Yeah, and you’re basing this on info from the IDF, which I and others point out is hardly an impartial observer. There are impartial third party observers (Amnesty, WHO, Red Cross, ICC, ICJ, Unicef, etc.) and they all disagree with you. Try applying a even a smidge of critical thinking.

I hope you’re aware that Sanders was never president. But also that he’s not a democra, which folks sometimes forget.

That’s a fair point, he was not compos mentis during the second half of his presidency. But then, suppose someone in the more advanced stages of Alzheimer’s gets behind the wheel and runs over and kills a child. Are they morally culpable? I think the answer is non-obvious, and at any rate subjective.

For me personally, a necessary (but not sufficient) precondition is that the driver currently remembers what they did. This also implies that as time progresses, they lose culpability, as in time they will forget about it. It’s hard to judge whether Biden satisfies this. I mean, in his worst moments (like the debate, and his recent appearance on the View) it’s so obvious that he doesn’t understand what’s going on that I have a hard time believing he fully understands what’s happening in the middle east. This, to me, would imply that he’s not culpable for the genocide by virtue of simply not knowing it’s happening in the first place.

there’s a fair chance he’ll survive.

Don’t say stuff like that

Oh my God that’s embarrassing. Read a book, my guy.

As another user pointed out, there’s no basis for those claims other than IDF press releases, which is literally the party that’s doing the bombing. Not crazy reliable. But let’s say they’re not lying, or wrong. Let’s say that enemy combatants are holed up underneath all schools, all hospitals, all churches and mosques, and 90% of residential buildings in Gaza (writing it out like this makes it sound really fucking stupid and unbelievable, but let’s entertain the thought anyway).

In the case that medical facilities are used in acts harmful to you, they become legitimate military targets under international humanitarian law. However, when you do bomb such facilities you have a number of responsibilities, including preparing a contingency plan and getting full medical service (such as cancer wards, maternity wards, and so on) up and running as soon as possible. If you don’t, you’re right back in war crime territory. And Israel hasn’t.

But aside from legal stuff, just ask yourself on a moral level if you’re okay with this. If your mother is taken hostage in a bank robbery, would you be okay with the police dealing with this situation by blowing up the entire building? I personally wouldn’t, but I guess it’s conceivable that you would respond by saying “the robber did the hostage taking, the cops had no other choice, and the only one to blame for my mother’s death is the robber”.

All of this is all hypothetical of course because there’s actually no reason to believe that all hospitals, schools, places of worship, residential buildings, and refugee camps are all valid military targets. Because what moron would believe such a thing based entirely on what the party doing the bombing is saying?

But that’s factually incorrect. Billions of dollars of new US military aid to Israel, during the genocide, were okayed by the Biden admin. This is not controversial, this is not classified, this is public knowledge that made headlines in all major news outlets at the time.

What planet are you on?

Thank goodness he lives in a country where the cancer hospitals haven’t been bombed out of existence with weapons funded by the United States under the leadership of Joe Biden.

I think it’s better to avoid the axiom of choice in discussions about sexuality, as it seems to upset the conservatives.

Claiming that the genocide, apartheid, and colonialism perpetrated by Israel is in any way complex or nuanced is such a disgustingly smug way of revealing you haven’t spent even a moment thinking the situation through, or reading up on the history. Gross.

47 should be 86’d, primarily because the genocide that Israel is committing in Palestine (which resembles the genocide the nazis committed against the Jews in WWII) has intensified a lot under Trump. Of course the underlying problem is Zionism, which is inherently a colonial project, and Zionism as an ideology has about as much right to exist as Nazism. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, and a good first step would be to 8647.

It’s really one of the most uncomplicated conflicts in human history, I think. Israel took the Palestinian’s land by force, and has killed thousands upon thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians over the past 77 years. It’s really as simple as the Holocaust to figure out who’s in the wrong here. Sure, the Palestinian’s fight back with little effect, but so did the Jews in WWII, and no one thinks the Holocaust was complex.

But the tankies are the genocide apologists, somehow

Yes, it’s all very complex and whether or not to commit a genocide depends on many factors.

This is literally holocaust denialism

Don’t forget about making complex decisions about difficult moral quandaries such as whether or not to commit genocide. It’s a real doozy. Is genocide good or bad? Or is it very complicated and is there maybe a middle ground such as 50% genocide? I’m glad liberals are here to reassure me that you cannot just label genocide a good or bad thing and that you can’t make rash moral judgements on whether killing tens of thousands of children is a bad thing. Thanks liberals!

Gosh I wonder how the democrats will vote on this.

No

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