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@reuven_cazh

21 Tweets 4 reads Oct 25, 2023
A few words about the death of innocents in wars:
During World War II, 79,000 British and American citizens were killed, compared to two million German citizens.
In the Vietnam War, 58,000 Americans were killed, compared to more than a million Vietnamese.
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In the first Gulf War, 379 Americans were killed, compared to tens of thousands of Iraqis.
In the second Gulf War, 4,476 Americans were killed, compared to almost 200,000 Iraqis.
In the Algerian war, 25,000 French were killed, compared to 700,000 Algerians.
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In the Algerian War, 25,000 French and 700,000 Algerians were killed.
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This is not because these countries were cruel or that the lives of innocent people did not matter to them. It's simply because there is no way to win a war without many innocent people being harmed on both sides, It's depressing, but it's part of any war.
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European countries have not experienced a real war in the last 80 years, and therefore imagine that a "proportional" war can be fought and should be fought, But no one has ever won a war like this in any war.
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Those who read Israel always keep moderation and always check whether the ratio of casualties on both sides prevents Israel from winning the war.
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Some of them may prevent naivety and do want Israel to defeat terrorism but are only troubled by the death of innocent people involved in it. But this is naivety; it is impossible to win a war like this.
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And let me tell you a secret: There is no country in Europe that would have thousands of dead in a terrorist attack and has given up fighting terrorism because of the death of innocent people involved in it.
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Compared to Israel's population (9.2 million), the number of casualties in Hamas's massacre is equivalent to 67,076 in the United States, 16,374 in Germany, 13,415 in the United Kingdom, 12,823 in France, 11,639 in Italy, and 9,272 in Spain.
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Can you imagine one of these countries absorbing such a number of casualties and giving up victory because of "moderation" and "proportionality"? Some from the critics are just anti-Semites who would prefer Israel to lose to Hamas, but most of them are not anti-Semites
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Only the fact that there was no war in Europe for 80 years created an unrealistic expectation that terrorism can be fought with proportional casualty rates
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Read history; there is no such thing; there is no way to fight a war like this. If you are not biased and support Israel's right to defend itself against bloodthirsty terrorists from Hamas, you must understand this.
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those who prevent Israel from defeating Hamas cause much more suffering and death for the Palestinians themselves, In World War II countless innocent Germans and Japanese were killed, But because they eradicated Nazism, Germany became a prosperous country within a few years
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If they were careful about harming civilians, they might have succeeded in stopping the Nazis for a few years. But in the end, they would have risen again. In the long run, many more German and Japanese citizens benefited from the eradication of this murderous ideology.
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Those who press Israel every time not to completely destroy Hamas so that Palestinians free of guilt will not be harmed will cause much more suffering for Palestinians in the long run
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they condemn them to a life of endless wars instead of giving Israel once and for all to eradicate Hamas and its murderous ideology. Then Gaza's citizens could build a prosperous country like Germany and Japan after World War II
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anyone who has ever read the Hamas Charter understands that their problem is not Israel or Jews, and certainly not the occupation, Their goal is to destroy anyone who is not Muslim, The Hamas Charter explicitly states several times that the scope of their ideology is global
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if the free world ties Israel's hands and prevents it from defending itself, Hamas will not stop, One day you will meet this murderous evil at your doorstep.
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I am sure that when this happens, European countries will fight with all possible means and we will not hear so much talk about "moderation" and "proportionality".
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I only hope that it will not come at a horrifying price. Absolute evil like the murderous ideology of Hamas and ISIS must be destroyed while they are still small. If we let this monster grow, the price the world will have to pay to defeat it later will be enormous
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