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In reply to the discussion: "I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war. It was annihilation." [View all]ColinC
(10,187 posts)58. I stand corrected
Apparently 492,000 is the low estimate. Jesus fucking Christ.
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"I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war. It was annihilation." [View all]
ColinC
Feb 2024
OP
Hard to imagine trying to run a hospital and provide any but the most basic level of medical care in these conditions
dutch777
Feb 2024
#1
It is your claimn that Hamas wanted to see the population exterminated and the land laid to waste?
Chainfire
Feb 2024
#51
Israel is murdering children, starving them and depriving them of sanitary water
ColinC
Feb 2024
#73
Much as the Koreans and Phillipinos would likely consider their occupations war.
ColinC
Feb 2024
#68
Actually let's start at Israel violating the Oslo Accords following Sharon's death
ColinC
Feb 2024
#37
It really isn't another topic considering they have never not been occupied and the territory
ColinC
Feb 2024
#80
My personal feelings have nothing to do with the fact that war is annihilation.
Irish_Dem
Feb 2024
#57
I think justifying war crimes by way excusing attacks on civilians "the way things are"
al bupp
Feb 2024
#67
You seem unaware of how war works. The Pearl Harbor attack killed 68 US civilians
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#52
"Israel has probably killed far more people in retaliation for the killing of less than 2,000 people, than the US..
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#55
What do the innocent Palestinians whose families are murdered by the IDF have to do with Hamas?
ColinC
Feb 2024
#29
Again. I don't understand what that has to do with the people being murdered by the IDF?
ColinC
Feb 2024
#53
What do the innocent civilians in all wars have to do with their government?
EX500rider
Feb 2024
#56