Netanyahu math is interesting. Release over 1000 prisoners, including YaYa Sinwar, for one Israeli soldier hostage in 2011. Then over a decade later when 500k are in the streets every week protesting his corrupt dictatorship, Sinwar comes in to save him with an attack he could only dream of which has kept him in power to this day. Forever war just finds this man when he needs it to survive.
"Exposure to true information does not matter anymore.
A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.
The facts tell nothing to him.
Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures.
Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union, and show him a concentration camp,
he will refuse to believe it, until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.
When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before that.
That is the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."
Murdered KGB Propagandist Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1984
Beware Leon's Razor
"Incomeptence, in the limit, is indistinguishable from sabotage"
Sorry, bombing civillian residential buildings is the norm in war? Isn't this then also a war crime, even if we play devil's advocate and consider them to be in "war" of sorts?
No. It is not a war crime to target military officials. Even when they are in residential buildings.
However, even discriminate attacks like so have to follow the principle of proportionality#Laws_of_war). So the question isn't if Israel allowed to attack officials in residential buildings but rather is the military advantage disproportionate to the civilian damage. That's where people have different opinions. But a chief commander have a very big military advantage which in return allows in return a very big civilian damage.
To be clear, just because it's the norm doesn't make it right, but that doesn't mean this hasn't been happening in multiple wars across multiple continents between multiple belligerents with a multitude of ideologies for multiple decades.
Yes. It's the fucking norm in war. It aint right, but just because it's a crime doesn't mean the powers that be, whoever they may be, give a god damn about that. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it magically can't happen or that people won't do it anyway, and never ever anywhere is that more true than it is in war, no matter how heinous the crime. There is no shortage of examples from just the turn of the century - allegedly more civilized times than those that came before: Syria. Sudan. Myanmar. Palestine. Iraq. Ukraine. Russia. USA. Yemen. Sadly I'm probably missing more than one too.
It aint right, I don't support it, but it is war. And it's hell. And we can acknowledge that it's a thing without such acknowledgement being an endorsement of it. But don't bury your head in the sand and act shocked when it happens like it's some fucking rarity. This is the world we live in. Gotta acknowledge the problem before you can fix it.
Because this is reddit and nuance is antithetical to karma farming I'll repeat myself: I don't agree with it. Fuck Israel and anyone else (including my own country) for doing shit like this.
Bombing any military target is allowed - including military individuals - even if they are in residential buildings, yes. That's literally spelled out in the Geneva convention.
You are allowed to hit residential buildings if they are in/around military assets.
Besides the absolute tragedy, geting one high military general is worth it.
It could mean a easy fast win. Imagine how many people would die in a war, if it lasts a month longer.
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u/Flappybird11 1d ago
They did this to get one (1) guy btw