Remember when the US government said invading rafah would be "too far"?
It's ok, just think of all the 4 year old hamas terrorists they killed!
But but but, October 7th was unjustifiable, so surely it justifies this! These two things are absolutely, for sure, 100% the same thing! /S
The talkie-talkie of the US government not matching their walkie-walkie.
What! A! Shocker!
Right, so Israel leveled it and invaded some ruins not Rafah!
Israel did this because they thought it would make them safer. The future generations won't forget this. They might as well make their country an island
The kids surviving this, will have all the right to make hell rain upon these monsters.
Sorry, this "only defending ourselves" farce is absurd and we, the so called "civilized world", had an obligation to stop this a long time ago.
Anti-Fucking-Israel is no Anti-Semitism!
The kids surviving this,
That's why Israel's plan is to literally exterminate them all.
"I was only following orders!!"
The kids surviving this, will have all the right to make hell rain upon these monsters.
They won't. The folks getting bombed to paste are going to struggle just to survive into the next few years. They are going to be in no position to resist their oppressors. Those who have the guns make the rules, and the IDF is far better armed thanks to the billions of dollars in military aid Americans continue to ship them.
This apartheid will continue until Americans agree to boycott the Israeli military.
The kids surviving this
You innocent child, Israel is making sure there's no kids surviving this.
They did it because they want to genocide Palestine - this only creates a bunch of people with justifiable hatred of Israel and nothing to lose.
If they wanted to be safer, they wouldn't have funded Hamas' displacement of the secular moderates, gleefully committed and publicised thousands of warcrimes, established an ethnostate, conducted decades of land grabs, or scream maniacally about a second, bigger Amalek.
I'm sorry but your point is anchored on an old Propaganda myth of Israel.
Israel's lack of safety comes from them having stolen Palestinian land and continuing to steal Palestinian land, for decades.
If safety was their prime objective, they could stop stealing Palestinian land, give back at least some Palestinian land and compensate the victims for the rest (I am assuming here that Israel would keep some of the originally stolen land to continue to exist as a nation).
They have chosen not to do that and instead they have chosen to use force against Palestinians to stop their just rage at having their land stolen and have chosen to Genocide Palestinians to finally take away the rest of their land.
Safety is not the primary reason for the actions of Israel. Safety is an excuse and at best a second or third order reason derived from their real primary reason:
- Israel did this (as they did most of what they did to Palestinians for 7 decades) because they want to steal all the Palestinian land.
No, the didn't do this because "they think it will make them safer" they knew exactly what they doing and that's why there is a genocide case against them.
They might as well make their country an island
They'd probably prefer that
I'm sure they would if they could
this genocide has made me very anti israel
Save for a very brief period of time, I was always anti-Israel, but I simply was unaware of just HOW fucked up Israel was due to a variety of factors.
Israel and its supporters did a GREAT job of linking anti-israel sentiment to antisemitism. That alone made reporting of its messed up actions and history taboo. Certainly does not help that neonazis are also frequently anti-israel.
But... Shit... I mean Israel was founded on white jewish supremacy. Real hard to have a state founded on racial supremacy not turn into a fucking nightmare.
Damn. People are so brainwashed by the west. Before making yourself anti Israel, make yourself anti-Hamas.
I have been anti Israel ever since I heard about the "settlers". That's so fucked up Even before the war. Such arrogance and entitlement to assume you can just take things like that and that a god would support you lol.
The before and after sliders are the saddest thing I've seen in a while.
It shows, the weapons they used really flatted the area, there's no chance of surviving this, if you were hiding somewhere within.Edit: Ok, the layer of sand/soil over everything makes the whole seem much flatter than it is. When you zoom in, you can notice some buildings almost invisible but still standing. When zoomed out a little, they're gone. But even so...
I needed to cross check in Egypt zu see how the buildings look like as reference.
Still lots of destruction.
That's insane.
It should however be noted that the new image is taken at a different angle and likely time of day. So the destruction looks exaggerated. If you look closely you can find several buildings that look destroyed at first glance, are actually intact but just hard to spot.
Fuck Israel
That is grim. Repost that.
Definitely a proportionate response. Doing their best to reproduce carpet bombing in a world where carpet bombing no longer works without using a nuke. Takes a lot of effort, effort better spent elsewhere...
Israel proving it does not have a right to defend itself.
Or exist.
Hamas did this /s
Sadly they certainly helped. And very likely Isreali agents encouraged and supported them to do it. There are certainly power hungry people in hamas who saw this as an opportunity to increase their power at the expense of their people. Just like the Israeli politicians are openly doing now. And American politicians... and... These people pit two sides against each other for thier own personal gain and to stop the people from seeing the real enemy. Been like this for centuries...
What you are saying is not true. It's not likely at all that they were encouraged by Israeli agents. In Israel/Palestine there is no "real enemy" the real enemy is the other side full stop. It's not like in the USA or the rest of the world where you could make an argument based on class warfare. This is a feud going back centuries, if the entire social system and modern world collapsed, Muslims Christians and Jews would still be fighting over Jerusalem and Palestine
Real
Fuck war
Can a genocide like that be consider war? Not that the statement is wrong.
Like all things it's a spectrum. This conflict has been about 1% a war between Hamas and the IDF, and 99% the IDF indiscriminately killing civilians.
We weren't sure which building Hamas was hiding in so we just bombed them all.
For those curious why the second image looks so different take a look at this video
This is just them being good neighbors! That house was totally unsuitable for living and would have hurt any Gazans trying to live there!
/s
Just a small "limited operation" as was promised by Joe Biden.
It's not really up to Joe Biden though at the end of the day
He gave them the weapons and is STILL giving them weapons today knowing exactly how they're being used. "We're trying to hard to stop this" while handing them the bombs they need to continue uninterrupted.
Without supporting any kind of violence. And without denying anything.
I feel obligated to say that this is purposely manipulated. As pictures taken in very different times of day and year make for a faulty comparison that does not portrait reallity.
Specially the time of day (that make shadows disappear on the right picture) and the sandy surfaces make it seems like the image on the right it's all flat and that buildings are leveled to the ground. And that's simply not true. It's just optical illusions.
This does not mean that the areas was not subjected to heavy bombardment, and that all people on that area may have been killed by bombs. But the images presented are just manipulative and I'm against media manipulation no matter how good intentions are behind the manipulative attempt.
"Now Jimmy, make sure you wait for a full year of bombing and spend a few thousand dollars adjusting the timing of this satellite to get exactly comparable images so someone on the internet who vaguely heard about manipulative photo techniques, but is fine with ignoring the realities of actually taking the photos, can't nitpick an image of very clear destruction."
EDIT: And let's just drive this home: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/27/satellite-imagery-shows-vast-destruction-in-rafah/
The differences between 2023 November and 2024 April are due to lighting, and it's plain to see the buildings are still there even with lighting differences.
Between 2024 April and August nearly everything left of the red line is gone. It's not some trick of the light or sand - you can clearly see the other buildings right of the line.
You've tried to deflect by saying people are missing the point and you agreed there is destruction - but no one said that. They said that your two points, that the destruction was not as bad as the images suggest, and that the images are intentionally misleading are both false.
And they are both false.
The image clearly tries to make see like not a single building is left. It's the intention of this images.
I'm pretty sure there's a noble intention behind this, but it is misleading, it is propagandistic.
I will provide you a true comparison, similar lightning, similar time of the year. From september 2023 to september 2024. You'll clearly see the destruction. It's nothing shy. There's a lot of destruction. But my images will not exaggerate reality.
There you don't have to really look into what buildings are still up or not, as it is quite evident in the images what was destroyed to the ground. Even with far worse resolution the portrayal of reality is, IMO, infinity better. And the fact that in 5 minutes, woth public resources and from my phone I can create this image that is less propagandistic that the image of the post, is, again IMHO, another evidence on why the image from the post have a higher propagandistic value that informative value.
Not at all you can clearly see many houses having fully disappeared by being flattened with bulldozers
Let me correct that for you. It should be: Yes, though I agree you can also see some places where houses were leveled by bulldozer.
The angle the photos were taken from are also different. That increases the appearance of devastation beyond what is actually there. This image is an intention exaggeration of something that was already unacceptable. Doing so erodes confidence in information about the things happening there. Who knows, maybe this was even created by the IDF for that purpose.
I'm not saying area was not bombarded. I'm saying the election of that specific picture, time of day without shadows and just after a sandstorm, is made on purpose to exaggerate.
The fact that this has as many downvotes as upvotes makes me want to avoid anything political on lemmy, and go back to just shitposting about Linux distros.
seriously, what was HAMAS' end-game here?
surely they knew that they couldn't defend Gaza against Israel?
Did they miscalculate the risk and think Israel wouldn't react?
Ah yes israel committing Genocide is actually Hamas' fault.
Please don't put words in my mouth.
I asked what Hamas wanted to achieve by attacking Israel.
Even I would have predicted Israel would lash out. And I'm not really familiar with Israel. So surely Israels direct neighbours, who swore to destroy it, would know it well enough to know how it would react.
What was their plan? What the fuck do they gain from this useless war and destruction?
I think they assumed that Israel wouldn't be so bloodthirsty as to put the hostages at risk, which would give them a bargaining position so that once they weathered the initial retaliation they would be able to get concessions such as allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza, ending the blockade of Gaza's ports, ending Israeli control of Gazan water sources, etc.
But as we've all learned since then the IDF has an explicit policy to kill Israeli civilians if it looks like they're about to be captured, and Israel's political leadership simply aren't put off by the possibility of killing every single remaining hostage in their campaign to flatten Gaza.
What I find laughable are all the Americans who I watched demand the deaths of Muslims and Arabs from decades, suddenly want to play the moral paragons and defenders of Palestine. Americans fucked my country too and they just move on to the next outrage, without apologizing, making amends or anything. They wreck half the world, then turn around and moralize to us.
See the thing is you are scribing to all Americans what the media shows you. The media makes money on extremes. So they hand pick who's opinion you here. Hardly anyone I know here in America actually demanded the deaths of Muslims and Arabs at all. It was still too many, but far from what the media would have you believe.
Epic
