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From a rationally objective and internationally legal perspective, the military occupation of Gaza enforced through land, sea and air entirely deserve violent retaliation against the occupying force. The Gaza strip is not your land and grand delusions about your moral superiority because you are a historically persecuted people is simply not going to wash. Nor for that matter is silencing critics using fake antisemitism tactics.

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The idea that Hamas' ongoing efforts to murder Israeli civilians adheres to their obligations under international law is laughable. Ignoring the ceasefires they've signed which require them to, well, cease firing rockets, they don't even make a pretense of aiming at military targets. Not to mention their habit of kidnapping and subsequently killing non-combatants

It might be laughable to you, but perhaps you lack the perspective of random genetic luck to be born in an occupied land.

Legality under international law doesn't depend on genetics or where you were born. That is kind of the whole point...

You mean like the murder of American Rachel Corrie by the IDF which was ruled an "accident" absolving it of all responsibility?

Yes, international law establishes the legality of actions which accidentally result in fatalities. I'm not sure how that is relevant to intentional killings by Hamas though

And thus we are in agreement: collateral damage is incidental to achieving a strategic goal.

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