Tel Aviv has stepped up indiscriminate attacks against displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza due to the army’s failure to ‘dismantle’ Hamas

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    “Israel” really wants to dethrone nazi Germany as the most openly genocidal fascist state huh.

    No wonder zionists and nazis have a history of cooperating. Might as well be the same thing.

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        They try to not be open about it though, at least to its own population, unlike “israel”.

        It’s basically a US colony in Palestine though so ig it’s a moot point.

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          No, not really. There’s a lot of whitewashing of US history, especially in textbooks. If you ask the average American they wouldn’t even call anything the US did “genocide.”

          I recommend reading Lies My Teacher Told Me.

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            There’s a lot of whitewashing of US history, especially in textbooks. If you ask the average American they wouldn’t even call anything the US did “genocide.”

            That’s what I mean. The US is built on genocide and colonization just like “israel”, but they try to not be open about it.

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              Oh no that’s new. Back when the genocide was in a more active phase and there were “Indian Wars” they were very explicit about it.

              But today, you’re right, they just teach a few key atrocities and handwave the other hundred million. I must have misread lol

              I think that’s just the different stages of settler-colonial development.

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          That genocide isn’t the only genocide the US has been part of, either as a direct genocidier or indirectly by supporting the genocidal regime.

          No one is gonna take this crown from the US!

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              Do you… Think that list is authoritative?

              The population of Indigenous Americans is estimated to have decreased from approximately 145 million to around 10 million.

              135 million.

              Not all of that was the US, the old empires of France and Spain and England played a huge role, but since it’s founding the US has killed millions along with Canada and Mexico. Disease played a large role, but much of that was deliberately spread which muddies the estimates.

              And that’s just one of the genocides the US was involved in. There have been many others.

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              Leave that hurr durr US is big bad amirite shit on reddit.

              I think you misspelled China. Reddit being completely filled with imperial core propaganda is one of the main reasons a lot of us came to Lemmy.

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      And fuck Biden and the American project. Israel would be nothing without them.

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    WTF?! What’s in the mind of those IDF soldiers? “oh look, thousands of hamas troops conveniently standing around in open space waiting to be shot”?

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    In any normal universe, thousands of innocent people being massacred on a single day would be bigger than 9/11. Yet aside from this post on lemmy, I’ve heard nothing of it. WTF is going on!?

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      “Are we the what??? I can’t hear you over the sound of me shooting into a crowd of innocent children with an assault rifle, you are going to have to hold on a sec until I finish then tell me”

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        If it were just an “Assault Rife,” like an M16 or Uzi or something, then the casualties wouldn’t be nearly as high. But according to the article it was a heavy machine gun, like one of these:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M240_machine_gun

        Which is something that is only depicted in Hollywood films when they want to really drive home the war-crime “bad guy” aspect by having the Nazi’s fire into a crowd.

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          Yes, but you know the cruelest thing isn’t the bullets, the bombs or the artillery. It is setting up a population of over a million purposefully in an impossible situation with nowhere to go, no access to hospitals (because you specifically destroyed them one by one), and no access to electricity, clean water or food.

          Imagine having a fish tank full of cool little fish and just deciding you didn’t want it anymore so you unplugged the lights and oxygenator and stuck the aquarium outside your window in the cold. Then you pulled up a comfy chair next to the window and just sat and watched as the fish slowly starved, suffocated and froze to death. This is what Israel is doing to Gaza, except Gaza is full of human beings not fish.

          Actually maybe I am being unfair, in this metaphor the IDF would probably put a post it note on the fish tank that said “EVACUATE AREA” which if you think about it really gives the fish the choice to stay or leave.

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            It is setting up a population of over a million purposefully in an impossible situation with nowhere to go, no access to hospitals (because you specifically destroyed them one by one), and no access to electricity, clean water or food.

            It’s basically Warsaw ghetto, but bigger and with 5 times more people inside.

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    Remember like a couple of weeks back, when the UN said that Israel had shot at their aid convoy from the sea.

    Or the Israelis sitting at the border crossing preventing humanitarian aid being delivered and Israel doing very little about it. All because the suffering of 100 is more important than the suffering of millions. What kind of twisted moral one should have to believe this.

    Or Israelian authorities (COGAT) withholding tent poles and delivering the so needed tents without poles, because you know tent poles are very deadly weapons.

    And Israel can alleviate the suffering of all Palestinians if they want, just that they don’t want, they want for Palestinians to suffer to learn their place. They are acting as a bully while screaming I am the victim in front of the rest of the world.

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      jerk off while this happens

      Not really. “Israel” is only able to do this because it has the full support of the US empire. They know they can get away with anything so long as the most war-mongering nation on the planet is with them.

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      The IDF says Palestinians were hurt by “pushing and trampling”

      How irresponsible of the starving Palestinians not to file out in an orderly manner while being shot.

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        Considering the amount of people, no doubt that’s true. Starving people have to be handled differently. You can’t just show up with a truck full of food.

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          It’s the shooting part that’s the problem you sack of shit, it’s the using food as bait for a death trap that’s the problem, you fucking cretin

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      This is what happens when humanitarian aid is denied for weeks. When food becomes not only scarce but literally gone, there is no order, there is no line, it’s every person for themselves. Just looking at some of the replies to that X post reminds me:

      1. Why I don’t touch Birdsite anymore
      2. That many people are reptiles wearing human skin.
      3. That Gaza has become a death camp, run by Israel, overseen by the weakest hands the world could provide.
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        https://twitter.com/afalkhatib/status/1759750070487142895?t=CuLbFmHI4Aniab2ZUs23og&s=19

        Northern Gaza right now is the scene of a true hunger/starvation crisis that is absolutely about to spiral out of control. Israel’s refusal to allow desperately needed food aid into the north is worsening this crisis. However, Hamas’s actions are giving Israeli decision-makers and war planners excuses and pretexts not to take rapid action and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions from worsening. Hamas’s irresponsible and damaging actions include continuing to launch rockets from areas where IDF troops withdrew, causing the Israeli military to re-enter those zones and prevent the return of civilians to their neighborhoods.

        But here is a particularly egregious example: I and several others behind the scenes are pushing for food airdrops especially in northern Gaza which is unreachable, isolated and receiving virtually no aid from the south. Yesterday, Jordan announced its intention to carry out more airdrops in the north since that is seemingly the only way, for now, to deliver substantial food and humanitarian supplies to the hundreds of thousands of besieged civilians in the north. So, what do the Hamas dark lords in Gaza City do today? They publish videos of a few fighters using shoulder-launched surface to air missiles (SAM-7, Soviet-era Strela-2 IR launchers) to target Israeli helicopters and fixed-wing drones. There is no evidence that these launches successfully downed any aircraft, particularly because the system is ancient and most modern military aircraft are equipped with defensive countermeasures. However, what this does is complicate efforts to conduct food airdrops over northern Gaza either because civilian cargo aircraft lack countermeasures or, more importantly, food airdrops would need to be carried out at a lower altitude, elevating the risk of them being hit by shoulder-launched SAMs. Nevertheless, I maintain that food airdrops can be safely conducted while accounting for the operational risks which can be mitigated

        King Abdullah and World Kitchen have both had successful food drops into North Gaza since this was written.

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          You do realise Israel can open one of their northern crossings and deliver that humanitarian aid with trucks, but they decided not to.

          And then stating that they are the victim here is absolutely and utterly ridiculous. They have deliberately created this reality. At any point in time they could have decided to prevent this from happening but nope, they did not.

          Plus air drop is an extremely expensive and ineffective way to deliver humanitarian aid and is definitely NOT a long term solution, which has a more symbolic role than anything else.

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    This source is heavily biased against Israel. I wouldn’t trust them for news regarding this conflict.

    While it demonstrated a clear opposition to Israel and the West, The Cradle did not appear to weigh in on other topics relevant to right-left U.S. politics. Site searches for “liberal,” “conservative,” “right-wing,” and “left-wing” yielded few results.
    However, The Cradle frequently cast “far-right” Israeli politicians in a negative light. While the reviewer noted that this was likely due more to the region’s specific politics than any alignment with U.S. partisan polarization, The Cradle’s clear anti-Israel stance made it difficult to justify a Center rating.
    The reviewer noted a general trend of coverage sympathetic to Arab Muslims and suspicious of Israel and the West. This could be seen in The Cradle’s extensive coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict, which often highlighted faults by Israel. Notable headlines included “Israeli police unable to verify ‘Hamas rape’ stories,” “Israel defender Alan Dershowitz named in Epstein court docs,” “Michael Hudson: A roadmap to escape the west’s stranglehold,” and “‘Unprecedented’ surge in West Bank settlement activities.” The Cradle also published interviews with representatives of militant groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Middle Eastern politicians like Iraqi ex-PM Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

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          These people are straight up dogs of the empire. This user’s history is just denying the ongoing genocide and defending “israel” and the US’s “democracy”

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          Because I disagree with you the only possible explanation is that I don’t think critically? Piss off.

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            Because you’ve got some naive beliefs about the state of the world …
            We should just agree to block each other. Cheers

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        I said it was from a biased source, not that it was wrong, but if you want to see an example of why it’s bad compare the death count in the CNN report vs. this one. It’s not “thousands” gunned down, even according to Hamas:

        The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said 104 were killed and more than 700 injured in the incident, one of the deadliest since the war in Gaza began.

        It also includes IDF statements which paint a very different picture of events:

        In an initial account, Israel said Gaza residents surrounded the aid trucks and looted the supplies. “During the incident, dozens of Gazans were injured as a result of pushing and trampling,” the Israel Defense Forces told CNN.
        An Israeli military spokesperson later said in a briefing that there were two separate incidents involving aid trucks.
        First, he says trucks went to the north and were swarmed by crowds, with trucks running over people. Subsequently, he says, a group of Palestinians approached Israeli forces, who then opened fire on the Palestinians.
        “The truckloads went into the north, then there was the stampede, and then afterwards, there was the event against our forces. That’s how things transpired this morning,” the spokesman said.

        I don’t believe anything offhand from such a source, especially on matters regarding Israel, nor should you. Stick to credible organizations if you prefer objective reporting to emotionally charged propaganda.

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          Israel is responsible for making these people desperate enough that they get trampled in a rush for scarce food. Israel also admits it opened fire on a crowd of hungry civilians. Nothing about this makes the IDF look anything other than very bad.

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          It also includes IDF statements which paint a very different picture of events:

          Stick to credible organizations if you prefer objective reporting to emotionally charged propaganda.

          You ok?