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That's why Israel is so keen to usher journalists into Gaza-so that it can record and publicize this behavior by Hamas. Oh, wait ... |
Neither of you is alone. I used to support Israel mindlessly and reflexively, but then I studied the history of the region and I see what is going on there today. Israel's absolute indifference to modern-day norms and its sadistic savagery, as evidenced by torture and beatings, have convinced me it's a racist, genocidal state. Never again. |
The reason there are so many pages of discussion about Gaza is that there are so many people in imminent danger who could be saved by immediate intervention. Unfortunately, we usually learn about violence in Myanmar after the fact, but the Gaza genocide is ongoing and continuously unfolding before our eyes. Think of what happens when one child falls down a well. The story becomes major headlines as organizations pull out all the stops to save the child, and millions of people are on tenterhooks, hoping the child will be saved. This is the situation in Gaza. There are hundreds of thousands of children who are "down a well." They could be killed at any moment by bombs; they're dying of starvation, thirst, and lack of medical care; each and every one of them is suffering horribly. While these babies are almost dead from hunger, there is enough food in the aid trucks a few miles away to feed everyone in Gaza for at least two months. That's why there's this desperate sense of urgency and outrage, along with a growing sense of horror that the world is not helping these kids. Another reason, of course, is that the U.S. isn't supporting Myanmar to the tune of several billion a year, while our tax dollars are funding Israel's genocide in Gaza. We don't want to be forced into complicity. Your second paragraph is pure gaslighting, highly disrespectful, and a blatant attempt to deflect attention from Israel's crimes against humanity. I have no antipathy to Jews (I'm married to a Jew) and do not feel in any way threatened by them. I, along with my Jewish spouse, who supports JVP, are quite capable of forming conclusions without the help of propaganda from any source. Don't assume you speak for us. Perhaps it is you who is overdosing on propaganda and conspiracy theories? Imagine the groups (Palestinians and Zionists) were reversed, and see if you can then understand the outrage and grief. |
Hamas stole all the money they were given to do those things and tore up the water pipes and used them to make rockets to fire at Israeli civilians. Also, it takes ZERO mental gymnastics to understand that there would be no famine problem at all in Palestine right now if Palestine hadn't attacked Israel on 10/7. That's just a fact. |
Why is Israel starving babies to death? They, and their parents, were too young to vote Hamas into power in 2006. Moral people would not punish innocents for the crimes of a few. This is racism defined. |
NP. Nobody buys the outrageous lie that Gaza would have been left in peace if 10/7 had not happened. How conveniently you forget that Israel was 18 years (18 YEARS!) into a full, complete land, sea and air blockade of Gaza when 10/7 occurred! Those people had their land stolen by Israel 75 years ago, have been under 24/7 threat of extrajudicial killing since then, and have been imprisoned by Israel for no crime other than being inconvenient natives since … but you want to pretend that 10/7 is the real story here. GTFOH. |
Dumb logic. Israelis are dying in the famine too. The famine does nothing to help Israel fight Palestinians. You’re just making a thinner Hamas I guess . |
Israel has soldiers on the sea to prevent Gazans from getting fish and water. It’s just a famine so Israel can do a circle jerk and feel strong. It actually makes them weak. Their enemy is determined and clever and they refuse to see it . When the next Hamas attack isnt violent but arsenic in Israeli food supply, what will they do? Hamas is not some predictable force like they think and it shocks me that Israel thinks and acts with such pedestrian logic as if a famine is “teaching them a lesson to not mess with us” To the contrary, I would think that exacerbates things when a war doesn’t become a normal war and becomes a scorched earth famine, blackout, 2,000 pound bomb after bomb and the works . |
You are indeed engaging in mental gymnastics. By this logic 10/7 is justifiable because of the pain Israel inflicted on the Palestinians previously Just enough already. |
| Israel and Hamas. Most of the world has no respect for either at this point. |
bibbbity bibbity bibbity. WRONG. ZIP IT. FACT: None of this would have happened if Hamas hadn't attacked on 10/7. |
Simple test of logic: Were Palestinians starving prior to 10/7? No. This is because of 10/7. Done. End of story. No amount of your dumb spin and excuse-making will change that. NONE. |
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I don't care about the Israeli or Palestinian tit for tat bullspit. You can go in circles of if they didn't do that on either side.
But intentionally starving 2 million people is not and never will be justifiable. It's barbaric and evil. If you care about Israel then you know that Bibi and his buddies need to be reined in. |
You are proof that you can't reason with stupid. Please take a logic class because you seem to be utterly incapable of critical thinking. |
Since you're not interested in proportional responses, I guess a wholesale slaughter of 900K Israelis will be OK in your book. Right? Since Israel has killed nearly 30 Palestinians for every Israeli killed on 10/7, the Palestinians get to return the favor, right? |