We held a virtual encounter with Al-Farra and his patients this past Monday via a video call. In the past few weeks, we’ve sought to document what starvation looks like in Gaza, to witness the gravity of the situation with our own eyes. Israel doesn’t allow journalists into the Strip, but via video we’ve been able to conduct real-time, online tours of hospitals and clinics.

For this article we conducted four such tours, in different places, and conducted separate conversations with another 12 doctors, 10 of them volunteers from the United States and Britain, who are currently in the Gaza Strip or were there recently. What we saw there left no room for doubt about the scale of the horror.

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    If only the colonists would just leave Palestine and go back to Ukraine and Long Island.

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      Yes that would stop it too. But there’s not much likelihood of that. Whereas Hamas is clearly not having any success, and prolonging this war is only causing such terrible misery. And yes that’s because the Israelis don’t care about the misery of the people of Gaza, they only care about defeating Hamas. There’s a lot of evil. But if Hanas fully surrendered, this would stop immediately. And they have nothing to gain by keeping us going.

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        You’ve fallen for Zionist propaganda. You have to read what they say in Hebrew, not English.

        They are quite explicit that they want everyone in Gaza gone, a lot of them want them all dead. Hamas and the hostages is just the cover story for Western corporate media to gaslight the public.

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        Netanyahu’s has explicitly stated it is the goal of his generation to deny Palestinian statehood.

        Hamas should turn themselves over the ICJ, they won’t, but this would not stop Israel. Right-wing groups want their opposing counterparts to exist so they have an excuse to commit more atrocities later. Hamas wants nothing more for everyone in Gaza to die so they can have two million martyrs. Israel’s far right government wanted a pretext to carry out this genocide. It’s undoubtedly part of why Netanyahu help found Hamas. Which has been known publicly since 2019. edit: typo

        https://newrepublic.com/article/176962/hamas-finances-funding-sources-palestinian-authority

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          No, the occupation need to end first then responsible for war crimes on both should be punished

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            Israel as a zionist Jewish ethno-state must be replaced with a multi-ethnic pluralistic state. Part of accomplishing that requires Netanyahu’s governing coalition collapse. A great way to accomplish that would be to send Israel’s government to the Hague.

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              The solution is the death of the zionist ideology that is still popular in israel. Every single goddamn prime of isrsel is a war criminal. The other part is western countries sanctionning israel cuba style

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                If the Israelis who fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War were 18 in 1948 that would make them 77 years older or 95 years old. This is like Israel hunting down the Nazis on their death bed. At some point most of these people died of old age. It’s going to be the odd centenarian who faces justice in 2030.

                I am not a Nazi or a Zionist. I do not seek the total extermination of groups of people. This has no appeal to me. Put whoever in jail or prison that deserves it but you will likely be transferring them to a hospital and then a morgue shortly after.

                Here is the current list of centenarians now as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_living_centenarians

                Searching by Israeli I get seven matches:

                • Dutch-Israeli | Holocaust survivor[11]
                • Israeli | Air Force major general[68]
                • German-born British-Israeli | Journalist, actor, businessman and Holocaust survivor[180]
                • Israeli | Military official and expert[222]
                • Ukrainian-Israeli | Olympic fencer[262]
                • Israeli | Nuclear physicist[277]
                • Polish-born Israeli | War veteran[306]

                Unless you speak some of these languages I recommend the language translator option that should appear in the top right of your browser’s search bar.

                Are we arresting the Polish guy who fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 against the Nazis? He also fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War against Arabs.

                https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-853294

                Looks like the Major General and the Air Force Commander would fit squarely into the kind of people you would want in the Hauge.

                There’s also the Dutch-Israeli woman who is a holocaust survivor to consider.

                https://nos.nl/artikel/2538252-107-jarige-holocaustoverlevende-krijgt-amsterdamse-andreaspenning

                And the British-Israeli holocaust survivor who rescued soldiers from the Battle of Normandy and is the oldest active journalist. But his quote about October 7th, published on January 7th, 2024 hasn’t aged well.

                “I’ve always felt a deep connection to the Jewish people and our homeland. I value the moments I’ve spent fighting against tyranny and promoting the truth through journalism. I could never have imagined that at the age of 100 I would be a witness to the horrific pogrom against Jews that took place on October 7 and the terrifying resurgence of antisemitism since. As I celebrate today, I also pray for the future of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.”

                Probably seemed like a reasonable statement a few months after October 7th.

                https://www.jwire.com.au/walter-bingham-kindertransport-survivor-celebrates-100th-birthday/

                There is the Ukrainian Israeli Olympic fencer

                A man who survived the Battle of Stalingrad and the Chernobyl disaster.

                Источник: https://www.sovsport.ru/chronicles/articles/segodnya-istoricheskij-den-starejshemu-otechestvennomu-olimpijczu-100-let

                (The site can copy the link when you paste a quote. Cool.)

                And here’s a softball, the Israeli nuclear physicist was in the Palmach. Easy Hague material.

                Those are the seven who are 100 or older now. Is this something people are seriously interested engaging in for people younger than that who would now be in their nineties? Or does this context not even matter and people want these people in prison regardless? And is prison good enough or do people want blood? Punishing these people in any capacity won’t undermine Zionism. There is no utility in such an endeavor if the goal is defeating Zionism, an ideology.

                Also, since I identified seven Jewish centenarians which comes off as a sus thing to do and some people like saying things that start off with ‘If you were a Jew’, I’m a Russian-Jewish American and undoubtedly a mix of European ethnic groups as I am pasty white, but not an Israeli. edit: typo