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Not that you’re wrong but why bring it up at all? It feels like what aboutism, which is strange if you agree with the case against Germany.
That makes sense if it affected you personally. But yeah the horror and scale of the killings in Gaza kind of make everything else seem minor at the moment.
Ukraine would like to chime in...
I hate to sound like I am defending Russia but I think people just don’t understand the scale of the carnage in Gaza. This is by far the bloodiest attack in decades and I believe the term genocide does apply here. That is not to say that what Russia has done is acceptable but this is much worse and we in the West have far more leverage to stop the killing in Gaza than we do in Ukraine.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-any-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam
That's objectively untrue. Ukraine has like a dozen Gaza's right now. And Sudan is a worse environment where there's multiple simultaneous genocides happening right now.
Did you read the link I posted? That is directly addressed. People in Gaza are dying at 5x the rate of Ukraine or Sudan. It is truly an unthinkable massacre.
It's tragic that these things are happening simultaneously and must divide our attention this way but as an American only one of these mass killings is being directly funded by my tax dollars. And it happens to be the bloodiest of the bunch by a huge margin.
South America has issues with colonial border since the europeans colonisers left, and later on also due to US intervensions. Nicaragua has additionally a horrifying past from the Sandinistas revolution -supported by people from all over the world- that succeeded and turned authoritarian, as they do. Not that long ago. Many people who fought in it are still alive. To my understanding they still suffer the consequences.
In order for the US-backed state of Israel to stop killing and starving civilians and children, all other countries need to demand it by diplomatic pressures, economic sanctions, boycott etc.