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Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Where are all those people wailing about Hamas being monsters for killing babies? This should make them even angrier and louder.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Now don't be silly, you're implying there is logic and reason to their arguments instead of just emotion.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago

Absolutely disgusting in every way. War is the product of infantile minds and sick abusive hearts. These kids did not deserve to die for the stupidity and perverse beliefs of the adults surrounding them. Shame on Israel for this murderous atrocity and shame on Hamas for engaging in warlike acts of child murder as well. NO ONE is above blame for this horrendous show of inhumane and despicable sickness.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (4 children)

1.67 "9/11"s worth of death, in retaliation for 0.47 "9/11"s worth of dead on Oct 7th.

Or, with 9/11= 2977 and the Iraq war killing 187,000 civilians, we get a ~63:1 misplaced retaliation vs. initial attack ratio. So the one could extrapolate from the 1400 dead on Oct 7th that 88,200 innocent people in Gaza will need to be killed to quench the IDF's rage.

[–] Kecessa 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Why not count the Afghans too? People keep forgetting that happened for some reason... Which is weird considering they were the first ones to be attacked in retaliation and Iraq wasn't an answer to 9/11...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People absolutely saw Iraq as retaliation for 9/11 too. The bush admin repeatedly lied about Iraq having ties to Al Qaeda.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Those pesky weapons of mass destruction hidden all over Iraq just had to be destroyed! Evidence? What evidence? We don't need evidence!!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing will ever quench their rage. It's all they have.

Equally importantly, they never cared about the lives of people in Gaza. We see this all the time in war... If killing 63 number of enemies will save even 1 of our own lives, we'll do it. Doesn't matter if it's 63, or 6,300, or 630,000, because the enemies' lives aren't worth anything to them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Israel has been governed by far right ultra-nationalist racists for decades now and Arabs are üntermensch in their eyes, especially Palestinians, hency why they have an Arab Israeli Citizenship separate from the Jewish Israeli Citizenship and with fewer rights and why they have very openly called them "human animals".

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You missed something in your math there. IDF is considering the October 7th attack as "10 time worse than 9/11" so up those numbers close to 900,000. Maybe make it 911,911 for the fun propaganda value. With more than half of the 2.2 million Gaza population (although maybe we should start counting the West Bank killings as it is ramping up, too) being children and seeing how Israeli government doesn't discriminate , maybe they can quench their bloodthrist with young blood alone, even.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

America has a population that is 35 larger than Israel. If America had lost the same percentage of their population as Israel did on Oct 7th, it would be ~49,420 dead, or the equivalence of 16 "9/11"s. That is why Biden said 10 times worse than 9/11.

Iraq currently has a population of 43.5 million. 187k is 0.42% of it's population. If we do it by percent of population, Gaza has 2 million people, so the retaliation would kill "only" 8,600.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Oh, so good news, the blood fugue is close to an end. I was worried this would get worse. /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why would you calculate this as a percentage of population? Do you really think the population numbers of a nation have any relevance to the value of a human life?

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you live in USA or EU your government is ok with this

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

Since I live in the USA, actually we fund it to the tune of several billion a year and then some.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

You think we like our governments?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

That’s antisemitism /s

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

bEiNg PrO-pAlEsTiNe Is MeAn To JeWiSh PeOpLe

[–] SuddenDownpour 38 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The previous mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, ended their status as sister city with Tel Aviv over the systematic crimes from the state of Israel against Palestinians. The immediate reaction of the Israeli embassy was denouncing her as antisemitic, both in the media and in courts, which recently found her innocent.

The position that denouncing Israeli crimes is antisemitic has been the official position of Israel for decades, and that's a very dangerous game for the well-being of Jews in a world where actual nazis are slowly gaining power, because once you're run the term down through the ground, calling actual hate crimes against Jews "antisemitic" will no longer have any meaning.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Cryptofascists will cite dead children to justify slaughtering many times more children in retaliation, each and every time, because they see those that are killed in that retaliation as less than human. us-foreign-policy

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Genocide by Zionist criminals.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

oh my fucking god

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Does the UN or some other more neutral org have numbers? I mean, the Gaza Ministry of Health kinda has incentive to exaggerate civilian casualties, just like the IDF has incentive to say "everyone in that playground we hit with that airstrike was an Islamic Jihad Terrorist".

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Humans once again going batshit crazy with mass murder riding on a wave of vengeance. It's a disease with no cure.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

This gut wrenching. Fuck those in power responsible for this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Our tax dollars and tax euros at work.

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[–] working_bee 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I’m honestly just so depressed.

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