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In reply to the discussion: This is why the United States used to not do shit like this [View all]AloeVera
(3,285 posts)Just as one example, the 2008 Gaza War was started by Israel, when it raided Gaza in what it admitted was a pre-emptive strike in which several Hamas militants were killed. The raid occurred on the day a 6-month ceasefire was to expire. The war resulted in between 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian deaths and 13 Israeli deaths. The IDF destroyed nearly 50,000 homes in Gaza, leaving over 100,000 people homeless. It was like a dry run for the 2023 Gaza War. Interestingly, a UN team responsible for the protection of women and children found hundreds of violations of the rights of children and accused Israeli soldiers of using kids as human shields, bulldozing a home with a woman and child still inside, and shelling a building they had ordered civilians into a day earlier.
Human shields, hmmm.
Oddly enough, the 1967 war also started with a pre-emptive strike. Again, by Israel. Nearly the entire Egyptian Air Force was destroyed.
Israel's preference for pre-emptive strikes is evident, although with Iran now, it's more of a preventive strike - a brand-new category of war-making it seems to me, where the aim is to prevent another nation from doing something it might do in the future, the evidence for which of course is non-existent as it has not happened yet.
I could continue with the rest but I have to get some rest myself and this would be a very long post.
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