• @[email protected]
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    Could have said it a week ago, assholes.

    How many Palestinian children died while you held your breath?

        • @[email protected]
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          -221 year ago

          How does it matter how exactly they kill innocent people, including children of all ages?

          Why would you even start to argue about this one specific detail? Because it is the only one where solid proof has not surfaced so far? What is there to gain?

          • iAmTheTot
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            My comment should not be read as an endorsement of Hamas behaviour, because it’s not.

          • @[email protected]
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            151 year ago

            Lol, what?

            He said the wrong thing then got corrected.

            “How does that matter!!” - you

            • Quokka
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              71 year ago

              Because he proved the narrative false, therefore the topic must be changed to a personal attack.

              • @[email protected]
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                51 year ago

                Ding ding ding! Because some people are not on the side of truth but instead blindly support their “team” like a football hooligan.

              • @[email protected]
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                -21 year ago

                Where is the personal attack…?

                I find it extremely odd that people argue about that those 40 babies are not confirmed beheaded. As if that matters? Nothing changes if that were confirmed. Or when it were only 20 that were beheaded.

                • Quokka
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                  21 year ago

                  Are you saying evidence and proof don’t matter?

                  Because it does matter if it were 0 babies and they lied saying it was any number greater than one.

          • @[email protected]
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            141 year ago

            It doesn’t matter. Children dying from decapitation is equally bad as children dying from airstrikes.

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              Is that worse than children dying of starvation, constant destruction of infrastructure and housing, or fuel and food blockades? Does it matter if the violence is directly inflicted or is just institutionalized?

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        Weird how you people think decapitations outweigh airstrikes.

        Yeah, it’s gruesome and you can see the perpetrator, but that’s really it.

        Israel constantly gets to hold some high ground in your mind because airstrikes on civilians are ‘civilized’ while shooting civilians is ‘barbaric.’

        Killing civilians is killing civilians. Israel is king in that regard.

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        Shouldn’t you know? Why are people so happy to not know the basic facts of what they have opinions on?

        The number, since you don’t know, and it seems you fucking should, is over 550. That’s the count for children, killed by Israel, since Saturday.

        Oh, and the number of babies beheaded by Hamas? Zero. Had it happened, media would he all over it. Oh, and the whitehouse would certainly not have to do a correction that in fact Biden had not seen any pictures of it.

        It’s ok to think a little bit critically. You should try it.

      • Gormadt
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        181 year ago

        Or currently in the process of doing: cutting electricity, fuel, etc from entering Gaza.

        This whole situation is fucked

  • @[email protected]
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    431 year ago

    West: “A little bit of genocide is fine but too much and you might make the rest of us look bad”

      • @[email protected]
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        251 year ago

        Do you really believe that killing every member of hamas will stop the cycle of hate and violence?

          • Cethin
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            211 year ago

            I love that people can just add “factually” to things and they become true.

            Factually, it’d only create more of them. We’ve seen this before. Killing them only pisses off their friends/family/others nearby and spreads it. The only solution is change coming from internally, which also has to happen in Israel. As long as a Zionist is in control killing Palestinians, there’s always going to be conflict.

              • @[email protected]
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                71 year ago

                Since when was the goal in WW2 to kill every member of the Nazi? The actual goal is to stop the war. Attempting to purge Palestine of every Hamas member is destined for failure and only perpetuate the conflict in the long run.

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                41 year ago

                Honestly, possibly. It didn’t get rid of them at least. Many were hired by the US and Russia, and many fled in particular to Latin America, where they still use Nazi symbols today.

                That’s not to say the war was wrong or ineffective. It’s a different situation. Many people stopped following the Nazis because they were shown the atrocities the state committed. Most of this was hidden from the populace by the Nazi party. That and them no longer benefiting from the party is what drove most people away, not losing a war.

                For example, the French people fought well after the state surrendered in WWII. The state losing the war will not stop people from fighting if they believe in the cause, and especially if the oppressors keep harming them. This is more equivalent to the situation in Palestine/Israel, not the Nazis.

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            131 year ago

            You do realize that every Hamas member has families and friends, right? You kill them and their loved ones now hate you, their kids will likely grow up into vengeful extremists and anyone caught in the crossfire won’t view you positively either. Your method only works if you completely genocide Palestine, now there’s no one left to hate.

      • Luminocta
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        71 year ago

        Remember when the people of Israel were extremely oppressed by an extremist party?

        Your argument won’t hold up. It’s a dumb way to think, be better.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Remember when the world stood up and tried to eradicate that extremist party? That’s what’s hopefully going to happen now.

      • @Fappuccino
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        21 year ago

        Living under the IDF is continued oppression and death

  • @[email protected]
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    401 year ago

    In any given exchange of violence for these actors, it is a pretty reliable bet to say that there will be about a 10:1 ratio of Palestinians versus Israelis killed. I expect that we will see between 10k and 20k Palestinians killed, and probably somewhere less than 2k total Israelis killed. I think there will be fewer people killed by bombs and bullets than by the blockade. I suspect 90% of the casualties will be civilians. I think that all of the people who die in fear and pain while hiding in their homes as well as those who die on the barricades will be forgotten in a year or so.

    I also suspect that the remaining checks on Bibi’s already significant power will end, and that Hamas will effectively cease to exist as a political power.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      The thing is America already tried bombing an idea out of existence twice in Vietnam and Afghanistan and it failed twice. I just don’t see how brutal conflict does anything more then inspire the next generation of extremist. We need to break the cycle of violence.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        I’m not saying that the desire for Palestinian autonomy is going to be ended. I’m saying that Hamas-the-organization is going to cease to be an effective factor in it. It will be replaced by another organization, or several. I could certainly see another intifada coming out of this.

        But you can most certainly bomb (and buy) an idea out of existence. There was a time when there existed a pan-Arab movement. Partly post-colonial, partly anti-Israel, partly Third World-ism in reaction to the Cold War, it tried to unite the Arab world across the borders drawn by the colonialist countries.

        It went down in flames due to

        1. Their inability to do the one thing they set as their biggest goal, which was the military conquest of Israel.
        2. US and USSR intelligence operations, diplomatic engagement, and economic and military cooperation
        3. Internal factionalism and personal greed

        That’s actually where politicized Islam has its roots - in the defeat of modern, semi-socialist Arab internationalism. Looking back, we would probably have been better off with the pan-Arab movement becoming an entity that could make peace with Israel (like Egypt did) than have political Islam replace what at the end of the day was basic national aspirations in the post-colonial period.

      • @[email protected]
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        -31 year ago

        What a useless statement. There is no way to break the cycle while Hamas exists. You know that.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Historically since 2008 to just before the conflict was 21:1, it’ll be more 100:1 by the end.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I’ve been out of that business for a while and was going off of memory, so I’ll go with your numbers.

        I do think the world will pull the plug on this particular situation before there are 100k Palestinians dead unless Iran or Syria gets involved. I think the problem is going to be that the rate of death is going to go vertical, and it won’t be possible to stop before it hits 10k, which could happen in a month or less depending on what they do with electricity and fuel.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          It’s what the UN states showed last I checked.

          I remain hopeful I just think it’s very unlikely anyone can or will step in.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            I think that other states will step in, and I think Israel will step back and say “What the fuck did we do?”

            But history doesn’t make me think that’s going to happen nearly soon enough.

      • Annoyed_🦀
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        101 year ago

        Yes yes, you want the genocidal of all Palestinian, don’t need to sugarcoat that.

  • Obinice
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    181 year ago

    Escalation? Didn’t they already bomb the shit out of that country’s innocent civilian population as literally nothing but cold blooded revenge and hatred? (And this is just talking about this month, not even talking about the past…).

    Man, fuck those guys. Religion and politics of the region aside, I don’t know how any people or nation can support governments who take these official actions of mass murder and genocide right before our very eyes.

    They might as well be Russia for all the evil they’re doing, except they’re not even pretending they’re doing it to help the Palestinians. They’re just gleefully bombing and starving women, boys, children, babies, en masse.

    And no, just because they were also attacked horribly doesn’t give them the right to murder civilians like savages.

    They’re supposedly a functional developed nation, they should understand basic things like rules of engagement, proportional and measured response, and, you know… not officially and happily committing unforgivable war crimes :-/

    Man, fuck those guys.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    I’m sure Israel will pay as much attention to that as we paid to the rest of the world when they were all like “no dude there’s no nukes in Iraq what the fuck are you talking about”

  • BigFig
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    141 year ago

    We fully support you! But hold back guys.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      51 year ago

      Here’s more ammunition for bombing everyone, but please don’t bomb the wrong target :(

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    That’ll work.

    Egg them on and support them for 75 years and then tell them to chill out right before they wrap everything up.

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            The bottom one is even worse in many ways.

            The fact that it had previously had the tendrils of the British Empire in it, doesn’t mean they ever “owned” them. That’s Palestine in the first map, whether Britain agreed at the time or not. It’s their land.

            No shit that plan was rejected, it gave up a ton of land, including most of the coast. Why would anyone agree to that.

            Next pic, you decide it doesn’t exist at all. Cool.

            Then Israel conquers the area of Jordan that was previously part of Palestine. Land that was never theirs, even by your own maps.

            Then, in the final pic, Israel, out of the kindness of their heart, gives a tiny amount of (continuously shrinking) land and apartheid rule.

            Like, give me a break. That’s supposed to be better?

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            01 year ago

            Strange that two nearly identical maps are so diametrically labeled, but that’s the Internet, huh?

            Aside from the nominal, both are accurate representations of steadily decreasing Palestinian territory.

            Are you making a different point or is this intended as supplemental material?

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              Strange, that you cannot interpret a difference between your own fictional construct, and a timeline of reality.

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                Iit is not strange to point out the identical territories in a silly image pretending nearly identical pictures saying the same thing are opposites.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    Israel does not give a single shit about warnings from Europe as they were smart enough to not make their existence dependent on us.

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      Why would they? Any criticism of anything they do can be called antisemitism and made illegal.

      • @[email protected]
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        -131 year ago

        It is antisemitism when people cannot separate Israel from “jews” and keep screaming “death to the jews” while trying to protest against Israel. And there are many people who criticize Israel’s way of handling this without it being made illegal. So I suspect you belong to that group that just cannot help themselves when trying to protest Israel.

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          It cuts both ways, on the one hand you have legit antisemites hiding behind the fig leaf of Israel critique, on the other Israeli rightoids to fascists deliberately confusing being against them with being antisemitic. It shouldn’t be particularly surprising that Kahanites and the like call anything they don’t like antisemitic same as Nazis call anything they don’t like anti-German, they are, after all, the same shit with a different coat of paint.

          But there’s generally an easy solution to that: Be precise. Both sides of the conflict aren’t uniform hive-minds and pretty much whatever position you hold, you’ll find it reflected in either or (preferably!) both, somewhere. Worst thing that could happen is that you do some research and learn something about the local politics :)

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    As a Jew, I’m glad that world leaders saying something and standing up for the protection of innocents.

    On an unrelated note - why do we care what Yanis tweets about this? So weird to have that in this article.