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Intent matters. If you are trying to destroy terrorists, it can be a messy job that results in innocent bystanders also dying, but that alone doesn’t make you a terrorist.

When you specifically target innocent civilians just to make some kind of point, you are a terrorist.

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Israel explicitly pursues collective punishment as a strategy. Always has and it's obviously what's happening in Gaza now.

There’s no alternative, the terrorists hide amongst the civilians.

So you have to kill all the civilians to make sure what all the terrorists die? Otherwise how can we be sure?

Are you saying that the 30% children are also terrorists?

No, I’m saying terrorists are the intended targets and children just happen to be in the way.

Wow.

What if it were your children, xwdv? What if your children were the ones being shot and blown up to get those "terrorists"? Would you still think that it's okay since your children "just happened to be in the way"?

No wonder those people hold you accountable.

My children would simply not be in the way.

My god this is an ignorant take. They were lucky to be born in a safe country. I am happy for them. Children do not choose where they are born. They did not choose to be in the way.

I was gonna stay neutral in my wording but it irritates me how war crimes can just be brushed away with “Well, they should’ve just been born in ‘Murica instead”

Unfortunatly, if you live in any large or developed country, then I'm fairly certain that they are.

Thanks to you, I now know how bad people justify killing innocent children. They don't.

But if they were in the way, you'd be totally ok with it, right?

Killing people that “happen to be in the way” is actually a war crime FYI. Should that be changed?

I’ve heard people argue that the intent is unclear when over 60% of the death toll in Gaza are civilians.

I have obviously never been involved in war so I’m not sure if that’s normal.

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