Israel-Palestine war: Rising Gaza football star and father killed in Israeli strike
Israel-Palestine war: Rising Gaza football star and father killed in Israeli strike
Nazir al-Nashnash, a 20-year-old university student, played for Bureij Services Football Club
Israel, STOP KILLING CIVILIANS!!
And as usual Israel doesn't care about non-Jewish humans.
And Hamas actually wants to eradicate all Jews - what's your point?
You surely can question stuff like shutting off the power since that's a war crime but if Hamas is using civilian buildings for their military then they make those buildings valid targets during war (other than schools and music festivals which Hamas targeted)
Sure Israel is not a knight in shining armour (far from it) but after what Hamas did they have all right to retaliate and the moral high ground as Hamas deliberately puts their civilians in the line of fire to fuel hate against Israel and make every move very hard for Israel because of that risk of collateral damage.
Your emotional reasoning to justify Isreal's genocide is the same emotional reasoning Hamas uses to justify their terror attacks.
Palestinians have faced ethnic cleansing and expansionism by Isreal, which poses an existential threat for them.
You're saying Isreal is justified in mass murdering innocent civilians because a separate entity (Hamas) poses an existential threat to Isreal.
Well, let's apply that same logic to the opposing side..
By your very own logic, Hamas must be justified in their slaughter of innocent Isrealis, because the IDF and Isreali 'settlers' pose an existential threat them.
Both sides are guilty of horrendous acts, and the innocent civilians on both sides are the ones suffering. And there are ignorant people like yourself who fall into emotional (not logical) reasoning, which makes one feel more justified and sure of themselves.
But in reality, you're clouded by an inherent bias that allows you to dehumanize the innocent Palestinians and justify genocide and war crimes.
The rest of us who are able to maintain perspective are watching in horror at the evil acts being committed by both Isreal and Hamas, and sickened by people like you whose thinking has become so poisoned.
Shame on Hamas. Shame on Isreal. And shame on the people like yourself on both sides, who try to justify putrid acts of evil.
Ah, we went from right to self defence to right to retaliate? What's next?
I thought never again includes Palestinians. Guess I was wrong.
Regrettable casualties are sometimes an unfortunate consequence of maintaining order and security in the galaxy. The Empire remains resolute in our mission.
Israel is the aggressor
Am I the only one seeing this? Is it... normal for 3 comments in a row to have exactly balanced numbers of up and down votes?
That's a very strange coincidence.
Votes are public and there's no fuzzing like on Reddit, so shenanigans are pretty unlikely.
I run my own instance so I'm always a little paranoid that I fucked it up somehow. Or like, maybe theres a known bug that I don't know about, or a compatibility issue between versions/platforms.
But as another commenter mentioned, at worse it's some loser botting but more likely it really was just a coincidence.
Probably vote brigading by toxic hexbear users' alts or some other tankies.
It's also a pretty divided topic, especially with the fact that the nature of the conflict leads some people to abandon logic for emotional reasoning. Emotional reasoning makes people feel more sure of themselves and justified in their beliefs and actions.
What are you using to view Lemmy? I use Sync and can't see up and down votes, only the sum.
I'm pretty sure it's the official web UI but I use Memmy on my phone which also shows up and down votes separately
It's tokenboomer, expect highjinks
Is it just me or is this community heavily biased? I wonder if this pro-Hamas stance is really present on Lemmy or if there's some bot activity going on.
If you look outside the US or European MSM, you'll find the world is repulsed by Israel's mass murder of civilians.
Being against blowing up innocent people in their homes is about as far from "pro hamas" as you can be.
It's more like people especially from the Germanic and English world get surprised that not everyone is rooting for Palestine to get wiped off the map.
Maybe it would be better if they were getting paid. I'm pretty sure the sad truth is they are spreading all this propaganda because they genuinely believe it.
Lemmy is mostly lefties despite a few glaring counter examples.
Theres a lot of huffing gas going on on the left with near zero historical context or on-the-ground understanding. People still repeat "River t0 the Sea" as if it's not a literal call to genocide for militant nationalists. Instead they post the decolonization blog. Meanwhile even Palestinian Authority reps and members of the negotiating team for the last n peace deals are publishing opinion pieces that the phrase is intrinsically a call to violent genocide and the Palestinian supporters really need to check who they are getting their "facts" from. It's basically on siding with a terrorist org but because some people think there is a noble goal beneath it that makes it OK to chant.
There's also a lot of people too young to remember how the West and East conducts sieges in dense urban areas. It's not good or pretty to look at.
Also like most people outside of the region don't seem to get that Palestinians and Israelis are both more or less the same ethnicity (Semitic though the term has fallen out of usage outside of describing the language roots of Arab and Hebrew and like half a dozen other languages) and look the same. There isn't a skin color component. That's projection from Americans/Westerners who mostly see Ashkenazi jews who tend to avoid light for various reasons and are pretty pale. Once they are back in the middle east everyone turns a shade of olive/brown and you couldn't pick a jew or an Arab out of a lineup if they didn't have religious clothing on to make it easier.
why do his eyebrows look so weird