That’s what they are banking on, but I’m not sure that’s a safe bet right now…

Companies only acting in their own best interest and completely disregarding human life? I am shocked! Shocked!

Congressman Adam Smith says ‘totalitarian’ protesters are ‘trying to silence anyone who dares to disagree with them’

Well, isn’t that ironic…

Whatever happened to Israel having to prove to the ICJ they are letting sufficient aid in? Why is nothing happening, shouldn’t there be consequences for this? I know Israel generally doesn’t see consequences but it also generally doesn’t have to comply with an ICJ ruling…

We live in a different era now. Where we aren’t as influenced by the media anymore. They can spin stories all their want, but actually seeing the footage come out of Gaza makes it impossible to ignore or deny. The media is losing its grip and that’s what we’re experiencing.

We can no longer be pacified with “it’s not that bad” or “they are the bad guys anyway, all of them” when you see the footage of four guys being blown up, just like that. When you see the videos of parents burying their babies. When you hear the first person stories the media isn’t bringing you.

That’s what’s different.

After all, President Biden recently said he cannot understand why non-Palestinians are so vested in the Palestinian plight, according to another Democracy Now report.

Can you imagine? People having sympathy for Palestinians being slaughtered?! It’s unbelievable and unforgivable, we like our people to be quiet and uninformed, thank you very much. Next thing you know they get concerned over kids being slaughtered in school shootings. The audacity!

/s

And as a side note; he doesn’t understand why people are sympathetic to the Palestinian plight, but he is ultra sympathetic to Israel. And he doesn’t even see the irony in that…

What happened to “we dismantled Hamas in Northern Gaza and are completely in charge”?

+972 approached the IDF Spokesperson for comment in response to the information contained in this article. The army wrote back: “The IDF cannot review the incident based only on testimonies.”

Right, but when all they offer is a single “eye witness” testimony we are supposed to believe them. Good to know that works only one way.

The IOF is getting more brazen by the day, holy shit.

it raises an eyebrow or two if the other person doesn’t associate the two conditions.

I don’t get it. It raises an eyebrow if you don’t link encephalitis and HIV? I’m about 90% sure I must be misunderstanding you…

Poor Dunia, what an absolute tragedy. And to think so many other kids have already been killed and likely many more to come. It tears the soul apart.

The IDF has described the ceasefire as an “operational pause”, in line with comments overnight from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – a clear attempt to hint that bombing could resume after the hostage exchange is completed. “Our terminology is not ceasefire, our terminology is an operational pause,” Hecht said.

So yeah, they will keep bombing. Not could resume, will resume.

The world should revolt this idea is even floated.

B’tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories says the following:

Although Israel declared an end to its military administration in Gaza, it continues to control critical aspects of life there. It controls all border crossings by land, apart from Rafah, as well as Gaza’s sea and air space. This control allows Israel to exclusively monitor the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, which it regulates according to Israeli interests. This holds true even when Gaza residents wish only to transit through Israel in order to reach the West Bank or other countries.

Regarding moving of the goal post, you brought up Egypt, not me.

If you want to continue discussing in good faith, please stick to the talking points.

It seems you haven’t read any of the linked articles, so there is no need to talk about this any further until you do.

So because Egypt isn’t doing enough, Israel isn’t to blame? Right. Solid argument.

What Egypt does or doesn’t do does not in any way negate the fact that Israel is completely out of line.

What an argument “but look at them, they are also bad, which means the even badder guys must not be as bad”.

If you read the charter, you can see that if any of these things apply, it can be labelled a genocide. And you pick one and say “you need to provide proof”, glossing over the glaring fact that even without, it already counts as a genocide.

But sure, if you insist;

• CBC

• NPR

• USA Today

• People’s World

• UN

• Foreign Policy

• ABC News

You mean right to defend itself under Article 51 of the UN charter, right?

That doesn’t apply if you’re an occupying force. And for anyone saying “Israel doesn’t occupy Gaza, there are no Israeli officials there” if you control movement, water, gas, power, food supplies, where civilians can and can’t travel to, and the territory is not allowed to exist independently, all of that “right to defend yourself” is null and void.

So, let’s look at the definition of genocide and see where Israel lands here.

Definition

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;

• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Source: the UN

So; let’s have a quick look at these points:

(1) Over 11,000 deaths, majority of civilians. And I’m just talking about deaths since Oct 7, I did not include any numbers from before that. Check.

(2) Illegal occupation and cutting off food, water, electricity and free movement. Check.

(3) Unknown to me.

(4) Unknown to me.

The head of the UN, Craig Mokhiber, just retired and called it unequivocally a genocide, here’s a source for that, but if you don’t like this source, you can just Google this and find plenty of other sources.

So, please tell me. How does Israel not fit as a genocidal regime?

Oh look, one genocidal country helping the other, making genocide easier…