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People (men, women and children) were exterminated in gas chambers in Auschweitz

Comparing this with the war in Gaza is ignorance or just manipulation. Gaza was (and actually, still is) a home to a murderous organization that terrorized not only Israelis, but also its own people for 20 years.

Gay men were thrown off the roofs to their deaths in Gaza shortly after Hamas took over violently, political opponents were brutally murdered.

Hell, whole families were burned on Oct 7th, to the chants of "Allah Akbar".

It blows my mind that people don't know that wars lead to casualties, even in the civilian side. I think that since it has been 2-3 generations without any serious conflict in the west, people are simply not familiar with the nature of war.

There's genocide, and there's war. Those are not the same.

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Yes, there is genocide and there is war, and most of the world knows which one is currently happening in Palestine.

Really? there was a poll or a vote I missed? There's one thing I'm sure I missed in this all narrative - evidence.

The IDF posted plenty of evidence of their genocide:

https://tiktokgenocide.com/

Israelis mocking gazans is hardly an evidence for a genocide. try harder. Show me bodies of handcuffed women and children like the ones that were found in Bucha, Ukraine. show me even something remotely similar to that.

You have nothing... just a bunch of videos of stupid teenagers making fun of their enemies.

Tens of thousands of innocent people have been murdered by Israel. That's not in question. There are plenty of pictures and videos of handcuffed people murdered, people buried by tanks, innocent children being shot. None of that is in question.

Cutting off aid, electricity, and any means of egress — together with Trump’s talk of emptying out Gaza and building a resort — sounds like a lot more than just “war” to me. Israel clearly intends to eliminate or displace the civilian population in its entirety, and in their eyes, every starving mother and child is a terrorist enabler and deserves no empathy. (To say nothing of their continuing expansion into the West Bank.)

That's unfortunate. Still not even remotely comparable to Auschwitz.

No. But it's on the same trajectory.

For those of us in the world who don't know, which one is it?

Genocide.

Both: genocide often happens during war, and the one that has been carried out by Israel against the Palestinian population for most of the last 60 years certainly fits that model.

What is happening in Gaza is a ethnic-cleansing and genocide. There is long chain of evidence from the words of of its highest-ranking civilian and military leaders all the way to mid-level commanders, rank-and-file and corroborated by evidence from the ground and ample video evidence and testimony. Trump literally called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza before posting this video.

The point of my original admittedly flippant post was - If it is okay to satirize the tremendous tragedy currently ongoing in Gaza, is it not okay to make a similar satire about a tragedy that took place 80 years ago? How would the world react. How would hollywood react? How would Solo Avital react ? From a cursory look, It seems he has worked with a few prominent names like Sarah Silverman, Lewis Black in hollywood. Is he going to be black-balled, cancelled by Hollywood for mocking the suffering and planned ethnic-cleansing of 2 million palestinians.

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