cherrypicked deflection is much of the the same, suited to twitter or Wapo users who engage on that level.
Instead of engaging with the points raised, you literally respond by equating me to "college tiktok activists" while lumping me to the "river to the sea" folks ... engaged in the very same whataboutism that I literally noted in the original comment ... and you call ME "intellectually, historically, and morally lazy"?
LOL - Seems a bit of the pot calling the kettle black here.
But that's how you entered this discussion. You're making an unfounded accusation and embellishing it with jargon you don't really seem to understand.
If you don't want to be lumped in with the Hamas Youth, maybe you should try not parroting the same propaganda.
I don't know what you expect Israel to do. Hamas Youth wants it to surrender, so they can murder the rest of the population. Hamas itself operates out of mosques and schools and shields its fighters with women and children. They're counting on ignorant antisemites around the world to protect them with those whataboutisms. It's working.
Want peace? We all do. All it will take is for Iran and its proxies to say "Israel has a right to exist." That's it. I know it would be a crushing disappointment to the UN and the Ivy League, but that's what this will take.
how would you have defeated Nazi Germany?
We're not talking about Nazi Germany. Nor are we talking about two (or more) countries going to war with one another.
In this case, we're talking about - effectively - a country going to war with a state in its own jurisdiction. It would be closer to the US bombing Oregon ... or Portland ... in the event that Antifa decided to get truly violent.
Granted, that's a bad comparison ... but the take home is that Israel's responsibilities for the civilian population of Gaza are far greater than when two independent nations go to war.
Okay, how would you eliminate the Hamas organization with minimal or zero casualties to civilians in Gaza?
I'll see your comparison and raise you. If Seattle elected Antifa as their government the way Gaza did with Hamas, they'd be traitors, renegades, and insurrectionists just like the Confederacy, and deservedly be treated as such. Gaza should thank their prophet they're facing the IDF instead of Sherman's March to the Sea.
Finally, a serious answer!