• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Factor in non-combatant casualties, and it will be even more disproportionate.

    Yeah, there were a lot of civilian deaths in ww2. But they largely at least tried to minimize the non-military casualties. That isn’t even a factor for IDF

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      11 months ago

      You think the entire populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military?

      Also, entire cities in Southern Germany were entirely wiped out. Munich was re-built from the ground up.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, there were a lot of civilian deaths in ww2. But they largely at least tried to minimize the non-military casualties

      I feel obligated to point out that the Brits in Europe and the Americans over Japan engaged in deliberate terror bombing.

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      11 months ago

      You’ll probably never know how many of those deaths were combatants. Don’t forget that Hamas does recruit children as soon as they’re old enough to hold up a gun and pull the trigger.