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Forces had no direct confrontation with Hamas terrorists who killed hostages; 'The IDF and security forces are doing everything possible to bring all hostages home as quickly as possible. This news shakes us all,' says army spokesperson Hagari

Israeli forces discovered the bodies of six hostages in a 65-foot-deep tunnel in Rafah, approximately a kilometer from where hostage Farhan Alkadi was recently freed. The IDF had no precise intelligence on the hostages' location in recent months but knew there were captives in the sector, leading to a gradual and cautious operation in Rafah since the ground offensive began.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Apparently nowadays anybody who's not a full blown Genocidal ethno-Fascist who approves when "their" people mass murder "human animal" children is a tankie.

It's like how anything left of center used to be deemed Communism in America, with the main difference that this is the ethno-Fascist (the most far-right violent kind of ideology there is) version so anything less than strong approval of ethnic Genocide is deemed Tankie.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is classic to label and insult people with no value to discuss the main topic at hand. Especially when you call their hypocrisy of response in supporting Ukraine self determination and fight against Russia and their genocidal, demonic, support of killing innocent children in Gaza.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a very traditional Fascist technique (not only theirs but, damn, they do love it), to deem criticism of their actions to be motivated by the critics supporting an "enemy" side.

I'm not certain if that's because they're intellectually or emotionally unable to conceive that people can judge words and actions without putting "side" as the top criteria and hence will criticize equally what they see as wrong and point out relentless lying from specifc actors independently of "side", if that's because that's just the kind of argumentation Fascists get indoctrinated/teached to use, or both.

There is no inconsistency in their posture towards Russia and their posture towards Israel for somebody unable to conceive of any judgement criteria more important than "what is their side", since for them tribe is more important than everything and thus excuses everything, even mass murder of chidren.

Unsusprisingly, Zionist arguments are incredibly similar to the ones from the Nazis, including this beautiful example I commented on in my previous post, were the critics were deemed to be Communists, EXACTLY LIKE THE NAZIS used to do.