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Move along. No genocide to see here.
Betcha there are people already arguing that it can’t be genocide if you only kill 1% of the population.
Maybe I’m mistaken, but at one point long ago at school, a professor told me that genocide is when one ethnic group kills 5000 of other ethnic group. How many innocent Palestinians has Israel killed so far since Oct 7th?
What a fucking disaster. Netanyahu and Hamas have been quite the blight on mankind
Forgive my ignorance, but I was always wondering why is it such a faux pau to show support to Palestine? From how I understand it, and that may be wrong, hence the question, the regular Palestinian people are occupied not only by Israel on the outside, but also by a terrorist group, HAMAS, at home. Which is basically a dictatorship, thats not afraid to openly use terror tactics. It’s a lose-lose situation, and the only thing you can do is hope youre not going to be one of the 1/100 that dies to a random strike.
When there are innocent people in a situation like that, the least we can do is show them some support.
Or do majority of people in Palestine actually support HAMAS and the war? I feel like in missing something, because the backslash to people who show an ounce of support for Palestine is massive, and I don’t really get why. I just want regular people who aren’t terrorists to live at peace :(
Or do majority of people in Palestine actually support HAMAS and the war?
Idk if the majority support Hamas specifically, but most Palestinians support resistance fighters, including Hamas, mostly because peaceful diplomacy with Israel has proven to be impossible.
Off course I’d rather live under, and support the dictator terrorists if my other option was genocidal aparthied nazis who force me to live deprived from all freedoms like a caged animal and regularly get bombed.
Yes Hamas is a bad terrorist dictatorship, but they did not kill 1 in every 100 Gazan, and they are only in power because they live in an open-air prison and regularly get bombed by an occupier controlling their food, water, and electricity and keeping them like caged animal.
Is it really a faux-pas? It probably depends on where you live and the people you live amongst. Where I live, it seems like only the extreme right (the successors of the people who helped the nazi’s genocide the Jews) + orthodox Jews support Israel unequivocally. Most others don’t see it as black and white and still consider Palestinians as humans who need hope and prospects, which they’re obviously not getting under Israeli occupation.
The majority of Palestinians in Palestine apparently support Hamas, but it’s likely that they would not be supporting Hamas if Israel had been acting in good faith and not been slowly (a lot faster now obviously, but they were going slowly for years) ethnically cleansing them from Palestine. It’s kinda a chicken and egg situation.
If Rabin had not been murdered by an extremist israeli in 1995, there might have been peace now in those lands, but instead Israel is now being lead by those extremists and they aren’t interested in peace or co-existence.
Coincidentally, there was a recent media event in my country event where a celebrity publicly displayed support for Palestinians.
She had this to say: “Raising a Palestinian flag does NOT mean that I support Hamas or that I hate Jews or that I am okay with innocent civilians - wherever they live - being killed. It means that I want all wars and all genocides to end.” https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/01/08/laura-tesoro-palestijnse-vlag/
Public reactions (in dutch): https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20240107_96484050 The minister Jan Jambon was in his youth a member of the local fascist party and is pretty vocal that he would like his current (more mainstream) party to collaborate in the future with that fascist party. So that he thinks that it is a “faux-pas” to express support for Palestinians, does not surprise me in the least.
Edited because of grammar.
It’s manufactured. The US government unquestionably supports Israel and doesn’t wanna threaten their
remote military baserelationship, so they act to silence dissidents and quench protests, such as by trying to equate criticism of Israel’s government with antisemitism.I think the basic reasoning is some form of:
“If you support Palestina, you are against Israel. And you can’t be against Israel, because then you are an anti-semite and that means you support Hitler.”
It’s mainly prevelant in western countries that historically support Israel. I do think a big part of that is some historical shame/feeling the Jewish people are owed something, given the genocide they had to endure in WW2. And of course a touch of geopolitics. And right wing politicians using Israel as a way to position themselves (I guess they hate Muslims more than Jews?).
What percent of Americans died in the 9/11 attacks? How many 9/11s is this?
Germany was so much more efficient, take pointers you hypocrits
Genocide Joe going full steam ahead with this through the election. Let’s see how well the Democrats can do winning the Nazi vote.
You think the Trump and the Republicans will be any better?
I’m not sure that matters when Biden’s support for genocide is making a second Trump term more and more likely. He needs to be differentiating himself from Trump in order to drive turnout. Blindly supporting Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaigns does the exact opposite.
What is Israel supposed to do? I’m genuinely asking. I’m not implying what they have done is what should’ve happened but I’m genuinely puzzled what the imagined alternative would have been. You don’t react to Hamas’s attack by packing up your shit and leaving. You don’t respond to it by asking what your enemy would like you to do differently so that this doesn’t happen again. You retaliate. It’s blatantly obvious that’s what you do especially since they have a superior military. How do you retaliate? That is the question I’d like answered. What is a reasonable and justifiable retaliation to their act?
If you catch a kid throwing rocks at windows you don’t shoot them or punch them in the face but you don’t pat them on the head either and give them candy. There are better and worse ways to deal with it here.
You legitimately target Hamas with actual precision attacks. If they’re hiding under a hospital, you go down there and deal with them, you don’t bomb the fucking hospital.
Have they bombed a hospital?
How do you “go down there” exactly? You just walk in and ask where the entrance is? Your solution is quite vague.
if they know its there they’ll know how people get in and out of it.
Given the level of knowledge you just displayed it appears to be you who is quite vague, what he said was perfectly clear to most of us
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-killing-children-in-gaza
Not just that, they blew off the head of a 12 year old girl that was lying in a hospital with a tank shot.
That girl was lying in that hospital because she got her leg amputated and her entire family killed in an israeli airstrike.
How do you retaliate? That is the question I’d like answered. What is a reasonable and justifiable retaliation to their act?
Retaliation is in the first place a wrong answer, because Hamas’s whole existence is retaliation to Israel’s aggression against Palestinians.
This in no shape or form answers my question and is exactly what’s frustrating about the situation. I only hear critizism but never solutions.
No that was the solution. Prisoner deal and then build a two state solution if they were willing.
But they are not willing. The israelis are Nazis. The only party that is closed to negotiation is israel.
Politically obviously there’s not going to be electoral punishment in Israel for killing people who cant vote in your elections. This isnt even about retaliation its about retaliation theater. Obviously the people they’re killing mostly had nothing to do with the attacks.
They could drop less bombs but it seems like the Israeli army is understaffed and they’re unwilling to conscript their yahoo settlers and take them away from harassing the west bank to send them to gaza where at least they might kill less children than the neighborhood leveling air strikes.
If the weapon supply line were threatened to be cut off, Israeli politicians would reluctantly dial down the genocide and they’ve even suggested as much. But so far it hasn’t happened yet because whoever stops this will be blamed for the next terror attack (and there will 100% be another one) and will become enemy #1 in Israel.
So Joe Biden is cowardly hoping some european countries decide to do something so he doesn’t become the guy who pisses off the Imperial outpost in the middle east.
#genocidejoe
Is Biden an idiot for blindly supporting Israel? Yes.
But every fucking President since Truman has done the exact same thing … including Trump.
So sit down and shut up already.
People are responsible for the things they do. And the fact that your electoral system gives you the choice between Genocide Joe and Diaper Donald doesn’t mean there is a good guy between them. Electoralism has failed if this is the choice, and change should be looked for outside of it, you can still vote for whatever candidate is the least bad but don’t be smug about the fact that you did something good and be done for the next four years. If things keep going the way they’re going, there is going to be another Republican president in the future, either Trump or someone more dangerous and competent.
Not my electoral system. I’m not American. Just sick and tired of shitty people hashtagging stupidity.
I invite you to read the report sent to the ICJ by South Africa and call that stupidity. Now is the time to act while we can still stop an ethnic cleansing or worse.
I replied to someone hashtagging Biden, not SA’s report to the ICJ that I happen to agree with.
Biden can stop it today if he wants, either by withholding weapons or by direct intervention (although an embargo would probably suffice). But the fact that the US is STILL sending weapons is nothing less than direct complicity. People have been shot for less during the Nuremberg Trials.
Uh… No. Biden is uniquely horrible in this. He’s going above and beyond what most other non-Trump presidents would do.
Yet Palestinian support for the Hamas terrorists just continues to grow. So weird thinking it’s 2024, and they’re having a fucking religious war over there.
do you have a source with dates for this?
Religious war over whether they can live in their land or not, indeed.
Israel is committing genocide, so stop sucking their dicks.
I didn’t know sucking dick was such a crime.
It is when nations do it. When adults do it it’s less so.
Well duh. What did you think would happen? That they start loving Israel?
You can’t beat people to stop hating you.
Well that’s what happens when you start a war against a bigger stronger enemy. It’s not as if there’s no precedent for it: Gaza has been striking Israel and getting clobbered harder back over and over and over as far back as I can remember … it’s crazy. And now everyone’s surprised that the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is getting a massive clobber in return. Seems Gaza are so blinded by their backward religitard rage that they just aren’t capable of looking for another option.
Sigh.
Gaza is under occupation by Israel, according to almost every NGO that matters, including the UN. The war has been going on since 1970.
And before you call it “the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust” ask the IDF how many Jews they killed between October 7th and 9th.
Sigh.
Was alone pretty much an appropriate response to parent comment. Though I applaud you for your preservation.
What else would Israel need to do to unoccupy Gaza? Army and civilians were all removed in 2005.
Gotta ask the UN, but stop the blockade for instance. The blockade which started in 2005, not 2007, by the way.
Maybe if Hamas would stop making bombs and rockets out of literally anything they can get their hands on, in order to indiscriminately bomb Israel, they’d be more open to lifting the blockade.
Yeah, like what happened in 2008, where during the ceasefire that required Israel to lift the blockade they explicitly stated they intended to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse?
Did they?
Uh… Yes. It’s literally right there on Wikipedia. It’s not a secret.
A lot of those dead people probably didn’t actually start the war.
