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[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Israel has killed more civilians in 2 months than Russia has killed in 2 years.

Let that sink in.

[–] Blackmist 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think worse is all the killings happening that barely get reported at all.

Sudan? Hundreds of thousands of deaths. Bunch of black people killing other black people. No clicks or views in that. Ongoing, incidentally.

Jews and Muslims killing each other? Everyone seems to love picking a side there.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I agree. The Western world could actually help innocent people in these regions, but have convinced themselves that "browns need to solve their own problems."

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

"But Hamas" - Israel

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ukraine doesn't use human shield tactics, and Ukraine population density is like 100 times less than Gaza's. So that might explain some of it. But the wars are completely different in many other ways as well. In Ukraine there are clear front lines, and Ukraine has been successful in not letting Russia completely screw over every part of their country, at a huge cost in soldier deaths. The cities where Russia did invade are shot to hell and civilian massacre figures are similar to Gaza.

If we speak about morality, Russia was not threatened by Ukraine, whereas Israel is constantly being threatened by Hamas and many of its neighbors. Ukraine did not start the war, Russia did in 2014. Hamas started the war against Israel.

Also, Hamas is not reporting how many of those 22,600 were combatants. It's certainly not all of them, but is certainly more than 0.