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minus-squareMrSpArkle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·2 days agoIf the beepers and radios were targeted at Hezbollah militia members, then it isn’t terrorism. If the equipment was sold in regular retail channels meant for the general Lebanese population, then it is terrorism. We don’t know enough to make that call 100%, but early analysis is strongly suggesting it was targeted. To call it terrorism at this point is flippant and unsupported, and draws attention away from and fails to highlight their larger crime of genocide.
minus-squareTrousersMcPants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoIt is absolutely terrorism. When the pagers went off most of the people hit by them were in plain clothes, including a child, people were just seeing other randomly exploding and are adding strain to hospitals. This is a terrorist attack.
minus-squareMrSpArkle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·2 days agoYes, and when we bombed Germany in WW2 we killed hundreds of children. War is bad. Terrorism is bad. But they are different things.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoGenocide =/= war. Stop trying to justify genocidal terrorism on the basis of some imaginary “war”.
minus-squareMrSpArkle@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 day agoThere is a difference between the actions in Gaza and the actions in Lebanon.
minus-squarePrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 days ago It is absolutely terrorism Too early to tell, but likely not most of the people hit by them were in plain clothes oh good, if i find myself an active combatant in a war-zone i should just chuck on a t-shirt. including a child Regrettable but civilian casualties in a war-zone are inevitable people were just seeing other (presumably you meant to put “people” here) randomly exploding they weren’t randoms, at the moment it seems they were Hezbollah and are adding strain to hospitals That’ll happen when a large number of combatants are taken out at once
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 day agoThere is no “war-zone”. There are no “combatants”. There’s just genocidal terrorists murdering civilians in several different states.
minus-squarePrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 day agoHezbollah have been firing rockets into israel for months, it absolutely is a warzone
If the beepers and radios were targeted at Hezbollah militia members, then it isn’t terrorism.
If the equipment was sold in regular retail channels meant for the general Lebanese population, then it is terrorism.
We don’t know enough to make that call 100%, but early analysis is strongly suggesting it was targeted.
To call it terrorism at this point is flippant and unsupported, and draws attention away from and fails to highlight their larger crime of genocide.
It is absolutely terrorism. When the pagers went off most of the people hit by them were in plain clothes, including a child, people were just seeing other randomly exploding and are adding strain to hospitals. This is a terrorist attack.
Yes, and when we bombed Germany in WW2 we killed hundreds of children. War is bad. Terrorism is bad. But they are different things.
Genocide =/= war. Stop trying to justify genocidal terrorism on the basis of some imaginary “war”.
There is a difference between the actions in Gaza and the actions in Lebanon.
Too early to tell, but likely not
oh good, if i find myself an active combatant in a war-zone i should just chuck on a t-shirt.
Regrettable but civilian casualties in a war-zone are inevitable
they weren’t randoms, at the moment it seems they were Hezbollah
That’ll happen when a large number of combatants are taken out at once
There is no “war-zone”. There are no “combatants”.
There’s just genocidal terrorists murdering civilians in several different states.
Hezbollah have been firing rockets into israel for months, it absolutely is a warzone