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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It also pointed out that the Israeli authorities denied access to 56% of humanitarian aid missions planned for northern Gaza (34 out of 61) and 25% of missions planned for the middle area (28 out of 114) in January. Since 26 January the number of trucks allowed to enter Gaza, an inadequate metric, never exceeded 218 and was typically below 150.

Waiting for the Zionists in the comments to explain how this is all Egypt or Hamas' fault somehow

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They'll just downvote you. They have no arguments at all.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remember when their propaganda went into overdrive when they hit a hospital and blamed Hamas? Then they blew up all 36 hospitals and just shrugged.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Remember when they kept yapping about the Hamas command centre under the Al Shifa hospital? The hospital they’ve held for over two months now and have provided exactly zero proof that their statements were correct.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Or call you a hamas supporter/anti Semitic

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

They don’t come into anything but hypothetical arguments

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

No you don't get it Hamas lost a lot of Hamas due to Israel's super targeted military response and as a result they need flour to make more Hamas. Israel is cutting off Hamas's Hamas supply and it's not a war crime because human shields.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

My favorite was everyone talking about these huge fuel reserves and how they knew they had them.

Yet no one ever blew those sons of bitches up

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought Hamas was made with chickpeas?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Did you know they hide their humans among humans?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (21 children)

Don't forget the right wing protesters who are preventing humanitarian aid to reach Gaza, which the Israeli government does very little about.

Seriously one would assume that since they are under investigation by the ICJ for committing of genocide in Gaza, Israeli authorities will be a little bit more concerned with their actions and public image, but they seem to act with impunity and believe they will get another pass by the western governments.

We sanctioned the shit out of Russia and did absolutely nothing here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Russia is our enemy and Israel our ally and the US, especially the right wing, has been trying to delegitimize the UN for years, mostly so the corporations can keep selling weapons to both our own military as well as our allies. It's not like the sanctions against Russia were ever going to stop the war. They were just designed to give Ukraine a chance to prolong it and sell more weapons to the American people to give to Ukraine. Russia wanted a quick war and that wouldn't be good for business. With Israel, since they're looking to keep the war going until there are no more Muslims, we don't want anything to interfere with that.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Thanks! We clearly need a de-amping bot in Lemmy too...

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (3 children)

its seems like israel is planning to run a trail of tears and then convert gaza into a metro resort. after thousands of years of assumed moral superiority, claiming to be the light leading humanity? its flabbergasting. its a good will bbq, and likely to fail anyway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Israel isn't thousands of years old. The Israel that exists today was established in 1948. Israel doesn't have any claim to the Jews or their history, and the younger generations reject the state.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

What made you assume they had any moral superiority?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

Not just Israel, all the countries that defunded the humanitarian aid.

The article at least mentions that even though the order didn't demand ceasefire, it practically did very explicitly:

The State of Israel shall ... desist from the commission of any and all acts within the scope of Article II of the Convention, in particular:

(a) killing members of the group;

(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group

Many western media had the headline "no ceasefire ordered" which made the order sound like it was nothing. The western media too is complicit in atrocity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

The western media too is complicit in atrocity.

For the sake of profit they will light the spark that burns down the world and then blame us for forcing them to do it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think many of the people in Palestine felt betrayed that they did not use the words cease fire. When faced with this existential crisis, nothing less is acceptable.

The icj used language that practically meant cease fire, but mid east news expressed disappointment.

So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you're admonishing "Western" media, but if that was the perspective you heard - No cease fire was called for - it probably accurately represents the sentiment of many of the people there.

The South Africans understood what the icj said, and their comments immediately following the decision illustrated that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You could be right but the way the media here works is that they do report the facts but bias them. The headline sets the tone, and how the article is written makes it more likely to come to one conclusion. So it would take much more work to make my point. But I'm pretty sure: Even if they do technically report the facts there is a huge bias to manipulate the population in the "free" press.

In this case something like "ooohh too bad the court didn't give the arabs what they wanted poor guys!" while it really was a legal victory - the court specifically ordered them to stop killing of palestinians.

I can't read newspapers without getting super angry lol

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Sniping doctors performing surgery might have given it away too

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Shocked.

Shocked I am.

Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

no shit sherlock

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