Bulletins and News Discussion from July 8th to July 14th, 2024 - Nevertheless, He Persisted

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The new theorized death toll numbers (from Lancet) are too much to bear. If those numbers are true, then the genocide of Gaza - in terms of a percent of the population killed and wounded - is right up there with the worst crimes of the 20th century. The Nazi invasion of the USSR, the American genocides in Korea and Vietnam, the bombing of Cambodia, etc. And all of those took place over a matter of years, not months.
Death to America and Death to Israel. Libs in the US had better pray to whatever deity might be out there that this country never gets what it actually deserves. Because Jeremiah Wright was right. We absolutely deserve hell on earth.
- "I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood. I had … vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."
  he wasnt talking about this, but if even a fraction of the suffering USA has inflicted on the world would be wrought upon it, the country would still be drowned in blood.
- some Israel leader said after October 7th that 100 Palestinians would die for every Israeli and I thought, “okay so 200,000 people are gonna die before Israel ends this conflict “
  I think I was to hopeful
  
  I've posted this before but this is literally worse than Hitler
  Following the murder at Barbès, the German authorities ordered the execution of hostages as a response to the killings. This began with the announcement that "all French people held in any kind of detention whatsoever by the German authorities or on behalf of the German authorities in France" were considered to be hostages. On the 16th September, at the request of Hitler, Keitel laid down in law that a ratio of 50 or 100 "communists" would be executed for every German soldier.
  https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/la-politique-des-otages-sous-loccupation
- Leningrad went from 3000000 to 600000 after the siege of Leningrad, which is an 80% reduction of the population from people fleeing or dying.
  
  Late reply but there's a pretty clear reason that comparison doesn't work, the Palestinian people are not free to leave even if only to flee.

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