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

Post by FireBeyond » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 4:52 AM UTC

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>>> Gazans still hold Israeli hostages, I believe that capturing POWs is fairly common when at war.

Capturing soldiers, sure, but that's not what happened. The whole point of capturing soldiers is to keep them from returning to the field. You deny the other side fighters. Hamas raped, murdered and kidnapped civilians.

Post by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 4:55 AM UTC

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I mostly agree except the "no political system can survive disillusion" bit. In most of the examples you give the political system survived.

For now. Eventually, the injuries your system takes over time grinds your gears to a halt. And I can provide numerous examples: Portugal's colonial holdings (Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique) were unwound after the carnation revolution because the overseas wars were consuming 50% of the national budget while the Estado Novo at home was a corrupt, violent, authoritarian, corporatist state. The Brits could not square…

Post by fahhem » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 4:57 AM UTC

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I think the thing that should have been a clear unambiguous sign (if nothing up to then were convincing enough) that Israel's intentions weren't just to defeat Hamas but cause severe harm to the civilian population of Gaza was when they blocked all food and aid into Gaza for months. I mean, why would you do that unless you want people to die? Even the stated explanation that they wanted to deprive Hamas of the abilit…

The market value of hoarded food going up only helps Hamas if they are the one managing to do the hoarding - otherwise it actually works against Hamas (if there's another distributor)

Post by YZF » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 4:59 AM UTC

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You're confusing hatred for Palestinians with hatred for Gazans. Most Israelis do not hate Palestinians. There might be some. There's definitely a lot of hate to Gazans after Oct 7th which is understandable. As to the "what are we supposed to do" part- What are they supposed to do? How would you navigate this better after Oct 7th given the setup/hostages etc.? Israel has officially said many times they are not target…

> Most Israelis do not hate Palestinians. LOL 51% of Israelis gave Palestinians a 0 out of 100 score rating of their humanity, according to PCPSR and the Times of Israel poll: https://pcpsr.org/en/node/989

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:02 AM UTC

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> Anyone still need testimonies like these to be convinced that Israel You are operating until a false premise that Palestinians/Hamas are some sort of children and bear no responsibility for anything at all. Where in reality, the war could have been over in 5 minutes if they released the hostages at any time during the past 3 years. It still can be over in 5 minutes if they choose to do that. But no, they will put a…

> You are operating until a false premise that Palestinians/Hamas are some sort of children and bear no responsibility for anything at all. Where in reality, the war could have been over in 5 minutes if they released the hostages at any time during the past 3 years. It still can be over in 5 minutes if they choose to do that. But no, they will put as many of their own people in harm's way as necessary to get to the w…