Hamas strike on Israel - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

Who are they laying siege to?

The entire population.

Can you not see that?

Have you misunderstood like the last time? Confused again?

Show me where refers to Hamas as human animals. He doesn’t.

He says we are blockading “GAZA” because we are fighting human animals. Why defend this?

The language is important. If he meant to say we are laying siege to human animals as a direct remark in regards Hamas he should have stated that and not said it in the wider context of the people of Gaza. If i'm Palestinian and i hear that i'm thinking it's directed at me and my people.

Are captured Israeli soldiers POWs? Their government says they are at war.

My phone is not quoting posts everytime. Here’s my deleted one

‘No-one would be to blame in that scenario, war is responsible. 

What a ludicrous comparison, the civilians brutalised and dragged away are not comparable to POWs.’

why are you bringing up soldiers. It’s quite clear who I was referring to - we’ve all seen their bloodied faces and bodies, little children and elderly too. Their captors are savages.

This is your claim

He said that HAMAS were human animals and declared a siege.

You are incorrect. Not for the first time.

And nobody is saying Hamas aren't human animals are they but the Palestinians aren't right?

Also i'm pretty sure the remark human animals is pretty stupid anyway as most animals wouldn't conduct themselves in such a evil way.

Hold on, were you saying in other threads that the police in the US should beat Trump supporters off the streets?

Off topic, but come on, at least be consistent.

I agree on the choice of words re: animals, but you could make the same argument though about any perjorative phrase used. We are fighting X, whether that be barbarians or whatever. It was clear it related to HAMAS fighters as the article I linked noted.

Their country/families/communities are being blown to bits by the IDF but yeah how dare they protest.

They've every right to come out against Israel.

Well there's a difference between saying we want to eradicate Hamas in terms of its fighters and organisation and saying we want to eradicate the Palestinian people.

Anymore than saying we want to eradicate Nazism versus say the German people.

Oh I agree. My comment is more to do with the criticism of Israel’s response, as if Hamas is some other entity that has nothing to do with Palestinians. I’m sure some civilians there hate Hamas, and I’m sure many others give them every help they can.

Because when a terrorist organisation acts the way they did last weekend, it's vital that the distinction be made between people of that ilk and innocent civilians.

HAMAS are NOT "The Palestinians". The same way ETA weren't "The Basques".

Of course, to some on here, they want it to be the same thing.

I was jokingly going to suggest shutting it down after reading the first part, but you actually said it. What's wrong with certain people on boards, where if they aren't happy with how a thread is going, they want it to be shut down? Leave the thread, no one is forcing you to be here.

You know I have already condemned the barbaric Hamas attack. You know that. You are trying to distract from what you said that was incorrect. But I am not engaging with your errors anymore. Own them, disown them. I don’t care.