Not sure one example is representative (sure not, but alas) - anyone watching Louis Rossman (MacBook repair expert) knows he left NY with disgust, and now runs his business in another state

With Israeli obsession with children and family, it is extremely hard for LGBT, or any other couples to adopt - they have to prove they have the means to raise up these kids - both material and psychological.

Fitting the sub, it is interestingasfuck...

Nice!

Wasn't there a scheme where European countries donated unused vaccine doses to developing countries?

How come that whole continent, which is the birthplace of homo sapiens, can't feed it's population?

While on the other side it can come to absurd like this:

Hen Mazzig, an ex-IDF soldier

in one case, a professor asked me if I knew how many Palestinians have been raped by IDF forces. I answered that as far as I knew, none. She triumphantly responded that I was right, because, she said, “You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are so racist and disgusted by them that you won’t touch them.”

And in Israeli academy (!)

According to Dr. Gurevitch, This was a very serious paper that asked two important questions: Is the relative lack of IDF rapes a noteworthy phenomenon, and if so, why is it that there are so few IDF rapes when in similar situations around the world, where rape is so much more common? The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Nitzan, could not find instances of rapes of Palestinian women by the IDF it sought to find, so it was decided that the paper show that “the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals.” It continues, “In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences – just as organized military rape would have done.” Ergo, Nitzan could not find any cases of rape by IDF soldiers of Palestinian women even though Palestinian media constantly accuses Israeli soldiers of this. Apparently distraught over such findings, Nitzan had to twist her thesis to attribute the lack of such rapes to a governmental program instilling in IDF soldiers that the Arab women are sub-human or inferior.

I wonder if repeating patterns could trigger epilepsy or tripophobia in sensitive people

There should be some kind of "accountability score" for politicians, managed by an independent body, that will track all their promises and follow up with whether they, at least tried, to fulfill them. So that voters will be able to refer to it, before they reelect the same do-nothing again and again....

How long until western media will tell that gunmen were under stress of Israel war in Gaza strip?

Is there a single Israeli exchanged, who was convicted in breaking Palestinian laws, which would lead to their detainment by Hamas, ruling body of Gaza strip?

Adjusted for inflation Palestine had been given 71 billion USD in international aid over the years, so saying "Palestine has been starved of money" is not an understatement but a blatant lie.

If you'd say Palestinian people starved of money I'd probably agree: as their corrupt leaders stole most of those funds, and used the rest to fund and enable terror activities as well as children indoctrination in hatred

The first sentence seems to be cut or unfinished 😕 bad AI copy/paste? 😏

By the way

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hywigfzha

Likud lawmaker Eliyahu Revivo protested that Irish Ambassador Sonya McGuinness did not come to the Knesset discussion on Hamas' crimes against women, even though she was invited "The Irish ambassador got lost. Someone will inform us when he finds her," he scolded - referring to the outrageous statement of Irish Prime Minister Leo Vardakar

But Leo Varadkar outdone himself there. "Lost and found"???

Strange that these articles don't mention that almost no hostages are released "as-is" - for each Israeli hostage, 3 convicted prisoners (women and under 19y.o. "children") had to be released by Israel.

Their crimes include shooting and stabbing attacks, car rammings, and at least one case of explosive-car-rigging...

The only exception are 12-16 Thai and Philippinian foreign nationals, which were actually released after being held hostage illegally for almost 50 days.

This just few weeks after UN puts Iran to chair Human Rights Council Social Forum

The hate of article writers for normal units in the headlines

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-sheriffs-office-viral-tweet/ 'Large Boulder Size Of Small Boulder' Makes Colorado Sheriff's Office Twitter Famous

Still unbelievable the far left in USA seeing countries like Cuba and North Korea, but believing that socialism/communism can really work for good of the people.

It's crazy what's been going on there, is there a regional power nearby that could step in and protect the civilians?

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan dismissed the latest announcement, saying “the Israelis said there was a command and control center, which means that the matter is greater than just a tunnel.”

Didn't they have almost a month to clear up the place, and seal off the tunnel entrances, before the first IDF land troops entered the hospital premises?

Let's see how it's turned around to be Israel's fault somehow...

They are zionist communities. They're intentionally as far outward as they can be

Incorrect, they usually are far away from big cities, because their original focus and intention was on agriculture and land development

And Israel is planning on pushing those settlements into Gaza soon

Several days ago, Benjamin Netaniyahu was asked this question directly, and replied with strict NO. Which was surprising, considering that politicians like him, never tell things directly and find ways to speak for minutes and hours without saying anything (kinda like upper management in tech)... Of course, we'll have to see whether it's truth.

Quote from https://www.memri.org/tv/Zionists-attack-civilians-stopped-october-seven-legitimate-right-liberate-pay-price

Hamas Official Ayman Shanaa: The Zionists Are Carrying Out A 'Blatant Attack On Civilians' – They Must Be Stopped; On October 7 We Exercised Our 'Legitimate Right' To Liberate Our Land And We Are Willing To Pay The Price

You're confusing kibbutzes with illegal settlements in the West bank. Kibbutz is an attempt at socialist community and the ones attacked on Oct-7th are inside Israel's borders. All Jewish settlements in Gaza strip were dismantled in 2005 during unilateral disengagement by Israel.

Sadly, it goes both ways: This woman devoted her life to try and bring peace to this land, but it didn't help her on Oct-7th

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/13/canada-peace-activist-vivian-silver-dead-hamas/

Silver, well known in Israel for her peace activism, was among at least 80 people killed during Hamas militants’ attack on the Beeri Kibbutz

Silver moved from Winnipeg to Israel in 1974 and was a longtime member of Women Wage Peace and other organizations campaigning for peace in the region.

She was dedicated to denouncing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians; she had fought against the blockade of Gaza, in place since 2007, and would pick up Gazan children at the border to drive them to Israeli hospitals.

Agree, sorry for derailing the thread

From AP news article published in 2021:

The U.S. has spent at least $5.5 million in Gaza this year on cash assistance and health care, in addition to contributing $90 million to UNRWA operations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Imagine how much good things can be done with such funds, if it isn't used for strengthening military capabilities of Hamas. Infra projects, development of industry and farming and what not. Some will say "but it's a tiny piece of land with no resources" - well we could see IT industry rise there, as it doesn't need much more than computers and internet access. Did this happen? Open the news to see.

They should investigate international aid to Palestinians in Gaza and West bank as well.

It's good you're documenting these experiences, as in about a year, if you happen to get on a Windows machinery at work, or relatives house, it will feel very alien and sluggish to you...

Nice

Yep, as a place where:

According to the UN, over 150,000 people have been killed in Yemen (From wikipedia)

They should really calm the fuck down

Let's hope that small scale farming and permaculture approaches will improve food security for Senegalese after their water access is being compromised for growing crops for export abroad: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-senegal-wall-street-water/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwMDA2NjE0OCwiZXhwIjoxNzAwNjcwOTQ4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTNDUxQzJEV0xVNjgwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMzg5MEY4NTAxNUU0Q0EyOTE3OThEN0M2NTg1REZBNiJ9.VHNpYIn4Erf82A9HFmM1Ko0uOsIhVq2SIROpZO-EzCQ

(Copied link from entry here on Lemmy, not sure what's with access token)

Videos released by Hamas show ppl in civilian clothing launch Mortars to Israeli territories, so can't really rely on uniforms.

From one of your previous comments here on Lemmy:

We can twist the truth all we want but Hamas aren't blanket terrorists (and I quite dislike them and their dumb strategy).

To another lemmy user, you seem to support Hamas, organization whose charter is to make sure Israel is destroyed, and employs barbaric methods, while disregarding any concern for Palestinian lives...

It would be just and humane. The fact it doesn't happen, just proves that the mass protests we see in recent weeks are driven by hate for Jews and not care for Palestinians.

Wonder if the polls collected info on race/ethnicity of the perpetrators...

There are a lot of copycat channels with fake contents for sure, but some look genuine i.e. Chad Zuber

Not sure you'll like this one: https://youtu.be/aG0Zd2X8YJY?si=XtPVpy7N4q79drSv Here Julia Hartley-Brewer tries to make Palestinian journalist Wafa Al-Udaini to answer what would be "a proportionate answer to Oct-7 massacre"

So far this year, almost 8,000 people have been reported killed due to violence in the country, Acled says

And do we see thousands of protesters on streets of London, New York or Sydney?...