There's a big cultural divide for Illinois, Chicago isn't very "Midwest" compared to downstate.

Well that was crushing, my day is ruined. Good fight and surprising amount of class from Khamzat though

We had a good DA in my city, he ended up getting killed by some billionaire vigilante who went after the police commissioners family

Those festivalgoers and babies on the other side of the wall were a serious threat to Palestinian civilians

As a temporary thing it's not that bad but it's also an extra 5 hours on your day. I've done 3.5 hrs for a client meeting but at that point that hour long meeting is all I'm getting done that day

Maybe because details matter to a story? Shows the scope of the conflict and will affect how the world responds.

I'm a huge Volk fan so I'm kind of worried about the short notice and recent surgery. But I'd think he gets a trilogy regardless for taking this fight

I mean everyone saying ignore the reports and that Hamas would never do anything that bad

We've seen what Hamas will do already, and this is also being reported by multiple sources

Jam your head in the sand and support terrorism?

Verified by multiple international sources at this point

Look up Black September and what's happened when Palestinians were allowed into Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Gaza gets called an "open air prison" and Israel gets blamed, but they are there because no one else will have them

I've seen this on lemmy, but is there a real source?

Hamas was elected in 2006 but has held on to power since. A poll from a few years back showed 52% support still, but I would hope that's had a steep crash now

There's a ton of users here who seem to be so blinded by "America bad" and trying to have the biggest brain contrarian take. Half the time it leads them to into a pants on head level argument that ignores basic, undeniable facts such as "intentionally targeting hundreds of civilians and proceeding to kill, rape and torture them is wrong"

They've been pushed to evacuate to shelters further south from Gaza, which is kind of the only option aside from Egypt opening up. Given that this is all caused by Palestinian terrorists entering Israel, I don't think anyone can blame them for not opening up their border to let more in

And obviously there's plenty of innocent civilians who could be admitted no problem, but Hamas is still the governing party with majority support and would undeniably use that as an opportunity to sneak more militants in

Well if they were taking photos with a flag I guess the logical conclusion is to start shooting

They seized control later on, but Hamas was elected in 2006. Still though, of course there's plenty of Palestinians who don't support Hamas

It's a deterrent for Iran or other countries that might think they can hop in while Israel is weak

It might disrupt US focus a little, but Israel's military really doesn't need help on this. Israel is heavily militarized with a very advanced domestic defense industry. And as much as Russia has flopped, they're still a former superpower while Hamas is DIYing half their equipment

Point me to where Ukrainian soldiers passed the border and shot up a festival full of civilians