• 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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      Prisoners taken in a warzone under suspicion. Administrative detention. Call it however. No diplomatic status. Citizens of no legitimate state. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They don’t get to have a state. They are actual war criminals for all intents and purposes, and in all pursuits. War crimes are never punished in Gaza, often rewarded, always revered. Hamas is indefensible and unredeemable for what they’ve done to millions of people of have lived and died in Gaza without any prospects, having turned every institution into modalities of Iranian-vassal terrorism. Give me a break.

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        Prisoners taken in a warzone under suspicion. Administrative detention. Call it however.

        Here you go, something fun to learn: https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

        Again, nothing to do with war, NOT prisoners of war. Hostages by another name. How did you not know about this?

        They are actual war criminals for all intents and purposes, and in all pursuits. War crimes are never punished in Gaza Israel, often rewarded, always revered.

        Also true this way around. Israel has been committing war crimes for 7 months straight now.

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          Israel has been committing war crimes for 7 months straight now.

          Why only 7 months and not more? Did something change Israel’s intentions to spend more time on commiting war crimes?

          I could say hamas has been commiting war crimes for years now. Would that be wrong?

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            Why only 7 months and not more? Did something change Israel’s intentions to spend more time on commiting war crimes?

            Yeah I mean we can keep going back if you like, but I was just talking about the current war, obviously.

            I could say hamas has been commiting war crimes for years now. Would that be wrong?

            It would be totally right. Why stop there? They have not allowed a free and fair election since they were voted in. They are tyrants.

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          Go read the ICJ preliminary order and the express finding that Israel does prosecute war criminals. And guess what? It’s true. The Qatari state/ pro-Trump/pro-Russia media diet you are gorging yourself on does not cover it at all.

          Hamas are war criminals…in all pursuits.

          No, that’s not also true about Israel. You are looking at a small isolated thing, which I think you are portraying unfairly and incompletely, but fine we can disagree.

          But Israel has a legitimate government that has stabily for decades provided essential services to tens of millions of people.

          Glad you agree Hamas must go.

          What’s your plan to make that happen? How would you destroy the tunnels?

          You’d do the best you could. That means ordinance and coordinated evacuations and warnings, knowing that the civilian population is going to follow Hamas around up above like one of those artic foxes stalking a tundra shrew below the snow, so they can win Martyrdom™ prizes, paid in rial, no doubt. Such disregard for their own side’s civilians is unprecedented in warfare. International law is based on precedent.

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            Sorry did you just totally ignore the administrative detention thing? We can talk about this stuff afterwards. Do you see how these people are hostages?

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              No not at all. Hostages? Of who? No one wants to trade anyone for anything, except Hamas.

              I see how there exists in Gaza a pervasive, deranged culture of support for terrorism and willing “martyrdom,” a wilfull disregard for life or law, material support of which justifies administrative detention. Easily. Do you not?

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                This is what “administrative detention” means: https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

                I shared this link with you a couple of messages back. Do you agree that being imprisoned indefinitely, not during an explicit time of war (ie it has happened for many many years now, these are not prisoners of war) and with NO CHARGE is equivalent to being a hostage?

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                  I’ve seen the link spammed again and again. You should read it so you can appreciate that you’re talking about a few hundred to a few thousand people.

                  Boo hoo. How many millions of Gazans have to live and die under Hamas with zero hope for peace or human rights?

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                    I’ve seen the link spammed again and again. You should read it so you can appreciate that you’re talking about a few hundred to a few thousand people.

                    So more hostages than Hamas is holding?