re: #267 Teukka

In 2007, Hamas became responsible for protecting the civilians of Gaza, by means of bomb shelters, by means of attack warning (systems). No-one else.
And they clearly have the capacity to build bomb shelters, as they have made many tunnels since coming into power, yet no bomb shelters (civilians are not welcome in the tunnels, only Hamas & Co fighters).
Who attacks an enemy without having ensured that the own civilian population is reasonably safe from the inevitable counter-attack?
I’m not DARVO’ing here. IDF has obligations under international law, but so does the Gazan government. One of the two hasn’t even tried to meet their obligations under international law.
That lack of trying comes at a cost which the civilian population in Gaza is paying as we speak. I’m not blaming the civvies in Gaza, I’m blaming the idiots who knowingly and intentionally put them in mortal peril to begin with.

I just feel like this all sits at the end of a shit ton of absolutely depraved indifference and deliberately ignores the fact that Netanyahu and Likud’s stated policy for years was to bolster and fund Hamas, while very deliberately turning Israel’s back on Gaza. If you want to blame Hamas for everything then that logically has to include its cynical funders and enablers on the Israeli far right. Instead all this does is insulate them from owning the consequences of deciding to engage in an AI fueled mass bombing campaign where civilian casualties have been deliberately maximized for shock value.

And like I said, none of this touches on the famine situation, the deliberate lies that led to it, or the moral consequences for those who eagerly and credulously repeated those lies but are conspicuously silent on the subject now.