Well, not to play the devils advocate but there have been several instances where most of Europe, including France, made efforts to protect children. Just in the recent conflicts:
EU is against genocide in Ukraine, where more than 500 children were killed and +25.000 children were kidnapped and filtrated in Russia. A deliberate action to eliminate Ukrainians and the Ukrainian culture.
In this case, Putin has several arrest warrants for crimes against Humanity and War Crimes in European countries, and other countries of course, and it will be a matter of time before genocide charges will be set.
They have also been giving aid to Sudan children.
Not to mention they have an unequivocal stance about child casualties in the war Israel-Hamas war:
> The European Council deplores all loss of civilian life. It notes with utmost concern the unacceptable number of civilian casualties, especially children, as well as the catastrophic levels of hunger and imminent risk of famine caused by the insufficient entry of aid into Gaza. It calls on all parties to take every feasible step to protect civilian lives.[0]
They also condemn Hamas terrorist attacks and their usage of Palestinians as protection, including children.
So I don't see that much of a contrast; they seem pretty consistent in supporting child protection.
Do you have better references for countries that are doing a better job at child protection than the EU? So we can have some contrasting measures to understand where the EU is lacking and where others are doing better - after all the EU isn't perfect and has a margin for improvement, it's quite a new organization.
> EU is against genocide in Ukraine, where more than 500 children were killed and +25.000 children were kidnapped and filtrated in Russia. A deliberate action to eliminate Ukrainians and the Ukrainian culture.
Sorry for being the devil's advocate but Russian children also get hurt or killed from Ukranian shelling of settlements near the border.
> Only racists, Islamphopics and peoole who wants all arab dead will disagree.
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Can you expand on how the terrorist attack from Hamas, which resulted in the killing of more than 1.000 Israelis and the kidnapping of hundreds of people, is a form of "resisting occupation"?
Like in your point of view, what would be the following development of that event and the desired outcome from that attack on civilians?
Because Ukraine is resisting occupation and isn't kidnapping children and civilians, nor attacking civilians or civilian infrastructure. Only antisemites, racists, ethnophobes, and people who want Ukrainians, Israelis and Jews dead will disagree.
> Only antisemites, racists, ethnophobes, and people who want Ukrainians, Israelis and Jews dead will disagree.
It's a serious violation of HN's guidelines to use flamewar rhetoric like this. I'm sure you have good reasons to feel strongly about the topic, but it's not ok to break the rules in this way. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
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I suppose I need to add that this has nothing to do with which side of which battle you're on. We apply the rules the same way regardless of all that. The difference between your account and the other one I scolded in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385066) is simply that your account has been violating the rules so frequently, as well as the important meta rule of not using the site primarily to do that.
Why does Israel bomb apartment buildings, leaves civilians without drinking water and electricity instead of just arresting and prosecuting those who participated in terrorist acts?
I guess it is because it cannot arrest terrorists but citizens of Israel want to see something destroyed anyway.
