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Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is heartbreaking. The Israeli people supporting this disgust me. They have no justification for targeting and killing all these people due to some arcane feud.

I's listening to Podsave the World, his description of a little girl sitting traumatised after a bombing, then starting to bleed profusely from her nose, and the realisation that these were her final moments...

This is disgusting, and i'm ashamed of my general friendliness to Israel in the past. They deserve none.

Others who support, or commit similar crimes disgust me as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

some arcane feud

I think people have been led, deliberately, to believe it's a lot more arcane and/or complicated than it really is. Israel is just a bog-standard settler-colonial project.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm not really there with that description. It emphasises a pillar of the feuds over others. But I suppose you could argue the same of my initial description.

I intended it to encompass that, but i suppose arcane isn't really seen as 20th Century inclusive.

But none of it really matters while the medieval destruction of these people continues.

That was my point denigrating the description of their superficial reasoning to 'arcane feuds'. Any reasons for the conflict no longer have meaning against its barbarity.

If peace ever comes there is no justice that can be metered out, no reparations that would satisfy. The Israeli state is doing to another peoples something akin to what the Nazi State did to the Jewish Europeans, and other marginalised groups.

I know i'm not informing anyone of anything new here, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

This is disgusting, and i’m ashamed of my general friendliness to Israel in the past. They deserve none.

Same here. I used to think they were the good guys. Just shows what a diet of selected (and directed) media does. Any sympathy I had for them is long gone.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If You DONT like Starving Kids to Death you're ANTI SEMETIC!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

The crap I've heard Zionists say to anti-Zionist Jews, this is right on the money.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jerusalem's full of Israeli Eichmanns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

full of nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

FYI, Eichmann was a nazi and one of the major organisers of the holocaust. Source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Hamas had offered to release all of the Israeli captives, in exchange for an end to the war.

Israel had demanded the militant group lay down their weapons, something Hamas viewed as a red line.

Damn that's a shame