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Fortunately the war criminals are now being blockaded and bombed to shit and are about to be invaded
Yeah, by the war criminals on the other side.
Also, if you think people murdering each other is “fortunate” you’re some low level scum in my eyes.
I think terrorists being killed is good for everyone on Earth.
I think the innocents who will suffer deserve every sympathy, and that all anger about innocent loss of life belongs squarely aimed at the terrorists who picked this fight
Hopefully the death of Hamas leads to radical shifts in Israeli policy toward Palestinians in general.
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Lol uncircumcised dicks look like actual shit dude.
Bro they’re won’t be a Palestine of the world doesn’t step in and we won’t stop hello genocide goodbye Palestine.
I don’t believe there should be a Palestine. Israel should control the entire area and give the current Palestinian civilians citizenship.
Anything else just causes more of this.
What in the fuck makes you think eradicating a country is the solution, you’ll just have displaced Muslims more angry and now homeless.
give the current Palestinian civilians citizenship
Do you think this means literally blow up the part of the planet currently recognized as Palestine?
There are not really Jewish space lasers man.
Fortunatelythe largest prison in the world is now being blockaded and bombed to shit and is about to be invaded.The only prison you can leave, work in other countries from, vote for terrorists in before those terrorists canceled voting, and have autonomy in your daily life.
Oh and also purchase arms, break into a neighboring country, and murder their civilians, including beheading babies.
What a weird prison!
2.9k comments in 3 months.
and I thought I used this too much. Go touch some grass.
I travel a lot for work and get bored in airports.
Sorry your job is hard and mine isn’t.
I mean my job gives me a lot of free time too, but I usually spend it talking to people, reading, learbing something or even playing video games, fuck dude I even spend way too much time on lemmy too. You have so many other constructive options you could spend your time on instead of being a troll on niche social media.
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Looking at their post history, I can’t figure out if they’re a troll, a propagandist, or are really just that stupid. I suppose it can be some combination of two or all three.
Or simply a bot to cause drama / increase engagement / because they can.
Maybe I’ve grown paranoid about the whole bot issue, but after I saw how people on Discord coordinate bots to fake entire conversations all of you are potentially non-human to me!
2.9k comments in 3 months.
32.2 comments per day, each and every day, given a 30-day month.
It’s like a back-and-forth game of “how many war crimes do you think this will allow us to get away with now”.
And the answer is all of them because they either don’t care or are allied with/support one side or the other.
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I’m not sure if this is better or worse than what I was expecting,
I was worried about the Israelis just storming right back in there and going full Srebenica over this.
I’m sure this will in no way backfire.
It’ll escalate the conflict…
Which is what Israels government wants…
So yeah, it’s not going to backfire, it’s going to do exactly what they want.
Same way using the IDF to make sure Palestinians couldn’t fight back against “settlers” just escalated the conflict. If Israel wanted peace, that backfired. But they don’t want peace. They want a war so they can use it as an excuse to expand their borders again.
I want to disagree so badly…but I can’t.
It’s like the bully that’s careful to not get caught for years.
Then one day a victim snaps and punches the bully in the face, so the bully beats the shit out of their victim and since “he started it” they get equal punishments. For the bully it’s part of the game, for the victim it makes them feel crazy and possibly teaches them to never stand up for themselves again. Or drives them to do something incredibly dangerous because they feel trapped.
Israel has announced a “total” blockade of the already besieged Gaza Strip, including a ban on food and water, after Hamas carried out the biggest attack on the country in decades.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday authorities would cut electricity and block the entry of food and fuel as part of “a complete siege” on Hamas-run Gaza, where about 2.3 million people live in one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
der crossing points; the third is controlled by Egypt.
“We are putting a complete siege on Gaza … No electricity, no food, no water, no gas – it’s all closed,” Gallant said in a video statement.
Israel’s chief military spokesperson, Daniel Hagari, told reporters on Monday that Israel has “control” of its communities following Saturday’s mass incursion of Hamas fighters into its territory.
Hagari said there had been some isolated incidents on Monday morning, but that “at this stage, there is no fighting in the communities”.
He added that “there might still be terrorists in the region”.
Israeli tanks and drones were guarding openings in the fence to prevent more infiltrations, Hagari said, adding that 15 of 24 border communities had been evacuated, with the rest expected to be evacuated over the next 24 hours.
Earlier, Hamas spokesperson Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua told The Associated Press news agency that the group’s fighters continued to battle outside Gaza and had captured more Israelis as recently as Monday morning.
He said the group aims to free all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, which in the past has agreed to lopsided exchange deals in which it released large numbers of prisoners for individual captives or even the remains of soldiers.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
Hopefully the blockade can be lifted soon. Since it appears Israel is at war against the government of Gaza (Hamas), there’s a difficult line to walk where a complete and lasting victory is achieved while avoiding humanitarian disaster. A quick victory will hopefully avoid the most extremes of humanitarian disaster. In the long term I hope nearby Arab states help provide a peaceful solution to the problem.
While i undestand the strategic motivation and can see why fuels and electricity are considered necessary to weaken the military capeabilities of Hamas cutting the supply of drinking water and food is not excuseable.
Especially without access to water it only takes a few days until people are dying from dehydration and it is impossible to treat wounded. Also the substitution of clean drinking water with water from tainted sources can quickly lead to an epidemic of cholera and other deadly diseases that would be devastating and impossible to contain given the current situation.
Is there a reasonably safe way to provide water during the type of military operation that’s coming? Pipes have historically been used to smuggle weapons into Gaza, even the water pipes, so Israel is likely trying to contain that source of weapons during the upcoming operation.
i strongly doubt weapons to be smuggled through drinking water pipes. that would require to close the pipe segment on both ends and pump out all the water manually and the water supplier on Israels side would notice that no more water is flowing.
Also that requires pipes to be at least somewhere in the 1400+ range, which you only find directly at the water source or long transmission lines that are typically operated in free flow because pumping would be too expensive.
Finally your argument doesnt make sense. First of all who would be smuggling weapons from Israeli water plants into Gaza. Second of all again, an empty pipe that is large enough could be used for smuggling. A pipe that is filled with water cannot.
There’s been a lot of heated commentary on this subject, and some genuinely good analysis https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/israels-strategic-cul-de-sac
I thought this was helpful and insightful, so sharing it here
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So if it’s a total blockade now, what was it before? (hint: it was also a blockade then, has been since 2007)
It’s saddening to see Israel’s military (which is not Israel) attack civilians and civilian infrastructure in retaliation for Hamas (which is not Palestine) having attacked civilians and civilian infrastructure- this is all a shit-show of punishing the innocent to get the other side to back down and it will never end.
It was a blockade looking for components that could be used to make rockets. Goods could (and did) come through after inspection.
Well it’s one thing to blockade a region during a war/conflict (which even has a border with Egypt) and killing and raping hundreds of festival attendees…
Why don’t they have trade or receive resources from Egypt?
Yep, very bad moves by Hamas troops to do that. Doesn’t take away from Israel’s war crimes and genocide.
They were allowing them access to electricity and food supplies before
Other nation on land you claim
box them in, stop food shipments
Wait, that kinda reminds me of something recent…
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Eventually you have to stop letting your enemy make the rules, and defend yourself.
Well, it looks to me like both sides are convinced that unless they punish the other side, the other side will keep on doing what they’ve been doing. Acting on that belief only provides evidence for the other side for the case that the other will stop at nothing but the other’s extinction, that the only rational course of action is yet more offensive action until the other side finally capitulates- …which seems unlikely to ever happen so long as Palestine remains the accepted battlefield for the proxy war that this conflict is.
Yes, Hamas commits war crimes by using civilian infra Yes, Israel commits war crimes by bombing it The context of this exchange of atrocities is… the occupation of Gaza, which meets too many of the measures of a genocide. At this point, neither Israel nor Hamas are defending themselves, they’re cooperating in the genocide of Palestinians The broader context of that is that Israel:Palestine is a proxy conflict between their respective allies, who are just fine watching Palestine burn
I am not sure they understand what total means. Hamas didn’t get those rockets from Israel - hense there must be an unmonitored way in from Egypt that Hamas controls.
If there is, all food comes now from Hamas = Palestinians support Hamas more. If that gets cut, videos of mass starvation will eventually pull other Muslim countries into the conflict.
Likely Israel is planning to gain control of the border with Egypt to cut off anything coming in that way, and either annexing that border strip outright or maintaining control of the border will be part of the peace terms.
Irrespective of stopping the movement of new arms and missiles into Gaza, more hawkish israelis would probably salivate over being able to shut down all trade into Gaza every time they shoot off missiles, especially since every time they do it weakens confidence in being able to trade into Gaza, raising the costs for anyone trying to import anything into Gaza, and lowering the sell value of any goods made in Gaza.
That’s what Israel wants. They want Iran to get pulled in and then further justify asking the West for more military aid and “support” to launch another “war” in it’s “defense”. Fucking terrorist regime in power unfortunately for Palestinians and Israelis.
Iran literally funds terrorists and advocates for the destruction of Israel
Israel could invade and conquer Iran tomorrow and they have not.
Iran’s military is as much a bungling shit-show as Iraq, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. There is no universe in which Israel needs US help to shatter Iran.
Last time Iran even got close to enriching weapons-grade uranium, Israel launched airstrikes and flattened the plant, completely uncontested and without any reprisal from Iran, who knows they can’t win.
“Israel could invade and conquer Iran tomorrow and they have not.”
Why haven’t they then? Why hasn’t the US? Ever heard of millenium challenge 2002 for example? Invading Iran is not as easy as you seem to think. Iran has a geography that makes invasion very very difficult, strong natural defences. It would have otherwise been already invaded.
US doesn’t because it isn’t politically feasible, domestically or abroad
Israel doesn’t because they’re trying to normalize relationships with neighboring countries, and have had a lot of success, which is why Iran funds Hamas.
Iran’s army is hot garbage and their terrorist government is barely clinging to power as it is.
I doubt Israel could just invade and conquer Iran like that. Having superior equipment is one thing, but actually invading a place will inspire a population to fight against you more than almost anything else, and Iran is a mountainous country that has a population close to 10 times that of Israel. Actually occupying and holding a country like that for any length of time would be a nightmare even for a power like the United States (consider how Afghanistan ended), let alone Israel. They could maybe win a conventional engagement with their superior equipment, sure, and they could do tremendous damage to Iranian infrastructure with bombs or even nukes if they really wanted, but thats not the same as conquering a place.
They wouldn’t need to hold it. Iran is already primed for revolution. Just create the power vacuum.
Foreign invasion tends to cause people to rally around their government, or at least put internal conflicts on the backburner, historically, I’d imagine such a strategy would stand a serious chance of actually preventing any revolution that might otherwise take place.
I don’t see the younger generation of Iran, which was brutally put down over the Hijab protests, coalescing behind their terrorist government.
You really seem to know nothing about the geopolitics of the region. Iranians were put in that position when the regime was much weaker, and everyone united against the invader. Iranians are not likely to welcome anyone who tries to invade as an invasion inevitably massacres civilians, and foreigners killing Iranian civilians won’t be popular with you know, Iranian civilians.
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I think it’s important to keep in mind that Hamas is completely capable - at any moment - of surrendering, releasing all hostages, de-militarizing, and vowing to never again attempt to kill civilians. The water and electricity would come right back on.
Doing so would save the lives of countless Palestinian civilians, and if they had any care for their lives at all, they would do this immediately.
Submitting to an oppressive government is not peace.
By definition peace is when war and violence stop, the kinds of governments involved are irrelevant.
Oppressive systems passively inflict violence on the oppressed. Artificial lack of access to basic necessities like food, shelter, healthcare hurts or even kills people. Getting over policed gets people hurt or killed.
The absence of war isn’t the same thing as the absence of conflict. The conflict is built into the structure of a hierarchical society. It’s just only felt by some. A war brings the conflict to the surface to make those who the system supports feel the pain of those who it does not.
The government could give in and create a more just society for everyone and the conflict would be resolved. The oppressed giving in only benefits those in power. They go back to passively experiencing systemic violence.
You can male the same argument the other way around. Why don’t we stick to what’s already international war, and that attacking civilians is forbidden? This seems a form of collective punishment as well.
I think it’s important to keep in mind that Israel is completely capable - at any moment - of surrendering, giving right of return, de-militarizing, opening all borders, creating a single government that fairly represents all in the area, giving reparations, and vowing to never again attempt to kill civilians. The water and electricity would come right back on.
Doing so would save the lives of countless Palestinian civilians, and if they had any care for their lives at all, they would do this immediately.
People here don’t seem to understand this. All they think is “Israel bad”. Also, instead of cheering for Hamas when they drag dead civilians through town, they could, you know, not do that.
Starving innocents is bad, yes. Abuse breeds abuse, it’s no wonder the Palestinian reaction considering everything the Israeli government has done to them.
Not to mention the Israeli military is the reason Hamas is where it is, funding it in the 80s and 90s because they’re easier to hate than the moderate coalition.
You can understand the contributing factors that lead to repugnant acts without claiming them to be justifiable, which is what a lot of people are doing here.
I’m sure there are people with gross opinions like that but it serves conversation better to not make blanket statements about people who disagree with you.
Starving innocents is bad
How is it Israel’s responsibility to supply their enemies in the first place? Cutting supply lines is like the most basic military tactic there is.
If they don’t want to starve, they can ask Iran to send some food instead of the next rocket shipmment.
Why is it okay that Israel has taken so much control of the region that Gaza can’t even control its own resources? This isn’t some new development. Why are you talking like Palestine is just Hamas and not also thousands of women and children that didn’t choose to be in this open air prison?
It’s amazing how easy it is to get average people to disregard their own humanity and blithely condemn thousands to cruel brutal deaths because of the actions of a group that was literally funded by the military they’re resisting when they first got started.
Don’t give me that psycho shit, the Israeli government has been perpetuating this shit show for decades. The blood of these concert goers is on their malicious actions just like they’re responsible for the deaths of journalists like Shireen Abu Akleh and for the conditions Palestinians live within.
Much like in Israel, the average citizen doesn’t get much choice and instead gets to bear the brunt of the other sides rage. That’s not something to be justified.
Why is it okay that Israel has taken so much control of the region that Gaza can’t even control its own resources?
Because the can and it’s in their interesst. Again, a blockade is a very basic military tactic.
Why are you talking like Palestine is just Hamas and not also thousands of women and children that didn’t choose to be in this open air prison?
Hamas enjoy wide support in the population though.
For the Palestines that actually don’t support Hamas, it sure sucks. But guess who’s the first party that surpresses any Palestines that support peace negotiation or any normalisation of the conflict? Right … Hamas, because they are militant hardliners and don’t actually give a shit about peace or the Palestinian people.
The blood of these concert goers is on their malicious actions
Fuck off. The blood is on the people that pulled the trigger and one one else. Anything else just makes you a supporter of terrorism.
Much like in Israel, the average citizen doesn’t get much choice and instead gets to bear the brunt of the other sides rage
Actually, Israel goes to great lenght to install defensive meassures to protect their citizens.
On the ther side, Hamas will go to great lenght to protect their weapons from Israeli attacks by hiding them amongst their citizens, preferably in school.
If Palestine had the international funds and military equipment of Israel they would be able to similarly protect their civilians. You’re just glossing right past the fact that one has been intentionally impoverished. Hard to afford an iron dome when your enemy won’t even let your people get adequate food and water.
Also the blood is on more than just the trigger pullers. Surely you wouldn’t say that organizers that didn’t directly participate don’t have blood on their hands. Of course they do, they enabled the attack.
Once you’ve established that our world is more than just a string of isolated incidents it’s easy to see how the Israeli military partially caused this much like how the American government brought about conditions that lead to 9/11. Your aggressive denial is just you getting trapped in emotional thinking.
People like you are why Americans invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. All about killing terrorists but never that interested in the geopolitical context that bred those terrorists. Thus a never ending story of dead innocents while military contractors take in billions.
If Palestine had the international funds and military equipment of Israel they would be able to similarly protect their civilians
Or they would use those funds and equipment to do what they’ve layed out in their charter, which is to destory Israel and “push the jews into the sea”.
You’re just glossing right past the fact that one has been intentionally impoverished
No I’m not. The better question is, why is that? According to lemmy, they have like the noblest cause in the world, so why isn’t the international community flocking to aid them?
Also the blood is on more than just the trigger pullers. Surely you wouldn’t disagree that organizers that didn’t directly participate don’t have blood on their hands.
Sure, there is more blame to go around. But we should have learned from WW2 that “just following orders” isn’t an excuse that absolves people from responsibilty.
I guess it is a bit muddier when you account for religious childhood indoctrination.
All about killing terrorists but never that interested in the geopolitical context that bred those terrorists.
Because it’s not that relevant to the situation anymore. It’s very unlikley that a nation will ever be established in the way that Israel was. And yes, it was a very terrible chain of events. Hopefully lessons have been learned to avoid such partitions in the future.
But for this conflict, it’s done. Unless you have a time machine, Israel is there now and it’s powerful enough to not be going away anytime soon.
There is also no chance of a Palestinian military victory. So the only prospects for them is either making some kind of peace (yes, the conditions will be shit, but the killing will stop) … or keep fighting an unwinnable war, which will just put you into an even shittier position down the line.
Talking about the geopolitical context can be very interessting, but it doesn’t help much when coming up with a solution. But we can blame the British if you want?
Also, instead of cheering for Hamas when they drag dead civilians through town, they could, you know, not do that.
Who is doing that?
Bro half this thread has a hard on for Hamas, his terrorist organization and for antisemitism, if you can’t see it I wonder why
I don’t give a shit about Hamas, I give a shit about Palestine. From the river to the sea, bay-bee. Israel has no claim on that land. The citizens can stay, but the country must be dissolved.
Good luck with that, it’s clearly not a viable outcome. Generations of Israelis have come and gone and they now legitimately consider it their home as well, and they support their government. It’s the only thing keeping them from being slaughtered like Hamas openly calls for. Hamas is the government Gaza elected, they represent that part of Palestine. Let’s not pretend they’re separate and unrelated entities.
The citizens wouldn’t be able to stay, though. Hamas wants an Islamic state and sees Jews as direct enemies of Allah who should not be allowed to exist at all. Like in, they don’t just want Israel gone, they want all Jews gone.
Because not every Lemmy instance federates with every other, people on different instances can see slightly different selections of comments. I have read many threads and I see hardly any support for Hamas, but I hear it’s more prevalent on some of the instances I don’t see content from.
if you can’t see it I wonder why
What do you mean?
“Look what you’re making us do.”
Ah, I forgot, Hamas simply had to rape a bunch of women and butcher 200 people at a festival. That’s just what righteous resistance looks like.
Or perhaps childish quips aren’t actually useful in a productive conversation, who knows
My point was that Israel cannot offload to Hamas all responsibility for the suffering to civilians caused by blockading Gaza. It’s Israel’s choice to react like this. I understand Israel’s reasons for taking this extreme action, but Israel should take responsibility for it, not pretend it was forced into this and it has to keep starving civilians until Hamas capitulates. And of course I’m not condoning the atrocities committed by Hamas.
Easy for you to talk about what’s righteous or not when it’s not your land being apartheided
They unfortunately don’t have the luxury of a fair war.
Israel made this bed now they’re going to lay in it whether any of us like it or not and I think it’s atrocious but Israel needs to bear some blame for this.
I’ll say this one more time. Nothing about fighting oppression requires you to rape and murder civilians. There are plenty of military bases all around Gaza if Hamas wanted to focus on military targets.
If you think that fighting oppression requires you to rape and murder innocent people, you deserve you oppression.
I will not say that Hamas did anything ethical, it was morally deplorable. But at the same time, unless we tackle the underlying issues of Israeli apartheid, we are begging for people in Palestine to view members of Hamas as freedom fighters as opposed to savages. Israel is creating this problem.
The quickest way to disassemble Hamas is to give the Palestinian people justice and humanity.
Not raping and murdering civilians is not white privilege you morally bankrupt walnut.
I am not morally justifying their actions, I’m saying that Israel is responsible for creating the environments in which terrorists can rise. We learned nothing from our wars in the Middle East.
So, normal occupation stuff then? They have very little drinking water already.
Having access to a few litres for drinking, cooking and minimal hygiene is still a far stretch away from having no access to clean water.
Typical water use in developed countries ranges between 100 litres and 400 litres a day per person, but you can get by temporarily with as little as 15 litres per person and day. https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/water-sanitation-and-health/environmental-health-in-emergencies/humanitarian-emergencies
Fully cutting the water supply like announced is a severe escalation of the humanitarian situation and beyond the “normal occupation stuff.”
Waaaaay beyond normal. 100% agree with you on that. This is a cruel punishment and target the whole people because their goal is to kill everyone of them and take the rest of the land, probably move into Lebanon after that. Sad fuxking sad.
Making one giant concentration camp.
Huh.
To be fair, it already was a giant concentration camp. That’s the reason they got uppity in the first place.
Hopefully they fully level it completely. Gaza shouldn’t be allowed to exist anymore.
I honestly think the two state compromise is no longer possible (something I strongly supported); we can all thank Hamas for that; they never wanted it either. They wanted Israel completely gone, and now instead it will be Gaza that gets wiped off the map.
I’ve no idea what will become of the civilians, but it likely won’t be good.
Edit: For those down voting me, why? Do you honestly see a better path out of this mess that doesn’t involve Hamas being utterly destroyed? Plus, none of the surrounding countries want Palestinian refugees because that means taking in Hamas sympathizers (did ya’ll forget what happened in Jordan as well?!). Wherever they go, they bring chaos.
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No. If you don’t like it, block me.
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You are wondering about downvotes? You are calling for the total destruction of Gaza which inadvertly murders or displaces over 2 million people.
Also putting the sole blame for the impossibility of a two state solution on Hamas ignores how Israel built more and more illegal settlemants on occupied territory to deny territory to a two state solution. Also the recent ramp up in IDF backed settler violence, the storming of the Al-Aqsua Mosque by Jewish fundamentalists and the genocidal rhetoric of Netanyahus coalition partners makes it evident that Israel didn’t want a two state solution long before the Hamas attack.
