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Comment by johnnyworker

> The answer to all of them is they are happing during combat, as damage as a result of combat.

Turning off water is not combat.

Rigging the supreme court with explosives after posing for selfies in it is not combat.

Destroying universities and mocking people in Gaza for having no education (when they're not singing that they're no schools in Gaza cuz there are no kids in Gaza) is not combat.

IDF soldiers singing about how "there are no innocent civilians" and bragging about how many residential houses they destroyed is not combat.

Sniping a 70 year old woman fleeing with a child isn't combat.

Shooting at youth, then running over their body with an army truck on camera and leaving them to bleed to death isn't combat.

Bombing the tents of refugee camps is not combat.

> Hamas can surrender any time and combat will cease

Right. So occupying land and blockading Gaza is fine. Supporting Hamas over moderates to get "legitimacy" as Smotrich called it, is fine. But NOW you draw a line, and simply make demands that must be met before we can stop hiding crimes against humanity under the cover of "combat".

No. Such arguments, no matter how often we have heard them repeated, are not even a bad attempt, and light of the gravity of the situation that's grave as well.

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