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Come on valiant Israel defenders? Where’s your comments now?
Fucking disgusting, I genuinely hate Israel 100% these days.
But but but Hamas had set up a base in his chest! Israel had to stop that terror cell before they had to bomb that Hamas-pital!!1!
There's no hiding behind the age-old "you're being anti-semitic!" response anymore. When the warcrimes are on the nightly news for all to see, it's hard to argue against.
This is severely disturbing and dystopian, I can not believe we are just letting all this happen, the same as with Ukraine.
Earlier I was talking with my partner about these things from my safe home, far removed from these situations, and we realized this must be how the original nazis happened. It had puzzled us both, and many we had talked with in the past, how it was even possible to come to be.
I guess now we know. This is how it comes to be.
Feels so powerless and diminishing, but at the same time very human. Can’t realistically do more than vote locally when we can, but that’s not going to help anyone right now, or realistically even in the short term of a few years…
It’s so heart-breaking, and it’s bizarre because we probably don’t even know a fraction of all of it…
When you read about the Holocaust and the Nazis, you like to imagine you'd be the good guy. You'd fight the Nazis, you'd free the concentration camps. But apparently I wouldn't. Apparently I would have just sat there paralyzed, incapable of doing anything about the genocide I see every day. Unable to think of any way to help. All I can do is retweet and protest and write a stupid blog post. I feel so stupid.
Paul wrote this over three months ago, and nothing has substantially changed. I’m sickened by the news and images I see, but shaken to the core that people are okay with this. That there’s people, far farrrr away from the looming specter of state violence or non-state terrorism, who are cheering for more death and destruction
This, this is our thoughts exactly. Very well put from them. It’s so depressing, though understandable in a way. Makes you sad and angry towards yourself too, however warranted or unwarranted that may be ultimately.
At first I thought I was going insane. Watching the body count climb day by day, then an airstrike of a refugee camp kills 300-odd civilians, and you think “Big media outlets are running this story, it’s not being buried, this must be it, people will say something publicly”
We like to think we’re better than Weimar Germans, but we’re not. It’s a big state that casts a large shadow over ‘acceptable’ discussions, and a lot of people are scared to say something.
Imagine if what was happening in Gaza was actually happening in Ukraine or any other country, in Europe. Believe me the outcry and the response would have been completely different, but nope, the US and most of the West are still sending weapons to Israel to continue their slaughter.
This is the part that hits so hard. I always thought that if I had lived during the holocaust, I would've done something. But, here I am, during another genocide, and I feel so utterly powerless and my county is helping it along. It sucks.
An excellent book to check out is They Thought They Were Free, it’s basically interviews with Germans right after WW2 about the rise of nazism.
If you're an American worker, organize a strike
I’m not, and we already have ongoing country-wide strikes and other worker rights fighting measures in my country going on, although not for these reasons, so that’s not really an option either, media already saturated on these actions.
But a good recommendation nevertheless, thank you.
Most moral army in the world telling people to evacuate, then directly demonstrate that they will shoot and kill people that evacuate.
They "warn" Palestinians where to go, and then kill them when they go there. And then you have to listen to Israelis online telling you how moral their warnings are.
Video of Palestinians that want to leave but are scared to get killed by the IDF
IDF started bombing the hospital
Video directly after al nassr bombing
Video of Al Nasr patient ward after bombing
IDF taking scary Hamasurgeons captive:
UPDATE (rumors unverified):
The IDF claimed their reason for invading the hospital (and bombing the patient ward and sniping surgeons during operations?) was that there were "corpses of hostages inside the morgue".
So far no evidence of hostage corpses has been found.
Additional testimonies from a doctor inside the hospital:
1 Patient got killed and (6-8?) were injured when the patient ward was bombed
3 Palestinians got shot while evacuating
Quadcopter with gun was used to shoot at the hospital
Picture of the human shield used by israel before he was killed by israel:
Small video on it here https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1757642664260886662
Fuck. Israel.
It's the first time I'm ashamed of my country and I hate my government and the press in my country for supporting this genocide. And the Israelis speak openly about their genocidal intentions.
The ICJ ruled that there is plausible risk of genocide and ordered to stop killing palestinians and give humanitarian aid. Instead Israel puts out accusations without evidence and the western "civilized" countries cut off humanitarian aid. It's aiding in genocide. They are making my country complicit in genocide.
The atrocities started long before Okt.7 and I just don't care about it, they have killed 30 times as many civilians at least now. And they mutilated and traumatized many times more than that. There is no justification. Especially not if you're the vastly more powerful side.
When I saw this pop up yesterday, I was really hoping this was fake/a constructed narrative based around physical facts on the ground in an information restricted war zone
I keep finding myself going “no fucking way that’s true, that has to be anti-Semitic propaganda” at stories like this, and more often than not I am proven wrong - yes it’s real, yet the truth doesn’t matter
Israel has been doing this heinos shit for DECADES. it's just that Western media has finally decided they cant whitewash it all anymore. They do where they can, but with everyone in Gaza filming what they can, there is just no hiding the barbarity of the IDF.
That sounds an awful lot like the Israeli soldiers used him as a human shield to deliver the terrorist message to the hospital.
A two state solution is the only solution and right now I think Israel needs to pay to rebuild everything they destroyed and give back all the cultural treasures, art, and literature they took during the nakba so they could erase the history of the Palestinian people.
The only plausible solution is actually a 3 state federation with Israeli and Palestinean representation similar to the United States in practice in which both factions have protected rights including rights to self defense and to bear arms. There's no other way for the property transfers to happen accountably.
Fuck Israel.
Fuck zionists.
Alright. Time for God to come back and declare Israel the new Sodom and Gomorrah and do his thing.
History writing itself in HD for all future to witness. Isreal is fucked. Maybe not today, but....
That's what the good guys do!