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‘My children were saying: Let them just kill us’: British doctor trapped in Gaza with family calls for ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)

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The doctor, who did not want to be named for fear of being targeted by the Israelis, arrived in Gaza with his wife and three teenage children three days before Hamas launched its murderous assault on 7 October, in which it killed about 1,300 Israelis and took more than 200 hostages.

Speaking hours before the Israelis imposed a communications blackout on Gaza on Friday, the doctor said that his and many other children who were all living in the same house had become so traumatised and terrified at night that they talked about wanting to be hit and killed by the next strike rather than have to wait until morning for the bombing to die down.

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[–] pragmakist@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deterrence and prevention are different from post facto responce, and show of force is different from application of force.

Consider what went wrong in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vitenam. Consider how many Indian lives it took to end the Indian wars the hard way. Consider the Black and Tans in Ireland. Consider what happened when the Nazis slaugthered whole villages. Consider the Sovietunion in that war (27 million lost out of a total population of 200 million)

Now find the cases, please, where actually sending the troops in helped in something like this.

And then take note of how limited the deployment were, or how special the circumstances.

[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Deterrence and prevention are different from post facto responce

Presumably Hamas was not completely finished with their efforts after October 7th.