And the US will turn a blind eye once again
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
118 points (100.0% liked)
World News
22057 readers
141 users here now
Breaking news from around the world.
News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
For US News, see the US News community.
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The US has not turned a blind eye, it has gone all in on supporting the war crimes of Isreal.
Shit... You're right. That's even worse
i don’t understand how attacking ambulances and hospitals in gaza achieves anything for israel
It gets the brown people out of Israel.
There are still over a hundred hostages. Crank down on Gaza...no electricity, etc...and you'll eventually get some intel on where they are at. It's war, and they put themselves in this position.
they put themselves in this position.
The civillians there did not. The last election in Gaza was held 17 years ago.
The median age in Gaza is around 18 meaning the leadership was chosen when half the population hadn't even been born yet, let alone able to vote.
To put that in perspective it's like if the US was still ruled by George Bush and no one had ever had a chance to vote him out.
They surely did, by harboring Hamas and not demanding better.
@Rapidcreek I suppose you probably blame the citizens of North Korea for "harbouring" Kim Jong Un, too. But that's just not how life actually works.
Collective punishment of civillians is always a war crime, but blaming people with no access to free and fair elections in order to justify it is particularly cynical, especially when nearly half of them are still children.
load more comments
(10 replies)
It’s war, and they put themselves in this position.
Did they also put themselves in the inhumane conditions that sparked this war too? Or is decades of inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people immaterial to the situation?
Because Israel is a good part of the reason Hamas is as powerful as they are, so I guess they put themselves in this position too?
Hamas hates everyone even Palestinians. Who knows why they harbor them, but they do.
Who knows why they harbor them
Yeah, who could ever know why Palestine harbors the group that Israel funded to delegitimize the more moderate political parties? It's not like the group Israel funded explicitly advocates for aggression against Israel in the name of freeing the Palestinians from the murderous boot of Israel and their decades long campaign of slowly exterminating the Palestinians and stealing all of their land.
It's a complete mystery....
I assure you, Palestinian civilians didnt put themselves in Gaza. The Israeli government created the ghetto prison known as Gaza and relegated the Palestinians to it.
Egypt took Gaza in the '48 war, built camps and put Palestinians (then called Arabs, the word "Palestinian" still most often referred to Jews) in them. Nobody much cared until Israel took the territory in the Six Day War and Egypt refused to take it back after.
Likewise Jordan annexed West Bank, built its camps, put Palestinians in them and held it until '67. Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt all built camps for Palestinians WITHIN their own borders and refused to assimilate them or allow them to become citizens. They used Palestinians as pawns in their quest to eliminate the infidel state. It didn't work. No one much cared unless the pawns can be used against Israel.
Palestinians who remained in Israel are now citizens with voting rights etc. Israel didn't chuck them in camps like their neighbours did.
The camps are now cities by the way. But no one calls them that, cause "camps" is better to use against Israel.
The basic problem is that Palestinians never got their Gandhi. Instead they got violent ass clowns.
At first I thought this was about a terrorist attack that killed more than a thousand denying their human right to live. Then I remembered those didn't have the right to exist in the first place.
The whole point of human rights, is that they can't be taken away from people. Both populations have the right to exist. To say otherwise simply invites unending religious war.
That's funny, because Hamas denies Israel's right to exist and have said that publicly. Which was the twist in my original comment.
There's bad actors on both sides. The trouble is there's a huge power asymmetry politically right now.
We're in a position where a fascist ideologue religious military group has entrenched itself in politics, that's a terrible position to be in. But we're not going to get out of this position by saying one population doesn't deserve to live
Ah, it's a both sides guy.
I know right! Can you imagine populations of millions of people have different subgroups which behave differently? And you can't condemn an entire ethnic group by the actions of some of them? World is so unfair, be easy if it was simple, we could just kill all the bad guys.
But if one of the populations doesn't deserve to live, who gets to decide which one dies?
Ahhh a kneejerk reaction guy. Seriously. Do you not understand that civilians on both sides are being wiped out?
You've not even seen what is going to happen yet
Okay so your beef is with Hamas then. Not Palestine.
Sure. Know a few Palestinians and their food isn't too bad.