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Please understand what war means; killing your enemies.

It’s not supposed to be a humanitarian relief operation.

Germany was starved not only through both world wars but 2 years after in both cases. Germany was under blockade throughout 1919 to coerce capitulation to reparations.

In 1945-1946 Germany was kept not starving but hungry to ensure compliance. Hostilities were over, they had surrendered. Gaza and HAMAS have not.

We didn’t feed Japan until after surrender either.

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Jan 22·edited Jan 22Author

We are not here to litigate Israelis or Palestinians or how war is conducted. The reality is that there is a dire humanitarian situation on the ground now in Gaza, and the international community is going to have to deal with it in the short- and long-run.

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I suppose one must take certain positions. Or so it seems.

... Litigate? War?

Litigation isn’t war, war is not Litigation. Starvation of the enemy is a standard practice of warfare. Fending off humanitarian disaster isn’t an objective in war, the objective in war is exactly bringing disaster on enemy humans.

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