The Canadian Onion has some great articles too:

"Spineless fence-sitter thinks killing children is bad no matter who does it": https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/10/spineless-fence-sitter-...

https://www.thebeaverton.com/tag/israel/

... and later clarified that his comments had been misunderstood https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/11/03/battles-on-the-public...

(Leaving aside the fact that former ambassadors don't speak for the Israeli government.)

The Israeli government has publicly stated [1] they do not intend long-term reoccupation of Gaza.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67039975

You are confusing reported and estimated casualties. The reported civilian deaths in the nine-month Battle of Mosul were around 10k. A later estimate put the total number of civilian deaths to ~40k.

The numbers from Gaza are reported deaths, and nobody is seriously disputing them anymore. They are pretty consistent with the claims Israel is making. About two thirds of them should be civilians. That means a bit over 10k dead civilians after 2 months. True civilian casualties are likely higher, but the situation on the ground makes reliable estimates impossible.

I saw some of the incursion footage. How many of the hamas troops in the October 7 incursion were women? 0, from what I saw in the footage the only women involved were isreali victims getting kidnapped. Mostly of the incursion was done by males clearly in their 20s/30s. Perhaps few 19+, but I didn't see any kids participating in it either.

Sure, there might be some women helping out, but we can say it is mostly men, and 99% of the women killed, and most of the kids under 17 are victims of IDF's indiscriminate bombing, paid by our taxes.

If you want to defend war crimes, keep on going, but I feel sick how some goons in the tech community are justifying the killing by saying a '11 year old' is probably a hamas terrorist.

The vast majority of combatants are male, so women and children are typically viewed as non-combatants by default.

Women (on average) are much less likely to be combatants or pose a threat, are physically more vulnerable, and (as the only people who can bear children) are more important than men for preserving the future of humanity.

The reason people think only 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed is that is lowball number the UN made up to not offend and anger Russia and China.

It is estimated that 25,000-75,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed just in Mariupol and surrounding areas.

percentage wise, Absolutely yes. Ukraine is 40mil.

If the current rate was sustained in the Ukraine/russia, we would have seen at least 400k death rates. The estimates are 10-20x less. (between 10 and 20k)

You lost the plot, when even a goon like Putin is starting to look more human and conducting a massive war with less civilian casualties.

bruh.... this is clearly 'faschist' type of argument. "They deserve it". The dehumanizing of a whole population is just sick.

Last times this happen in europe were: 1) WW2, 2) The massacres in the Yogoslavian wars, and especially in Sebrenica which was a clear ethnic cleansning/genocide and the war leaders ended up getting convicted for war crimes and crimes against the humanity.

Benjamin Netanyahu is on the way to become the next Milosevic, a war criminal.

They don't use it as munition, it's used by all countries in the way Israel uses it

It's hard to look at the events of October 7 and not conclude that they are "unholy abomination, morally disgusting".

It may be that they were provoked by equally abominable behavior by the other side. I'll leave that to each person's conscience. But it's quite undeniable that at least one side committed unspeakable atrocities, and there's no merit in saying "Oh, there's no point in demonizing them just because they disagree".

This isn't a difference of opinion. There is actual violence going on, like real horror-movie stuff. It may be that both sides are demonic, but there's no way to make the case that neither side is.