"the current Hamas estimate of 471 dead may still be inflated" (from Ms Young's post)
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I keep coming back to this one thought over and over again: why won't Hamas break out the numbers of non-combatant Palestinians and Hamas fighters? I can only surmise that it is because the number of Palestinians *total* dead and wounded make Hamas …
"the current Hamas estimate of 471 dead may still be inflated" (from Ms Young's post)
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I keep coming back to this one thought over and over again: why won't Hamas break out the numbers of non-combatant Palestinians and Hamas fighters? I can only surmise that it is because the number of Palestinians *total* dead and wounded make Hamas look like the protectors of the Gazans against the "antagonistic apartheid government of the Zionist state," and Israel as a completely heartless country. The large numbers of Palestinians given by Hamas serves to bring condemnation on Israel and sympathy for *all* Gazans, including the terrorists.
While I know that I will never see it, a breakdown of ordinary Palestinians -- men, women and children -- from Hamas fighters would bring some clarity to the situation. I would also like to see a breakout of Palestinian civilians killed or wounded because Hamas was using them as human shields
The Israeli/Hamas war is asymmetrical, Israel has more soldiers and funding than Hamas, true, but Hamas has blatantly targeted Israeli civilians in violation of international law. When will the useful tools on the American left (I'm looking at you Reps Tlaib and Omar, as well as a whole bunch more) realize and acknowledge that Hamas has no desires to establish a Palestinian homeland: that their openly stated goals are the complete destruction of "the Zionist entity," and the death of all Jews?
Israel has been considerably less than a good neighbor to Gaza (and the West Bank for that matter), but it takes a truly sick mind to blame more than 1400 innocent victims, almost all non-combatants, for their deaths on themselves.
"the current Hamas estimate of 471 dead may still be inflated" (from Ms Young's post)
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I keep coming back to this one thought over and over again: why won't Hamas break out the numbers of non-combatant Palestinians and Hamas fighters? I can only surmise that it is because the number of Palestinians *total* dead and wounded make Hamas look like the protectors of the Gazans against the "antagonistic apartheid government of the Zionist state," and Israel as a completely heartless country. The large numbers of Palestinians given by Hamas serves to bring condemnation on Israel and sympathy for *all* Gazans, including the terrorists.
While I know that I will never see it, a breakdown of ordinary Palestinians -- men, women and children -- from Hamas fighters would bring some clarity to the situation. I would also like to see a breakout of Palestinian civilians killed or wounded because Hamas was using them as human shields
The Israeli/Hamas war is asymmetrical, Israel has more soldiers and funding than Hamas, true, but Hamas has blatantly targeted Israeli civilians in violation of international law. When will the useful tools on the American left (I'm looking at you Reps Tlaib and Omar, as well as a whole bunch more) realize and acknowledge that Hamas has no desires to establish a Palestinian homeland: that their openly stated goals are the complete destruction of "the Zionist entity," and the death of all Jews?
Israel has been considerably less than a good neighbor to Gaza (and the West Bank for that matter), but it takes a truly sick mind to blame more than 1400 innocent victims, almost all non-combatants, for their deaths on themselves.
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