It's wrong to think that people don't have agency. You may think everything froze in 1918 with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. But life has moved on. More than 150 new independent countries have been formed since then. Even Palestinians were gifted an independent state out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. But the unfortunate fact is that Palestinians make stupid decision after stupid decision. From rejecting their own country in 1947 to invading Israel on 10/7 and committing all those atrocities. The rest of the planet has moved on from 1918. Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and others have all been independent countries for a very long while now and have put the Ottoman Empire behind them. And meanwhile Palestinians in Gaza and their supporters still think we can revisit the Versailles Conference. It's pathetic. There is no mature civil society among Palestinians. There has never been an independent Palestinian state ever. Even the word "Palestinian" is new. The world has been trying to give Arabs in the region a separate state for a 100 years. And what we now call Palestinians always choose war and terror. It's not a surprise that every country in the region rejects Palestinians. For more than 60 years, Palestinians have either chosen Yasser Arafat idiocy or Hamas extremism. That's not a lot to work with. During the decolonization period, most of the rest of the world chose capable leaders. And meanwhile Palestinians in Gaza chose a bunch of thugs to invade Israel and murder kids and farmers and carry back dead women like war trophies. We all saw the videos. I genuinely feel bad for everyone under the age of 37 in Gaza. They never had a chance to vote in 2006 when Palestinians in Gaza elected Hamas. But for Palestinians over 37? They brought this disaster. |
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FAFO zombie troll is just the latest spox iteration for the “Israeli war crimes are justified because I say so” hasbara blitzkrieg.
First, it’s wave after wave of “Israel has a right to defend itself!”, predicated on an insistence that everyone pretend that world history began on 10/7. Obviously, that imbecilic logic falls apart under the faintest of scrutiny. Next, they pivot to the laughably preposterous assertion that “Israel has no choice but to practice preemptive self-defense to ensure its own safety in the region”. Finally, they find their backstop at “Well, it doesn’t matter anyway. We won’t be held accountable by anyone, nobody can stop us, and the lives of the people we’re butchering are so insignificant anyway - nobody will even remember what we’ve done in 20 years.” If that restatement of exactly what the FAFO guy has regurgitated here every day for the past 6 weeks or so DOESN’T immediately trigger a thought in your mind that his arguments are nigh identical to the arguments that would have been made by Nazi Germany 85 years ago, you’re just not paying attention. |
This. Return the hostages-ALL of them. |
Yes let’s start with all the Palestinians who have been held by the Israelis for years and years. End the evil now |
+1000 Israel has become the new Nazi Germany. It's racist hubris will be its downfall. |
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/middleeast/gaza-death-toll-underreported-study-intl/index.html
That’s for the POS Zionist ghouls who continue to make false claims regarding the death toll in the genocidal Israeli operations in Gaza, claiming over and over again that hardly anyone has actually been killed ... |
I don't think the death toll is in all that much dispute. There is the question of who the casualties are, with the Gazan authorities claiming only women and children are casualties, with the terrorists left untouched, which seems more than a little mendacious. What seems to be more the issue is whether the Palestinians and Hamas can stop the death toll from rising, which they obviously both can and also won't. They prefer to keep goading Israel and suffering the consequences. Israel could abandon the hostages and just absorb the terrorist activity without response, the preferred approach of the Hamas sympathizers. Or, the IDF could continue to work towards neutralization of terrorism, which is what it is doing. That is not without a cost to both the terrorists and to the civilians among whom they hide and shelter. |
1. Nobody is a Hamas sympathizer, but nice try with that perspective false claim. 2. Actually, people like you have REPEATEDLY and DESPICABLY disputed the death toll in Gaza, going so far as to assert that the death toll is a fraction of what the health ministry in Gaza has reported (wrong) and that, despite even the IDF concurring that most of the dead are non-combatant civilians, the majority killed have been militant members of Hamas (wrong again). |
| Giselle needs a job. |
Holocaust denier |
^ this |
LOL no. Israel doesn't care if it gets the hostages back. Continued land grab with internal acceptance of armed violence (NOT terrorism) has been the Israeli MO forever. |
Not this. Israel killed over 200 Palestinians in 2023 before Oct7. Palestinians have a right to defend themselves. Also the Israelis have never given a number of Israelis killed by their own tank and artillery fire. Most reliable data says that number is over 900. It is time for Israel to surrender to Hamas and pay for their crimes against humanity. This is the only way peace and American interest can be served. |
| Glad to hear that the ICC is being sanctioned by the US. It's shown itself to be an incredibly antisemitic pro Hamas organization |
Corruption by any other name … |