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Gaza death toll tops 5,000, nearly half of them children: Officials (www.aljazeera.com)

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Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you live in USA or EU your government is ok with this

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Since I live in the USA, actually we fund it to the tune of several billion a year and then some.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think we like our governments?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most around you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last time the UK had a government approved by more than 50% of the voters was 1931.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is the socialist revolution, then, that overthrows the undemocratic government?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is the other 60%+ all want different things.

The only thing that unites them is they don't want what we currently have.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The consequences of a "western democracy" in which critical thinking is systematically genocided so that the masses always stay individualist neutered puppets of state...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An upvote from me is worth ten downvotes from them. Unfortunately this is not reflected in your numbers due to limitations of the platform.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Votes get federated between your and my account's instance.