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

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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…

> Even peak cancel culture wasn't quite so chilling.

Wait. What?

Are you trying to imply this was some kind of a real thing that happened?

Sarcasm on the internet doesn't always travel well, I can't tell if you're just using this fiction as a metaphor or trying to convince people it actually happened.

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

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Its pretty unbelievable to see openly anti semitic comments like this on HN.

Replace "Jew" with "Black" or "Indian" and its obvious how discriminatory this comment is (if it is not glaring already).

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I see an increasing number of politicians taking the position: "I supported Israel's government's actions when they first attacked, given the goals of destroying Hamas' leadership and freeing hostages, but now that it has turned into a brutal siege with mass civilian casualties on a horrific scale, I'm strongly against their actions." E.g. Macron, Angus King, and many people I know personally. And I think we need to…

Pretty much my take. I thought Israel's actions were reasonable at first but out of hand now.

I feel like this has been the case for decades. It is very asymmetrical.

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

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I see an increasing number of politicians taking the position: "I supported Israel's government's actions when they first attacked, given the goals of destroying Hamas' leadership and freeing hostages, but now that it has turned into a brutal siege with mass civilian casualties on a horrific scale, I'm strongly against their actions." E.g. Macron, Angus King, and many people I know personally. And I think we need to…

It’s fine to accept your mom or your neighbor changing their mind, but I think we should be skeptical of politicians changing their mind and consider what hidden, calculated motives they may have for changing it now, when they had plenty of information to reach the same conclusion over a year ago.

Would it help to think of them as partially being mirrors rather than people? Needing to win elections means they can't push too hard against whatever's popular just because they might not like it.

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

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Did the air dropping of food not work out?

It works fine but not at high scale. Just the math of lifting the heavy weight up is hard.

Some non-profits (like Oxfam) are very against it as a purely anti-western reflex.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th.. as well as an actual bonafide WCK worker. Admittedly blowing up the entire van was probably wrong in retrospect.

Oh wait, except that's not true. Retired Maj Gen Yoav Har-Even described how the IDF's drone operators mistook an aid worker carrying a bag for a gunman, and then targeted one of the World Central Kitchen vehicles with a missile. The IDF then described how two people escaped that vehicle and got into a second car, which was hit by another missile from a drone. The military confirmed that there were survivors from the…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/israel-claims-targets...

In Dec 1 in 8 WCK workers were fired for Hamas ties

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/12/11/aid-group-fires-doze...

Even your link calls out that one of the vehicles that split from the convoy was carrying armed gunmen.

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He is, but many heads of state already declared they are going to ignore that should Netanjahu fancy a visit. The hypocrisy is stunning.

you say "many" but other than "fotzenfrize" Merz who declared this?

The US isn't a member of the ICC. Clinton signed it, but the senate never ratified the treaty.

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

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post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much my take. I thought Israel's actions were reasonable at first but out of hand now.

I feel like this has been the case for decades. It is very asymmetrical.

I think many people have their own personal revelation where they come to believe what Israel is doing is not self-defense but rather genocide. For me that came in the 2008/2009 Gaza offensive where they inflicted roughly 100 deaths for every Israeli who was killed in the initial attack. The Freedom Flotilla incident in early 2010 where they murdered the aid volunteers in international waters only further solidified my opinion.
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