Best Giraffe posted:

we could also include cyprus, whaytever they are

Lawman 0 posted:

poo poo or get off the pot

paul_soccer10 posted:

Israeli occupation troops are firing live ammunition and tank shells at peaceful protesters in Gaza. 6 dead so far, hundreds of injuries

Main Paineframe posted:

i imagine the tank shell was probably an intimidation tactic in hopes that they could blunt the expected wave of protests that day. by using overwhelming force against some poor random farmer early enough to make the morning news, they hoped to discourage people from going to the protests by flaunting their willingness to use ruthless and brutal tactics against unarmed civilians for no reason

resar posted:

The evil Hamas made us gun down women and kids.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/980471267525525504

Autism Sneaks posted:

and yet simultaneously you have hundreds of Twitter leftists unironically attacking other leftists for criticizing neoliberal politicians on their weak Israel stances but not Bernie, who I guess we're already supposed to be treating as another Third Way fifth columnist

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

They use overwhelming force on one or two people to stoke these protests, and then exploit their overwhelming bias in Western media to make it look like the uppity Gazans are at it again, and Hamas is just stirring up trouble.

Algund Eenboom posted:

lmao

https://twitter.com/tbcire/status/981222960693379072

exmarx posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/982276001714454530

quote:

The United Nations urged both sides to avoid violence and said there were “strong indications” that Israeli security forces had used excessive force last week in driving back protesters, which may have breached international law.

Elizabeth Throssell, a spokeswoman for the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, said the high casualty toll among protesters who were unarmed or did not pose a serious threat to security forces — and in some cases were running away from the fence — suggested Israeli troops may have used excessive force.

Some protesters had reportedly acted dangerously, but international law permits the use of lethal force only as a last resort in the face of an imminent threat of death or serious injury, she said. “An attempt to approach or cross the green-line fence by itself certainly does not amount to a threat to life or serious injury that would justify the use of live ammunition,” she said.

“If there is unjustified and unlawful recourse to firearms resulting in death, that may amount to willful killing and that’s a grave breach of the fourth Geneva Convention,” she added.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

okay there are no civilians in israel then by that logic

Main Paineframe posted:

jokes on them, turns out pollution doesn't stop at national borders. now gazan wastewater is polluting Israeli desalination plants

Weeping Wound posted:

this is the worst post I have read

gently caress. Dude.

Plutonis posted:

https://twitter.com/AsafRonel/status/987955083294990337

Reverse Ghetto

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

quote:

After Natalie Portman pulled out of an award ceremony in Israel, right-wing activist Rabbi Shmuley Boteach bought a full-page New York Times ad to attack the actress. Journalist Max Blumenthal details how billionaire Sheldon Adelson bankrolls Shmuley's World Values Network and conservative activism.

Main Paineframe posted:

not only is he real, he was Michael Jackson's close friend and spiritual advisor

he ran for Congress in 2012, and has written at least four books about kosher sex

Main Paineframe posted:

Likud's popularity has abruptly skyrocketed to its highest point in a decade, and there's already calls for the corruption case against Netanyahu to be suspended so that brave Bibi isn't distracted by spurious allegations in this time of security crisis

paul_soccer10 posted:

just. like. isis.

Feranon posted:

man loving kissinger still being around makes me wonder if he didn't seriously make some kinda philosopher's stone type poo poo from all those dead cambodian souls

motherfucker was already an old man in the 70s and he's STILL FUCKIN HERE like, cmon

rudatron posted:

This is nuts. Its so crazy. The open hatred and dehumanization. And no one in the west cares or is saying anything.

But you can bet no one in the area is gonna forget this. I hope they don't. I hope israeli gets its comeuppance. But i can't see how that's gonna happen.

Coohoolin posted:

lol were there really swastika flags at the rally? i don't believe that for one second

quote:

The death toll in Gaza has left me reeling. Many of the dead were innocents; some were children. Each and every death was tragic, rending the heart.

And the questions had to be asked: Who was to blame? Was Israel the guilty party? Had the Israeli army acted carelessly, shooting hastily into crowds of helpless civilian protestors? Or, even worse, were the killings an intentional act of cruelty, intended to teach a lesson to the hated Hamas enemy?

For some, the answers were easy.

Eddie Glaude Jr., a professor of religion at Princeton, said on MSNBC Monday that the only important thing was that "all of those babies are dead." To the claim that Hamas was using those dead children as tools in their political struggle, he offered these words: "That’s like saying the children in the Children’s March in Birmingham - it is their fault that Bull Connor’s attacking them."

Excuse me?

Is a professor at Princeton really saying that the leaders of Hamas, known for their wholesale murders, casual cruelties, obsessive anti-Semitism, and devious terror are somehow comparable to the leadership of the American civil rights movement?

And that Israel’s need not to be overrun by huge, angry mobs of terrorists and demonstrators is equivalent to Bull Connor’s desire to perpetuate permanent segregation of black and white in America? And that the prayers of civil rights leaders that their children not be harmed are equivalent to the desire of Hamas leaders that their children be wounded or killed?