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If it's easy, you should do it and paste the links here.
If it's not easy, but you expect persuadable people (at least persuadable third parties) to be reading, you should definitely do it and paste the links. (this is the case I suspect is true, as a persuadable third party who didn't see anything on the first results page for "gaza doctors access", although I vaguely recall seeing stories along these lines before)
If you don't expect anyone persuadable to be reading, why bother writing at all?
Because the argument wouldn't be as effective if I were the one to provide a link.
If someone is actually interested in whether Hamas uses child soldiers, they can very trivially google "Hamas Child Soldiers" and find multiple reports on the history by organizations including Amnesty International, Child Soldiers International, and the United Nations, among others. This doesn't even include self-publicized material such as from the Hamas Youth Wing. These aren't even 'new' reporting- there are easily observable reports from the early 2000s during the tail end of the Intifada years to late last decade, well before the current conflict. Any observer of the conflict with any significant experience has read any one of these over the last few decades- they are old news, not particularly controversial, and numerous.
The reminder of the existence of such reporting isn't just the function any link would provide- it is remind the reader of past reports they've heard of and can easily find again (thus appealing to their own understanding of the conflict), and thus the contrast to the OP's dogmatic dismissal of contrary evidence published over the last decades. Their own trust in their own memories and experience is the legitimizer of the position.
While nominally the target doesn't work as well on people not as experienced in the topic, the prompt that they could easily search for it serves a second level of argument, in which if they do look they will find, and their ability to find evidence of child soldiers if they choose to look for it will be contrasted with the OP's dismissal. This, too, utilizes their agency in the search to bolster the argument.
People who refused to do the search, as a third category, in turn expose themselves to audiences one and two, and thus discredit the OP's objection even fuller when people who are aware recognize they are denying international records that aren't obscure.
None of these three layers of effect would be as effective if a link is simply provided, which can be dismissed on the basis of coming from a partisan regardless of what reference was linked to. The searcher's own agency is what legitimizes the discovery.
Additionally, there is a fourth level, which is a rhetorical trap for the less aware if someone tries to do a surface-level search. One of the easy top-searches is a past UN report that also criticizes Israel for 'child soldier' use (primarily in the context of proximity when searching tunnels / etc.). If this were to be raised in a way to try and establish moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel, not only would a choice to focus on that report validate the relevance of child soldiers as a mitigating circumstance (by acknowledging that the children are not necessarily automatically moral innocents in a combatant sense), but it would also be a demonstratation of a motive for why someone besides Israel might have shot the children (as in, rather than be shot by the Israelis, they are shot because they are associated with the Israelis).
This snare was non-central to the point on the ease of finding evidence that the OP looked to, but was on hand to use if pulled, which again would not work as well if proactively linked to and explained by myself.
The way you write is… interesting to say the least. Is it strategically vague, or a sort of wailing wall of text defense?
We are not speaking about “child soldiers” the legal category, which includes teens. We are specifically talking about below-teens children being used by Hamas. Especially being used in a way that would lead them to being shot approx daily. What I can find from HRW is that Hamas once used a 17yo but that they made commitments to not recruit below 18. That was back in 2004. Something similar was published by Amnesty in 2005.
This is barely intelligible. If you make a surprising and significant claim, you should provide a source. That’s a combo of obligation, politeness, and efficiency. If Hamas is equipping 12yo with IEDS then obviously it’s not a big deal if they are shot by Israeli soldiers. This does not appear to be the case.
Thank you for demonstrating your continued retreat from your opening positions. I look forward to seeing how much of a motte you retreat to over time.
And no, for others, 17 year olds is not the limits of what one can find regarding Hamas child soldier reports.
And if you wish to claim that Israelis shoot children, and then launch screeds on the jews being uniquely evil, you should provide a source that accuses the Israelis of shooting children, instead of claims that children were shot without an attribution as to by whom.
Which serves as another basis of the non-linking, since the lack of relevant sourcing to support a surprising and significant claim (like 'the Jews are deliberately one-shotting children') has been a reoccuring theme of this thread.
And yes, that was left for you specifically to walk into.
If we’re just going to ignore my whole OP post, then I’ll recap all of my posts from the thread. Thank you for the opportunity —
There is an anomalously high amount of children being one-shotted in Gaza. This is according to a survey of doctors conducted by the most reputable mainstream newspaper, currently managed by a Jewish CEO and chief executive, owned by a family with Jewish heritage, located in New York City, and employing many Jews. There is no reason for the NYT to have fudged this reporting, and not only did they oversee the polling, but they took the unusual step of publishing a defense of the reporting, consulting a new assortment of medical experts to look at the C-Scans and photography.
At the highest levels of Israel, there is support for soldiers who have sexually tortured enemy PoWs.
In the joint rabbinical/military academies, at least one rabbi has explicitly called for killing children.
There has been an increase in IDF soldiers who come from an extremist background, and these soldiers have already caused trouble in the military and worried their secular peers.
There are unique aspects of Israeli Judaism that promotes extremism and de-emphasizes interpersonal morality to non-Jews.
The available evidence in the context of the Libyan Civil War shows that stray shots to the head and chest should not be so prevalent. This is an upper-bound, because IDF soldiers are better trained and because the study did not look at multiple gunshot wounds.
The NYTimes reporting reinforces the Guardian reporting from earlier this year, in which yet another non-Arab, non-Muslim doctor talks about an unusual amount of children one-shotted. (this is new evidence I am presenting.)
In response to this, you have claimed that Gaza is using pre-teen soldiers, which has no evidence to support it; you have accused the doctors of being pressured by Hamas, which has no evidence to support it; you have accused me of calling Jews uniquely evil (lmao); you have claimed that Hamas is selecting which doctors enter Gaza, which has no evidence to support it; and then you have alleged that these volunteer doctors were only presented with the worst one-shotted children, which is an unreasonable assumption. In the cases of zero evidence, the absence of evidence qualifies as an evidence of absence for one reason: pro-Israeli advocates would report on this information immediately, abundantly, and continually. Child soldiers would be all over the news, if it were happening. Doctors being vetted and pressured by Hamas would be a well-published fact, if it were happening. For these claims, an absence of evidence does actually qualify as evidence of absence.
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