Calls are growing for the UN Security Council to be reformed after the US became the only member to use its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution, a move welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The UN chief says he will keep pushing for peace.

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    11 months ago

    For decades we had the IRA and we didn’t level Northern Ireland. The IRA were a terrorist organisation and repeatedly bombed civilians in UK.

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      11 months ago

      The IRA didn’t target civilians though, they targeted the military or they tried doing economic damage.

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        11 months ago

        Nah they killed plenty but I was trying to draw attention to the fact that the British army were vastly superior but didn’t level NI.

        WIKI has a list of the bombings.

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      11 months ago

      Point taken. However Hamas isn’t just a terrorist organization, they are the elected political party of Gaza. They are the government. So not really apples to apples.

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          11 months ago

          Answering that question is a whole rabbit hole I will not go down. Just wanted to point out that comparing Hamas with any other terrorist organization is imo not really possible.

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            11 months ago

            Comparing them to the Taliban or Hezbollagh is pretty possible.