Filed with Sources, Books & Media (MOC) · Related: 60.1 Israel-Palestine · Key Arguments (MOC)
Casualties
- Claims:
- 70% women & Children
- No war since the 1980 has killed civilians faster besides genocides
- 25,000 civilians
- Israeli allows killing up to 25 civilians if it leads to single junior militant
- 100s of civilians for senior commander
- Counter: So what ratio would be acceptable?
- U.S. ratios in Afghanistan/Iraq
- Israeli Targeting AI: ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
- Two sources said that during the early weeks of the war they were permitted to kill 15 or 20 civilians during airstrikes on low-ranking militants. Attacks on such targets were typically carried out using unguided munitions known as “dumb bombs”, the sources said, destroying entire homes and killing all their occupants.
- Every hospital is destroyed in Gaza
- IDF drone hit 4 Palestinian children
- Gaza slideshow that shows Gaza children dead
Jewish Ethno-State
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Claims:
- Identity politics
- 300 billion dollars from U.S.
- Makes it easier for Israel to not make peace
- Not good for US security
- Terrorist and murders among Israeli government
- Counter: Israel is surrounded by states that have multiple pogroms and its the only place for Jews to go
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IDF has desecrated cemeteries
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“Dumb bombs”
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When Palestinians feel there’s a path to peace, they moderate and violence stops
- Oslo
- Why Second Intifada stopped
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Benny Morris — 24 massacres that happened against Palestinians
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Golda Meir lived in a stolen house that was a P. Christian
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Netanyahu giving money to Hamas
- Counter: Allowed Qatar to give development aid to Gaza, did it because International pressure and only Qatar wanted to do it
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Netanyahu wants to push the more moderate Palestinians so there isn’t peace
- “Anyone who wants the thort the Palestinian state part of our strategy”
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Netanyahu rejected deal to release all hostage on Oct 8th
- Fabrication
Response to Oct 7th
- Right of return
- Very precise precision strikes
- Eye for an eye but more bombs were dropped in first week on Gaza than a year in Afghanistan