Many people claim to support both Ukraine and Israel. This strikes me as irrational. Israel is doing to Palestine and Lebanon much the same as Russia is doing to Ukraine: seeking to seize territory through overwhelming military superiority while disregarding ethical constraints. Although the territories in question are far smaller than Ukraine, the scale of Israel’s actions appears considerably more severe. The tragedy in Bucha, where several dozen people were killed, is overshadowed by the tragedies in Gaza and Lebanon, where the number of civilian casualties—often involving what could be described as extreme brutality—runs into the thousands.
Just imagine—ChatGPT had the nerve to contradict me, even though I hadn’t asked for it. It wrote:
“In Bucha, the matter concerned the deliberate killing of civilians away from active hostilities. In Gaza and Lebanon, a substantial proportion of casualties arises from intense fighting in densely populated areas.”
Classic wartime propaganda. Pure sophistry. In Gaza and Lebanon as well, a considerable number of casualties were not the result of any genuine fighting, but rather the killing of civilians under the pretext of “combat”.
“Deliberate” is, in general, a rather vague concept. Only a court—and even then never with one hundred percent certainty—can determine whether a killing was intentional or not. But when it comes to killings during war, to killings carried out by soldiers, it is in principle impossible to determine this. Courts do not function. Setting “deliberate killing” against “intense fighting in densely populated areas” is impossible for one simple reason: one should not conduct “intense fighting in densely populated areas.” It’s as simple as that—one must stop.
Moreover, in the phrase “In Gaza and Lebanon, a substantial proportion of casualties arises from intense fighting in densely populated areas,” the word “substantial” stands out. That is, it implicitly suggests that there exists some acceptable percentage of deliberate killings, and that in Gaza this percentage was not exceeded, whereas in Bucha it was. Meanwhile, in Gaza in 2022–2026, 70,000 people were killed, of whom no more than 15,000 were (presumably) armed. That is, the majority of those killed were deliberately killed civilians. The Israelis do not even hide this.
13 April, 2026