[abdusco]

> Part of the reason is the systematic destruction of farmland by the Israeli military. Ground troops have demolished greenhouses; bulldozers have toppled orchards, ploughed out crops and crushed the soil; and planes have sprayed herbicides over the fields.

> The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) justify these attacks by claiming that “Hamas often operates from within orchards, fields, and agricultural land.” And apparently from hospitals, schools, universities, industrial estates and any other resources on which the Palestinians depend.

Everyone and everything that can be killed is Hamas and must be killed, apparently.

[austin-cheney]

Because fighters are hiding behind those 6in olive trunks thereby becoming invisible. Play it safe and kill every living thing so that nobody can hide behind even a blade of grass while waiting in line for food. Obviously Israelis are the victims in all of this.

[tdeck]

"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."

1 Samuel 15:3

[qmr]

Careful now, I was just flagged (whatever that amounts to) for calling apartheid apartheid.

[austin-cheney]

My learning from this is that pro Israel bots do not understand sarcasm. The rate at which anti-Israeli comments get flagged slows dramatically when expressed as extreme sarcasm.

Just mention something about Israel being a victim while not using trigger words like genocide or apartheid and your risk of being flagged drops dramatically.