Remember; they are punishing Palestinian for wanting to be free and sovereign. To "LIVE FREE OR DIE" is definitively more than a motto to them.
What does free mean? A state next to Israel?
Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
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#542Regarding rules of whether or not this should be posted here - I think it's less about whether it's important and more about whether it causes arguments. As the saying goes, religion and politics. People are going to have varying and at times oppositional views to things like this, and frankly the rest of the internet is often flooded with those discussions, so bubbles isolated from them can be a positive. We don't n…
It shouldn't be on HN because it has nothing to do with tech and we come here to escape It should be on HN because we are human and once in a while it is good to see human interest break through and calibrate the room
This I came here to escape politics and the conflict. As a Jew there are not many places left on the internet for us to escape.
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#543Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mainstream world news has a place on HN if it contains "significant new information", and as much as this site is primarily for curious conversation and gratifying intellectual curiosity, we don't want to pretend that horrific events like this aren't happening.
Horrific events happen almost every hour of every day. This is political, and the events that are upvoted are always from the same political perspective. If you don't see this, you're blind. But from my perspective, mods do see it, are ok with it, and that is unfortunate. There are few places left online without explicit political bias. HN used to be one of them.
Crazy your comment was deleted. What is happening to HN. Either allow politics across the board (which I disagree with) or don’t.
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#544These are not even a isolated or a new pattern that Palestinian people are enduring such atrocities by the rogue israeli regime with full impunity from the western super powers. In fact, the Palestinian people have been suffering such oppression and injustice everyday at the hand of zionist society on a regular basis since 1948. In fact, here are some more such equally horrible actions of the israelis just in the rec…
Did you have this pre written for HN or is this just AI slop?
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#545I am German. My government does not acknowledge the tragedy that has been unfolding in Gaza since the Hamas attack in October 2023. It’s absurd. Since then, Jewish people in Berlin who were demonstrating alongside Palestinians against the war in Gaza have been beaten down by the German police. In 2021, Esther Bejarano, the last survivor of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra, passed away in Hamburg. Whenever she commented…
i am honestly puzzled as to why germans, with all the educations they have received during decades, are letting this rock as is. or maybe disillusioned would be a better term...
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#546Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can add The War On Terror to that list. Where do think US police get all their fun toys to play with? "How 9/11 helped to militarize American law enforcement": https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-9-11-helped-to-milita...
Yep. But the War on Drugs has been around much longer and is more relevant to people's day to day lives. And people buy into it. I hear this all the time "Sure, weed should be legal, and cocaine too because I like to party now and then, but the 'hard stuff' should definitely be illegal because its dangerous". To make matters worse -- people think that those who advocate against it are doing so because they want to do…
The War on Drugs is more relevant to your day-to-day life, perhaps, but people in the Middle-east are also people, in case you forget that.
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#547Earlier quoted context omitted.
> population increases Is the Gaza War a genocide? Two key features of the mortality data are consistent with that charge: first, unusually high mortality among women and children; second, the sudden and dramatic fall in life expectancy. In these respects, the war resembles the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides more closely than any other recent conflict involving the US or Israel. https://original.antiwar.com/noah_car…
Child mortality will be an issue if you use child soldiers, which Hamas do.
> Child mortality will be an issue
Looks like there's more to it than "child soldiers": ~8000 below the age of 12; 40% (~3600) of them less than 5y old (pre-schoolers).
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#548This kid will grow up and fight, and I don't blame him. Gaza is a concentration camp, West Bank is an apartheid. These people have the audacity to bribe and threaten our governments to do their nationalist ethno-state bidding in one hand while pushing the narrative that the west must not have any identity or borders in the other. They fund PACs that threaten 80% of congress with "we'll front an opposition candidate a…
Wtf is this Jew hate and why is it on HN?
Jews aren't all zionists and it's perpetuating jewish hatred to pretend so.
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#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not avoiding criticism, I'm avoiding very real legal repercussions by treading so lightly. Lest I get caught in the crossfire.
That’s really unfortunate. What country are you in that there are legal repercussions? Understand if you don’t want to divulge that information.
The UK. But any Western country you run the risk of being labelled antisemitic for any and all criticism involving Israel.
Now what's interesting about the Holocaust, is that gay prisoners were present in the concentration camps too. And those gay men were attacked, abused and sometimes even raped by the other prisoners. Even the Jews being persecuted at the time engaged in wholesale persecution of gays. And then those camps were finally liberated, the gays were free too right? Nope, sent em right back to prison, zero lessons learnt. They excluded us from raparations, from being recognised as victims of the Holocaust. Fucking disgusting.
So when people bring up the Holocaust in relation to antisemitism it falls upon my deaf ears as a gay man.
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#550I am German. My government does not acknowledge the tragedy that has been unfolding in Gaza since the Hamas attack in October 2023. It’s absurd. Since then, Jewish people in Berlin who were demonstrating alongside Palestinians against the war in Gaza have been beaten down by the German police. In 2021, Esther Bejarano, the last survivor of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra, passed away in Hamburg. Whenever she commented…
> They have learned nothing from the atrocities committed by their grandfathers.
No no, they have learned from them. That's why they are the biggest backers of these new atrocities on the whole continent - they learned exactly how it's done.