• LollerCorleone
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    If it was any other West Asian country doing this, the entire West would be denouncing them and taking action. But because its Israel doing it, this is fine.

    • Jo Miran
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      Because there are consequences of you go against the grain. It’s all about money…always. Palestinians have little to no money and influence.

        • Jo Miran
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          I will never fault someone for standing up for their people. In fact, one has to admire the fact that this person put their money (and reputation) where their mouth is. We strongly disagree on the matter, but antisemitism has nothing to do with it.

          A question, for me, is where is the same pressure from other players? Where are the mega rich Arabs and Muslims pulling their funding because somebody didn’t put out a pro-Palestine message. Step up!

            • modifier
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              (although we should be careful not to be tricked into thinking all militants, including those giving orders, are religious extremists - reportedly Hamas’ campaign on the 7th was ordered to take hostages and not kill civilians, and that the IDF basically implemented the Hannibal Doctrine against it’s own civilians leading to significant friendly fire casualties [even as reported by an Israeli who was held hostage and later interviewed on Israeli news]; you can see how murky the waters get in a propaganda war).

              Can you share some of the reporting behind this use of ‘reportedly’. I have never seen this reported before though I am admittedly not reading everything.

                • modifier
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                  22 years ago

                  It’s difficult to tell if you believe it or not because you’ve referenced it within a larger point about how much confusion there is, but it seems like you believe it enough to repeat it. If so, what about the article makes you believe it or not?

          • sadreality
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            42 years ago

            Arabs think of palestians as white trash cousins you don’t want at your wedding…

            Also, US keeping them on a short lease with arms sales

            • Jo Miran
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              52 years ago

              Arabs think of palestians as white trash cousins you don’t want at your wedding…

              I have no idea if this is true or not but it seems like a gross generalization.

              Also, US keeping them on a short lease with arms sales

              Irrelevant. I’m talking about individuals not governments.

              • sadreality
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                22 years ago

                Arab peoples and states behaviors speak for themselves.

                Fact that most most of the aid for Gaza came from the west, should be indication enough about how other Arabs feel about this issue…

                They are fine with palestiains suffering as along as Israel keep getting rockets.

        • @[email protected]
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          122 years ago

          Agreed. It’s also frustrating that the labeling of anything anti-Zionist as anti-Semitism just gives actual anti-Semites the opportunity to claim their actual anti-Semitism is anything but.

    • dontcarebear
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      52 years ago

      Well, Israel is bound by international law and is a (flawed) democracy. Doesn’t excuse them from wrongdoing though, but it makes things more gray than black.

      The rest of the nation’s in the middle-east (or West Asia) are authoritarian nations that brutalize the population on occasion. Jordan in black September springs to mind as the Palestinians tried to overthrow the Jordanian rule and conquer it.

      So, yeah, it is complicated.

      • @[email protected]
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        “It’s complicated” is double speak for “if I say what I think, you people will realize how shitty my views are, and I’m unprepared to back them up with rational explinatiom because i have none”

        • dontcarebear
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          22 years ago

          I just pointed at a genocide perpetrated by Jordan, another west asian state. On Palestinians.

          It isn’t double speak, it is backing up a direct claim against the original claim.

          Can’t you read?

      • LollerCorleone
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        182 years ago

        Well, Israel is bound by international

        The entire issue here is that they aren’t. They are openly committing war crimes in breach of international conventions and none of the self-appointed guardians of democracy in the West seem to be batting an eye.

    • xuxebiko
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      362 years ago

      the toxic sludge of racism + Islamophobia = support and empowerment for Israel to ethnically cleanse Palestine of Palestinians.

      • @[email protected]
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        262 years ago

        The other, possibly larger, part of it is the fear of being labeled antisemitic. Antisemitism is a huge problem all over the world but Jews aren’t to blame for what’s going on - Zionist are.

        • ALQ
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          112 years ago

          Yep. And yet Israel is giving the rest of the world more excuses for antisemitism. Who is even winning this “war,” other than Bibi and his toadies?

          • @[email protected]
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            132 years ago

            No one. Jews everywhere will take a reputation hit from the public at large because Bibi pretends to speak for them.

            I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. I worked at a Jewish family business. I have lots of Jewish friends. And I’ve yet to meet a Jew who likes the guy…even the ones who support an Israeli state.

            • ALQ
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              102 years ago

              Agreed. I’m Jewish and have never supported Israel, but my parents do and even they hate him.

              • @[email protected]
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                82 years ago

                I think I support the idea of Israel because they’ve historically been a target of genocide but I recognize that it’s not my land being given away to make it. It’s the perpetual expansion if Israel that bothers me.

                Zionists originally wanted a homeland and they got it. Now, Zionists want an empire. I’m pretty sure Palestine won’t exist after this conflict. You give a mouse a cookie…

          • TunaCowboy
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            52 years ago

            Zionism is just Israeli patriotism.

            Zionism is by definition a nationalist ideology.

    • sadreality
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      72 years ago

      Have you not heard about the beheaded babies?

      Israel got blank check from rest of the world, Gaza residents will be punished and aint nobody gonna do shit. If Arab states won’t do shit, what can we expect from anyone else.

      Sucks to be a Gaza resident, but it is a small price to pay for jewish people to have their own country.

        • Nix
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          132 years ago

          A fake story used as propaganda to manufacture consent for the genocide of Palestinians. Mainstream media and celebrities were repeating it blindly a week ago saying 40 beheaded babies were found

          • xuxebiko
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            32 years ago

            Thanks. I do know about it, but didn’t know whether @sadreality was being sarcastic or serious. & was trying to find out.

        • queermunist she/her
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          Settlers made up a lie about Hamas beheading 40 babies and tricked Biden into saying he saw pictures.

          It was later corrected: he didn’t see any pictures because there are no pictures.

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            Thanks. I do know about it, but didn’t know whether @sadreality was being sarcastic or serious. & was trying to find out.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s OK, they are others.

      I’m so fucking mad that THIS is the reason people are saying congress needs to get it’s shit together. Fuck you(them, not YOU). We shouldn’t be sending aid to anyone over there right now. It’s too messy and everyone sucks too much.

      Representatives should be working 23.5 hours a day to get this country running again FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE. Not so they can approve more money to assist Isreal in killing more civilians. Fucking absolutely indicative of the fact that We The People no longer have representation in the government. O KY rhe 1% get representation now, and they want revelations to come true so bad they will throw money at the middle East until “it happens”.

      Fuck the government, fuck the police, and fuck all these toxic ass Christians. So tired of government sponsored domestic terrorism being normalized.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    Latest news out of Israel is that they believe it was a Jihad Islamist group that launched the rocket from within Israel.

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      Israel is claiming that some rockets launched by Hamas towards Israel went off course and hit the hospital.

      I remember Russia staging a “Ukrainian missle attack”, but they were so bad at it that the damage was on the side of buildings facing away from Ukraine. Should be pretty easy to check that here too…

      • @[email protected]
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        182 years ago

        The rockets Hamas fires can barely punch a hole in a wall, and this explosion basically leveled the whole hospital. It’s just a ridiculous claim.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 years ago

          The scale of boom the IDF is dropping is an order of magnitude larger than Hamas missiles.

          It’s insane to think that one (or even more than one) missile could destroy a hospital.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            Did you see the OH bombing aftermath? Low explosives can still pack a hefty punch, and the hospital is by no means “destroyed”.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    432 years ago

    Death to Israel. Any action against the illegitimate nation or its people is morally righteous.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    I don’t understand a lot about this conflict but surely there can be no justification for this. Those poor people

  • AdeptusPrimarisOP
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    672 years ago

    US President Joe Biden will once again emphasise Israel’s “right and duty” to defend itself.

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      2 years ago

      More like “ight n dty tdfnfd ishlf”, the old fuck sounds like he’s trying to eat his own teeth.

      The most powerful country in human history, and out of its 330 million people the best they could find to lead them was this guy who’s literally dying in front of our eyes.

      Fuck me.