IDF: Whoops, tee hee.

  • Vent@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Compared to dumping white phosphorus over hospitals and refugee camps, killing 2 (?) children during an attack that targeted hundreds/thousands is many orders of magnitude more precise. I hate dead innocents as much as anyone, but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.

    The point of the post isn’t to praise the pagers attack. It’s to point out that Isreal is capable of causing less collateral damage in Gaza but chooses not to.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 days ago

      Fucking weird comment.

      but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.

      Yeah. No I don’t.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      8 days ago

      but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.

      Do you admit that mass gas chambers are an effective way to kill people ?

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        8 days ago

        Yes. A very large part of what made the holocaust so terrible was that it was very effective at killing people.

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        8 days ago

        If my goal was to kill exclusively enemy combatants and leave all civilians alone, it would be pretty effective to round them up and gas them, yes. I’d rather do that than indiscriminate fire.

    • Hlodwig@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      You do realise targets in Gaza and targets in Lebanon are not the same? On one hand you have fighters shielding themselves behind civilians and dont even know what a pager is and why they would use it, on the other hand you have political and operative leaders on these fighters that need these pagers to stay low profile and untaped…