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I condemn the terrorist that stands behind a hostage; I condemn the sniper that takes the shot anyway.
what if the terrorist is repeatedly launching rockets?
Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
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At this point, we're all useless. The circumstances of little Hind Rajab's death plays on my mind every single day, and haunts me. The fact something as brazen and blatant as that could happen, and the world did nothing. Truly a stain on our generation.
Hind Rajab. Sidra Hassouna. Reem and Khaled. The premie babies at Al-Nasr hospital. Over a hundred bombed hospitals. The Irish president's sister kidnapped and abused. Assassinating negotiation teams and scientists. Murders of whole families who dared to speak out to the world. Running over a teenager with their hands zip-tied behind their backs with Caterpillars®. The paramedic massacre in Rafah. The hundreds of jou…
True. I have a friend in Southern Lebanon who I met a few years ago at a conference. Our group chat is eerie - we haven't heard from him in over two months. We just don't know how he is, and it's sickening.
Re: Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
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I've often heard defenders of Israel crap on the UN General Assembly like it's some woke antifa type organization, but it's one representative per country, chosen by the country's government. If almost every country in the world is constantly officially condemning you, perhaps they are not the problem.
Well, given that between 2015 and 2024 alone, the General Assembly adopted 154 resolutions against Israel. That's more than Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Russia, China *combined*, I find it a bit ... unfair, wouldn't you say?
More than 14,500 children were killed by Israel in that period.
14,500 / 154 = more than 94 children per resolution. Seems fair.
How many children did "Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Russia, China combined" kill in this period, I hear you whatabout: Highest reasonable estimates are ~5,000–10,000 children.
... So, no. I don't think it's unfair.
Now let's compare how many sanctions have been inflicted on each country above. If you measure by number of sanctioned individuals/entities, a rough ranking would be:
1: Russia. 2: Iran. 3: North Korea. 4: Sudan. 5: China. 6: Israel.
... So if you're trying to hint that the whole world is only against genocide because they're antisemitic, the facts you're referring to don't really seem to back you up. At all.
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Not sure if it used to be the case with South Africa too, but I'm baffled how much ideological support Israel still has, in various population groups. There are at least two religious groups who seem to view it as integral part of a divine plan that trumps all other considerations. ("mainstream" Orthodox Jews and Evangelical Christians) Then there various secular narratives around the Jewish homeland, the rebirth (an…
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> It is also where Jews are most protected.
Israel is without a doubt, the most dangerous place for Jews in the world. Not only is the entire country built on ethnically cleansed land (and thus Zionists have the indigenous population correctly trying to get them off the land), Israel has also attacked almost every country in the region and regularly receives missile attacks.
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"Every attack has to end with occupation, destruction and expulsion." - David Ben-Gurion. Pretty sure he died well before Oct 7.
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Actually it was the Zionists that worked with the Nazis:
Re: Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
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I know traditional munitions aren’t exactly “clean” but isn’t nuclear fallout still a unique concern?
No one in power meaningfully cares about environmental destruction.
They do meaningfully care about the significant radiation that is likely to drift into their own citizens. Israel is not a large country.
Your analysis on nuclear use doesn't consider the lingering poisoning of people and land compared to conventional weapons. It's not Keyfabe. You would vastly prefer being attacked with conventional weapons.
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Political? What about simply human ?
Re: Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
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No one in power meaningfully cares about environmental destruction.
They do meaningfully care about the significant radiation that is likely to drift into their own citizens. Israel is not a large country. Your analysis on nuclear use doesn't consider the lingering poisoning of people and land compared to conventional weapons. It's not Keyfabe. You would vastly prefer being attacked with conventional weapons.
I mean they don't care about pollutants currently harming the health of their own citizens not to mention the environmental crisis and climate change making these regions increasingly inhabitable. Why would they care about radiation? It would be easy to sweep under the rug and wash with undercoverage like the climate issues have been.
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I think this is a good argument why a singular world power is actually a bad thing - because no matter how much it will promote itself as the "good guys" (and of course it will), at the end of the day, it will push through its own interests by that dominance - whereas if power is more evenly distributed, countries might be more willing to agree to common, formalized rules and a "neutral" body to evaluate them. I thin…
History has shown that having a multitude of roughly-equal competing powers results in more per-capita death from war than when there is 1 or two dominant nations. The 1800's and early 1900's were bloody. Post WWII has had less death from war.
Maybe because of nukes now.