IDF: Whoops, tee hee.

  • npz@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Well they’re still blowing up kids with these things so idk if it’s the most brilliant targeting technique

    • Vent@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Compared to dumping white phosphorus over hospitals and refugee camps, killing 2 (?) children during an attack that targeted hundreds/thousands is many orders of magnitude more precise. I hate dead innocents as much as anyone, but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.

      The point of the post isn’t to praise the pagers attack. It’s to point out that Isreal is capable of causing less collateral damage in Gaza but chooses not to.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Fucking weird comment.

        but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.

        Yeah. No I don’t.

      • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.

        Do you admit that mass gas chambers are an effective way to kill people ?

        • Vent@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          Yes. A very large part of what made the holocaust so terrible was that it was very effective at killing people.

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          2 months ago

          If my goal was to kill exclusively enemy combatants and leave all civilians alone, it would be pretty effective to round them up and gas them, yes. I’d rather do that than indiscriminate fire.

          • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            Combatants tend to violently fight back, when you try to round them up. They also tend to hide among civilians in case of terrorist militia like Hezbollah.

    • Microw@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      It’s an Obama type technique. Sure, you might blow up a few innocents, but the rate of eliminated enemies vs killed innocents is better than in traditional warfare, so a numbers guy would always go for that one.

    • sudo@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Its accepting Israeli propaganda to say that this was a precision strike. This is like using cluster munitions.

      Whenever Israel comes up with an idea for an assassination they do it because they can. Its a force of habit for them.