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enid602

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20. Destruction

Reply to LexVegas (Reply #18)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:56 PM

Oct 2023

I’ve never heard progressives or the left being critical of Israel until this chapter of Gaza. Maybe it’s because we’d hate to see the destruction of Gaza be followed by that of Tel Aviv.

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So was the only cancer hospital in Gaza bombed today [View all] malaise Oct 2023 OP

Hamas barracks. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #1

So that makes it ok.. DemocratInPa Oct 2023 #2

Actually yes it becomes a military target and that's why Hamas does it GuppyGal Oct 2023 #4

So in other words.. DemocratInPa Oct 2023 #5

I have read that there were no patients there because the hospital was out of fuel. Ocelot II Oct 2023 #9

Like a ground invasion and heavily armed troops seizing the hospital? NickB79 Oct 2023 #11

They've been warned for weeks now. Go south. Tomconroy Oct 2023 #19

That being the case, seems to me, Hamas was the first to state "fuck those patients" Torchlight Oct 2023 #25

Yep n/t SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #6

If it is no longer a hospital sarisataka Oct 2023 #8

It was still a hospital.. DemocratInPa Oct 2023 #10

It was a military barracks. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #12

One- are we sure sarisataka Oct 2023 #15

In the mind of many, yes. Even on "our side" onecaliberal Oct 2023 #16

If it was a Hamas barracks TexasDem69 Oct 2023 #47

I don't believe that claudette Oct 2023 #26

Why not? sarisataka Oct 2023 #30

Where claudette Oct 2023 #37

Is that a rhetorical question? Bucky Oct 2023 #40

At the moment there is equal proof sarisataka Oct 2023 #42

I thought they had no fuel ??? GuppyGal Oct 2023 #3

Quite remarkable SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #7

I've found it interesting that there is no power or Internet access in Gaza AZSkiffyGeek Oct 2023 #14

Hamas is using Palestinians as human shields by digging 500 miles of tunnels... Hekate Oct 2023 #13

That could be claudette Oct 2023 #28

No you're right TheProle Oct 2023 #34

You might want to do a bit of research on munitions SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #36

I don't know if we've shared. Igel Oct 2023 #38

I don't know either SickOfTheOnePct Oct 2023 #39

ADL enid602 Oct 2023 #17

ADL is progressive. The extreme right and left have always had antisemitism in common. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #18

Destruction enid602 Oct 2023 #20

They were critical long before this xmas74 Oct 2023 #21

I remember the time when the left wing socialists were considered progressive Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #22

Fox enid602 Oct 2023 #23

Amazing isn't it FHRRK Oct 2023 #43

I looked at xitter. Not definitive but I haven't seen Tomconroy Oct 2023 #24

And you're claudette Oct 2023 #29

This is floating all over xitter by anti Israel sources Tomconroy Oct 2023 #33

And so many Mossfern Oct 2023 #31

There are now more bot posts saying the bombing Tomconroy Oct 2023 #44

The rationalization here... Le Sigh. WarGamer Oct 2023 #27

link? Mossfern Oct 2023 #32

Go on xitter and search Gaza cancer hospital. Tomconroy Oct 2023 #35

Perhaps the reasoning is that if you destroy the homes, hosptials and other infrastructure, that the former occupants Chainfire Oct 2023 #41

The purpose is to end Hamas. EndlessWire Oct 2023 #45

So, it is a case of the end justifies the means? Chainfire Oct 2023 #46

I didn't say that. EndlessWire Oct 2023 #48