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[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

I give you a report

You linked to an article which I looked at. It in turn linked to a 128 page report which I did not read because it does not have a Gaza section - and Gazan conditions leading up to Oct 7 was what you were responding to. I didn't have time today to read the whole thing just in case.

Gaza was not anything like an "open air prison" until 2007 when Egypt closed the Southern Border shortly after Hamas took over: that was not Israel's fault. Water supply issues in Gaza are caused by Hamas who boasted in a 2021 propaganda video showing themselves digging up water pipes to turn them into missiles. From 2014 to 2020, U.N. agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza which could have been used to build civilian infrastructure but Hamas preferred to spend it militarily on its stated goal of ethnic cleansing of Jews "from the river to the sea".

The Amnesty article cites no examples of government mistreatment of Arabs in Israel.

the article cites no examples of mistreatment of Arabs in Israel?

The article. Not the report.

Israel performed “massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians”

In Israel is was what you were meant to be responding to. There are plenty of Palestinians with citizenship in Israel. I think the West Bank settlement expansion is unjust but that is not the topic here.

you are completely determined to wash over the sins of a government

Nope I was trying to stick to the topic of BBC going against their own government's designation of Hamas as terrorists. You would rather talk about wider issues, so...

Both sides are "losing the war": Back in December there was a great prescient article criticising Israel and a companion article criticising Hamas.

Very few ProPals seem to do balance whereas plenty of people who try to understand Israel's difficulty (in avoiding being wiped out by Hamas) do criticise Israel.

Netanyahu's Likud party only won 11% of the vote and it took 5 attempts at a working coalition for them to resume power in the last election. There were two arrest warrants against him for corruption and over 100,000 citizens protested against the government changing the law to allow them to override their equivalent of a constitution.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Your link is to Amnesty — one of the many "human rights" organizations unwittingly supporting terrorists who hijack and abuse our good-will and free speech in the West.

Read about Akhmed Chatayev. Arrested in Sweden with guns and explosives. Arrested in Ukraine with terrorist material. Arrested in Georgia for participating in a terrorist attack (Lopota incident). Arrested at the Bulgaria/Turkey border. Amnesty basically bailed him out. He's the mastermind of the ISIS attack on the Istanbul airport (almost 50 dead). Luckily Georgian police eventually killed him in the end.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

The Amnesty article cites no examples of government mistreatment of Arabs in Israel.

Arabs in Israel are equal in law to Jews (except for military conscription). Arab LBTQI+ find refuge in Israel. Arab women and schoolgirls in Gaza have to wear a hijab but not the Arabs in Israel (where they can even dance if they like).

the border checks since they have imported munitions in the past which they attacked Israel with.

this is an outright lie.

Just because some people use hyperbole like "world's largest outdoor prison" doesn't make what I said a lie. Blame Egypt for controlling the Rafah border not Israel. They have seen what happened to Jordan and Lebanon when they allowed Palestinians in.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure proffering apologetics for war crimes is appropriate for Beehaw.

ICC has identified (but not prosecuted) war crimes by Likud's Netanyahu and Hamas' Sinwar.

you clearly label Hamas as a terrorist organization

I named countries which proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organization. You obviously don't agree with these governments and it is fair enough to express it like that but not fair to try to bully me into agreeing with you.

a legitimate steward of the civilian population's will.

Hamas has not allowed elections in Gaza since they won power in 2007.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (19 children)

without addressing the actual reasons and events that led up to it

Then it would need to include Palestinians starting war against Israel then losing a disproportionate number of citizens then always repeating the failed attacks expecting a different result? There is a word for that.

Most of the Jewish population of Israel are those fleeing persecution from Muslim nations (not from Europe as is commonly believed).

"By 2019, the total number of Jews in Arab countries and Iran had declined to 12,700, and in Turkey to 14,800"

The only persecution of Gazans in the few years leading up to Oct 7 was the border checks since they have imported munitions in the past which they attacked Israel with.

How far back in history do you want to go in a 90 minute documentary about the Nova massacre? It doesn't actually matter now regardless of what each side says: Jews ain't going anywhere and neither are the Arabs. A two-state solution is the only option.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago

There's the actual reason if anyone is interested.

That merely repeats the headline, it isn't a reason.

 

Hamas is literally an internationally recognized terrorist organization, proscribed by many countries including the UK and the Arab League.

CBC also refuses to call Hamas terrorists despite their government labeling them as such.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

He says nothing about the PIN, so I don't think that is what protects Signal as OP writes. It simply doesn't rely on SS7.

You only type your PIN into Signal about once a month.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

I found it confusing. Did he explain how the IMSI number is obtained?

Towards the end he said there was a special “interrogation” command that would reveal the IMSI but that loophole is now closed.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup. TL;DR...

Search terms for the list ranking include only: “shemale”, “tranny”, “femboy”, and “ladyboy”

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

It is naive to think that facts alone can win in a battle of ideas. Why do you think Coca Cola still advertises heavily?

Look at how AJ lie in an example unrelated to this conflict: This video was at the time of a G9 summit where the journalist deliberately made a protestor look like a crazy suicidal maniac who had to be taken away by police for his own good.

They mistakenly showed the evidence in the video that he wasn't crazy. Read the video description.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You make it sound like an arthouse movie yet it is the extreme geeky opposite.

Or were you talking about AI summaries in general rather than this one?

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

As though that...justifies something?!

You started the bad faith argument. I was merely hoping you would self-reflect, and check yourself. Instead, you projected.

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Alt text: cartoon frame #1 shows disembodied arm reaching out to pluck a speaker's speech bubble.

Frame #2 shows speaker looking puzzled wondering where his speech bubble has gone.

Frame #3 the arm reappears having reshaped it into a regular inflatable balloon and offers it back to the speaker.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org
 

[alt-text: Still from the Monty Python dead parrot sketch with Musk's face replacing that of John Cleese returning a blue twitter logo with an X for a dead eye. Pet store owner, Michael Palin, says "it was alive when you bought it"]

 
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Hail Satan! (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by sqgl@beehaw.org to c/humor@beehaw.org
 

Caption is "OK, you want religion in schools. But that means all religions, right?"

Image is a library with a group of eight children dressed in black cassocks with peaked hoods sitting cross-legged around a pentagram drawn on the ground.

EDIT: The pentagram is partially obscured by one of the children but one can infer that this must be AI generated and botched (as per the comments in this thread).

 

Napping, snacks, social media, minor chores.

 

Follow-up to last week's story:

https://lemmy.ml/post/16672524

EDIT1: Politicians expect to be be exempt.

EDIT2: Good news: Vote has been postponed due to disagreements.

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