Indeed and without question!
Anyone have a lucid, fact-based, unbiased rebuttal? I’ll wait.
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Opportunity and excuse. Except there is no excuse.
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Hey, don’t speak for anyone. That’s a no no.
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Except when actions or inactions speak louder than words.
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Or posting trends.
Disagree, Bibi cares a lot about the hostages. He cares a lot about keeping them in Gaza. If the hostages come home, his final fig leaf is gone and then he has to be honest about what he/his political allies want. And that’s actually just Gaza and preferably without any Palestinians left in there.
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And there is no genocide.
This is really long so I only read the executive summary.
There is no denial that the denial of basic food supplies and water is being used as an intended strategy. When done over a long period of time, say 3 weeks, what’s the word for that?
Fighting over semantics while people are being starved on purpose is wrong, inhumane against International Law, all facets of the Geneva Convention and just plain evil regardless of what it’s called. For the record October 7 attacks were too but two wrongs don’t make a right. We all should know that.
Lowering standards of humanity kind of defeats the purpose of having an enemy as it makes one the other side of the same coin.
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You’re using an article from an Israeli university
You have to find a better source than that, such as from a university outside of Israel
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It’s going to take much more than that for the west to formally acknowledge a Genocide being initiated by Israel.
So while I agree that Israel is absolutely doing inhumane acts against Gaza (even prior to 10/7) the United States is also allowing this to happen and/or is unwilling to force Israel to stop their current operations.
As I’ve said in prior posts - the United States will suffer economically and likely be threatened with international sanctions if they assist in funding a genocide with US Taxpayer dollars. If Israel was truly on the verge of a genocide, then the US would likely hault all funding to lsrael
The reason this is incredibly difficult to time is because if the US does ever stop funding Israel, then Israel may go to China, or worse, Russia, for aid - which would implicate the US even more.
So essentially, Israel is powerful not because they’re physically / militarily strong, but because they’re valuable to any country that heavily relies on free market capitalism and will do whatever it takes to hold control of that region through Israeli proxy
So you didn’t read it.
The
starvation claims are not based solely on the ethical or legal
interpretation of disputed data, but on a continuous pattern of reliance
on empirically inaccurate information, unfulfilled predictions, and a
failure to acknowledge errors, even after false data was debunked and
withdrawn by those who introduced it. In fact, throughout most of the
war more provisions were delivered into Gaza than prior to October
7, by a margin greater than any credible estimates of loss of Gazan
agricultural production.
So all these people are lying?
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Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty International said today as it published chilling new testimonies of starved displaced civilians. Their accounts underscore the organization’s repeated findings that the deadly combination of hunger and disease is not an unfortunate byproduct of Israel’s military operations. It is the intended outcome of plans and policies that Israel has designed and implemented, over the past 22 months, to deliberately inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction – which is part and parcel of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
“As Israeli authorities escalate their attacks on Gaza City and threaten to launch a full-scale ground invasion, the testimonies we have collected are far more than accounts of suffering, they are a searing indictment of an international system that has granted Israel a license to torment Palestinians with near-total impunity for decades,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International.
“To even begin reversing the devastating consequences of Israel’s inhumane policies and actions, which have made mass starvation a grim reality in Gaza, there must be an immediate, unconditional lifting of the blockade and a sustained ceasefire. The impact of Israel’s blockade and its ongoing genocide on civilians, particularly on children, people with disabilities, those with chronic illnesses, older people and pregnant and breastfeeding women is catastrophic and cannot be undone by simply increasing the number of aid trucks or restoring performative, ineffective and dangerous airdrops of aid.
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Famine has been confirmed in Gaza City for the first time, a UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security says.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has raised its classification to Phase 5, the highest and worst level of its acute food insecurity scale.
It says famine is confirmed in the Gaza Governorate, which includes Gaza City and its surrounding area, with “catastrophic conditions” projected to expand to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September.
More than 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip are facing “starvation, destitution and death”, it adds.
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I’ll read an assessment taken by a third party
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Your willful ignorance is noted. You would rather rely on information from the Gazan Ministry of Health.
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And Amnesty International, the UN, WHO, BBC and lots and lots of others. Are they are all lying anti semitics?
Accusation of “willful ignorance” of willful negligence is noted. It’s also rich with irony.
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When did I suggest the Gazan Ministry of Health?
But the fact that you even mentioned them in particular while using Israeli-based data seems to suggest hypocrisy in your response
If you can’t trust Gazan Ministry of Health, then why should I trust Begin-Sadat center Israel?
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It’s easy to dismiss any Gazan ministry, given that they are controlled by a religiously extreme violent terrorist group (Hamas).
As for third parties, I’m willing to listen more to them, but one question I would ask is whether they are getting their data from those same Hamas controlled Gazan ministries.
If the answer to that question is yes, then I’m likely to disregard them as well.
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I would disregard them as well
But if recognized media outlets are publishing data as fact that suggest Gaza is dealing with mass starvation at the hands of Israel, then you have to take their word at least somewhat
Again, where are those media outlets getting their data from?
If it’s a Hamas controlled Gazan ministry, then I’ll automatically dismiss it, and with good reason.