• blazera
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      56 months ago

      All those terrorist babies and terrorist hospital patients and terrorist foreign journalists

        • ripcord
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          86 months ago

          You seem to have missed their sarcasm.

          The idea of ANY baby being a terrorist, for one thing.

        • squiblet
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          16 months ago

          It’s a somewhat sarcastic way to point out that babies, hospital patients and foreign journalists are not terrorists.

          • PugJesus
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            16 months ago

            What’re the odds that the IDF is using the ol’ “Any military-age male near a terrorist is a terrorist” accounting trick the US uses (used? I think we still use it) to drop our collateral damage rate from drone strikes from the 15% it actually is, to an incredibly improbable claimed 0.2%?

            • blazera
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              36 months ago

              Point is even the most biased source in their favor still says majority of who israel is killing are civilians. That ratio only goes up from there with other sources.

      • PugJesus
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        Subsidizing their genocide, for one. But that, unfortunately, is a widely popular position both amongst US politicians and the general population, and is unlikely to change in the near-future regardless of who is in office.

          • blazera
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            66 months ago

            Do you…really not know about the billions we’ve been giving to Israel for decades?

            • @[email protected]
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              Yes I’m well aware of that. I’m asking whose genocide we are subsidizing. It’s clearly not the Israeli’s since we are giving money to them.

              • wagesj45
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                56 months ago

                We’re giving Israel the money and weapons to perpetrate a genocide on Palestinians.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Ok so a couple of things.

                  First, when we speak of genocide, generally it is with reference to the victim of the genocide. Using the Holocaust as an example, do you refer to this as the Nazi genocide or the Jewish genocide?

                  Second, we are not funding a genocide against the Palestinians. Israel is fighting Hamas, not the Palestinians. The Palestinians are unfortunate pawns being used by Hamas to shield themselves from Israel. This is an over simplification of the situation, but I don’t think it is fair to say we are funding a genocide against the Palestinians via the Israelis.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    66 months ago

                    The thing is, Israel didn’t appear to be trying at all to spare civilians. Maybe there is lip service offered but nothing else. IDF is killing any motherfuckers they feel like and horrific acts are being perpetuated without any repercussions - allegedly murdering every woman and child they could in a school. Murdering their own people. Maybe out of indifference or maybe out of hate, it makes no difference to the dead.

                    Hamas started this latest round but Israel has been treating Palestinians like garbage for decades. It was inevitable they would act. I don’t see Hamas as appreciably worse than the Israeli government. I have empathy for both Jews and Palestinians. The governments aren’t the same as the people, and the governments are both evil.

                    The difference is Israel is the group with all the power and military might, so they have the obligation to use that power responsibly. They aren’t. They are guaranteeing hatred persists for another couple of generations.

                    I’m sure Biden is working behind the scenes, but the public face he presents isn’t how I want my country to be seen. I’m voting for him because Trump is worse yet, but Biden has been disappointing on this crisis.

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          Hamas attacked Israel, murdered thousands of innocent people, they raped grandmother’s and children. That is what your supporting. That’s fucked up.

          • @[email protected]
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            176 months ago

            These bullshit “If you’re not for Israel, you have to be for Hamas” takes really have to stop

          • PugJesus
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            66 months ago

            Where the fuck did I say I supported Hamas?

            Nearly 1% of the population of Gaza is fucking dead, man. In the course of under three months.