re: #262 goddamnedfrank

I don’t know man, I feel like blaming the death toll on the lack of bomb shelters is the product of a bunker mentality and just represents more DARVO that avoids dealing with the reality on the ground. I mean when you’re dealing with more property destruction than Dresden most shelters just become mass tombs but props I guess on at least tacitly admitting that the IDF has dropped multiple nuclear bombs worth of ordinance on Gaza.

Also, bomb shelters don’t prevent famine, or the deliberate lies that lead to it.

In 2007, Hamas became responsible for protecting the civilians of Gaza, by means of bomb shelters, by means of attack warning (systems). No-one else.
And they clearly have the capacity to build bomb shelters, as they have made many tunnels since coming into power, yet no bomb shelters (civilians are not welcome in the tunnels, only Hamas & Co fighters).
Who attacks an enemy without having ensured that the own civilian population is reasonably safe from the inevitable counter-attack?
I’m not DARVO’ing here. IDF has obligations under international law, but so does the Gazan government. One of the two hasn’t even tried to meet their obligations under international law.
That lack of trying comes at a cost which the civilian population in Gaza is paying as we speak. I’m not blaming the civvies in Gaza, I’m blaming the idiots who knowingly and intentionally put them in mortal peril to begin with.