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Israel Goes To War with Hamas 2023

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  1. AroundTheWorld

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    It's really weird how the first amendment people think that's okay. Destroying a person's business for something they said is absolutely deranged.

    If a liberal destroyed some MAGAs business cuz of their view of biden i'd say the same. That's insane
     
  3. hooroo

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    the israeli defense force retaliating against a pizza shop is insane.
     
  4. AroundTheWorld

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    No.

    No.

    No.

    And Israel would not consider any of these things, because they are not like the guys you support.

    That exists - it's called Israel.

    You have very strange ideas, but you are a hardcore communist who likes what China did with these camps, so nothing surprising there.
     
  5. davidio840

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    So you agree all the BLM shenanigans of looting, burning down their hoods and etc was insane?
     
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    evidence
     
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    Two things are clear

    1. There's a lot of people who view Israelis / Jews as subhuman and think their lives are worth nothing. They feel Israel has it coming to them.
    2. There's a lot of people who view Palestinians as subhuman and think their lives are worthing nothing. They feel Gaza has it coming to them.
     
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    I don't think 2) is true.

    When you look at the demonstrations around the world, which ones are the peaceful ones, and which ones are the hateful ones?

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    There are more Muslims in the world who want to see all Jews killed than there are Jews.
     
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    https://news.yahoo.com/israel-unleashed-white-phosphorus-gaza-215457025.html
    Israel Unleashed White Phosphorus in Gaza, Human Rights Watch Finds

    Human Rights Watch, an international non-governmental organization that advocates for human rights, said Thursday that it had concluded Israel used white phosphorus during military operations in Lebanon and Gaza this week.

    In a statement, HRW said it had verified videos from Oct. 10 and 11 showing “multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border” in addition to interviewing two witnesses to the Gaza attack.

    White phosphorus is a highly combustible substance that produces heat at approximately 1499 degrees Fahrenheit. It is typically used for shining light on targets at night or as smokescreens to hide military activity, but when it is used as a weapon, it can cause severe burns that affect areas deep into the tissue and bone and long-term health impacts such as infections, respiratory damage, organ failure, and muscle contractions that can limit mobility.

    The resulting fires are also difficult to extinguish and have the capacity to severely damage property and kill crops and livestock.



    The United Nations’ Office for Disarmament Affairs states that white phosphorus falls under Protocol III of the Convention on Conventional Weapons, which defines international law for the use of incendiary weapons.

    White phosphorous is not outright banned, but using it in densely populated civilian areas—like Gaza—may constitute a violation of international humanitarian law, HRW said.

    There is at least one notable loophole, however: incendiary weapons launched from the ground are governed by less strict guidelines than those dropped from the air, giving Israel at least one defense of their alleged artillery-fired use of white phosphorous.

    It’s not the first time Israel has lobbed the highly combustible substance into the tightly-packed confines of the Gaza strip—the HRW previously found that from Dec. 27, 2008 to Jan. 18, 2009, the Israel Defense Forces launched artillery projectiles of white phosphorus on six separate occasions. The organization also revealed that dozens of civilians died as a result.

    The attacks drew criticism from various international organizations, prompting the Israeli military to pledge that it would halt its use of the weapons in densely populated areas unless for “extreme exception in highly particular circumstances.”

    This week’s war between Israel and Palestinian militants began after forces with the extremist group Hamas crossed into Israel early Saturday morning and massacred civilians at a number of locations, including a music festival near the country’s border with Gaza.

    ZAKA, Israel’s volunteer emergency response group, reported that they found at least 260 bodies at or near the festival grounds.

    Israel immediately launched a blistering counteroffensive and officially declared war on Hamas the next day.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed an emergency government and wartime cabinet late Wednesday as well. In a televised statement, Netanyahu said, “Every Hamas terrorist is a dead man.” His defense minister, Yoav Gallant, echoed the harsh words and promised to eliminate Hamas, saying, “we will wipe them off the face of the Earth.”

    As of Thursday, the sixth day of fighting, at least 1,537 people have been killed in Gaza, including roughly 500 children, according to the Palestinian health ministry. An additional 6,612 were wounded by Israeli airstrikes.

    Israel has stated that an estimated 1,300 people were killed during the assault by Hamas militants, with more than 3,000 wounded, according to The Wall Street Journal.
     
  10. hitman1900

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    How do you even prove this? Or are you somehow Charles Xavier?
     
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    HRW has been criticized for perceived bias by the national governments it has investigated for human rights abuses,[60][61][62] by NGO Monitor,[63] and by HRW's founder and former chairman, Robert L. Bernstein.[8] Bias allegations have included undue influence by U.S. government policy, and claims that HRW is biased against Israel (and focuses undue attention on the Arab–Israeli conflict).[64] HRW has also been criticized for poor research methodology and lax fact-checking, and ignoring the human-rights abuses of less-open regimes.[citation needed][specify] HRW has routinely publicly addressed, and often denies, criticism of its reporting and findings.[65]

    In 2014, two Nobel Peace Laureates wrote a letter signed by 100 other human rights activists and scholars criticizing HRW for its revolving-door hiring practices with the U.S. government, its failure to denounce the U.S. practice of extrajudicial rendition, its endorsement of U.S. 2011 military intervention in Libya, and its silence during the 2004 Haitian coup d'état.[66]

    In 2020, HRW's board of directors discovered that HRW accepted a $470,000 donation from Saudi real estate magnate Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, owner of a company HRW "had previously identified as complicit in labor rights abuse", under the condition that the donation not be used to support LGBT advocacy in the Middle East and North Africa. After The Intercept reported the donation, it was returned, and HRW issued a statement that accepting it was "deeply regrettable".[67]

    In August 2020, the Chinese government sanctioned HRW executive director Kenneth Roth—together with the heads of four other U.S.-based democracy and human rights organizations and six U.S. Republican lawmakers—for supporting the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. The leaders of the five organizations saw the sanctioning, whose details were unspecified, as a tit-for-tat measure in response to the earlier U.S. sanctioning of 11 Hong Kong officials. The latter step had in turn been a reaction to the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law at the end of June.[68] The New York Times reported in October 2021 that HRW left Hong Kong as a result of the Chinese sanctions, with the situation in Hong Kong henceforth to be monitored by HRW's China team. The decision to leave came amid a wider crackdown on civil society groups in Hong Kong.[69]
     
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    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    Israel just making people hate them more with this bullshit

     
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    A lot of antisemites being exposed, at least we all know those people are.
     
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    yea its called "Shared Common values with Israel "
     
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    There are probably 10,000 Muslims in the world to every Jew, so yes, obviously there are more psycho Muslims than psycho Jews.

    And yes, there are many Jews who want Gaza destroyed and feel their women and children deserve what's happening to them. They are no innocent because they elected Hamas. Does this logic sound familiar? I lived in NYC for 20 years, and in that time I have made many many many Jewish friends and even some Israeli. And I hear what some of said about what should be done in Gaza. It's not pretty.

    Hate begets hate. While for sure, Hamas is an utterly despicable organization no different from ISIS, they are not synonymous with Palestinians.

    It breaks my heart to know that babies are being killed so horrifically - both by Hamas and the IDF.
     
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    The ratio is about 125:1.
     
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    This. It's disgusting.

    I will always stand with Israel.
     
  18. hooroo

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    Arabs are also semites.
     
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    France is politically ****ing nuts… has been for 100 years.

    As for the immigrants in Europe, people are entitled to their own opinions but that **** would not fly in the USA. I don’t know if Western Europe is desensitized to it or just not as aggressive as the USA.

    Middle Eastern immigrants in the USA have largely acculturated very well.
     

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