SulaymanF

@SulaymanF@lemmy.world

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SulaymanF,

You’re strawmanning it. Protesting to stop bombing civilians in Gaza is not the same as supporting Hamas.

Unless by “protest in favor of a mass murdering genocidal terrorist organization” you mean the pro-IDF rallies right?

SulaymanF,

Absolutely. They have a greater responsibility because they are not a legal layperson.

SulaymanF,

This happens in other Caribbean countries too. If you were to fly to Bermuda or Grenada you’d get in trouble for carrying this stuff.

SulaymanF,

We also have to stop calling it hallucinations. The proper term in psychology for making stuff up like this is “Confabulations.”

SulaymanF,

In his diary entries from 1895, Herzl unambiguously advocated for the forced emigration of Palestinians, writing “to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it any employment in our own country… Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” He envisioned a program of strict ethnic segregation, denying Palestinians employment and economic opportunities, to compel their exodus.

Herzl believed this combination of ethnic separation and forced transfer, or ethnic cleansing, could be made to appear voluntary, masking the violent reality. This cynical blueprint of demographic engineering through discrimination and dispossession was perhaps his most insidious contribution to the ideology of settler colonialism.

SulaymanF,

The NRA has a deep hold of Republicans and primaries anyone who goes against them. Same with AIPAC and Democrats. The corruption runs deep.

Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians (www.nytimes.com)

The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....

SulaymanF,

No. Hamas was not popular until Israel stepped up its attacks on Palestinians and the corrupt Abbas and Fatah party did nothing in response.

If you want Hamas to go away, you need to actually empower moderates. Abbas lost all political credibility when he promised Palestinian statehood in exchange for nonviolence and couldn’t deliver. Israeli military opened fire on nonviolent protestors and got no consequences for it. Frustrated, the people turned to rightwing parties. Same as what happened in Israel.

If you want Hamas to stop being popular then you need to stop proving them right. Give people freedoms and security. Because the Israeli government has proved that diplomacy doesn’t work, nonviolence doesn’t work, and protest doesn’t work; the IDF still throws people out of houses and steals land. Abbas offered some deep concessions for peace that made him unpopular with his people (giving up Jerusalem, permanently giving up right of return) and Netanyahu refused without even a counteroffer. He wanted Hamas and rightwing parties to rise so he could justify his violent policies. He intentionally undermined Palestinian moderates and put himself into this mess.

SulaymanF,

The Israeli Shin Bet does pretty much the same domestic espionage and there’s rightwing patrols in ultra orthodox neighborhoods as well monitoring for illicit relationships etc.

SulaymanF,

What a bizarre fantasy these Republicans live in. Biden flew to Israel immediately to meet Israeli victims. He still hosts their families at the White House even this month. He has never comforted a single Palestinian family despite Palestinian Americans being killed in hate crimes since October. Instead, he thought it was helpful to go on TV and say he has zero trust Palestinians aren’t lying. (It’s reported he privately said he meant Hamas and not all Palestinians but he never apologized publicly). He bypasses Congress to ship more weapons to Israel despite the laws requiring him to stop shipments in the event of war crimes being committed, which his own state department is aware of.

Despite doing more for Israel than anyone, even undermining Obama’s Palestine policies, they’re still trying to paint him as some raging anti-Semite?

SulaymanF,

Neutral would be calling Likud a terrorist organization as well.

SulaymanF,

Yes both sides commit terrorism. And one side gets billions of dollars in government aid and weapons despite murderifn journalists and openly causing famine.

I’m so tired of this political game. Abbas condemned terrorism and Israel refused to work with him for decades because the existence of terrorism gave them license to steal more land. He went to the UN to ask for statehood and Israeli leaders threatened to press charges of war crimes against him. His response was “we’ll share a cell at The Hague.”

SulaymanF,

17 year olds count?

SulaymanF,

You should donate some of your organs to them.

SulaymanF,

What would that accomplish other than blowing the dust around?

SulaymanF,

We still don’t understand quite how the brain works or how consciousness comes from neurons.

SulaymanF,

“Other people are worse” isn’t a good excuse for his own responsibility.

SulaymanF,

That’s why we’re not voting Trump either. Your analogy doesn’t work.

SulaymanF,

You keep writing comments like the only choices are voting for Trump or voting for Biden. Voting third party or not voting at all are also options, and neither one as as much blood on my hands as voting for both pro-genocide candidates.

SulaymanF,

If Biden wants my vote he actually has to TRY and work for it, not just sit back and do things that harm my community but say Trump is worse.

UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter (www.theguardian.com)

The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip. The move drew an immediate rebuke from Israel. Its envoy to...

SulaymanF,

I remember an Israeli pundit once complained that the UN creating Israel was “the mortgage that never ends” because the Israeli government absolutely loves to demonize the UN but still depends on it.

SulaymanF,

“Based” isn’t the word I’d use.

SulaymanF,

Someone will be blamed, if you carry it out then you share the blame.

SulaymanF,

He announced it as part of a tax break scam, then let the project die.

Nearly 75% of journalists killed in 2023 died in Israel’s war on Gaza: CPJ (www.aljazeera.com)

Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed worldwide in 2023 were Palestinians reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza, making those 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)....

SulaymanF,

That’s Poe’s Law of the internet. Without an /s tag we don’t know if you’re sarcastic or exteme.

SulaymanF,

No.

Reporting “Trump wants to deport millions of people” is considered a bad story by many but actually viewed as a good thing by plenty of Americans, which is why the “negative” press coverage was to Trump’s benefit as free media for his message.

You won’t find anyone viewing Noem euthanizing puppies and goats as a positive.

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