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I Do Not Support Seriously Harming or Killing Israeli Civilians Inside Israel or Israeli Minors in the West Bank

I Do Not Support Seriously Harming or Killing Israeli Civilians Inside Israel or Israeli Minors in the West Bank

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Robert Lindsay
Aug 19, 2024
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Look I hate Israel as all decent humans do. I also basically hate Israelis, well almost all of them anyway. But I still don’t want to see Israeli civilians inside Israel harmed by armed attacks.

Now I don’t mind targeting settlers in the West Bank (but not the minors!) and soldiers anywhere because they’ve got it coming, and at the moment, sad as it is, they need killing.

Nobody wants to admit this but it’s true. There are people out there who need killing, generally if not exclusively in wartime.

There’s a war going on and some of these civilians are going to get killed and wounded, but I’d prefer to keep it at a million.

I just don’t support killing civilians ever. Not Nazi civilians, not Japanese civilians, not Turkish civilians, not any kind of monster human civilians. They’re just off-limits period. Once you start saying,

“Well I oppose killing civilians of course in the case where they’re good civilians, but where they are bad civilians supporting evil causes, I say kill em.”

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