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German-Israeli Shani Louk is confirmed dead, 3 weeks after Hamas captured her and paraded her through Gaza

German-Israeli Shani Louk is confirmed dead, 3 weeks after Hamas captured her and paraded her through Gaza in her underwear

https://news.yahoo.com/german-israeli-shani-louk-confirmed-102851187.html

Shani Louk, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival during Hamas' October 7 terrorist attacks, has been confirmed dead, according to Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

German-Israeli Shani Louk is confirmed dead, 3 weeks after Hamas captured her and paraded her through Gaza in her underwear

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anteaters

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We have all seen the video of her broken body being paraded through Gaza and the people spitting on her. Hamas did that and they brought death and destruction to Gaza.

ShroOmeric

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Hamas AND Israel both brought death and destruction to Gaza. Palestinian children are not bombing themselves now.

blazeknave

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Shut the fuck up. Israel did not kill this girl. Hamas did. Two way street if you're going to pretend you care about Palestinian victims.

RIPandTERROR

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🍿🤨

bl4ckblooc

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Fuck you, you clearly have no idea what has been going on FOR DECADES. What Hamas did is despicable, but this attack is a direct result of decades of apartheid violence and war crimes.

blazeknave

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I've been following this in detail for over 30 years friend. Clearly I hit a nerve. Picture that girl getting raped and murdered. Blame her more. That's you big dog. Not me. I've said nothing to defend the IDF in a month. Just pointing out you antisemitic fucks using dead Muslim babies as an excuse. I'm sure whatever enlightened place you live welcomes Muslim refugees with open arms right? Look yourself in the mirror humanist.

bl4ckblooc

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Holy fuck, you do realize that this isn’t about just one girl? How about the women in the West Bank who have been raped and beaten while having their homes destroyed. You are so fucking brain dead you don’t even make sense, just keep jumping around without even putting out a coherent thought. You can tell the people who actually are bigots because they keep bringing up race in regards to this conflict. Just admit you hate brown people.

twisted28

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blazeknave

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What? I can tell ignorant Nazis to shut up if I choose cunt. There is no debate this girl's death along with every civilian on both sides is a tragedy. Do you DISagree? How is that arrogant? Hit a nerve bitch? Look in the mirror if that made you angry. What exactly is it your defending? What was I wrong about big dog?

twisted28

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DarkThoughts

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Israel fed this shit with their shitty politics. You can't oppress and kill civilians, taking their homes, and generally just put everyone in some massive ghetto with 0 chances to have a better future without radicalizing people. They're definitely responsible for this as well. And Israel is the one flattening all those houses. Just look at the fucking casualties.

Your last sentence is also just projection. You just use Shani for your fucking agenda. Disgusting.

Squizzy

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I have not seen that thankfully

DogMuffins

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I don't understand why someone would want to see that.

bezerker03

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It is sadly the reality of the situation. Only someone fucked up can see that and the other videos from that day (example the slaughtered elderly at the bus stop etc) and think "Oh Hamas are the good guys."

DogMuffins

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I think the number of people who think hamas are the good guys is infinitessimal compared to the number of people who think Israel shouldn't be genocidal.

WuTang

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what the fuck did I just read! Israel military should indeed kill children, shouldn't they? fucking bastard you are.

Heavily armed, full of advantages, but are there, behind their joysticks killing toddlers! What an army of piece of shit!

DogMuffins

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You might have misunderstood my comment.

goat

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It's reality. You want to understand the hatred felt by everything in that region? You have to watch it uncensored.

DogMuffins

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I disagree. I don't think that watching a few videos could help someone "understand" the hatred as much as reading and listening.

goat

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Your imagination can't match the nastiness of reality

DogMuffins

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I very much doubt that.

meekah

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so the past 50 years of the gaza strip being bombed by israel have not brought death and desctruction to gaza? that's ignoring the constant blockades and other restrictions israel put on gaza as well.

nucawysi

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lets not forget the blockade by egypt too, even jordan at one point wanted to kick out and backtrack citizenship for all descendants of palestinian refugees

blazeknave

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You really don't want to go back 50 years and review both sides. Your arguments get weaker the more you actually look past the year 2010.

TranscendentalEmpire

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I mean, the main start of the conflict was over 70 years ago. I'm not sure if Israel really comes out looking that much better.

They unilaterally declared themselves a state and ended up expelling over 700k people from their homes. They even utilized biological warfare, poisoning wells with typhus.

While there have been crimes against humanity committed by both sides, the reason people focus on Israel is that they are in the sole position of power. Palestine has no way to barter or negotiate, and when all other forms of discourse are eliminated, then the only option is violence.

Earthwormjim91

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Arab nations forced hundreds of thousands of Jews out of their homes and into Israel when the Brits controlled it.

Israel accepted the UN proposal for a two state solution, giving Gaza and the West Bank to Palestine.

Palestine rejected it and launched a war against Israel with the help of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran in an attempt to eliminate the Jews in Israel.

TranscendentalEmpire

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Arab nations forced hundreds of thousands of Jews out of their homes and into Israel when the Brits controlled it.

Israel did not exist under British rule..... are you talking about the blockade of Jerusalem in 47? I don't think you know what you are talking about, there were only 500k Jews in all of Palestine when the British were in charge. And a lot more Palestinians were displaced during that conflict than Jews.

Israel accepted the UN proposal for a two state solution, giving Gaza and the West Bank to Palestine.

Yeah..... That's why people were upset. The Jewish population made up 1/3 of the population, and owned only 7% of the land during the mandate, but we're given 56% of the country, which just happened to be the most valuable land.

Of course people are going to be pissed, a minority group was just awarded the majority of the country for free.

makingrain

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They're referring to Operation Magic Carpet and the many other transfers of Jews to Israel.

The other user clearly is clearly knowledgable on the matter.

TranscendentalEmpire

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Clearly not, as he said this was an operation when the British controlled Palestine. Magic carpet happened in 49', two years after the initial outbreak of violence.

We were discussing the initial cause of the violence, not one of its results.

meekah

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Truth be told, I am not old enough to have cared about issues like this pre 2010. So what exactly do you think justifies israels behavior here? What happened before 2010 that shows that Palestine is the aggressor?

blazeknave

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Who justified Israel's behavior? You people just come here to fight and ignore human life. I never said that. Hamas has been hiding behind babies to blow up other babies for decades. Their charter is defined as the eradication of Jews on earth. Do you know any of that?

Pre 2010 is a joke. Your opinion is uninformed by definition. This conflict goes back way beyond 1948. 13 years doesn't tell the story of who Hamas is, antifadah, etc. Hamas has been a blight on Palestine.

meekah

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Well, fair enough, in this comment chain nobody justified Israels behavior.

I know Hamas has been hiding behind civilians and children, and Hamas are absolutely disgusting. Definitely. But I think it's necessary to acknowledge that bombing civilians to get rid of terrorists is counterproductive. IDF is almost certainly creating more terrorists than they are killing by doing that. I'm sure some of the civilians already want to destroy Israel, but I think most of them get indoctrinated when joining Hamas after seeing how friends and family keep getting killed by IDF.

bl4ckblooc

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Okay so you actually don’t know anything that has happened. Thanks for telling us you are ignorant as fuck.

meekah

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it's funny that you think asking about a situation is ignorance, but alright.

bl4ckblooc

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I don’t see anyone in here asking a serious question.

blazeknave

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Hamas uses babies as human shields. Way before the IDF killed thousands. You hear of intifadah? These are facts. Did you know that? Before you tell me I'm ignorant and yell another factoid back at me, do you know these are facts? Acknowledge me before whatabouting or shut your fucking mouth

bl4ckblooc

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Are you talking about the first intifada in 1987 that occurred after IDF forces killed four refugees with a truck?

And intifada means ‘uprising’ you fucking racist. Like Jesus Christ, at least try to hide the fact that the only thing you care about is killing brown people.

WuTang

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"It is kind of more complicated than that" when it is really not!

let me just start with this postulate:

palestinians: natives
israelis: colons

Should I add than one is heavily militarized and has control over infrastructures?

ParsnipWitch

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That's wrong though. Palestinians and Israelis both stem from ancestors from the area. You could even say that at least in Jerusalem the Palestinians came later.

WuTang

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bullshit! you want to go back to what? neolithic ?

Mrkawfee

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Have you seen videos of Israelis cheering every time they hear bombs exploding in Gaza?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzAkNnCOCYB/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

bezerker03

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I mean after what happened it's going to turn a lot of people dark. No different than in the states after 9/11. I legit know people that signed up just to "kill some sand you know what's to get pay back". That's fucked up yes. And wrong. But hardly unexpected just like I expect citizens of Gaza to enmase celebrate the death of Jews now.

JewGoblin

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well I guess that makes killing this citizen ok then

Mrkawfee

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That's a terrible thing to say.

assassin_aragorn

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So is responding to a human atrocity with "yeah but what about these other people celebrating an atrocity"

goat

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thats the whole conflict tho :(

prole

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How is simply stating facts, "a terrible thing to say"?

LollerCorleone

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Fuck Hamas. They are a blight on the Palestinian cause.

Edit: Typo

1847953620

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blight?

LollerCorleone

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Yes

Neil

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Hot take: this is only news because she's pretty. Where's the heart-breaking stories of the other thousands that have died? Were they too ugly to give a shit about?

bezerker03

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This is news because she was one of the first videos that went viral that day. And to this day there are still people denying it that she died and that she is home safe. There was even a so called interview with her mother who said she was alive. They even went so far to say the truck video was them bringing her to a hospital (ya know because you beat half naked in her underwear body with your sandals to administer first aid).

The Internet used "her being alive" as one of the first propaganda pieces to try to paint the photo that nothing happened Oct 7 and Israel are all liars.

Turns out it's exactly as the videos made it look. Just like the woman being led into a jeep with dark drried blood all over the ass of her pants was probably bleeding from mass rape even though the Internet tried to find every excuse for their behaviors.

Marin_Rider

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the terrorism deniers/excusers are pretty disgusting on the internet

WuTang

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Please, add more add more, we must make the most of Hamas! Did Hamas ate her too? You know, we still have room for Israeli delirium.
You are all so ridiculous with your tabloid stories to hide the criminal acts that Israel is committing.
"A german-israeli woman dead"
"+3000 children smashed under bombings"

"yeah, but Shani Louk! and you, come about people without name and sexy photo!"

Lols

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nobody here is hiding stories about the criminal acts israel is committing, and in fact a lot of thr folks talking about killing and raping random women being bad are not pro israel

do you ever have a moment of clarity between frothing over folks saying torture is bad and think 'am i a bad person'?

afraid_of_zombies

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I don't know when the truth became your enemy nor do I particularly care. Both sides have and continue to do bad things.

cactusupyourbutt

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I think the mother was just in denial

shasta

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The way I remember it is her mom said that Hamas claimed she was still alive. Not surprised it was a lie. Her mother must be even more devastated now after having that little bit of hope.

masquenox

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bleeding from mass rape

Prove this.

blazeknave

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You don't think that's happening?

masquenox

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So you don't have any proof that she was raped? Apart from white supremacist propaganda?

snek

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I think it's news because her body was taken around on a truck while people spat on her.

goat

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She was one of the women raped to death and then paraded through the streets. That and she was a foreigner.

intrepid

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I'm not familiar with the story. Are you saying that she was paraded after her death?

Edit: Nevermind. I saw the video just now. I'm at a loss for words to describe people who do this to innocent civilians.

goat

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Hamas. Terrorists.

The same people who use gaza as civilians and then blame Israel for the casualties. Their bosses are currently in Qatar, the same Qatar that has an explosion of meetings with different media mongrels during Fifa, particularly elon musk.

afraid_of_zombies

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Imagine you have an invisible man in the sky who approves of everything you do and will make sure that when you die you go to a happy land forever. Now you understand.

intrepid

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This is exactly why I hate organized religion. Want to believe in God? That's your concern. But don't come to me peddling your sky daddy.

greenmarty

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I think it's rather because Hammas produced the video with her being pressed into back of their truck in unnatural position half naked and paraded trough the Gaza streets while tens or maybe hundreds people were celebrating her humiliation . But i might be wrong. 🤷‍♂️

DragonTypeWyvern

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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic-

Everyone's favorite statistician

Blackmist

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Here's one right here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67266873

Post it, upvote it, give it it's own thread. Both tales are appalling.

afraid_of_zombies

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Well the important thing is you get to be superior to everyone else.

dangblingus

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Hot take: making an astute observation for the purposes of having a conversation about media literacy isn't being narcissistic.

yoz

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Sad ! Thats the world we live in

twisted28

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Dubito_Cogito

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Nope it ain't, and it's mostly sensors and cams. Guards weren't missing, it was religious holiday and most of the IDF came back home. A lot of paragliding recreations occur often and Hamas used this opportunity to their advantage. I know these things because I know few people who work in the IDF. I'm not jewish but I live in Israel for my job. The wall is mostly fence, and only in important places it's a wall.

I assume you know that more than half a million Palestinians cross that border every day.. it's not that strict. Although from now on it might be

goat

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Israel ignored the warnings from Egypt

PhlubbaDubba

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The "wall" is a chain link fence, Hamas just cut it down where they wanted to sally out through

twisted28

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ParsnipWitch

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Perhaps the thousands of rockets fired at Israel that night and several attacks at multiple sides at the same time on a Jewish holiday had people distracted?

nucawysi

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i assume a lot of it is high tech and sensor based, that can all fail with hacking or bad interpretation of the data. Also, the infiltrators likely first flew over the fence and possibly disabled parts of it once they were inside to allow others to come in the conventional way.

shadowspirit

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I'm very saddened to hear about the death of this young woman. I'm also sad to hear about deaths of many, many Palestinians. I do not think it's coincidence that Hamas decides to launch a major offensive in the midst of talks with between Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalize relations between the two after many years of relative peace. We can't have peace in the Middle East because it doesn't serve the ends to the major regional powers.

Both sides in this conflict are used as pawns for the political ends of others. Innocent people are those that get caught in the midst of it all. Hamas didn't do this without a green light so as much vitriol being spilled in this thread we have to take a step back. These fights have been brewing and going on for generations. If you take the short term view much of the strife we see today is the fallout from WWII and that is used as leverage by other nefarious parties.

It's not the Israeli people's fault they do not have a home. It's not the Palestinian people's fault they do not have a home.

Some of the comments in this thread are sickening, hateful, narrow, and short-sighted.

nucawysi

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jet

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Tragic. Her poor mother stuck not knowing for 3 weeks... my heart goes out to them.

WuTang

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Tragic. Her poor mother stuck not knowing for 3 weeks… my heart goes out to them.

Yes, more tragic than this mother wearing her baby in her arms smashed by a - supposed - legal entity.

A civilian life is a civilian life but here, it is not me who breaks the balance! Disgusting!

Lols

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more tragic than this mother wearing her baby in her arms smashed by a - supposed - legal entity.

can you point to the specific sentence where they even implied this, or are you actually just throwing a tantrum because someone said 'man getting your daughter tortured and murdered must suck'

jet

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Take a breath. This is a human life that ended. Have respect and don't diminish the loss. One day you will die too, and you would want people to treat your passing with respect and honor, not a talking point.

There are thousands of other threads you can hash out the unfairness of apartheid, and the realities of struggle, this isn't the right place for that.

WuTang

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I am not diminishing her death. At this stage, it is indecent to talk about her death - and use it by the way in the most grossy way - while the Israeli army is stomping civilians, like deaf.

If they wanted to save her, the approach would have been:

to cease bombing OR
be real men and going on the field, not killing kids.

jet

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This is a human life, don't twist her death into your talking point, that is disrespectful to her memory and to her family.

Go to literally any other world news post and start a argument there. You can make the same talking points.

DarkGamer

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Fucking monsters. Here's footage of her just before the attack, having fun at an EDM concert.

blanketswithsmallpox

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Is it because of mobile or ubo but I didn't see the video? Pretty sure the start showed her dead tits in the back of a vehicle though? That was weird.

NSFW NSFL Dead screenshot from NY Post video

blazeknave

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Downvotes bc you're antisemitic monsters using Muslims as an excuse to hate Jews. You don't care about any humans if you're downvoting. You're going to burn in hell while you whine "but what about muh IDF"

broface

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So nice that she was able to travel from Germany to party in Israel.

I wonder what the travel logs for Gazans are like, and why that is.

dangblingus

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Not that any death is worth more or less than another, but it is surreal to know that the people killed at the music festival were privileged young people completely removed from the conflict, and most of the people killed in Gaza are poverty stricken children and starving adults.

War is ugly and unfair.

JewGoblin

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but but but but but

blazeknave

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People more like you than the ones in Gaza? Yeah, it's sickening how we walk around all day while the third world exists everywhere

why this conflict? Why this colonialism? Why not the million others? That didn't just experience 10x 9/11 per capita? Bc Jews.

praise_idleness

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Wow...just...wow...

PhlubbaDubba

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Yeah clearly anyone who can afford a vacation deserves to be kidnapped raped brutalized and paraded through the streets before being left to die as a hostage over 3 weeks.

broface

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No, that's not clear at all.

But you should try to understand the insane excess these partygoers had compared to the squalor that Gazans have to live in.

It makes sense that with such disparity in qualities of life, those who feel they got the short end of the stick fight back against those who have too much.

This entire comment chain, as usual, is just people getting upset at criticizing excess wealth. Pretty much unless it's a billionaire, you're not allowed to criticize excess wealth.

The closer we get to the root of the problem, the more people we'll find that contribute to it and the less we'll find that are willing to admit it.

PhlubbaDubba

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No it doesn't make sense you rape apologizing dingbat.

assassin_aragorn

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Congratulations, you win the worst take of the day.

broface

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I hope you fit in.

BreakDecks

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It's so hard to fight for the Palestinian people when soulless monsters like you show up to represent the cause. It's becoming harder and harder to figure out who is anti-apartheid, and who wants another Holocaust.

jimbo

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TopRamenBinLaden

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If you think what happened to this girl was justified, not only are you broken, but you are no different than the people who support the genocide of Palestinians.

broface

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I don't think it was justified.

blazeknave

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I wonder what they're like in your country. Or in most European countries complaining about Muslim refugees every day. Shut the fuck up bitch.

broface

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Oh don't get me wrong, I talk about how ridiculously expensive traveling is all the time. Anyone who engages in this sort of behavior has no right to complain about 'not having enough money', yet they routinely do. Lol.

Some people just don't know the difference between needs and wants.

Shut the fuck up bitch.

Come on man, there's no need to be doing that.

DarkGamer

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Could it be because of never-ending attacks against civilians because they lost multiple wars yet refuse to negotiate for a viable peace?

Nah, must be because the Jews are mean. 🙄

broface

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yet refuse to negotiate for a viable piece?

Look at any colonized people who have made peace on their colonizer's terms for why they might not want to do that.

Let's see here, just off the top of my head:

Native Americans, Native Australians, Native South Africans.

To be fair, Palestine already resembles the reservations and slums the native people I mentioned have been forced into by their colonizers.

TopRamenBinLaden

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I feel like you are missing the line between fighting for their freedom, and publicly raping innocent concert goers to death a bit, though. I completely understand them lashing out. I will never understand the targets that they chose to lash out at. It's not smart from a strategic standpoint, even.

broface

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I'm not missing any line.

That's just the realities of war.

DarkGamer

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Look at any colonized people who have made peace on their colonizer’s terms for why they might not want to do that.

Jews were more refugees than colonists and are playing by a much more humane playbook than the colonizers of those other groups did, but let's ignore that for a second. Look at what has happened as a result of refusing to make peace. Is Gaza faring better than most former colonies right now? Your example, Native Americans, may have some issues and may have been screwed out of their ancestral lands but they have full US citizenship, freedom of movement and freedom of return. They aren't being bombed because they aren't hostile and aren't killing civilians.

zaph

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Your example, Native Americans, may have some issues and may have been screwed out of their ancestral lands but they have full US citizenship, freedom of movement and freedom of return.

How many years did that take?

They aren't being bombed because they aren't hostile and aren't killing civilians.

Blankets you dumb fuck.

DarkGamer

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How many years did that take?

They were granted citizenship in 1924, how long that was from pacification varies from tribe to tribe. What makes you think it will be a similar timeline in this other conflict? The circumstances seem wildly different.

Blankets you dumb fuck.

There's no need for name-calling. The smallpox blankets were a terrible atrocity, just as many terrible atrocities have occurred in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It didn't result in endless war and belligerence. There is peace between the US and native tribes at present.

goat

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Native Australians are called Aboriginals

How about new zealand tho?

kbotc

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It sure seems like it worked for the Irish.

Squizzy

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We were the stereotype terrorist until 9/11

BrandoGil

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Now people unironically ask Irish bartenders for car bombs and don't see the issue.

Squizzy

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It's never bothered me tbh, that's an American thing. Never heard of it until I visited

Redrum714

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Well if you stick to that braindead logic to justify terrorism you’re just going to get bombed with no support from modern nations.

When you declare a genocide on a group of people don’t be surprised when they fight back.

CheezyWeezle

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When you declare a genocide on a group of people don’t be surprised when they fight back.

So, to be clear here, you are condemning Israel here, correct? The ones who are actually perpetuating a genocide?

Redrum714

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Sure if you count defending yourself from genocide as genocide also.

AphoticDev

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Israel started the genocide. For that matter, they have a long history of starting fights with their neighbors. Sometimes it works out for them, and sometimes it doesn't, but the common theme is they always blame it on people wanting to genocide the Jews. Only idiots still fall for that shit.

Lucky for them, they have powerful allies that cover for them and drag their asses out of the fire each time. But public opinion is slowly changing, and at some point it's going to tip and Israel is going to pick a fight where nobody comes to their rescue. When that happens, I hope I'm around to appreciate them receiving their just rewards for being truly inhuman monsters.

prole

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Learn history.

leaskovski

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You look over there, and then you look at the comments in here. It's makes you wonder if the human race will ever live in peace. Shame on us all.

nucawysi

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ignorance is like a chaotic river you're trying to paddle through without a paddle. Anger is a sin. It takes wisdom and discipline to not let your emotions rule you.

YoBuckStopsHere

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We hit the post threshold for reports. Locked

Mr_Bott

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erranto

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Did they find the body to confirm the beheading. or is this the same story as the 40 beheaded babies propagandized by mass media.

Why the mess if one bullet could do a cleaner job. I don't think they have a fetish for beheading despite all other cruelties they can be capable of.

Edit: for those who are asking why I am talking about beheading rumors because NBC Titled its video with "Beheading" and refer to Israel's President saying: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ICR5ml2YPkI

Whyherro

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Who said she was beheaded? All it says in the article is she had a severe head injury and if you watched the video of her being paraded, you can clearly see she has a head injury most likely being shot in the head.

erranto

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Western Media as in the title of this video by NBC : https://youtube.com/watch?v=ICR5ml2YPkI

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atempuser23

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The article explains the details. Just like you said. Shot in the head.

erranto

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According to the title of this NBC video it says "Beheaded" , https://youtube.com/watch?v=ICR5ml2YPkI

So we don't know Who to believe

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Linkerbaan

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Oh man she was just innocently partying in a genocidal ethno state right next to worlds biggest open air prison. So sad.

Dremor

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Which isn't a reason to be paraded half naked nor killed for the sins of the power hungry leader of both states. There is no excuse good enough to indiscriminately kill civilians.

Linkerbaan

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She was paraded in the outfit she was partying in. They didn't need to strip her she did that herself.

Also when people have a rave party on Crimea are they just innocent civilians that should be completely harmless from Ukranian attacks? Unless Israel forced her to be partying on Palestinian land why was she there?

blazeknave

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20% downvotes. This site just hates Jews. Not Israel.

DarkGamer

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I also find it troubling how many people on the fediverse are apologists for Hamas.

bl4ckblooc

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I’m not a Hamas apologist, but I have noticed that there are just as many IDF apologists.

blazeknave

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Yeah, that's not equal at all buddy. The IDF is commiting atrocities. Also, nobody gives a shit about Israeli civilians and millions of us are worrying about the 4th Reich.

Zorque

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Why does everything have to equal out? These are peoples lives, not a fucking math equation.

blazeknave

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They wrote "just as many".. I agree with you hence my comment

DarkThoughts

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Piece of shit.

blazeknave

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Lol piece of shit bc a pattern of targeting Jewish civilians continueds and is worrisome? Elaborate please.

DarkThoughts

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You're a piece of shit because you don't give a shit about civilians because they're not part of your little hate group.

mrnotoriousman

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I got downvoted and shit on just for saying the videos from 10/7 showed really fucked up shit, including Shani. Some of the crowd on lemmy is pretty fuckin gross tbh, the Fediverse isn't going to pick up with the tankies taking over over every controversial political topic.

Gormadt

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I haven't seen the videos (and I don't plan to) because I don't need to see them to know it was some horrendously fucked up shit. Just reading the articles about it was more than enough.

But Israel bombing the shit out of Gaza and blockading food, water, electricity, fuel, etc from entering Gaza is straight up crimes against humanity.

Israel is punishing every single person in the area for the crimes of Hamas.

Hamas can fuck off but I understand why they came about.

mrnotoriousman

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Yeah I've made it a point to not to "pick a side" which is what I am seeing people do in most conversations about the topic. I'm atheist and have no stake in either and the whole thing is just a disgusting mess. The problem comes when people justify the "eye for an eye" response that both groups are taking.

hassanmckusick

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The problem comes when people justify the “eye for an eye” response that both groups are taking.

This is the all lives matter take of the middle east. Israel has killed 36x as many civilians as all pro-Palestine groups have killed Israeli civilians.

It's not an eye for an eye. It's genocide.

mrnotoriousman

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No, killing innocent civilians is never the answer no matter who has done what. And both groups are doing it. Israel can be a piece of shit for what they have done and are doing. And Hamas can be a piece of shit for what they did too, they are not mutually exclusive.

snek

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Report them and have them removed then. I'm sure the mods would be more than happy to remove anyone who does that...

DarkThoughts

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You'd be surprised. I mean, even downpunxx is still here trolling his extremist crap under every topic.

Blackmist

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The line between pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic is dangerously thin in places.

Zorque

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Especially in the minds of people who want to revel in their righteousness.

DarkThoughts

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100% upvotes on Kbin.

This whole topic sucks. It's like you can only have one extreme side to take instead of acknowledging fault on both sides. Meanwhile Tankies and Nazis continue to point fingers at each other, defending whichever team suits their current political agenda the most.
Hamas are terrorists that did an atrocity, Israel also is responsible for things escalating to this point, they still have a right to defend themselves, but the way they're doing it is also far from appropriate. If people cannot start to acknowledge everyone's wrongdoings, then I don't see how this area can ever reach stability. Even most politicians / countries seem to be too scared to do anything, to take a proper stance. Meanwhile there's more and more civilians dying over there.

Fucking bullshit. All of it.

iforgotmyinstance

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Lmfao the egg on your face is huuuge

How is despising Zionisim as a useless, hateful ideology hate for Jews? There's plenty of anti-Zionist Jews.

broface

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So nice that she was able to travel from Germany to party in Israel.

I wonder what the travel logs for Gazans are like, and why that is.

muhammad_the_pedo

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It's heartbreaking to think that I'd feel relieved in someway that she isn't suffering from all the rape and violence anymore...

sab

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Well, some of the released hostages report that while the experience is traumatizing, they were treated relatively well once held hostage. Of course, the released hostages were a) mostly elderly citizen and b) the ones Hamas chose to release, so there might be a selection bias. But the treatment of surviving hostages might not be as bad as initially feared. Let's hope they make it out soon and safely.

DarkGamer

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That old woman was beaten and robbed and kidnapped. She called the experience hell. You have a funny definition of treating her well.

Iirc, those people who were released worked on Palestinian causes.

sab

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With an emphasis on once held hostage. People were killed and mutilated during the kidnappings, the old lady who was later released was beaten with sticks and struggled to breathe during the motorcycle ride.

She said they were kept in clean rooms, slept on mattresses, and received medical attention. They received white cheese and cucumber for eating, and Hamas told them "We believe in the Quran: We're not going to hurt you". The former hostage, Oded, noted that they took care of even the smallest detail, and her son sad that "If everybody in there is in the same situation, there is room for optimism".

This doesn't justify any of the actions of the terrorist attack. Obviously the situation is awful. But there is a good chance the hostages are still allright, which is a glimmer of hope in an awful situation assuming you have any piece of your humanity still intact.

Furthermore, I don't believe my original post was that unclear, and you've clearly read the reporting. You knew exactly what I was referring to, and you're still out there wasting people's time trying to fuel hate. As if there's not enough of that already. Fuck off.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-24/ty-article/.premium/85-year-old-israeli-grandmother-recounts-hamas-captivity-says-government-deserted-us/0000018b-615d-d312-a1fb-f77f9aea0000
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/24/freed-israeli-hostage-hamas-attack-00123323

muhammad_the_pedo

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We believe in the Quran: We're not going to hurt you

Oh no! Better hide all the prepubescent minors else they'll try to "marry" them and have sex when they're 9, just like that Muhammad guy, the main character of that ridiculous fiction!

DarkGamer

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With an emphasis on once held hostage.

Oh okay so if we ignore the bad, brutal, inhumane parts she was treated well. Got to set those goal posts very carefully to make her treatment seem acceptable.

"Besides that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

you're still out there wasting people's time trying to fuel hate.

Ah yes, clearly it's my reactions to this fueling hate and not, you know all the murders. Maybe if I portrayed this old woman being kidnapped and beaten as humane it would calm things down? Is that what you're doing?

meekah

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I mean there is a huge gap between being tortured and raped, and getting decent food and medical attention. So yeah, in the context of being a fucking war hostage, seems like they were treated fairly decently.

DarkGamer

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Hamas should get a gold star for only beating and robbing this woman and not raping and torturing her?

meekah

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no, but the claim that Shani is now free from all the rape and violence is simply not accurate and fuels hatred unnecessarily.

broface

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What are you talking about? This entire comment chain is from someone talking about how hostages may be getting treated.

If anyone is moving goalposts, it's you. Lol.

broface

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Nah. It's just a normal reddit comment.

blazeknave

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Why downvoted? As a parent, this is accurate. Snowflake overeducated cunts don't want to hear it bc it doesn't fit their anger narrative. Sheeeit, maybe they'll need to be self aware and realize they're celebrating innocents being murdered. Fake woke shitheads.

rafa

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You watched too many movies

ubermeisters

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rafa

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The expression "You watched too many movies" is a common colloquial phrase that is used to convey the idea that an individual's perspective or perception of a situation has been significantly shaped by their exposure to movies. It suggests that their understanding may be unrealistic or exaggerated due to the dramatic and often exaggerated scenarios frequently depicted in cinematic storytelling. In other words, the phrase implies that the person's view of reality has been distorted by the influence of fictional narratives found in movies. It's a way of saying that someone's expectations or beliefs are not grounded in practical or realistic understanding but rather influenced by the world of fiction and entertainment.

This phrase is often used humorously or to highlight when someone's expectations do not align with the actual facts of a situation.

broface

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I used to think it was just an excuse to be a dick, but a lot of people legitimately watch too many movies and it shapes their view of the world.

WuTang

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You are all ridiculous with your dirty propaganda. "paraded, raped..." too big, like the story about beheaded babies. So, Hamas would have the time and leisure to do that under intense fucking bombing and fighting. What a joke! Israelis confirming every single jewish clichés that we heard on history channel about Nazi's vision on them!

Between, Yocheved Lifshitz, elderly recently freed has another story.

doom_and_gloom

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Has it been confirmed by mainstream news that she had dual citizenship? I've read but not verified that she was, and the I see the news is now acknowledging her as German-Israeli as opposed to just the German I saw in early reports.

1847953620

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Hmm, that would certainly change ~~things~~ nothing

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nautilus

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thankfully we won’t have to worry about retaliation, I’m sure Israel is very reasonable

DarkGamer

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Hamas earned this.

sab

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If you're going to equate the dead children in Gaza with Hamas, you might as well say this lady "earned" it on account of the policies of the Israeli far right.

There's no such thing as "earning" the mass murder of civilians.

DarkGamer

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Way to equate self-defense with cold-blooded medieval murder. Israel didn't start this but they sure as hell will finish it.

Hamas did earn a military reprisal, and they're hiding among civilians. Civilians who voted them into power. Let's not pretend that they don't share responsibility to some degree.

Maybe having lots of kids and remaining in Gaza where your government is literally a terrorist organization isn't the best idea to keep children safe.

I think we all know the real point is to maximize civilian and child casualties so that they can make Israel look like bad guys in the press. Hamas wanted people to ignore evacuation orders and stay in buildings as they were being bombed.

Szymon

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Hamas has kept power for almost two decades without an election, of which over 50% of the population of Gaza was too young to vote in, on account of them not being born.

Innocent people are dying because Israel propped up the terrorist Hamas to prevent a real, peaceful government from forming and bringing forward a two country solution.

anteaters

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And no one cared about the terrorist regime - especially those who don't have to live under Hamas and yell "Free Palestine". Everyone liked Hamas well enough as long as they kill some jews once in a while.

Bigmouse

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I don't know man. Everyone in my family that is politically active dislikes Fatah, especially Abbas, but they LOATHE Hamas. There are palestinian circles that curse Hamas for bringing about a second Naqba. It's not as black and white as it appears.

It's just that Gaza is a special case. It's poor and miserable, hosting plenty fertile ground for extremist indoctrination. Have you ever tried arguing with someone from such a background about means of liberation and their justification? That's a mighty complicated discussion.

DarkGamer

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That's the funny thing about electing a fascist terrorist organization, that might be your last election. People always share the consequences of their belligerent governments in war, you may not like it, but that's reality.

That's right, Israel negotiated with Hamas. I don't suspect they will make that mistake again. Hamas will cease to exist along with every building that harbors them.

TheDankHold

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You keep saying “they” and I’m just waiting for your mind to wrap itself around the fact that the overwhelming majority of current Palestinians were not voting age or even born at the time Hamas took power.

Not to mention they only got a plurality then started pushing moderates out of windows.

DarkGamer

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Again, people share consequences with their government regardless of whether it's a democracy or whether they personally support said government. I'm sure there were a lot of German people who were opposed to Nazi policy but shared their fate.

If Gaza has the capability of murdering thousands of civilians, I suspect that they have the capability of deposing Hamas if they were so inclined.

So what are you suggesting, Israel should stop attacking Gaza and leave Hamas in power because there are children there? That's exactly why they hide behind them, this sentiment.

bl4ckblooc

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Israel didn’t start this? Have you been under a rock since WWII ended?

Szymon

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Hamas earned this, not the rest of the innocent Palestinians who never had a choice on who represented them. The innocent Israeli citizens didn't earn this either.

DarkGamer

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They probably should have left long ago when the Egyptian border was open for anyone who wanted to leave.

TheDankHold

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The crossing that Israel bombed? You do know why it was closed right?

DarkGamer

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"Long ago."

It was closed because IDF attacked a tunnel under the wall near the crossing. It was open before then and it has been reopened since. Unfortunately, Egypt only lets out ~300/day so it's probably unlikely that refugees are lucky enough to leave at present. Egypt cares more about not destabilizing themselves like other neighboring countries did than they do about Palestinian refugees.

ThePyroPython

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Nuke both of them.

Can't commit terror and war crimes if there's no one left or a "holy land" to squabble over. /s

TheBananaKing

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So are 3000 Palestinian children.

yazirian

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This may come as a surprise to some whataboutists, but it turns out that multiple things can all be senseless tragedies at the same time.

TheBananaKing

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Yeah, but one's 3000 times worse.

broface

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I dunno. What's the ratio of hot german girls to poor brown Gazans?

I'd say it's at least a 10 to 1 ratio, where 1 german girl is worth at least 10 brown Gazans.

I think Israel may prove me wrong, though, and increase the ratio.

blazeknave

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Picture that girl.. pile of meat being raped to death. Picture hee mother picturing it. Call her a hot girl who's life has no value some more. Great work humanist.

anteaters

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Picture that girl… pile of meat being raped to death.

He does so often. We all know why.

broface

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Yeah. Then picture ten times as many children being bombed, shot, and starved while living in horrendous conditions at the behest of their occupiers.

Stamau123

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Damn, you right, this is justifiable

Scrof

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Leftists are such cannibals with their pity points maths. Reprehensible.

DarkGamer

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I suspect people simping for Hamas are more likely to be islamists than leftists. I'm pretty far left but absolutely cannot see Hamas as the good guys here, letting them successfully hide behind children because of international concern trolling is not a solution and will eventually lead to more deaths.

TopRamenBinLaden

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Thank you for pointing this out. I am a leftist. I am an athiest/agnostic from a Muslim family. I wholeheartedly condemn what Israel has done and is doing to Palestine. That being said, fuck Hamas so much. They are no better than the Israeli government and IDF, and they would be worse if they were the ones who had the upper hand. You can support the plight of the Palestinians while condemning Hamas. They aren't mutually exclusive.

Conservative Islam is like Conservative Christianity with nothing to hold it back from going full crusade mode. Abrahamic religions are a curse on the world.

DarkGamer

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Conservative Islam is like Conservative Christianity with nothing to hold it back from going full crusade mode. Abrahamic religions are a curse on the world.

I agree, although I'd characterize them more as extremists than conservatives. There's a lot of extremist Jews intentionally starting shit too; the way that some of the Orthodox Jews treat Palestinians is atrocious. Their flash-mob takeover of the Al-Aqsa Mosque was citied as one of the reasons for Hamas' terror attack. When one believes that they are right, that they are the chosen ones, and are literally supported by God, it's a recipe for endless conflict and atrocity with no end. Compromise becomes impossible without going against one's conception of God.

I suspect all parties would behave differently if they gave up traditional myth and realized that we only have one go through this life and it's not a prelude to something else.

TopRamenBinLaden

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Well said. Extremists is a good word, as there are religious people with conservative beliefs that still wouldn't cross the line into violence.

I completely agree that the world would be better off if we could somehow shed the chains of harmful religions. The decline of religion seems to come about naturally with education and modernization as shown with the decline of Christianity in the modern western world. The myths start to lose their power when there is access to a bunch of evidence to the contrary of what some musty old book says.

Iran used to be a beautiful place when the people in charge there were focused on modernization instead of religion. As soon as conservative Muslims took over, the focus was put back on Islam, and the place is an authoritarian third world hellhole now.

TheBananaKing

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Why do you think not wanting people to bomb children is simping for Hamas?

Why do you think giving a shit about bombing thousands of children is 'concern trolling'?

Illuminostro

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Because "Muh Team."

DarkGamer

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One cannot bomb Hamas without bombing children because Hamas hides behind children. If one allows this to prevent tactical bombing, it's now a tactical advantage, so expect more of it.

They are keenly aware of the reaction that the inevitable deaths of children they caused will illicit in the media.

Of course Hamas could be deposed without the bombing if Gazans did it themselves… It would be nice if they showed as much concern for their own children's safety as they expect Israel to.

TheBananaKing

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So you see, we just have to bomb children. It's the moral thing to do.

:wrings hands insincerely:

Rolder

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I’m decently far left as well and my general opinion is that both sides of this conflict are bad guys. Ain’t no winners here.

nucawysi

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i saw a video recently that was studying the phenomenon of the left supporting Islamic dictatorship and the only real similarity between the two groups is their capacity to hate.

prole

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"pity points maths," AKA logic.

Szymon

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They're all fucking innocent, you monsters.

hark

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True, but the 3000 Palestinian children don't get a whole series of articles for each individual one. They're just a number, and apparently a meaningless one, given the ferocity of attacks by the Israeli government that has no limit when it comes to "retaliation".

PhlubbaDubba

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Yeah how dare people naturally gravitate towards emblemizing a specific victim who's name and face randomly surfaces past the rest early on as a representation of the ongoing crisis!

Nobody's stopping you from writing an article about any of those 3000 kids if you care that much that someone else got spotlight coverage.

nucawysi

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its more of a reflection of western society and their values, they value freedom of expression, women's rights and independent women, partying, and other things rich people do. This is why this person is so interesting to the news.

ParsnipWitch

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Because the number three thousand is probably made up by Hamas. Hamas also doesn't have a register of the young people they draw into their cause.

They also don't first get the names of all the people living in an apartment complex before they start stockpiling guns there and start shooting rockets from there.

Because they don't care for their names. They care for the fact that they can control international support by having a high number of civilian deaths.

blitzkrieg

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In your opinion, how many women and children died?

snek

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But that article is particularly about her.

blazeknave

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And there are over 3000 articles about that. What about these civilians? You don't care about people, you just want to yell about the Jews.

dev0id

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Same children whose shoulders Hamas used to prop up their guns while firing as Israeli soldiers?

TheBananaKing

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No, the ones bombed by the IDF.

blazeknave

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Has anyone on Lemmy ever read about Hamas before a month ago? Hiding bombs and murderers behind children is what the world knows of them. It's fact. Cute watching you all catching up on the conflict in 15 minutes.

tocopherol

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How many people defending Israel now have read about their funding and support for Hamas? Netenyahu's government supports the most extreme of the militant groups within Gaza purposely to keep Palestine divided. Even his supporters in Israel are aware of and critique this fact.

Kashbus

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is there further reading on this? I know in the past Israel sent material to Hamas (Governor's of Gaza) in attempts to curtail rocket attacks

tocopherol

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Here is one op-ed article from the Times of Israel about the topic: For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

Washington Post article from 2014: How Israel Helped Create Hamas

Kashbus

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Thank you for the articles

blazeknave

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Whataboutism. My comment did nothing of the sort

Redrum714

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Yea these people are so confused in their own stupidity they end up being pro-terrorist.

nucawysi

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terrorist isn't a good word to describe what's going on here. Basically the only distinguishing criteria between murder and not murder is self defense. Murder is defined as the act of killing someone NOT in self defense. Is it self defense when Hamas kills and kidnaps civilians? Is it self defense when Israel bombs an area with the high potential for civilian deaths?

SCB

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Is it self defense when Hamas kills and kidnaps civilians?

No.

Is it self defense when Israel bombs an area with the high potential for civilian deaths?

Yes.

Happy to help.

hassanmckusick

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Hiding bombs and murderers behind children is what the world knows of them. It’s fact.

Really cuz I've been asking for evidence for 3 weeks and nobody has bothered to link even a single source with 3rd party confirmation.

Edit: Literally since Israel bombed the AP building 2 years ago I have never gotten a single source in response. Nobody even tries.

ParsnipWitch

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Here is an analysis of this Hamas strategy by the NATO:

Hybrid Threats: Hamas’ use of human shields in Gaza

blazeknave

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Since 2007 per your peer comment https://stratcomcoe.org/publications/hybrid-threats-hamas-use-of-human-shields-in-gaza/87

prole

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Yeah the "Hamas using kids as human shields" thing has been tried and true IDF propaganda for years.

Hamas operations in Gaza aren't taking place from military sites, because THEY DO NOT EXIST. Israel will not allow them, because why the fuck would they??

Gaza is an open air prison that is incredibly densely populated. With no area ever possibly being cordoned off for military actions, where would one recommend they do these things from? You live in a prison, you work with that you have.

They're not using human shields, they're just launching their attacks from the only options that exist to them.

goat

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A prison of their own making, mind you.

blitzkrieg

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Are you saying that Israel, the occupying, is not responsible for the suffering of the country they occupied?

hassanmckusick

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Critical reading is the only skill we need to teach in school. We are clearly failing. This is getting ridiculous.

The IDF confirmed Shani's death. The IDF has been caught lying already.

Shani's mother who as I understand it has not actually seen the evidence told a news station "a piece of her skull was found"

Remember Shani's mother said just a few weeks ago "Shani is alive"

This is far from actually confirmed.

magikarpet

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Good thing Hamas never lies or we would have no idea who to trust.

Like when “500 people” died in that hospital parking lot from that IDF bomb that totally didn't look like a failed Hamas rocket explosion. /s

barsoap

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The "500 people killed" thing isn't actually due to Hamas but Al Jazeera: Directly after the explosion, before the dust had settled, a Health Ministry spokesperson spoke about "500 casualties". In the context of "there are killed and wounded". And as it was so early, and it's a round number, obviously an estimate, and not an official number. Al Jazeera turned that into 500 killed in its English edition, and the whole fucking western media ran with it.

Now I dislike Hamas like I dislike any fascists but the Health Ministry is not just Hamas, plenty of Fatah and generally people from the PA in there, and their numbers have generally been pretty accurate (even if they don't distinguish between civilians and combatants, they simply count the dead). Possibly not as accurate in this case though as once Al Jazeera put that number out there it's probably hard to correct them down while Hamas' propaganda finger of the military arm is holding an AK to your head.

Dremor

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Actually we aren't sure about the rocket origin yet. Investigations are still ongoing, and some recent evidence, including more geolocated video that allowed to do a trajectory analysis through triangulation, and which tend to suggest it was launched from the Israel side. Hypothesis being it may have been a defective iron dome missile that went rogue and unfortunately dislocated and which explosive payload fell on the hospital parking.

Still, before accusing either side it would be best to wait for more proofs. Either way it is going to be considered as a major war crime, and no matter if it was intentional or not, someone has to pay for it.

magikarpet

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Even if it was an iron dome rocket, which is not impossible; it was not targeting the hospital. It was targeting a hostile missile launch.

I also trust international orgs fatality reports more than local sources on this one.

Y’all keep talking about war crimes, but Hamas is not even distinguishing themselves from civilians which is the basis from where almost every other IHL rule stems.

Dremor

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What Hamas does is indeed considered as a war crime (taking the population as human shields). But Israel's riposte is way too disproportionate.
The fight isn't about good vs evil, it is just about two brands of the same evil, trying to stay in power by feeding the stalemate while disregarding the lives of the civilians caught in the crossfire.
They are each other's best asset.

magikarpet

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While i do not wholly agree with your last sentence, i do respect your balanced view. Making any war one of “good vs. evil” is dangerous a step toward dehumanizing the enemy and it only gets worse from there.

Also i agree Israel’s response has been very strong and cold, but i believe they were not left with many choices.

Things could not return to status quo with Gaza after the attack on the 7th and there was no clean option left for them. Diplomacy failed over and over for decades. Both sides share blame for the diplomatic breakdown, but Israel has no allies and many enemies in the region and must project strength to keep opportunists away.

hassanmckusick

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Even if it was an iron dome rocket, which is not impossible

If it was an iron dome rocket then Israel knows they're lying when they say it's PIJ. You don't think that's an issue?