Of course, Hamas also took non-combatants hostage

Which is why the non combatants can reasonably called hostages. But not the armed IDF soldiers.

Israel is kidnapping Palestinians to surpress them and steal their houses. They are they peak of taking hostages.

Hamas captures these people because they are soldiers. Working in the division which is responsible for the starvation of Gaza. That is an entirely different reason.

In virtually every conflict soldiers are captured and traded for soldiers of the other party or other diplomatic goals. Using this term for soldiers would make it so every PoW becomes a hostage and the term loses all meaning.

Next thing you know people are getting “kidnapped from tanks”

It has a lot of relevance to it because it is what defines whether they are hostages or PoW’s.

A hostage is when someone is taken captive without valid reason. Which is what Israel does.

Ukraine and Russia are both trading PoW’s so you would say they are taking hostages instead of prisoners?

The free speech exception

You would argue that children kidnapped by Israel should be called prisoners and active duty soldiers guarding a concentration camp should be called hostages?

They are sad that Agent Orange is doing it now.

I thought Radio Free Asia’s USAID funding dried up.

Bombing a journalist patient inside a hospital these IDF pigs are a whole new level of evil.

Aint nobody drawing up a diagram before they ask for privacy advice

Is that a whale

Tank the universities rating and cost it financially.

The guy sligning adhoms is playing the victim already. What a surprise.

https://lemmy.ml/post/29856258/18522438

Calling children prostitutes

Enjoy life as a pedophile billionaire apologist.

They fit right in!

Germany is the ultimate example. They will directly take action against anything pro-Palestinian. A group waves a Palestinian flag and the Gestapo mashes in the skulls of all their members,brands them a terrorist group and tries to deport them.

But when it comes to the AfD which is actively doing Nazi salutes suddenly it’s all about debating free speech and ‘democracy’. And banning groups is suddenly scary and undemocratic.

The double standards and hypocrisy are getting beyond comical.

Imagine being so brainwashed that when you are presented with overwhelming evidence you go “duhhhh CoNspIEEERAcEEEEsS?!!!”

It’s very tiring having to start off every conversation by letting people know that I’m more intelligent than them, but it is necessary.

Ignore people who start screaming insults about instances which are not their own.