Gaza running out of time UN experts warn, demand ceasefire to prevent genocide
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But god forbid, some tech giant pulls down some random app from app store, or there's letting go of some employees from some company most people never heard of, or some rando gets blocked from accessing gmail for a while. You'll get 100s comment discussions there. :-)
Regular people need to organize oppositional political institutions: primarily parties and unions to fight for the interests of regular people against these 1% ghouls. What's needed is a revolutionary struggle against our respective national ruling classes, with an international collaboration that will eventually make obsolete national boundaries.
Deaths 160 Injured 250
"one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II"
Quite comparable to Nazi air raids over Britain.
You need to compare it to the death tolls of the nations that also did not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Pforzheim_in_World_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_Wa... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194...
UK was ~500x the size, not including colonies, or whatnot and a great power not under decades long siege at that time.
On the other hand, Gaza is small, and Israel famously blocks imports of construction materials and technology to Gaza, and attacks international ships and kills crew that attempt to bring it there without approval.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/17/gaza-recycles-rubbl...
Civilian bomb shelters are also not very useful without a warning system and against an enemy, that can target them directly and is in the sky 24/7. Show me a typical Israeli bomb shelter that can survive a direct hit from one or two of those JDAM guided 1000/2000 pound bombs, without everyone inside being killed. Locations of all the shelters would be known to Israel, so they'd be easily targeted.
Anyway, yeah, apples and oranges of a situation, comparing this to anything in the past, including air raids on London.
What was the spark, Hamas very well knew they could not win, some say it was Russia/Iran that wanted a broader war where the Arab countries would join in knowing it would draw in the USA. This would certainly help Russian/Iranian interests right now with the War Russia is waging on Ukraine. I feel like it's all about weakening the West and causing discourse through out western society. The players like Russia, Iran, North Korea, China all want our Western world to fail.
Maybe we're due for another WW, it will play out the way it plays out I suppose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Shalit_prisoner_exchange
They were too successful this time, though.
Israel can have a hostage swap any time it wants. The goverment gives priority to other goals, though.
Israel government probably doesn't want all those hostages back too soon, because it might undermine their war goals (many hostages are not Israelis, and many would talk to media, and might disrupt the messaging either via either a stockholm syndrome, or just by talking about what they lived through and seen during the Oct 7 attack). Also no hostages would mean one less reason for fighting Hamas, while destroying their own economy.