I'm impressed by how good of a job Israel does at painting itself as the victim despite being the perpetuator of 50 years of ongoing occupation.
both sides are victims. both sides are aggressors.
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#24If a smaller kid is throwing punches at you but you are able to avoid being hit by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to throw punches with the other arm?
If a smaller adult is swinging a knife at you, and you're able to mostly avoid being hit by the knife by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to respond with force to disarm the knife-wielding lunatic?
Yep.
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#25If a smaller kid is throwing punches at you but you are able to avoid being hit by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to throw punches with the other arm?
Well, if he keeps at it for 8 years, and occasionally manages to throw rocks at your brothers and injure them as well, then .. yes, I think that kid has those punches coming.
Kid doesn't seem to have any parents to educate/restrain him, and the police is not interested. Not many other choices.
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#26If a smaller kid is throwing punches at you but you are able to avoid being hit by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to throw punches with the other arm?
I would later have a talk with the kid about "futility," but maybe only after finding some way to engage in an activity together.
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#27Building defense at the cost of numerous innocent lives out there in Palestine. Collateral Damage is a means to achieve this. What i find more interesting is that Israel is using Hamas as a cover to clean-up the complete Palestine state. It would have been justified if the casualties were adults, real Hamas members and not kids, women.
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#28the oppressed people on the other side now engage in a financial war. for the price they would build one rocket with explosive payload, now they can build some 4 dummy ones. making the invading state pay 20k x3 more than before. while also recruiting more people, who would be averse to the violence before.
A long-range rocket without a payload is probably still pretty expensive.
Edit: Let me rephrase—"probably not much cheaper."
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#29If a smaller kid is throwing punches at you but you are able to avoid being hit by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to throw punches with the other arm?
Of course not.
The best approach is to lie down and let the kid bash your face in.
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#30If a smaller kid is throwing punches at you but you are able to avoid being hit by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to throw punches with the other arm?
If a smaller adult is swinging a knife at you, and you're able to mostly avoid being hit by the knife by holding him at arms length, is it acceptable to respond with force to disarm the knife-wielding lunatic? Yep.
You're conveniently ignoring motives here. If the lunatic adult is wielding a knife because (he claims that) you took his house and land and started living in it and don't want to leave, then do you still think it's acceptable to hit him? It seems to me that you're oversimplifying the situation. Nothing is black and white, and certainly not the Israel-Palestina conflict.