@EdwinDrood I have it to you, you troglodyte. You're arguing that the Lemkin Institute knows less about you on what genocide is? You some rando troll on a niche social media forum?

@TangledUpInBlue It's not about my media diet (which is varied) but about judging a situation by actions and not words. All Israel's actions point in one direction.

@Burnley123 I wasn’t specifically pointing at “your” media. I was making a general comment about press. I’m not disagreeing with what you say or agreeing. What I’m asking what is the real reason. For all of this. Doesn’t make sense to me that the entire world should be in uproar over a strip of land that small. Yes the human lives is a travesty, I’m not denying that, but this kind of retaliation does not happen in other parts of the world. Why.

@TangledUpInBlue We are talking about 2.1 million people in Gaza alone and many more Palestinians throughout Israel.

It's also the world's longest running military occupation. It falls on religious and political fault lines and those between the first and the third world.

For Arabic Muslims, it's analogy for how they feel treated by the west. For Zionist Jews, it's an analogy for something else For the left, it's a striking example of western imperialism. And so on.

@whowasthatmaskedman Well first off it seems the claim Iran was behind this latest fight is looking more and more to be bullshit.

And even if that were true it would be conventional weapons. There is no scenario where a nuclear exchange ends at Iran or anywhere else for that matter.

And Bibi and the US government are alot of things but suicidal is not one of them.

Furthermore DOD has openly stated even a conventional war with Iran would be a nightmare scenario and best case scenario would be another 20 year long stalemate. So most of the posturing is just that, posturing.

What is more worrying is Biden effectively has ordered the US State Department to pour gasoline on the fire and has specifically forbidden them from de-escalating.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I am sure there is a connection. But money passes between so many groups I am guessing, the Saudis and Yemen also dropped some coins in the cup...But there is plenty of hate to go around..😷

@GlitterEater America is the master of this unspeakable tragedy against the entire nation of Palestine, reaping the whirlwind is whats happening now. America should hide its head in shame and soon the same thing will happen to it.There's a thing called KARMA and a HUGE TSUNAMI-SIZE whirlwind of it is headed for Uncle Sammies place. Hope I'm not here.

@firefall I did mean it as a rhetorical question. My main point in asking that was to illustrate that the western media and Israel especially do not value Palestinian lives the same. People who are 'not like us.' It's implied everywhere in this discourse.

@firefall With the speed that they've enacted this plan, it's pretty obvious that they were holding it in their back pocket. Waiting for the day Hamas did something bad enough to give them cover.

@Burnley123 I think you're right. An excuse is what they needed. And they pushed and pushed until they got it.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow If you read the linked story, you will see that Canada had an atrocious history with immigration restrictions from roughly 1919-1945 and was no more helpful to European refugees than the US was.

@RedBaron Oh absolutely. No disputing that. We also turned away Sikhs when they were being killed by the Indian government which is coming up again lately with the Indian government murdering people on Canadian soil.


But I think we all have that one event where you learn that your country's claims of being morally superior is exposed as total horseshit.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Most have more than one.

@EdwinDrood This is such a brazenly disingenuous argument that I don't need to respond.

@Burnley123 That’s nice.

Just because you don’t acknowledge it doesn’t mean you’re not biased.

@RedBaron You are the one projecting...

@fanuc2013 By ethnically cleansing two million people?

@fanuc2013 @Burnley123
“I don’t blame Israel one bit “
The Israeli military crimes aside ,
what about the terrorist attacks done by Israeli settlers protected by their police as they raid Palestinian homes and places of worship or rampage Palestinian villages killing and injuring Palestinians in the process ?

I’m sure this elderly Palestinian man is a terrorist
Btw this is from 8 years ago :
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You have Harvard and endless human right organizations such as amnesty
Talking about the endless list of occupation and violence crimes done to Palestinians for decades
And you don’t blame Israel one bit?
😂 stuff that hypocrisy up your arse

@Burnley123 They are reporting this all over the news here so it is pretty likely legit.

And if they try it things could get very gruesome because Egypt is not likely to play along.

@SW-User A message there for many Americans...😷

@StygianKohlrabi I will take no pleasure in being proven correct.