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   Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 04:34:36 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

   • Randahl Fink
   • violetmadder

   @violetmadder @randahl It is a war (which is an obvious fact). Also, what did you think Israel 🇮🇱 would do after Hamas brutally killed 1,000 civilians on October 7th‽

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     Darnell Clayton :verified: (darnell@one.darnell.one)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 05:02:29 JST Darnell Clayton :verified:

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     • Randahl Fink
     • violetmadder
     • Michael Porter

     @MichaelPorter @violetmadder @randahl That would be nice if everyone got along. When the conflict initially started, I was advocating the temporary removal of civilians as urban warfare would result in the deaths of thousands of civilians (as the world already witnessed in Ukraine 🇺🇦 & Ethiopia 🇪🇹).

     No regional government would accept civilians from Gaza (ironically a few African countries did, but their offers were ignored).

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     Michael Porter (michaelporter@ottawa.place)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 05:02:30 JST Michael Porter

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     • Randahl Fink
     • violetmadder

     @darnell @violetmadder @randahl What they *would* do and what they *should* do are two separate things. I think they’ve done exactly what people expected, possibly a little heavier on the war crimes.

     But there’s no point in trying to answer the “should” question, given the long history of mutual antipathy and aggression in the region. The Israeli gov’t should’t be committing genocidal acts. Hamas shouldn’t have attacked civilians. Israel shouldn’t have created an apartheid state. Arab TV shouldn’t broadcast hate speech towards Jews. And so on, back through the decades.

     Wouldn’t it be nice if people could just get along.