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There is such a thing as a rule of international law that defines what's a valid target during war. A school is not, a music festival also not. Military bases are always a target even if they are within otherwise protected buildings.

I'm not dehumanizing Palestinians. I took part in protests for humanitarian aid in the past and even donated to their cause.

I feel people like you always see an ideal world where there are only perfect solutions. I've yet to read people arguing like that write what would've been a better option after the massacre. Just ignore that that group just slaughtered civilians and took hostages certainly is not an option as they'd feel motivated to do it again and it's only reasonable to seek out justice.
So what's a better option than telling people to evacuate and target bases used by Hamas afterwards? Going in with the army on the ground surely is far worse for everyone involved.

I know that Israel has the upper hand in this and it's always easier to support the underdog but in this both sites are shitty and Israel is by far less so than Hamas. The fact that civilians are there suffering inbetween is completely tragic - but a lot of them are supporting or at least enabling Hamas (which is why Egypt won't open their border for refugees).

The only reason for that attack by Hamas was to end the official talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia for peace in the region - that alone should tell you who has the moral high ground in this conflict. There's a reason Iran is financing Hamas like this since they can't accept a country like Israel existing and if they manage to make peace with more of the surrounding countries then it'll be very hard to change that fact that Israel has a right to exist.

Sure Netanjahu is an asshole and the radical settlers are only pouring oil in the fire but in the end it was Hamas that officially made it their target to eradicate Israel which made them quit any peace talks.

My heart is with the civilians there but in the end it's kind of similar to the allies bombing Germany after their people first supported the Nazis and then at least stayed complicit. Sure there were civilian deaths of innocents, too, but in the big picture it seems justified doesn't it? And I say that as a German living in one of the cities that was hit hardest.

If people are supporting or at least accepting a regime like the one in Gaza that's using them as shields there is only so much you can do if the target is to get rid of that regime.

I guess it depends on what pedophilia is in the end of how it's developed.

If it's more like a sexual preference then it's probably there already when someone is born and not changeable, but if it's more like a fetish then those are (afaik) related to experiences and exposures while growing up and actually can change and develop over time - and in that case it could be really dangerous to have that kind of material floating around freely.

I mean it's not as if the game has an aggro mechanic - right now at the beginning of act 3 my bard is the character with the highest AC in my party (Karlach, Shadowheart and Astarion) - I feel as if debuffing or just sniping away enemies is much more important than high health and heavy armor

Seems like you lost your tinfoil-hat over there

Almost as evil as Hamas sitting on a huge amount of money in Quatar and lots of oil but instead of supporting the people in Gaza they prefer using them as human shields and letting them suffer without any support and try to pin the suffering on Israel for not letting them slaughter civilians without realiation...

das ist nicht der Punkt - der Punkt ist dass sie wenn es Corona nicht gegeben hätte nicht mal annähernd auf dieser Liste gelandet wäre. Sie ist an dem Platz weil sie "Glück" hatte dass die Pandemie genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt kam für ihr Unternehmen.

Außerdem ist Forschung an sich ja immer auch Glück - man weiß am Ende einfach nicht was dabei rauskommt wenn man an Grundlagentechnologien forscht. Hätte ja auch genaus so sein können dass sich mRNA als ähnlich schnell in die Praxis überführbar herausstellt wie Kernfusion. Glaubst du nicht dass es für jede Frau Türeci 10 andere Forscher gibt die an anderen Grundlagen forschen mit dem gleichen Eifer und einem vergleichbarem Wissen über die Materie die sich aber von Zeitvertrag zu Zeitvertrag hangeln weil in ihrem Feld einfach keine Durchbrüche wie bei mRNA passieren. Klar hat sie es von allen auf dieser Liste mit Abstand am meisten verdient dort zu stehen - trotzdem hätte ich es deutlich lieber wenn sie (genau wie die anderen auf dieser Liste) nur einen Bruchteil dieser absurden Geldmenge hätte und man dieses Geld einfach gerechter verteilt.

Wenn man zu lang am FDP-Saft genuckelt hat kommt so eine Meinung bei raus, ja?

I thought teachers aren't paid well in the US? Aren't most people complaining that they get far too little money?

Quatar is a key partner because they have a position that allows for negotiations and are not as fundamentally extremist as many other countries in the region

Hamas leaders are living in quatar though without Quatar having any problem with that - they are basically Switzerland in the middle east.

And Al-Jazeera reported stuff directly from official sources from Palestine which happened to be exaggerated Hamas propaganda all the time - I'd say it's a bit less one-sided than RT since they usually include other views as well but it's still extremely biased reporting for issues regarding the conflict

So what's the alternative? Not pressure Hamas with rockets to free the hostages is probably not an option because of how diabolically they planned their bases of operations next to hospitals, schools or inside civilian buildings.

So Israel should try to go in with the army on foot and evacuate building by building by force? Sure that will be no problem especially given that Hamas will 100% pose as civilians during those raids and attack Israel from behind with all the tunnels underneath Gaza - so every soldier there would be extremely paranoid - no way that can go wrong.

Not doing anything and letting Hamas take hostages and kill thousands is not an option either - so calling for evacuation and then targeting legitimate targets by international law is the correct course of action even though I agree that it's an extremely shitty situation for the civilians there.

At least the civilians killed by Israel are killed by accident and not fully intentional like Hamas is doing.

Everyone can agree that the civilians in Gaza are the poorest party in this but imho people fail to grasp the situation from different viewpoints and see it for how complex it is.