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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

US ~~Intelligence~~ Propagandists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's sad the New York Times has fully turned into a Zionist propaganda outlet the last few days.

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

Why they need to justify something we all know is a lie?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

So funny seeing people here react to any news regarding Israel and Gaza. Bomb falls in parking lot of a hospital, Hamas says 20 minutes later 500 dead, everyone believes the and it takes weeks to disprove their claim and bunch of sources to analyze and report on their findings. Any non-Hamas source says terrorists are using terrorist tactics... entire lemmy goes: fake, discredited, Israel ally is lying for them, etc.

And down-votes that are coming on this comment just go to prove how big of a supported to terrorism people here are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My issue is more with people supporting a genocide because Hamas exists.

Few people have a problem condemning Hamas, but when Israel is clearly killing far more civilians and bombing more hospitals than Israel, obsessing about the lesser problem (who were Israel-funded in any case) is deeply suspicious.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Lol what does this matter?

Israel committed so much more heinous atrocities I honestly give no fuck that an oppressed people have a terrorist group lashing out using a hospital as a base.

Israel lied about the sexual assault and baby mutilations, they are ar performing genocide and they've oppressed these people for generations.

Fuck Israel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

honestly give no fuck that an oppressed people have a terrorist group lashing out using a hospital as a base.

You're rooting for terrorists operating from hospitals.

I am in shock that you think this is defensible.

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

It matters because one of the charges leveled against Israel is that they bombed a hospital just to genocide Palestinian babies. Clearly, Hamas was using said babies as human shields, which is a war crime. Now the shoe is on the other foot and Hamas apologists don't like it, so now you just say it doesn't matter, lol.

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

Nope the shoe literally cannot be on the other foot.

Israel funded Hamas.

Israel has developed this culture in Gaza because of the treatment of Palestinians.

Israel has far more money and resources.

So the instigator with more money/power in the situation causing a genocide after decades of racial abuse gets no pass that shoe cannot go anywhere else

All of Hamas' actions are only happening because of Israel. Sorry

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

It's probably true that Netanyahu funded Hamas for cynical reasons. The Israeli right-wing coalition definitely needs to go. But you can't justify Hamas terrorism againsr civilians because the Palestinian people are angry and oppressed. Hamas has agency. They aren't some inexorable force of history. They choose to be terrorists. Hamas was already a radical terrorist organization in its own right, and was duly elected by the people of Gaza as such. Fuck those raping terrorists.

All this back-and-forth revenge is, of course, just a vicious cycle and shouldn't continue. But I am a little tired of this faulty reasoning that Israel is the bad guy just because they are more powerful. Palestinians and Israelis have both done things to provoke violence and both sides have, at various times, rejected peace and compromise. But Hamas is unambiguously a terrorist group that stokes division and whose sole purpose is to eliminate Israel. Hamas is a barrier to peace and will get no sympathy from me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Israel is the bad guy because they are more powerful.

You refer to Hamas as rapists but not the IDF? You don't mention the bold land grabs and settling of Palestinian land.

Israel is a terrorist group. They aren't treated as such because they are a Nation, they're only a nation because that isn't their land other people lived there first.

You literally touch on every reason why Israel is the first to blame yet refuse to commit to blaming them. When Israel faces consequences then we can talk about Hamas until then it is their fault.

This is not a zero tolerance bullshit school fight. Israel punched first and second and third and forth while having more money and resources and legal power over Palestinians. Hamas wouldn't exist in this way without Israel.

No. Absolutely no to everything you said. When Bibi swings from the gallows we can tear apart Hamas all we want. Until then you play into the bully's hand.

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