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IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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I just wanna say it's nice to see more people finally waking up and smelling the ashes. I can only hope in the future this genocide will be studied to better understand the main points of failure to not repeat such a widely event covered event.

It’s strange to me when otherwise intelligent people call this genocide. Genocide is an attempt to exterminate an entire people. Israel is a nuclear armed nation fighting against the equivalent of Dayton, OH. If genocide were the goal this war would have lasted one day. Collective punishment, or a long term ethnic cleansing would be much more accurate, but you’re just repeating what you read unthinkingly if you say g…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humanitarian_and_human...

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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haaretz is a left wing rag, they are just as trustworthy as hamas health ministry

And the IDF? They're hardly the only ones reporting this. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/middleeast/israeli-military-g... > Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted military officials Thursday as saying, “We estimate that about 70,000 Gazans were killed in the war, not including the missing.” Kan 11, the country’s public broadcaster , attributed the information to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territo…

1. Says the IDF accepted the fictitious 0-militants 100%-civilian death toll claim.

2. Links to a news report that has literally no source on its claims. Just says "IDF accepted" and that's it.

3. Links to another news report which does nothing but report on the previous news report as if this makes it credible.

4. Says IDF isn't contesting the report.

5. Proceeds to provide the only official, verifiable, sourced IDF quote about the report, contesting it.

The logical fallacies you're willing to accept in order to feed your hatred is impressive.

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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I just wanna say it's nice to see more people finally waking up and smelling the ashes. I can only hope in the future this genocide will be studied to better understand the main points of failure to not repeat such a widely event covered event.

It’s strange to me when otherwise intelligent people call this genocide. Genocide is an attempt to exterminate an entire people. Israel is a nuclear armed nation fighting against the equivalent of Dayton, OH. If genocide were the goal this war would have lasted one day. Collective punishment, or a long term ethnic cleansing would be much more accurate, but you’re just repeating what you read unthinkingly if you say g…

> If genocide were the goal this war would have lasted one day.

You can't infer intent that way. Nuking Gaza isn't free, it would introduce an existential threat to Israel. They are toeing a dangerous line already, and using WMDs would align other countries against them really quickly.

Putin isn't avoiding using nukes on Ukraine because he's a nice guy.

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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And the IDF? They're hardly the only ones reporting this. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/middleeast/israeli-military-g... > Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted military officials Thursday as saying, “We estimate that about 70,000 Gazans were killed in the war, not including the missing.” Kan 11, the country’s public broadcaster , attributed the information to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territo…

1. Says the IDF accepted the fictitious 0-militants 100%-civilian death toll claim. 2. Links to a news report that has literally no source on its claims. Just says "IDF accepted" and that's it. 3. Links to another news report which does nothing but report on the previous news report as if this makes it credible. 4. Says IDF isn't contesting the report. 5. Proceeds to provide the only official, verifiable, sourced IDF…

1. No, it doesn't.

2. "Kan 11, the country’s public broadcaster, attributed the information to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT)"

(That's a state-owned news outlet, to be clear; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan_11)

3. See above.

4. Accurate.

5. Re-read that statement. At no point does it contest the toll.

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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> Israeli forces dressed in doctors’ scrubs and women’s clothes have killed three Palestinian militants in an undercover operation in a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/israel-forces-... Hmm.

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Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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I don't know why you're using the past tense here, I was still trying to talk some sense into these people barely two days ago. It's hopeless at this point.

If you have 3 hours, there's a documentary you can watch, about a man who was sanctioned by the government to kill a lot of "communists" in 1960's Indonesia: The Act of Killing (available at e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDeEObjR9Q ). It's sort of understandable why the defenders of the genocide have to keep defending it. Stopping doing so today would mean admitting that until yesterday you've been defending…

It's one of my favourite documentaries, almost as good as The Death of Yugoslavia.

For whatever reason YouTube has put age limits on some of the uploads of it, here's the start of one without it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9Zw5fN3rE

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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From where I sit nobody is questioning that the Israelis are supposed to be the good guys in this story. But the stories coming from the region are horrific! Is it true that it is the official policy of the IDF to shoot to kill children who throw stones at them? Plus because Israel is making serious efforts to choke off all information from the region, I understand that it takes some time before a sober accounting of…

Im questioning whether the Israelis are the good guys. Frankly I don’t know how you can look at their history of provocation and unbalanced retaliation and not begin to wonder if maybe they aren’t the good guys
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