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Toby Block's avatar

This war is a result of Hamas' prioritizing efforts to destroy Israel over building a society in which Palestinians could become productive citizens. By connecting mosques, schools, hospitals, businesses, and residences to Hamas' extensive network of terror tunnels, and storing munitions in those places, Hamas guaranteed that Israel's exemplary efforts to avoid killing non-combatants (praised by West Point's Major John Spencer) would be guaranteed to be less than 100% effective.

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Momin's avatar

Stop this BS hasbara. World knows your reality well now. The whole zionist project is based on the monsterous lie of "people without a land". The very same people they are trying to evict from their land a century later. Pure EVIL !!

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javahut's avatar

What a load of BS Israeli propaganda. Israelis are indoctrinated from birth to hate and abuse Palestinians. "Terror tunnels"? Flatly ridiculous and absurd. Those "terror tunnels" are on their own land. If Israel didn't create "terror skies" with F-16s and drones, "terror ground" with tanks and high tech military weapons... on Palestinian land... they wouldn't need the tunnels to hide from the Israeli terrorists abusing and killing them every day of their lives for 100+ years.

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Toby Block's avatar

From Major John Spencer, head of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point's Modern Warfare Institute (as posted on X (formerly Twitter)

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And after October 7, any political or military leader who believed Hamas could be swiftly dismantled—or that its infrastructure was anything less than deeply entrenched—was never a serious student of war. Hamas spent decades transforming Gaza into a fortress: a vast subterranean network of tunnels, a militarized landscape of civilian infrastructure, and a society indoctrinated for jihad. This was not a rogue insurgency. It was an autonomous warfighting entity—an entire region engineered for protracted conflict.

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huey's avatar

You will come up with any excuse for your mass murder.

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Toby Block's avatar

It is well known that Hamas fighters are sheltered in the tunnels, but the sverage Gazan is not. When asked why HAmas did not provide shelters for Gazans, the reply was that UNRWA, not Hamas, is responsible for protecting the Gazans.

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javahut's avatar

There's not room for 2.2 million people in the falsely labeled "terror tunnels." And even if your absurd premise were true (it's not), it's still exactly nothing compared to cowardly Israeli terrorists murdering poor people who have nothing every day of the week with F16s, bombs, tanks, etc. Yet your here complaining about tunnels. Only Jewish Israeli zealots could come up with such nonsense and expect people will buy that BS.

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Toby Block's avatar

2.2 million people in Gaza? And people are saying Israel is committing genocide because Hamas' "Ministry of Health" is reporting a death count of tens of thousands (and not distinguishing between combatants and civilians; including people who died of natural causes; labelling anyone under 19 as a child (but not admitting that Hamas runs summer camps where children are given weapons and taught to us them).

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javahut's avatar

The lame excuses for Israel's endless abuse and murder of poor Palestinians never stops. Most U.S. citizens and, yes, military leaders have been indoctrinated by the huge BS Israeli propaganda machine for decades. Everyone else in the entire world can see with their own eyes the atrocities Israel inflicts on Palestinians daily. You'd have to be willfully blind, racist, and just plain ignorant not to.

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huey's avatar

Are you really that guillible and think anybody here will fall for your

sick bull crap.

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huey's avatar

Stop with your tunnel vision excuses.

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huey's avatar

You are a blind Israeli stooge.

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Toby Block's avatar

Does name calling make you feel smart? Check the writings of Major John Spencer (Hamas' entire strategy depends on its fortifications) and Bassem Tawil (What do the Palestinians want? Not a state of their own but the destruction of the nation-state of the Jews.

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huey's avatar

Does targeting and killing Palestinian children by air strikes and brave snipers

make you feel brave?

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Toby Block's avatar

Children are dying because Hamas has made it impossible for Israel's exemplary efforts to avoid harming civilians has been gauranteed to be less than 100% effective by Hamas' embedding its fortifications amid the populace (e.g., munitions stored in homes, missiles fired from schoolyards, munitions buried in hospital parking lots and "safe areas" supposed to house Gazans following evacuation orders from the IDF.

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hierochloe's avatar

For those reading this shite that don't know any better, Israeli efforts to avoid harming civilians are non-existent compared especially to US military - the reality is quite the opposite and well documented in many places. "Exemplary" is a fucking lie.

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hierochloe's avatar

Spencer gets regularly wrecked in debates on this issue - citing him here is like sharting yourself.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

This GENOCIDE is a result of the Israeli’s brutal occupation of a people for decades. No amount of cope you say will change reality

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Gregory S Moss's avatar

Toby Blocked

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