• hector@lemmy.today
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    Our democrats have no problem with kidnapping, torturing, executing, then stealing the organs of, people without cause, be they civilians with an alleged tangential connection to a militant or no.

    Hard to believe how they lose elections, running as the lesser of two evils, yet getting worse every cycle and now bad enough they don’t even try to put the brakes on Israel’s abuses. The president opened it up by blood libeling hamas claiming to have seen 40 beheaded babies, he saw the evidence himself. Never correcting himself.

    They didn’t say shit when those medical workers were found in a mass grave with torture and bound hands and execution style wounds with organs cut out either.

    Past presidents of both parties would have put the brakes on Israel long before all of this. Now both of our parties are just openly ok with kidnapping, torture, execution, organ theft, of civilians, without cause, paid for with our money and done with our intelligence help to boot.

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      Agree with everything you said except

      Past presidents of both parties would have put the brakes on Israel long before all of this

      2008-2009 Gaza War occurred exactly during the “lame duck” period between no-oil and obama . mission-accomplished gave isr*el carte blanche.

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    They don’t see Palestinians as humans but they see them as human enough to steal their organs for themselves

    (CW: a scene mentioned in one of Ursula Le Guin’s book that talks about SV)

    spoiler

    I’m reminded of a scene in Ursula’s book ‘the word for world is forest’ where the violently racist military colonizers refer to the indigenous race living on the planet as animals and one of the newcomers to the planet who was present asks them about how they’ve forced themselves on the women of that race and asks that if they don’t see them as people, then do they believe they had been engaging in bestiality

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    I’m on the wait list for a kidney transplant (O positive if you’re feeling insanely generous), and I can’t imagine how anyone could accept a stolen kidney from a prisoner… I would feel haunted from the inside out – the thought already really bothers me and I’ll hopefully be getting a kidney from someone who volunteered to be an organ donor. The entitlement some of these Israeli’s feel is superhuman in the worst way.

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      I can’t imagine how anyone could accept a stolen kidney from a prisoner

      If they put labels of origin, do you think there will be truth in advertising ™️?

      I’ve read the sales are primarily poorer states’ more affluent people, but we never really know.

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        Past scandals have uncovered things like this place in India luring desperate job seekers to the country with promises of a good job, and they end up just cutting out their organs and giving them nothing.

        China has long harvested the organs of the people they execute, which is not an insubstantial number of people I think. Nothing like this though.

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      Heres the thing, they’ve been dehumanising the palistinians forever.

      They don’t see them as human. Apparently, the children brought it upon themselves.

      Don’t worry tho, I’m sure the united states wont balkanise before they’re done flattening Gaza.

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        Why would they be ok with accepting organs from subhumans though?

        Almost as if it makes no sense.

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            Sounds like something an investigative journalist could really dig into and unravel. The companies outside of Israel involved in this, selling, etc. should be sued and their employees ostracized at a minimum.

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            Yeah, it would be black market… My point is the contradiction of considering Palestinians to be subhuman, yet being OK with accepting their organs.

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    Can’t viable organs only be harvested from living bodies? Did they harvest them from prisoners, or did they just cut up the bodies for fun?