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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians

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873 points helsinkiandrew | 4 comments | 25 Sep 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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sharpshadow ◴[25 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45374509[source]▶
It would be only just if the Palestinians would get their own state after this.
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skinkestek[dead post] ◴[25 Sep 25 16:15 UTC] No.45374724[source]▶
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RajT88 ◴[25 Sep 25 16:33 UTC] No.45375010[source]▶
Other commenters are right, but I'll point out another fallacy you're pushing here.

The current situation is like somebody commits a murder. Then the community rounds up a posse and goes out to kill the murderer. Then kill the murder's family, their neighbors, the residents of the next neighborhood over, raze the neighborhoods and then take all the land for themselves.

Justice means penalizing the guilty parties, not everyone in their geographical/social group. Your definition of Justice is leaky.

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dotancohen ◴[25 Sep 25 16:38 UTC] No.45375098[source]▶
But isn't that what Hamas did? Broke into homes and burned babies to death? Beheaded people? Pulled fetuses from pregnant women? Shoot up clinics and murder the entire staff and patients?
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1. buellerbueller ◴[25 Sep 25 16:54 UTC] No.45375368[source]▶
Hamas is a terrorist organization. IDF is a state-sponsored military force.

I expect those two categories to behave differently from one another. Do you?

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2. skinkestek ◴[25 Sep 25 17:20 UTC] No.45375823[source]▶
Obviously.

And that is also what we see.

When did IDF try to outdo the rape of Nanking?

When did Hamas follow the laws of war ever so slightly?

3. SilverElfin ◴[25 Sep 25 20:10 UTC] No.45378309[source]▶
Yes, and they are. If Israel really wanted to just commit a genocide or specifically target civilians, they would have been able to act much more quickly and cause a lot more collateral damage. Is there really any doubt about this? They could have literally leveled the entire city with a munitions from air.
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4. buellerbueller ◴[26 Sep 25 13:14 UTC] No.45386142[source]▶
"Don't worry guys, it's only inefficient genocide"