• Martinphipps@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    I make the analogy with North Korea. North Korea is obviously a threat to South Korea. But if South Korea were to start bombing North Korea and kill 250 people a day the question would be how long it would take for people to ask “Why are you doing this?”

  • buttfarts@lemy.lol
    420·
    3 months ago

    Fuck Israel and the Palestinians for being endlessly shitty to each other and dragging the whole gottdam world into their regional territorial dispute over and over for the better part of the last century. Fuck the whole lot of them together for perpetuating the most narcissistic conflict of the 20th century. Everyone’s a victim and everyone’s an aggressor and we are all supposed to dissect their long historical bullshit and form a moral opinion?! Fuck off and leave us all out of your fucking drama.

    • Limonene@lemmy.world
      0·
      3 months ago

      I voted you down because I think you are making a few errors here:

      1. Not every Palestinian is Hamas. Hamas is a genocidal organization that wishes it could kill every Israeli, including civilians, but not every Palestinian believes in that. And not every Israeli agrees with IDF’s genocide, although a disappointingly high proportion of them do.

      2. IDF is clearly more successful in their genocide of Palestinians than Hamas is in their attempted genocide of Israelis.

      3. Even if Hamas and IDF both were equal, a lot of the English-speaking Internet (including many Lemmings here) are Americans, and pay American taxes, and therefore have an obligation to stop the genocide funded by our taxes, through money and weapons the US government sends to Israel. Even if both sides were equally bad, we (I and other Americans) recognize the need to stop Israel, but have no obligation to stop Hamas because we aren’t sending them the weapons in the first place.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 months ago

        Hamas is a genocidal organization that wishes it could kill every Israeli

        Hamas is pretty careful to differentiate Jewish people, some of whom have lived in Palestine for millennia, and the Zionist project, which requires the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    219·
    3 months ago

    argumentum ad populum

    edit: LOL i’ve never seen such butthurt from a simple link to a logical fallacy, which 100% applies in this case

    thank you, @SmoothOperator@lemmy.world for the insight:

    evidence gathering and following genocide evaluation can be much better performed by organizations with expertise and authority on such matters. Most of the listed organizations are considering expert evidence gatherers and experienced, empowered authorities of genocide evaluation.

    expertise. authority. truth.