2023 Israel-Palestine Armed Conflict

Your Starter for 10 said:
This is literally the best chance the Israelis will ever have to do anything substantial about "Palestine" with essentially hands off policies from their allies and the unwillingness of their enemies to retaliate. They could do anything up to and including dropping a tactical nuke on Gaza with no repercussions other than a sternly worded letter and some meaningless sanctions that would be gone in 2 years or less.

The fact that they will do nothing other than dropping millions of dollars worth of ordnance on unoccupied buildings, turning off the power, and causing traffic jams at ECPs is very telling. A little depressing, but mainly very, very telling.
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Will the IDF go full Grozny 1996 or nah?
 
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Oy vey... Not Jonathan Steinberg!!

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Here is my short prediction. After Israel backstabbed Donald Trump, Hollywood Jews spent years demonizing Trump voters. Both will be begging MAGA to save Israel. Trump will run in a fighting Israel campaign. Most Americans will eat it up because the media is now telling them Trump is good, the Palestinians bad.
 
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Nigger Stripes said:
They have an Israeli woman here, she is probably dead judging by the position of her body.
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She's got dreads so I imagine she's from that music festival. The ketamine rave that got raided is the cherry on top of the "liberals paying the ultimate price for their pet projects" sundae we've gotten in the last week. You just know all those wooks hated their country and military.
 
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Sneedful Things said:
Depends on a payload of a drone and where bomb lands. No tank is invincible and if fuel/ammo storage is hit it's a goodbye for pretty much any tank no matter how advanced.
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They hit it on the turret right behind the gun. It seemed to cook off something in the tank.

I would think it was thermite eating into it and cooking off ammo but I'm not a tank autist so who knows.


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The tank's turret is moving so its not the kebabs scuttling a captured tank.
 
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In on Page 69. Nice!

I've heard a few different theories floating around about why this attack occurred. One of them is that Israeli intelligence knew this was going to happen and Netanyahu ordered that it be ignored to provide a pretext for destroying Palestine once and for all.

It would make him immensely popular and make everyone forget about the recent scandals. I wonder if Netanyahu is going to destroy Palestine and then shift the narrative to Iran being the nearest boogeyman instead.

Edit: I do find it highly suspect that on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, which is also, you know, Yom Kippur, that the Iron Dome went down and Israeli troops were absolutely sidestruck by Hamas militants. You'd think they would be vigilant on the holiest day of Judaism.
 
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Male Idiot said:
They hit it on the turret right behind the gun. It seemed to cook off something in the tank.

I would think it was thermite eating into it and cooking off ammo but I'm not a tank autist so who knows.

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Merkava engine is mounted in the front. It probably hit a fuel tank and started burning up residual diesel.
 
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sassblassted said:
I'm curious. Since this is technically a parachute (?), would attacking paragliders be considered a war crime?
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The shooting parachutes being a war crime is technically true but the context matters. It's only a war crime if the person is parachuting in distress. For example bailing out of a plane that's going down. In that scenario they are no longer a combatant. They can become a combatant again and it's okay to shoot them again. For example they get to the ground, find a weapon, and enter combat instead of surrendering. They are fair game again. Or in that story about the guy who bailed out of his plane, pulled out is sidearm, and shot an enemy plane. He would no longer be a noncombant and is fair game. Paratroopers are fair game because they are combatants. They aren't parachuting in distress, they are parachuting to attack something. The whole thing about how you're only allowed to shoot paratroopers when they get to the ground is a myth.

It's kind of like how it's a war crime to shoot medics, doctors, priests, etc. They are non combatants. But if they are carrying a weapon and participating in combat then they lose all their protections and become a combatant.

Certain roles and situations grant protection as a noncombant but it's really easy to forfeit that protection. You can gain it again though by dropping your weapons. If you disarm then it's a war crime to kill you but you can still be detained

I've had to learn all this shit through laws of armed conflict training multiple times as punishment for routinely committing war crimes during training exercises. I was just doing it for bants but command didn't find it funny
 
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