In the West Bank, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is the key player and just like Hamas, it is a reliable source of information (coughing, hospital bombing).

The thing is that it can’t be a ceasefire until Hamas frees all the hostages. And even then, there is no guarantee that there won’t be another terrorist attack.

Blindly accepting the claims of a terrorist organization is the new norm apparently.

Why 700? Why not 701 or 698?! Gaza is controlled by Hamas. Gaza’s authorities are Hamas. Everything they say is blatantly false and only serves their purpose, which is to annihilate anyone who is not a Muslim. The fact that so-called news agencies use them as a source highlights the issues with the media in this day and age.

Yes, let’s find ways to justify Hamas’s barbaric terror attacks! This Whataboutism is sickening.

Good! I hope they wipe Gaza off of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and their supporters once and for all.

This has happened before: Iran has taken American-Iranians hostage and demanded a ransom. A Democrat president paid the ransom and justified the payment somehow to silence those who opposed giving in to a terrorist regime and funding their activities.

Preventing Iran from attacking and seizing commercial ships and oil tankers is the correct course of action. It is not escalation, it is defence.

Yes, and that’s the cherry on top!

I hope so :)

While civil disobedience, especially among brave women, has increased, the situation not only has not improved but has also gotten worse. For example, banks are forced not to provide service to unveiled women, hefty fines and sometimes imprisonments are imposed on those who are without hijab, vehicles are seized because unveiled women have been captured by the CCTVs inside them, and so on.

These are aside from the continuous political oppression, mass arrests, tortures, and executions of those who publicly oppose the regime and the current situation in Iran. In the past two days, there have been reports of deaths among dissidents while in custody (apparently due to excessive torture and lack of medical care). Also, yesterday, Toomaj Salehi, a well-known Iranian rapper, who was extremely vocal during the Mahsa Amini protests and publicly sided with the people seeking freedom, was sentenced to more than 6 years in prison after being in solitary confinement for about 8 months.

So, in a nutshell, things have not improved because the root causes of the uprising are not and will not be resolved under this authoritarian regime. Clearly, things can’t go on like this in the long run, and change is inevitable. The only question is when!

Haha… It doesn’t matter much where we live; in one way or another, we will eventually face difficulties or unfavourable circumstances.

Dictatorial regimes across the globe collaborate with one another, displaying a greater sense of unity compared to democratic nations. This camaraderie can be observed in countries like Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and numerous others.

Indeed, it is! Some even believe that the forced hijab (and oppression of women in general) is similar to the Berlin Wall. When it is torn down, the Islamic Republic will cease to exist.

Yep, Same here! When things went south with Twitter, I tried switching to Mastodon, but after several months, I haven’t become fond of it. Its interface is so terrible and difficult to navigate. When I heard of Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit, the first thing that came to my mind was, ‘Oh, please don’t be like Mastodon…’ and I’m glad that it is not! I like the fact that it is kinda’ similar to Reddit (interface-wise), but at the same time, it is decentralized, which means it is (hopefully) going in the right direction.