t3rmit3

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t3rmit3,

Imagine the police calling you and telling you to turn yourself in, and then bombing your family if you don’t.

Seems like the police are the bad guys in that scenario.

t3rmit3,

Hamas denies aid to civilians: “it’s so horrible, no words to express it”

Israel denies aid to civilians: “this is just what has to happen, no way around it”

Food and water don’t power weapons, and it’s illegal to use denial of food and water as a weapon of war anyways.

Anyone who claims to care about Palestinian civilians should be demanding the restrictions on supplies be lifted, because the restrictions clearly aren’t working anyways.

t3rmit3,

Yep, supremacists gonna supremacy.

t3rmit3,

The IDF are terrorists who target civilians with vague claims, that they do not allow anyone to review, that their bombs are totally definitely absolutely hitting Hamas and not just civilians.

But also, police are just the internal enforcers of a government’s power. And Israel exerts de facto control over the West Bank and Gaza, so it’s perfectly accurate to call the IDF’s actions there ‘policing’.

t3rmit3, (edited )

What does that have anything to do with what I said? Did you mean to reply to someone else?

t3rmit3,

So in other words they understood that they were being called on to condemn antisemitism in order to help reinforce the narrative that these college rallies were antisemitic protests, when in fact they were pro-Palestinian ones.

Good on them for choosing to side with their students rather than give the anti-Palestinian camp their manufactured “professors condemn antisemitic student rallies” soundbites.

Refuse to engage with their genocide-backing rhetoric that tries to tie being pro-Palestinian to being antisemitic.

t3rmit3,

Everyone knows this. We have seen the response of “World Leaders”, and it’s to appoint an oil executive to be President of COP28 so he can falsely and perniciously claim that ‘no one’ is actually saying to get rid fossil fuels.

Governments have already decided that they are not going to miss out on any sweet sweet potential economic activity (read “money generation for politicians”) until it gets so bad that they have to to survive. They’re going to play chicken with each other and employ police to put down protests until we finally do something about it/them ourselves.

t3rmit3,

A doctor carried the small limp body of a dead boy in a tracksuit and placed him in a corner, arms splayed across the blood-smeared tile. On the floor nearby, surrounded by discarded bandages and rubber gloves, lay a wounded boy and girl, their limbs tangled with the stands holding IV drips in their arms.

Two young girls were being treated, still covered in dust from the collapse of the house that had buried their family.

“My parents are under the rubble,” sobbed one. “I want my mum, I want my mum, I want my family.”

If you’re not furious, you’re not paying attention.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Israel never stopped murdering Palestinians in the West Bank, and even shot a bunch of Palestinian civilians who tried to go North during the “cease-fire”.

The cease-fire was Hamas trying to give people as much time to evacuate as they could, because Israel was clear from the beginning that they intended to go back to murdering Palestinians afterwards. And of course Israel is now expanding “operations” in the South, since that’s where the majority of Palestinians are now.

t3rmit3,

Israel killed Palestinians in Gaza who were heading North during the “cease-fire”.

Israel killed Palestinians in the West Bank who they said were Hamas during the “cease-fire”.

Israel never even wanted the cease-fire except that it would lay bare Bibi’s complete lack of giving a shit about the hostages on Hamas’s side if he refused, and he couldn’t afford that either internationally or internally.

t3rmit3, (edited )

That feeling of being less well off.

I got bad news for you: no one cares what an economist says about how they should feel, they only care about how they DO feel, and most Americans feel worse off.

That’s not Biden’s fault, obviously, it’s Capitalism’s, but try explaining that to your average American.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Of course Bibi didn’t mention the Palestinian women and children.

He isn’t going to admit that Israel uses hostage-taking to demoralize and torment Palestinians.

At best, he’ll make reference to “prisoners”, and not address why they have a bunch of child prisoners in the first place.

t3rmit3,

Dictatorships never stay static, they only ever increase their oppressiveness until they reach a breaking point.

t3rmit3,

I loved/hated how it was like a “my little combatant” kit, with a gun, uniform, and snacks all packed in a little duffle bag.

Either it was Israel bringing those in for the photo op, or it was Hamas leaving those to make it look like Israel carried them in for a photo op.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Israel is trying to pull a “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” sleight of hand here.

Even if it were a Hamas command center, that does not justify withholding food and medicine from the hospital.

Even if it were a Hamas command center, that does not justify conducting their brutal attacks on civilians elsewhere.

Even if it were a Hamas command center, that does not justify destroying the infrastructure that civilians require in order to survive.

They are going to make sure there is a command center there, because their entire narrative has become that if Hamas uses civilians as human shields (even if there is literally not enough space for civilians to go anywhere else anyways), then Israel is justified killing civilians.

That’s is false on its own, but more importantly, they are not only attempting to kill Hamas, they are also attempting to kill and displace large numbers of civilians, and we know this because their own government ministries and employees are putting together reports and doing news interviews about how they should displace Palestinians from Gaza.

They would not be making those reports and statements if they thought the government was against it; that would be career-ending. They feel comfortable making those reports and statements precisely because they know that their government is on board with that. They are getting people comfortable with hearing it, for when they actually do it.

t3rmit3,

extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop

He’s talking about settlers attacking Palestinians.

t3rmit3,

He doesn’t give a shit about the hostages, he wants to expel Palestinians from north Gaza, if not all of it. He will bomb all the tunnels where they’re being held, then blame Hamas for “putting them in the way of the bombs”.

t3rmit3,

Exchanging them for Palestinian hostages that Israel is holding.

t3rmit3,

Netanyahu is going to bomb the hostages and then blame Hamas, saying they were used as human shields, just like he’s been doing with Palestinian civilians. 200 Israeli hostages “murdered by Hamas (using Israeli bombs)” is more useful politically to his war-machine than 200 live hostages.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Hamas wouldn’t have done 10/7 if not for Israel’s colonialism and genocide, and Israel has never had a true “ceasefire” in Palestine. They for years have done bombing campaigns that they euphemize as “mowing the grass”, against Gaza. You can’t divorce the current conflict from the history that led to it.

Turns out that desperation breeds extremism, and Israel is the one who made Palestinians desperate.

People don’t denounce slaves who revolt as being too brutal, but continually murdering and starving peoples’ children apparently is not bad enough to justify revolt when it’s only Palestinians being murdered.

t3rmit3, (edited )

Are you by any chance in denial of the PIJ missile which misfired into the hospital carpark a couple of weeks back? The one which Hamas lied was a direct hit by Israeli bombs killing 500?

No, I think it is likely that it was a rocket that misfired. Israel has been responsible for all the intentional bombs hitting hospitals, schools, places of worship, etc though, so I’m not sure what significance you are attributing to what someone believes about the one unintentional one?

t3rmit3, (edited )

“Yeah, but if there’s one Hamas guy inside a densely-populated refugee camp, what possible other choice do we have than to bomb literally tens of buildings in there? He could have been in any of them! We gave those civilians ample warning that they are subject to murder at any time, anyways! How can you say we’re not merciful and restrained!?”

t3rmit3,

Oh look, and just yesterday I was arguing with a Tankie who insisted that Tibetans living in Tibet actually love China.

Gaza’s Largest Hospitals Close, Premature Babies Taken Out of Incubators, Israeli Forces Reportedly Entered Hospitals and Fired at Patients (www.democracynow.org)

“Five kids in the pediatric [Shifa Hospital] ICU left alone in Rantisi Hospital, and we don’t know what’s going on with them. The communications were lost, so they might be dead or alive,” one of the doctors said....

t3rmit3,

Never forgive, and never forget.

t3rmit3,

Renaming the place you’ve colonized is a standard settler-colonialist step in the erasure of the indigenous population. Just China being China.

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