Listening to #TimcastIRL and I can’t believe that everyone is arguing against their guest #PrestonParra and saying that they should be continuing to bomb #Gaza rather than switching from bombs to the #IDF’s planned ground invasion. The bombing campaign clearly leads to more collateral damage and is less precise.

Like, yes #TimPool, I understand that somewhere close to the majority of Palestinians support #Hamas, but that doesn’t mean that you choose an option that leads the a certain amount of collateral damage when a less deadly option is available.

It’s also interesting that #TimPool doesn’t think that #Israel’s blockade is a war crime. Like, he has a great point, that it really shouldn’t be #Israel’s job to give #Gaza food and water since they’re an independent state, technically, and not a part of #Israel, but starving civilians is still, as I understand it, a violation of the #GenevaConventions.

I think the only way you get out of such a claim is by saying that it’s #Hamas’ fault that #Gaza doesn’t have water because they’ve failed to build up the proper infrastructure despite having the ample opportunity to do so, which is actually true as they have bragged about destroying, for example, water infrastructure provided to them by the #UN.

@realcaseyrollins They have been doing similar shit since before Hamas even attacked.. Now they have an excuse it will just get worse.

@freemo There is too much international pressure fight now for it to get any worse. If they can turn on the water (I suspect #Hamas has sabotaged the waterways in #Gaza), I think they will do that before their ground invasion, which I’m expecting sometime within the next 48 hours or so, especially if #Hamas releases those 50 additional hostages as rumored.

@freemo But, your reply doesn’t speak to the legitimacy of the move. It’s still true that #Gaza should have it’s own water infrastructure, and it’s #Hamas that has prevented that from happening, not #Israel and certainly not the #UN.

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How do you expect them to do that, they are walled in and prevented from leaving and all the fresh water is on the israel side (why do you think they took that land from them!). The aquafier is pretty much almost an exact map of the borders of palestine!

@freemo Like, I’m sorry, my sympathy is limited for people who destroy their water infrastructure and then complain that they’re now dehydrating. If they did what they did to build up their infrastructure, I’d hold a different view, but clearly they don’t care.

@realcaseyrollins paywalled cant read .. I also only read reliable (non-profit) journalism as a rule.

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