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I think it’s much easier to discover new content on Lemmy.

Pretty sure that anti-anti-fascism is just straight-up a Nazi trope.

How is it remotely sane to give support to any candidate who backs an ongoing genocide? It’s only sane to do so if you’re apathetic to the said victims of genocide and know that their ghosts won’t affect you after they’ve been murdered by the politicians you’ve elected.

If there are 2 buttons, and both will result in the commission of Genocide, you don’t press either button. This is why this meme wouldn’t work in its usual context if the buttons said that.

Any voter or potential voter who has moral principles and values should withhold support for any candidate who supports or enables the most serious crime known to humanity.

If a political opponent of Adolf Hitler was vying for election in Germany in 1932 or 1933, and that political opponent also had the same views towards Jews and/or other ethnic, racial, religious and national groups as Adolf Hitler, with the same intention to commit and use the power of their office to facilitate genocide against those groups as the NSDAP has, you don’t vote for that other candidate, even if they maintain free elections within a fascist Germany. On principle, every person has a moral responsibility not to support, nor facilitate the crime of Genocide. A true democracy allows for true political expression of the population and doesn’t force its electorate to back a Genocide.

I hope I’m not being OTT or patronizing. When talking about an ongoing Genocide against a group it’s off to reduce the (unfortunately) political issue of Genocide prevention to the less serious language used in US domestic politics. And there ought not to be a reason why Palestine is less important than Ukraine or Russian influence in Europe. I mean Palestine is fucked right now and has been since 1948. Why would European people let Palestine be fucked for decades since it doesn’t affect Europe but care about Ukraine since it does? I dunno such a shit situation.

I think the South African team presented their arguments extremely well. I wonder what extreme Oct. 7 atrocity propaganda Israel has prepared to show the UN’s highest court tomorrow. Surely that’s all they can do since they haven’t been able to refute any single argument presented by South Africa. Initially, each side was given 2 hours to make statements, Israel requested an extension to 3 hours.

All they had to do was play back the Zionist’s own statements to prove they were genocidal. So far they’ve claimed that Hamas is the party committing genocide (ridiculous), but as was explained by South Africa, they are not a state party and so aren’t subject to the Genocide Convention.

Vaughan Lowe argued strongly that nothing can possibly merit a response of Genocide in any context. This simple fact must expose whatever attempt to reframe themselves as victims that Israel will try to pull tomorrow.

What I think will happen is that the court will find they are committing genocide, and then all Western leaders will say that they disagree with the conclusion the ICJ/ICC found.

So much nonsense has been flung around by Israel and its supporters in the last few months, I don’t see why they’d suddenly want to return to some semblance of logic and reason just because their obvious crimes have been formally recognised.

OK so now they’ve all been reinstated and Elon Musk started talking about how he’s a bastion of free speech again! Tulsi Gabbard approves!

I looked up the squirrel’s other social media after they got banned because I liked his posts. He has Instagram as well. I hope the Fediverse will continue becoming less and less of a fringe thing. I noticed some of the other people on the list have a Bluesky account but I’ve not really heard much about it.

I’m a bit late but done

I think it is both. People are naturally the most revolutionary in times of crisis and struggle. It is the conditions which are created by the capitalist system that make the people feel that the system they live under is untenable, especially with rapid changes in conditions as experienced during financial crises. Many within the bourgeoise study the instability of capitalism in order to protect their capital or to profit from it.

Henry Kissinger and George HW Bush are no longer with us. 😢

My comment probably contains information most readers already know about. I saw an account which geolocated the place where they were abducted from (Jabalya, north Gaza city) and I also saw a tweet giving some names of the people pictured. I haven’t seen anything confirming with 100% certainty that they were murdered. However, it seems implicit that they were murdered, given that the image circulating is of tens of people kneeling blindfolded in lines on the ground in what looks like a large excavated place in front of a hole.

Main Zionist accounts are disseminating that they are all Hamas members (from the tunnels they flooded?) although I’ve seen multiple posts claim that they were abducted from a UN building. Zio-fascists also say it’s normal to strip people naked to check they don’t have suicide vests or weapons, and that stripping people naked is necessary to identify Hamas members. And that the photo which appears to be a mass grave is actually just a facility to process terrorists? It is a large open area with no wall or fence. It’s just the usual disinformation crap.

It must be pretty clear from this level of dehumanisation that this is a genocide. All these images are taken by occupation forces and published as propaganda. They’re not trying to hide it - their view is that this is a win.

I rediscovered this comment from lemmy.world on October 9. Kinda speaks for itself about how the narrative changes. I’m not trying to brigade.

Yesterday I saw Motaz’s Instagram reel. He was in Deir Al Balah, where he filmed the aftermath of an intense Israeli attack. I have seen graphic images and videos from the war in Syria, from the war on Gaza in 2014, and from earlier in the 2023 Gaza genocide. I can’t remember ever seeing footage worse and more heart-wrenching than what Motaz posted.

I will write this from my memory. I think in those few minutes there were at least 10 casualties shown. The start of the video is the recovery of only a severed hand from a smouldering pile of metal. Building(s) were levelled and blown open, and ash and concrete dust were everywhere. Someone got blown backwards onto what I think was a tree and died with his lower body in the air and a piece of shrapnel penetrated his crown/skull, so fluid from his brain and the rest of his body was pulled down behind him. I saw someone still alive brought onto a mattress with shrapnel penetrating his leg, the top of his leg bone snapped, it left and re-entered his skin through the open wound as he readjusted himself. I saw this also happen to a young girl in Gaza weeks ago.

I think I remember 3 or more dead children being brought out from under rubble, and more dead adults. A bunch of cars were on fire. I saw someone say the death toll from that specific massacre was 43 at the time, now put at 60-70.

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This was in the south of the Gaza Strip, where they were initially told by the occupation army that they would be safe. Predictably, they have now extended the line even further, and the occupation is now attacking Khan Younis, dropping more leaflets in the sky. The aim of these leaflets is to spread terror and attack any feeling of safety that the people of the Gaza Strip might still have in their homeland. The same strategy which was used by the Zionist forces to carry out the first Nakba. In the West Bank Israel flew quadcopters equipped with speakers to fly up to Palestinian people and say in Arabic “We are at war, don’t try to resist us or else we will reach you and your children, and kill you.” or something like that according to translations I’ve seen people make. The thousands of massacres committed by Israel should prove to everyone that they don’t care about humanitarianism. Apparently, yesterday was the heaviest day of fighting according to an IDF commander.

In conclusion, the only place within the Gaza Strip where a Palestinian is maybe permitted the right to life at this time, by the occupation army, is Rafah, and the areas around Rafah. This is in line with Zionist policy as shown by the document released by WikiLeaks. Push everyone further south and then into the Sinai desert, and murder everyone else who refuses to leave with starvation, thirst, bombs and bullets. Not a single major Western leader, to my knowledge, has even said a word against this genocide committed by their ally. Not even speak when they pretend to care about an issue, as politicians often do.

The ICC must face a huge amount of pressure to investigate and attempt to prosecute these crimes against humanity after this is over and everyone in the Gaza Strip is in exile in what might become the world’s largest refugee camp. What other country would willingly submit and comply with the ICC if they refuse to punish the USA’s biggest ally after committing the crime of genocide? What mandate will they have left if they prove themselves to that extent not to be apolitical?

My worry is that the Sisi regime will hesitate to accept the diaspora created by the occupation and that the Zionists will make an example of the Palestinians already funnelled into Rafah in order to place huge pressure on Egypt.

My other worries were that Hezbollah would also face huge pressure to escalate its attacks on Israel if/when this happens. Perhaps the commentators who say that Hezbollah exists primarily to defend Lebanon and that it isn’t equipped to wage a massive war with Israel are right. I’m not the most informed person about whether there is a prospect of a larger escalation. I have seen stories over this year predicting a major economic financial crisis next year. What got Western countries out of the great depression was the military production of the Second World War. I hope my thinking is just misguided alarmism.

I had to leave my thoughts here. I don’t know what I could have done which would have made any difference to this.

Edit: Immediately after posting this, I learned that the UN Secretary-General António Guterres just invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter.

The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.

Ok, so I got confused. These are in reference to two different child hostages, one named Emily (9), and another named Emilia (5).

I assume that the signoff Danyal is an alternate translation of Danielle [Aloni], the mother, who was released with Emilia Aloni on Friday.

Emily Hand was released on Saturday. Her father Thomas Hand wasn’t a hostage hence why he was able to say he was happy his 9 y/o daughter was dead. Now he is overjoyed that she’s been returned to Israel instead of shot on Oct 7, and she is ‘better than expected’.

The Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar described Emily’s release as an “enormous joy and relief”, adding that “an innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned”.

The Israeli foreign minister criticised these remarks, posting on social media: “Emily Hand was not “lost”, she was kidnapped by a terror organization worse than ISIS that murdered her stepmother”.

Mr Varadkar defended his comments, saying: “The vast majority of people will know what I meant.”

They can’t even let world leaders express happiness towards the safety of the hostages without condemning Hamas.

From Hamas Online Telegram:

A letter written by an Israeli captive to Al-Qassam Brigades hours before leaving the Gaza Strip…!

To the generals who have accompanied me in recent weeks, it seems we will part ways tomorrow, but I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the extraordinary humanity shown towards my daughter, Emilia. You were like parents to her, letting her go into your rooms whenever she wanted. She’s admitted that she feels like all of you are her friends, and not just friends, but truly beloved and good people.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the many hours you spent as caregivers. Thank you for being patient with her and showering her with sweets, fruits, and everything available even when you didn’t have it.

Children should not be held in captivity, but thanks to you and other kind people we met along the way, my daughter felt like a queen in Gaza… In general, she says she felt as though she was the center of the world. She hasn’t met anyone on our long journey, from the rank and file to the leadership, who didn’t treat her with gentleness, affection, and love.

I will forever be a prisoner of gratitude because she did not leave here with a lifelong psychological trauma. I will remember your kind behavior, granted here despite the difficult situation you were dealing with yourselves and the severe losses you suffered here in Gaza. I wish in this world we could truly be good friends.

I wish you all health and well-being… Health and love to you and your families’ children. Many thanks.

Danyal and Emilia

Here is the reaction of Emily Hand’s father after being lied to by the IDF about her dead body being found on Oct 12.

"[Israeli authorities] said, “We found Emily. She’s dead,” and I just went “Yes!” I went “yes”, and I smiled, because that is the best news of the possibilities that I knew.

''She was either dead, or in Gaza. And if you know anything about what they do to people in Gaza, that is worse than death,"

"They’d have no food. They’d have no water. She’d be in a dark room filled with Christ knows how many people.

“And terrified every minute, hour, day, and possible years to come. So death was a blessing. An absolute blessing.”

So anyway that’s fucked up.

EDIT: These are different children.

They just deleted their account.

You can buy paprika at Tescos but British food is still shit.

A large part of the reason I prefer discussions on Lemmy over Reddit is that people will actually engage with you rationally on this site. How is it enjoyable to engage with patronising people who only pretend to address your arguments? If a Lib wandered over to Lemmygrad they’d be told why they’re wrong instead of just being immediately banned by mods or told to formally fuck off or some shit.

Geopolitics replaces class struggle with the struggle between nations, which is obviously reactionary to everyone who understands Marxism

Who actually sits and types that nobody is allowed to analyze any relationship between nations or else they’re a fascist? That’s clearly class reductionism to me.