Surely this will not be seen as an escalation and a deterioration of relations?

In terms of particulates? China's really cleaned that up in recent years.

But, well, China doesn't have massive piles of natural gas it can burn instead of coal. Coal is notoriously dirty.

Thing is, Canada has been looking inward. That's what makes it worse.

The IDF just found another ~~journalist~~Hamas in Lebanon.

You'd think Americans would be more sympathetic for people fighting for liberty...

Condemning war crimes is communist and authoritarian.

Over the however many years of the Donbass conflicts and the Russia-Ukraine war, less children died than in a few weeks of bombings by Israel. Russia has oriented their invasion primarily towards regions that are ethnically Russian. Israel has oriented their invasion primarily towards regions that are ethnically Palestinian Arabs. Today, the civilian death toll in Gaza (~7000) after less than three weeks of fighting is approaching that in the Russian War in Ukraine (~9500) after almost two years and already exceeds that of the Ukrainian War in Donbass (~3500) after 7 years of fighting.

The Russia-Ukraine war is a war, and it reflects in how it's been conducted. No single strike throughout either war caused 500+ civilian casualties. Neither side has tried to level the others' cities entirely (though both sides have struck civilian targets and used disproportionate force). Neither side has sought the eradication of the others' peoples. Both sides are, to a significant degree, similarly equipped and armed. Both sides could enter into peace negotiations at any time and those peace negotiations won't involve the complete removal of either people from their country. The closest comparable is maybe Ukraine on Donbass, but the same still holds: neither side came even close to the level of disregard for human life that the IDF is exhibiting.

Israel isn't Russia-lite, Israel is worse. They're not even close to comparable.

UN agency in Palestine blames Hamas of stealing Gaza aid, then deletes post on X and refutes claim

Reminder to be suspicious of all headlines!

In this case, the previous headline said that people purporting to be from the health authority of the de facto government of Gaza (i.e. Hamas) asked for medical supplies and UNRWA gave them... medical supplies.

lemmy.ca defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, who are driving top-level comments on here. Since you can't see the top-level comments, you also can't see any discussion below.

I opposed lemmy.ca's decision to defederated from hexbear based on the perceived behaviour of hexbear users on other instances for exactly this reason: I think an instance's role is to police the actions of users posting to that instance, not to police their users' exposure to other instances.

The fact that I have to is a condemnation of this community.

According to the IDF, targeting civilians is their right.

That's not the distinction you should be making.

It's sad that any bad sentiment towards the Zionist regime is getting conflated with antisemitism. You don't have to hate Jewish people to hate an apartheid state dead-set on ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Similarly, you don't have to like how Hamas operates to sympathize with their goal of overthrowing said apartheid state.