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ta20240528today at 6:29 AM1 replyview on HN

Ah Mr Cohen,

Let's re-frame this: what behaviour do you think is beyond the pale for any military?

Then, in you heart of hearts, if Israel's IDF ever did that, would you condemn them and demand sanctions, arrest, and imprisonment?

If not, then this is a non-falsifiable situation: you are for Israel not matter what, because it's your parent's tribe.

So when you are making the list of no-nos above, note that the IDF is already past starving child civilians of food aid and bombing entire residential buildings in Iran.

So I'm not sure that behaviour you could find that's beyond the pale.

The rest of us have lines we will not cross, regardless of what our enemies do to us; it's the slow march of civilisation.

Join us.


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dotancohentoday at 8:00 AM

The IDF did not starve civilians - that lie has already been disproven. I know that you'd love to repeat it until history records it, but by no objective measure was there famine nor starvation in Gaza. Other than the starvation of Hamas' hostages.

The images of "starving children" were images of children with other medical conditions. The UN reports used a metric that considered starvation at HALF the threshold used in every other conflict zone, and even with that metric only found "evidence" in a single location once.

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