With how often we spar, I feel it’s worth mentioning that I fully agree with you here. There’s enough substantial evidence. This is horrific.
Between this and the IDF disguising itself as civilians and doctors to kill targets in a hospital, it’s fairly clear that the organization needs to completely disband as part of any peace agreement.
Very well said.
Thanks for the AJ link, genuinely. That as good as confirms it.
Christ, I’m speechless.
It gets even worse, because it means they don’t have great access to information either.
There was a video soon after Oct 7 that showed Palestinians celebrating in the streets. They hadn’t been told about the civilian deaths or kidnappings though, only that a prison had been liberated. And that context wasn’t shown alongside their celebrations when Israelis saw it.
The suppression of information has led to misunderstandings that perpetuate the hate and the war. Just as Netanyahu wants, I suspect.
Feeding a person.
It’s hard to make much analysis without knowing the exact culprit, but I think it’s certain to say they made a very bad choice.
Yeah, or about Russia invading Ukraine! Wait.
If you look at documents at the time, intelligence agencies said there was a possibility he had WMDs, but there was no conclusive evidence nor assurances.
The Bush Administration lied to Congress and said we knew for sure they had them.
Edit: It’s good to have healthy skepticism – it hasn’t escaped my notice that the majority of evidence behind this claim is coming from Israel. I don’t think it’s wise to deem it automatically false however, and pulling funding is premature. There should however be a serious internal investigation. And if they already have smoking guns, the UN should release them in the interest of transparency.
Apologies for starting out my comment as a bit of a jackass.
Complaining by wasting food certainly invalidates the message however.
There’s three types of protestors in the world:
Cause minimal, non serious disruption. Spread the message without pissing people off, because that’ll make people more receptive to joining you.
Cause serious disruptions, even if it pisses people off, because it brings attention to the issue makes it impossible to ignore.
Bring attention to an issue at all costs by any means necessary, even if it makes the issue worse or has absolutely nothing to do with the issue. Be an asshole to make people listen.
There’s a valid argument that without 2, people won’t take something seriously, and mild inconveniences are the whole point of nonviolent protest. It gets a bit morally grey when it would do something like prevent an ambulance from operating though. I don’t think anyone who normally waves that away would feel the same if it resulted in the death of a loved one.
And 3 is just clout chasers imo, like in this situation. I can’t take someone protesting food insecurity seriously if they’re wasting food to do so.
Killing yourself to protest climate change isn’t a climate issue, it’s a mental health issue.
… So they threw away food to make a statement?
This is like protesting pollution by purposely throwing oil into the ocean. Generally speaking the act of protest should not directly intensify the problem.
The Gaza genocide is because Israel dislikes the Palestinians existing. These attacks are because the US/UK dislike the Houthis attacking commercial vessels.
You’re insulting Palestinians by suggesting there’s any similarity, and actually playing into the Israeli narrative that Palestinians are being violent. Well done.
The Houthis are welcome to continue the current state of affairs if that’s what they prefer.
I don’t disagree there, but this is what I meant by leverage. “We’ll stop attacking if you stop helping the Saudis”. It wasn’t too long ago that the Houthis actually considered the US as a friendly state.
Their slogan also calls out Jewish people in general, it’s pretty fucked.
They are actually in the process of calling for a ceasefire. Biden pissed off Netanyahu as well. There’s diplomacy in the background to get a ceasefire and more hostages freed.
Normally I’d agree, but the Houthis can stop all hostilities by stopping attacking international trade vessels. That isn’t a difficult ask. They can even try to use this as leverage to get other things they want.
It’d be cool if they started doing things do stop genocide.
Defending genocide
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It’d be cool if they started doing things do stop genocide. Instead of just saying it and then doing other stuff.
Hamas is terrible as well, and this is why an investigation is necessary, but Occam’s Razor suggests it is likely the IDF. The IDF needs to show total transparency in a global investigation.