Y'know, I'm starting to think these "IDF" fellows aren't entirely on the up-and-up.
But they call themselves the most moral army in the world. It can't be a lie!
)s
B-b-but hostages.
They seem okay also killing the hostages
The most moral army in the world (tm) has identified that it's better to die standing than to live kneeling, so they did the hostages that favor. These charitable humanitarians deserve a medal!
I just wish a few more of them had more "are we the baddies" -moments.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
“... you see even the Israeli soldiers are competing with each other to publish stories on social media about the level of brutality they are willing to inflict on Palestinians,” he said
Zionists are the new Nazis.
Treat them accordingly.
Except everyone treated nazis fine till they attacked allied countries. They were in power since 33'. And since 33', they already were introducing their racial ideologies and opressing people. Kristalnacht was in 38' and nobody gave a shit. The phoney war lasted till nazis invaded Benelux and attacked France. The Allies had intel given to them straight from Auschwitz about experiments with poison gas and mass murder of soviet soldiers in march 41', and regular updates up to 43'.
In geopolitics, people don't really give a crap about unjust treatment, something being unfair, about torture and even exterminations of an entire peoples. It is only used against them when trying to convince their own to not dodge a draft. Morality is mostly for propaganda and flips easily once it's not convenient to use it. Examples - US and Ukraine, where aiding Ukraine against an agressor was the moral thing to do on the onset of the war, and now out of the blue, Ukrainians are corrupt and cannot be trusted with funding or weapons. US and Palestine - not doing much because Israel is in a very important strategical position, despite thousands of people being killed, herded like cattle, starved.
To the surprise of no one
They were clearly human shields and there was a Hamas standing right behind them so they had to drive over them.
Has Israel been the bad guy the entire time, or just as of a few months ago?
The entire time. Obligatory "what Hamas did on October 7th was horrendous," but if you look into the history of Israel's occupation of Palestinian land, it's pretty understandable (although not justified) why something like that happened. Israel has been the bad guy from its conception.
Israel has been particularly monstrous the past few months, but this is something it has been working towards for decades. Only recently has it felt willing and able to go this far without its allies pulling their support.
Yeah, for sure. I used to think they just both sucked, and maybe they still do, but there's no excuse for the level to which Israel has gone. And now I question whether Palestine was acting in some sort of "self defense" all along.
I think back to other revolutions and such, and although they aren't 1-1 comparisons, I wonder.... I bet the people of England thought the Americans were absolute terrorists during the revolutionary war.
Anyways. Not an expert... just been trying to make sense of the happenings.
A closer analogy would be the Irish fighting for Independence from Britain, or the Resistance in Apartheid South Africa.
I grabbed this from some post awhile back. I would imagine there is an updated version somewhere, but even if we stop where it does - yeesh. Parents - imagine this life for your child and how it would likely impact your attitude (and theirs) regarding your neighbors in Israel.
Check out the history, the concept of Transfer of Palestinians goes back to 1882, culminated into an ethnic cleansing campaign Plan Dalet in 1947, and a Permanent occupation for more de facto annexation since 1967. Creating an Apartheid reality for decades.
The entire time, pretty much. Hamas is horrible too, yes, yes, yes, I'm not a Holocaust denier, but the Israeli government has been and continues to be fucking awful.
Let's just imagine the scene. To be honest if I was this person's father, son or any other close relative I'd be lining up to join Hamas. Now multiply that times... way too much.
A community for discussing events around the World
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/