At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardment.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as the sick and elderly, condemning the “continued use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urging the international community to exert pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow in aid.
Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse. Just remember: many of the people who claim to care, don’t. And if you actually want to stop this, it needs to start with putting people in power who actually care about stopping it. If there isn’t one in the general, that means this didn’t happen during the primaries.
Notice how this gets so much less attention that it did during the campaign even though its only gotten worse.
Don’t worry, when the American mid-term elections start next year Palestine will be relevant again.
Republican’s will be gleefully listing off the next minorities they are sending to Freedom Camp in El Salvador. While Democrats are bombarded with endless purity tests and FUD so the Republican candidates can win.
An easy solution would be for the Democrats to condemn the GENOCIDE (its a bit more then a purity test) and break ties with Israel.
They lost because they put the interests of a foreign nation above their own constituents, I hope they have better sense then to do it a second time.
Not only did the Greens condemn Israel even the Libertarian party openly called out the Genocide, eveyone even democrats who dont have corporate sponsors are more than willing to condemn Israel.
BAN AIPAC
The Republicans won because some voters put the interests of a foreign nation above their own country and now the genocide is coming home.
The problems with Israel extend well past the Middle East. Our government has been infiltrated, compromised, and there are attacks on 1A-protected free speech.
This is absolutely a problem for Americans.
Our government has been infiltrated, compromised, and there are attacks on 1A-protected free speech.
Ya, thanks for supporting the Republicans.
Nope. I voted for Harris/Walz.
But you can recognize a problem and call out your side’s bullshit while still opposing the other side. That might be a bit nuanced for you though.
>Continuously attacking the DNC, while ignoring the RNC.
I voted for Harris/Walz.
Sure, buddy. And I’m a Mossad Agent /s
I would hardly say wanting the democrats to stop enabling and supporting genocide to be in the interests of a foreign nation. Maybe in the interest of decency or of humanity in general.
Whatever way you frame it, the democrates ignored their voters, betraying them to instead do the bidding of the state of Israel.
They are, in the end, expected to listen to their consituents and not a war mongering genocidal apartheid state.
They are, in the end, expected to listen to their consituents and not a war mongering genocidal apartheid state.
Dude, are you not paying attention to who the Republican party heavily supports?
What does that have to do with demanding change inside the democratic party? I just want the “good guys” (who I’m essentially forced to vote for) to stop supporting genocide.
I genuinely don’t know what to do while reading news about Palestine. Donations don’t help if the food isn’t getting through the blockade, the biggest powers of the Western world seem to be in support of or turning a blind eye, and I as a citizen halfway across the world feel absolutely helpless as I watch children willfully being bombed and starved to death.
Go to demonstrations, boycott, speak up about Palestine, message your representatives, vote only for politicians that condemns Israels attacks and have a credible policy of supporting Palestinian rights.
As for donations there is organizations that try to get Israeli war criminals prosecuted and challenge governments in court to stop arming Israel. See two examples below.
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Must be hard seeing your keyboard with your head so far up your ass.
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They like to drive the topic away from the genocide. This topic was relevant during the election. But now it is clear a comment to get people upset and stop them from discussing what they can do to stop this genocide.
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moraleless
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What?
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medecine
Who’s medecine [sic]? You’re apparently angry at people who voted for Harris. How is this “our medicine”?
I would say it’s more on the people who voted for Trump, the people who threw their vote away on a third party, and people who did not vote.
Nobody will ever take you seriously so long as you pretend that Harris would be nearly as bad as Trump regarding Israel (or literally any of the other thousands of disasters that he’s unnecessarily created for us).
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Pressure your local government to act against Israel’s genocide through sanctions and military support for Palestine. Write your representatives, turn out to protests, help your local political party that aligns with your goals.
My state law actually prevents any company from working with/for the government if they boycott Israel. Let’s say I’m a government worker who needs to hire a contractor for a project. This contractor is not a government employee. But if this contractor boycotts Israel then I, as a government employee, am not legally allowed to choose them for the project; I have to find a contractor who doesn’t boycott Israel.
It’s literally enshrined in state law, so local governments can’t overrule it even if they wanted to.
It’s insane that we have laws forcing us to work with and not criticize a particular foreign sovereign state. It’s literal madness, like it breaks my brain lol.
My state law actually prevents any company from working with/for the government if they boycott Israel.
Laws can be changed. We need to pressure our state legislatures in removing these bullshit laws.
Pressure and protest them all the same. To repeal that law is just an additional goal.
This is what you want you to feel. Zionism in its core is a project for genocide. They want you to feel helpless. Read their history, educate yourself and your family. Fight for your political rights, boycott for the best of your ability. Share the news.
If you have time, join the protest but make sure to cover your face and dont take your phone.
There’s nothing the average citizen can do. “The Powers That Be” will protect Israel at any cost, because Israel is a military beachhead in the Middle East for any potential military action against “The Muzlimz.”
Not alone. The only way is to organize. They’re often at local Palestine protests, so the trick is to find those, then get connected to people at them.
Jewish Voice for Peace is often at them. Someone else named another organization above. PSL has had a lot over the last year and a half, too.
We put it in black and white to Democratic candidates: you can choose to support Israel or you can choose to win this election. But you only get one. Make it a binary choice and see how they respond.
If they choose to support Israel, then we need to shift to a 3rd party en masse. Make it clear that we will circumvent them if they don’t change their position.
This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.
You need to speak up more than, there isnt enough people speaking up about it. If there was more things would change.
If you feel helpless, doing and saying more will help lessen this feeling.
Joining protests and speaking up about this online has helped me tremendously. Yes I have been banned and/or silenced, but I feel good about myself because I am speaking my truth.
Israel starving people to death is evil. Some day you will be repaid for this.
I really hope so. I just can’t believe we (humans) have let these ethno supremacist ideas survive in our world for so long.
I just don’t know how you fix societies as broken and sick as Israel has become.
Meanwhile, the historically worst entho supremacist state of Germany uses its own history of genocide as an excuse to support a Jewish Ethnostates genocide. With the rest of the western world nodding it’s head and America leading the way.
The western world has lost all moral credibility it ever pretended to uphold.
Some day you will be repaid for this.
Climate change is coming. And it will take no prisoners.
Committing genocide to steal land that will be uninhabitable in 20 years is peak insanity.
Albert Einstein’s letter to the NY Times was 100% correct. In addition, WW II history of the ghettos continues in the Middle East.
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I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.
Israel still wants to exterminate Palestinians so that they can fully expand into the area.
Hamas wants Israel to fuck off out of Palestine. Depending on how extreme the individual person, they may also want Israel gone entirely, or the same to all Jews. But that’s not the position of most Palestinians.
(The genocide is not the position of most Israelis, either, but enough are okay with it happening.)
It’s simpler that that: profit.
Israel will cleanse the area to make it safe and profitable for land developers. Casinos, hotels, golf courses, etc.
Trump openly stated it.
This framing kind of sucks, but it’s close.
It’s still a land grab, and they’re actively grabbing land in the west bank, in Lebanon, and in Syria.
They’re fascists that have purposefully fomented this violence as the apartheid state. They want the land and some justification they can wave around. This is why Oct 7th exists.
The irony is, the more successful they are in their depraved violence and theft, the more they will become a pariah globally. I can’t see the future, but this feels like a fascist death spiral that will end Israel.
I understand.
It’s the same human drama that’s been played out since the dawn of time. The powerful dominated the weak, and helpless.
We deserve our extinction when our sun goes red giant, but it’ll happen much sooner than that.
We’re an irredeemable species.
It is not the same human drama. Most of war and expansion focuses on different goals and usually driven by a single leader. This an organization that extend beyond a single entity. They take your tax money and they use it to fund their project.
Palestinians want to be left alone, and Israel wants them all dead because Israel decided the land belongs to them.
If Palestinians wanted to be left alone then why did they do the terriorst attack and why do they still have hostages?
The terrorist attack wasn’t perpetrated by the Palestinian state. That’s like saying that all Americans agree with the Proud Boys because they happened to be US citizens.
Hamas is the elected ruling party of Palestine.
The terrorist attack was directly perpetrated by the Palestinian state
One side has been marginalised and it’s being cleansed as we speak right now by a highly technological nation; and the other side has been marginalised by the whole Europe and the whole Arab world for a millennia. The Palestinian situation is one of the most difficult right now.
(Adwan, S., Bar-On, D., & Naveh, E. “Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine”)
This is a really disingenuous way to sane wash genocide and war crimes, backed by western dollars and politics.
It’s not difficult to call a spade a spade, as long as the fact that it’s a spade actually matters to you at all.
the other side has been marginalised by the whole Europe and the whole Arab world for a millennia.
What the fuck? The Arab world until about a century ago was the best place in the world for a Jew to be by far.
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Is it not true that people are dying of starvation on Gaza?
Why?
I can’t believe how radical those Hamas terrorists are. They rather watch their own people starve to death than releasing the rest of the hostages. Whatever your thoughts and believes about this whole confict are: It is absolutely clear that Israel will not stop at anything to kill the terrorists before all the hostages are released.
But why would they do so? Those hostages are the only bargaining chip they have left.
Hamas has offered to stick with the previous peace deal that would see the release of the remaining hostages, but Israel has decided that peace is not an option here.
Sure dude. What’s happening in the West Bank completely disproves that this has anything to do with Hamas or hostages.
Do you know how many hostages Israel has and how many people and children they have murdered?
How come it doesn’t matter how many hostages Israel has?
Objectively false, they could have gotten all the hostages back but they wanted to continue their genocidal war on the Palestinian people. They had a deal and they chose to throw it away on a bunch of technicalities and unproven accusations (which they hope people will forget about because they will never be proven). If you pay attention to what Israeli government officials say then you would know this has absolutely nothing to do with the hostages. I have personally spoken to many Israelis and they all agree that they would rather destroy Hamas and kill all civillians in their way rather than get back the hostages.
Both sides are fucking retarded. Literally killing and starving each other over god damn religion. Fucking pisses me off that they’re willing to murder each other over a god that doesn’t even exist.
God damn idiots, the lot of them. The country needs to go on a collective acid trip and calm the fuck down.
The people who downvoted me are part of the problem. So here’s my message to you: Fuck you and your religion.
