“World you prefer they go and kill 16,000 civilians in carpet bombing in residential areas?! Ha didn’t think so!”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-ho...
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-death-toll-ho...
* Use their people as human shields.
* Spent billions of dollars on aid to build "attack tunnels" and buy weapons rather than spend it on education, health care, diplomacy and a real defense force.
* Broke the cease fire on October 7 by going on an ecstatic, orgy of violence against innocent people at a peace and love festival.
* Failed to return the hostages and murdered many of them.
* Failed to negotiate a peace deal for their people and bravely handing themselves in.
* Started a war without considering or caring about the consequences for their people.
* Brainwashed their own people to hate Jews and take up arms to it's impossible to distinguish soldiers and civilians.
* They've even brainwashed children to become "martyrs"
* Launched rockets into civilian areas in Israel every day.
* Setup headquarters in hospitals and schools...
The list goes on, but Hamas started this latest round of violence, they are responsible. I repeat again, there was a ceasefire on October 7. People calling for a ceasefire in Gaza have to understand this, and they have to understand these fanatics would just regroup and attack again.
Look at how Russia and Ukraine keep their military assets away from civilian populations, then look at what Hamas does, there is zero moral equivalence here. Putin is a total psycho monster, but even he doesn't build arms making facilities in residential areas.
Jihadists use our morals against us, they're extremely good at manipulation, they're ok with a hospital being bombed so long as it gets an emotional response and incites hatred against Jews. Which is working, clearly.
I attack your country and kill 1200 people, and you airdrop me pallets of cash.
Great deal.
But my apologies, I have to consider your feelings when I think there are better alternatives to killing 300,000 people with bombs and starving another 1 million.
Not sure if you're confused, acting in bad faith, or just don't know what genocide is OR Israel is just really bad at doing genocide?
Seventy-two percent of respondents said they believed the Hamas decision to launch the cross-border rampage in southern Israel was "correct" given its outcome so far, while 22% said it was "incorrect". The remainder were undecided or gave no answer.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/poll-shows-palesti...
Now remember that figure was BEFORE the latest wave of violence, so just after October 7, apparently the majority of people in Palestine thought killing 1200 innocent civilians is ok? It seems like some level of self-defence is warranted given there is now more Palestinians than ever before who hate them?
I'm very curious to understand how that has achieved a single bit of "defense" for people living in Gaza.
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1i...
Take a look at that photo, the hysterial guy on the track over the top of the girl who was raped and killed and try explain to me what on earth that has to do with "self-defense".
They're ecstatic because they killed a Jew and they think they're doing god's work, don't be a fool.
Please cite the sources for this maybe? The ITF personnel won't be counted as Civilians, correct? Even before adding the Hannibal directive death's, by ITF's own people, these figures are not correct.
From the linked wiki. Not 1200. This would be much clearer when the Hannnibal directive kills are excluded. Such a shame that the most moral Army would kill their own.
Really, I think your effort[1] would be better spent on someone else.
The reason is that they were our enemies.
Edit: Can any of you downvoters explain to me how this isn't a case of blatant double standards?
If someone hates the Nazis so much that civilians in Nazi-controlled cities are fair game, someone else is going to hate Hamas in the very same way.
But this is off topic. Criticism notwithstanding, Israel's attack is very cleverly designed to minimize civilian casualties. This is the opposite of carpet-bombing Beirut.
Why is no one so passionate about Ukraine? Ukraine is actually being invaded and Russia is actually committing genocide in Ukraine and is actively trying to destroy Ukrainian culture by banning the language and other Ukrainian culture artifacts in Russian occupied Ukraine.
The invasion of Ukraine has reached 1 million casualties, this includes Russians yes, but Putin and his generals send them to die like shit, including conscripts. Anyway that is more than 20x the number of people lost in Israel - Gaza.
Russia has kidnapped children, let that sync in?
When I login to Facebook, all I see are my "woke" friends posting "from the river to the sea" and "enough is enough, Israel are terrorists". Weirdly, most of the "queer" people who support Hamas are the most likely to be murdered by them for doing "haram".
I never see anything about Putin, who is a much, much worse terrorist than Israel will ever by, why do you think no one is just as upset about that situation ?
I'm honestly interested in your response.
You might be living under a rock? Every other github project has a "support ukraine" flag
But I think that any movement can have just one massive cause celebre, and the Palestinians cornered the market for that cause among the Western Left. Already in Spain, there is barely a Ukrainian flag to be seen among the hundreds of Palestinian flags.
It works the other way as well, former Soviet Bloc nations usually don't care about the Palestinians at all, or are pro-Israeli.
The size of a local Muslim community probably matters, too. Muslims care about their brethren in faith, at least verbally. In the recent General Election in the UK, the most Islamized constituencies punished neutral Labour candidates and turned out heavily in favour of pro-Palestinian candidates of third parties. It cost Labour some previously left-wing seats, though it didn't threaten their majority in the UK as a whole, as the Muslim population is highly concentrated in a few urban areas and can influence only several seats country-wide.
I jut think Iran and terrorists put way more focus on information campaigns than democratic nations do. It's not in our DNA to tell stories so we're behind the eight ball.
These information wars are scarily powerful though, the number of "useful idiots" per day seems to be getting bigger all the time.
I've been reading articles about the western world finally waking up to it.
In a way, social media seems to be a backdoor into our world, but it's often outlawed in dictatorships and autocracies...I wonder why? :)