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[–] 54 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Imagine telling a war correspondent that they can't go to a zone of conflict because "It's too dangerous, there are people shooting each other there"

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago

    They're more worried about covering up their troops accidentally murdering war correspondents because it's hard to blame it on "crossfire" when there's only one side actively murdering people.

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Remind me again how this totally isn't a genocide?

    Something something something "we can't do that, we're Israel?"

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago*

    We've reached the point at which the evidence for a genocide is beyond denying. What we are seeing now is the manufacturing of consent for accepting it.

    When history is written about this time there will be an entire field dedicated to trying to understand how a humanity more aware and more exposed to the crimes of its ruling class, than anytime in history, was able to remain so passively accepting of them.

    It is almost like the media covering the crimes of our ruling class (genocide, pedophilia, imperialism) serves as a opiate for the masses. A misunderstanding that when these things are being covered that that means that someone must be doing something to stop them.

    It feels like people aren't waiting for the Dam to burst. It feels like they're watching a storm approaching and just accepting (falsely) their inability to do anything to prevent it.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This assumes that Israel would accept or react to international condemnation, it also assumes that there would be international condemnation neither of which will happen.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    No, Israel isn't the target audience.

    People able to directly or indirectly influence the Western governments enabling Israeli atrocities are.

    Without weapons, ammo, rockets, bombs, and targeting systems from the US, Germany, UK, France, and other countries, Israel won't be able to keep it up at anywhere near the current scale, eventually at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Blows your mind to realize that lies and ruses like these work on some people, huh? A lot of them.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    You gotta wonder what kind of dirt Israel had on the U.S. and other countries.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I still don't get what the conflict is since Israel openly admitted to funding hamas in the first place. It's basically israel vs israel.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    We have that guy who wanted to not poop for 3 days.

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