At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardment.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as the sick and elderly, condemning the “continued use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urging the international community to exert pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow in aid.
Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse. Just remember: many of the people who claim to care, don’t. And if you actually want to stop this, it needs to start with putting people in power who actually care about stopping it. If there isn’t one in the general, that means this didn’t happen during the primaries.
Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse.
Don’t worry, when the American mid-term elections start next year Palestine will be relevant again.
Republican’s will be gleefully listing off the next minorities they are sending to Freedom Camp in El Salvador. While Democrats are bombarded with endless purity tests and FUD so the Republican candidates can win.
An easy solution would be for the Democrats to condemn the GENOCIDE (its a bit more then a purity test) and break ties with Israel.
They lost because they put the interests of a foreign nation above their own constituents, I hope they have better sense then to do it a second time.
The Republicans won because some voters put the interests of a foreign nation above their own country and now the genocide is coming home.
Albert Einstein’s letter to the NY Times was 100% correct. In addition, WW II history of the ghettos continues in the Middle East.
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I genuinely don’t know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don’t help if the food isn’t getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.
You need to speak up more than, there isnt enough people speaking up about it. If there was more things would change.
If you feel helpless, doing and saying more will help lessen this feeling.
Joining protests and speaking up about this online has helped me tremendously. Yes I have been banned and/or silenced, but I feel good about myself because I am speaking my truth.
This is what you want you to feel. Zionism in its core is a project for genocide. They want you to feel helpless. Read their history, educate yourself and your family. Fight for your political rights, boycott for the best of your ability. Share the news.
If you have time, join the protest but make sure to cover your face and dont take your phone.
Pressure your local government to act against Israel’s genocide through sanctions and military support for Palestine. Write your representatives, turn out to protests, help your local political party that aligns with your goals.
My state law actually prevents any company from working with/for the government if they boycott Israel. Let’s say I’m a government worker who needs to hire a contractor for a project. This contractor is not a government employee. But if this contractor boycotts Israel then I, as a government employee, am not legally allowed to choose them for the project; I have to find a contractor who doesn’t boycott Israel.
It’s literally enshrined in state law, so local governments can’t overrule it even if they wanted to.
It’s insane that we have laws forcing us to work with and not criticize a particular foreign sovereign state. It’s literal madness, like it breaks my brain lol.
Pressure and protest them all the same. To repeal that law is just an additional goal.
Go to demonstrations, boycott, speak up about Palestine, message your representatives, vote only for politicians that condemns Israels attacks and have a credible policy of supporting Palestinian rights.
As for donations there is organizations that try to get Israeli war criminals prosecuted and challenge governments in court to stop arming Israel. See two examples below.
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Also we’re not all Americans. Left wing party here support Palestine (you know, coz they aren’t liberals).
Must be hard seeing your keyboard with your head so far up your ass.
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Yesterday one of you guys got banned for genocide apologia (saying shit like “Palestinian deserve it”).
Incidently, he was also a big fan of sarcastically pointing out how trump was so much worst than kamala.
Just admit you guys hate arabs
They like to drive the topic away from the genocide. This topic was relevant during the election. But now it is clear a comment to get people upset and stop them from discussing what they can do to stop this genocide.
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Drop the act. You think you’re using sarcasm to make a good point about how tankies are trumpers and Russians or something.
You’re not. You just proving yourself to be utterly moraleless by advertising the world you voted for a genocider. Not only that, but you’re bring up America as if it was the only country in the world. Guess what, idiot, you’re the only ones where support for genocide is a given on both side of the politican spectrum.
Your sarcasm cannot hide the fact you don’t really think about foreigners as human.
moraleless
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I love that you meant that ironically.
In reality you’ree just describing americans. When your country have been founded by bunch of exiled bigots, you’re bound to have a certain kind of inherent suppremacism going on.
The american state is rotten to the core. Liberalism is mostly about the freedom to do business, and business owner always end up funding fascists. Liberalism leads to fascism
What?
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Nice troll. Sorry your favorite genocider lost. It must have been so hard to be submitted to what you were perfectly content for your country to submit others.
Your own medecine must taste so bitter. Heartbreaking
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Who’s medecine [sic]? You’re apparently angry at people who voted for Harris. How is this “our medicine”?
I would say it’s more on the people who voted for Trump, the people who threw their vote away on a third party, and people who did not vote.
Nobody will ever take you seriously so long as you pretend that Harris would be nearly as bad as Trump regarding Israel (or literally any of the other thousands of disasters that he’s unnecessarily created for us).
Beside, I don’t really give a fuck who’s the genocider in chief. From an external POV you clearly both sucks and you should stop bringing out your genocidal country.
As a reminder, this is the internet, not America. Not voting for a genocidal candidate would be a given in any normal part of the world. Only in your country can the so-called left count on their voters to be prone-to-compromise cowards. If you had guts, they might have had to consider the electoral cost of bombing civilians populations.
But hey they could count on your loyalty.
My friend in beyruth died last year around June. Remind me who was in charge then asshole?
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There’s nothing the average citizen can do. “The Powers That Be” will protect Israel at any cost, because Israel is a military beachhead in the Middle East for any potential military action against “The Muzlimz.”
Not alone. The only way is to organize. They’re often at local Palestine protests, so the trick is to find those, then get connected to people at them.
Jewish Voice for Peace is often at them. Someone else named another organization above. PSL has had a lot over the last year and a half, too.
This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.
Israel starving people to death is evil. Some day you will be repaid for this.
Some day you will be repaid for this.
I really hope so. I just can’t believe we (humans) have let these ethno supremacist ideas survive in our world for so long.
I just don’t know how you fix societies as broken and sick as Israel has become.
Meanwhile, the historically worst entho supremacist state of Germany uses its own history of genocide as an excuse to support a Jewish Ethnostates genocide. With the rest of the western world nodding it’s head and America leading the way.
The western world has lost all moral credibility it ever pretended to uphold.
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can we please ban aljazeera links?
Is it not true that people are dying of starvation on Gaza?
I can’t believe how radical those Hamas terrorists are. They rather watch their own people starve to death than releasing the rest of the hostages. Whatever your thoughts and believes about this whole confict are: It is absolutely clear that Israel will not stop at anything to kill the terrorists before all the hostages are released.
Do you know how many hostages Israel has and how many people and children they have murdered?
How come it doesn’t matter how many hostages Israel has?
Sure dude. What’s happening in the West Bank completely disproves that this has anything to do with Hamas or hostages.
But why would they do so? Those hostages are the only bargaining chip they have left.
Hamas has offered to stick with the previous peace deal that would see the release of the remaining hostages, but Israel has decided that peace is not an option here.
I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.
Israel still wants to exterminate Palestinians so that they can fully expand into the area.
Hamas wants Israel to fuck off out of Palestine. Depending on how extreme the individual person, they may also want Israel gone entirely, or the same to all Jews. But that’s not the position of most Palestinians.
(The genocide is not the position of most Israelis, either, but enough are okay with it happening.)
It’s simpler that that: profit.
Israel will cleanse the area to make it safe and profitable for land developers. Casinos, hotels, golf courses, etc.
Trump openly stated it.
This framing kind of sucks, but it’s close.
It’s still a land grab, and they’re actively grabbing land in the west bank, in Lebanon, and in Syria.
They’re fascists that have purposefully fomented this violence as the apartheid state. They want the land and some justification they can wave around. This is why Oct 7th exists.
The irony is, the more successful they are in their depraved violence and theft, the more they will become a pariah globally. I can’t see the future, but this feels like a fascist death spiral that will end Israel.
I understand.
It’s the same human drama that’s been played out since the dawn of time. The powerful dominated the weak, and helpless.
We deserve our extinction when our sun goes red giant, but it’ll happen much sooner than that.
We’re an irredeemable species.
It is not the same human drama. Most of war and expansion focuses on different goals and usually driven by a single leader. This an organization that extend beyond a single entity. They take your tax money and they use it to fund their project.
Palestinians want to be left alone, and Israel wants them all dead because Israel decided the land belongs to them.
If Palestinians wanted to be left alone then why did they do the terriorst attack and why do they still have hostages?
The terrorist attack wasn’t perpetrated by the Palestinian state. That’s like saying that all Americans agree with the Proud Boys because they happened to be US citizens.
One side has been marginalised and it’s being cleansed as we speak right now by a highly technological nation; and the other side has been marginalised by the whole Europe and the whole Arab world for a millennia. The Palestinian situation is one of the most difficult right now.
(Adwan, S., Bar-On, D., & Naveh, E. “Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine”)
the other side has been marginalised by the whole Europe and the whole Arab world for a millennia.
What the fuck? The Arab world until about a century ago was the best place in the world for a Jew to be by far.
This is a really disingenuous way to sane wash genocide and war crimes, backed by western dollars and politics.
It’s not difficult to call a spade a spade, as long as the fact that it’s a spade actually matters to you at all.
