• Arete@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m harping on it because I think reasonableness is the clear line around which we can assign blame. A group is generally not responsible for reasonable actions taken given their conditions. If you want to blame Hamas’s tactics on Israel, I think you need to show that they are reasonable tactics.

    Unless you can show me where 1 million Palestinians were killed/imprisoned/migrated over the past 20 years, I think it’s pretty clear cut that half the population are children because the population just doubled.

    Regarding male/female, the ratio you have is totally normal. Male babies are favored, but men lead wildly riskier lives and die younger than women.

    I’m not seeing any evidence that Israel has meaningfully affected the population statistics of Gaza over the past generation.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      I’m uninterested in assigning blame in a moralistic black and white way. I think Israel shares responsibility. The UN certainly thought so in the case of Colombia, which I previously quoted. The use of child soldiers by non-state actors still is the responsibility of the state.

      As for the male/female longevity argument, let’s look at Israel:

      0-14 years: male 1,200,721/female 1,146,556

      15-64 years: male 2,839,124/female 2,737,054

      That same radical drop off in the male population does not exist in Israel, males outnumber females in both age cohorts. That male/female longevity divergence kicks in after 65, which is why the CIA fact book separates those age cohorts.

      Something else is going on.