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Civil rights group denounces US House representative Tim Walberg’s calls to ‘get it over quick’ as a ‘clear call to genocide’

Archived version: https://archive.ph/8M2Uz

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[–] MrTolkinghoen 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Haven't they already though?

Edit: /s. I was implying that they essentially have probably dropped an equivalent megatons on Gaza as what was dropped on Hiroshima but simply with 'conventional' bombs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No, they haven't nuked Gaza, wtf lol

[–] MrTolkinghoen 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol you all entirely missed my point.

My point is that the total gigatons of bombs that they've dropped on Gaza is quite likely quite similar to the power of the original nuclear bombs. Modern nukes are obviously vastly more powerful. I also may be still vastly underestimating the power of the original bombs but my point was ultimately about how much of Gaza they've already razed with bombs.

[–] MrTolkinghoen 3 points 7 months ago

Totally unvetted source so grain of salt just the first link on a Google search, but this was essentially what I was trying to say: https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/5908/Israel-hit-Gaza-Strip-with-the-equivalent-of-two-nuclear-bombs

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