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Israel's Methods of Fighting Urban Warfare Are War Crimes in and of Themselves: A Comparison of Israel in Gaza and Russia in Mariupol

Israel's Methods of Fighting Urban Warfare Are War Crimes in and of Themselves: A Comparison of Israel in Gaza and Russia in Mariupol

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Aug 06, 2024
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Israel's Methods of Fighting Urban Warfare Are War Crimes in and of Themselves: A Comparison of Israel in Gaza and Russia in Mariupol
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Actually no bombs at all should be used in urban warfare where civilians are everywhere. As an example, let us look at Mariupol in Ukraine. This battle is the source of an incredible amount of bullshit by the Russia-haters, including a documentary.

The truth is that the Ukrainian military abused the Mariupol people horrendously in years of occupation and there were massive human rights abuses and murder of civilians akin to what Israel is doing in Gaza.

Every time the Ukranians committed a war crime, they said Russia did it. The lugenpresse in the West repeated all of these lies without even checking the facts. An ordinary consumer of MSM news would conclude that Russia committed massive war crimes in Mariupol.

In fact they committed zero. The documentary begs the question of why on Earth Russia would attack its own civilian supporters.

The Russian operation to take the city, led largely by Russian speaking Donbass Ukrainians, was very precise because some said that 99% of the resident…

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