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‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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oh, the Zionists got that covered already: 35 US states have passed laws/executive orders prohibiting boycotts of Israel.

Those laws never made any sense to me from a constitutional or even a practical standpoint. What's being banned? Are they supposed to force you to buy things?

The latter. They effectively get exclusivity if they want.

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oh, the Zionists got that covered already: 35 US states have passed laws/executive orders prohibiting boycotts of Israel.

Those laws never made any sense to me from a constitutional or even a practical standpoint. What's being banned? Are they supposed to force you to buy things?

It's not supposed to make sense: lobbyists paid your politicians and now, you have to support Israel, or else...

There's nothing more to it. Israel knows that with access to Western weapons, it will reliably win every confrontation with the Palestinians, just like in Rhodesia or Apartheid South Africa. The only thing that did both regimes in was sanctions, or boycotts. I believe they literally studied these nations. So, they want to preempt any attempt at boycotting Israel, because it's the only way they'd ever face reckoning for all the unspeakable atrocities they've committed against the palestinians.

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Those laws never made any sense to me from a constitutional or even a practical standpoint. What's being banned? Are they supposed to force you to buy things?

The latter. They effectively get exclusivity if they want.

How does that work?

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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People form beliefs and make judgments based on things they do not know, it is nothing surprising[1]. I would recommend reading the history of Israel (vs. Palestine, especially). Yeah, Hamzah has been making lots of videos of IDF soldiers (and other Israelites) saying that they want all Palestinian children to die, and that their lives are worth more than Palestinians' lives. I am not surprised by any of this, the me…

I feel it's not going to last longer. With the advent of modern, mass media, young people across the West can see for themselves and they're taking a side. More specifically, they don't want their governments funding genocide with their taxes. This cannot be made to go away, which is why Zionist activists and their lackeys are pulling out all the stops: no one expected the outburst of disgust at Israel's actions woul…

I only know the history, I do not know what exactly is happening today.

It is still sickening (in my humble opinion) that many people straight out tell him that they want children to die, but only Palestinian children.

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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As someone who went to US high school in the 90s, a good 1/3 of our curriculum seemed to be "never again" studies of the holocaust and other genocides throughout history. Which makes it completely incomprehensible to me that suddenly "don't talk about genocide" has become the basically law. What's worse is I actually feel openly saying "I don't support this genocide and I'm critical of the state committing it" is a r…

Ye it is surreal. Dunno what to add really. I might think pf something later...

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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As someone who went to US high school in the 90s, a good 1/3 of our curriculum seemed to be "never again" studies of the holocaust and other genocides throughout history. Which makes it completely incomprehensible to me that suddenly "don't talk about genocide" has become the basically law. What's worse is I actually feel openly saying "I don't support this genocide and I'm critical of the state committing it" is a r…

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There would be less scepticism if there weren't numerous examples of falsified incidents in the past. Nonetheless, the point of "the boy who cried wolf" is not "wolves don't exist". Both sides have been caught lying many, many times but that doesn't mean you can just dismiss every claim.

There would be less skepticism if mainstream news organizations were allowed into Gaza.

Do you think some of the world's top governments don't have intelligence on the matter? The UK foreign secretary is full of it when he calls this an atrocity?

Re: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]

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As someone who went to US high school in the 90s, a good 1/3 of our curriculum seemed to be "never again" studies of the holocaust and other genocides throughout history. Which makes it completely incomprehensible to me that suddenly "don't talk about genocide" has become the basically law. What's worse is I actually feel openly saying "I don't support this genocide and I'm critical of the state committing it" is a r…

The problem is simple: conflicts like this are made into binary good vs evil arguments where the other side is bad and your side is good.

The reality is that both sides have legitimate concerns, and likewise, are doing very bad things. Intelligent and caring people get sucked up into this and can only echo their hate for the other side.

The exciting world of tech is designed to amplify the opposition but not to find consensus.

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