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In reply to the discussion: Where is the Gaza outrage in the US? [View all]AloeVera
(3,285 posts)19. "Palestine" did not attack Israeli civilians.
Assigning collective guilt and inflicting collective punishment is a war crime.
Of course those are the views of the Israeli government too, and the "aftermath" of those views are the 17,000 + dead children, 9000+ dead women, who knows how many other civilians, the highest per capita child amputees in the world in a place with scant medical care; and starvation, human suffering and deprivation on a scale that should be unacceptable in a "civilized", rules-based world - though of course YMMV.
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At this point I think a lot of people are more focused on the fascist takeover of their own country.
BannonsLiver
Sunday
#1
If they could, a fascist takeover of our own country wouldn't be occurring in the first place.
W_HAMILTON
Sunday
#7
So what would it take to actually get to that point of indefensibility, if we're not already there yet?
TheRickles
Yesterday
#52
No. For a start, over half of Palestinians in the occupied territories live in the West Bank, not Gaza
muriel_volestrangler
Yesterday
#67
I think I do understand why Palestinians would go on a rampage (or at least I can try)
Ken Dayenu
Yesterday
#68
So the systemic starvation and collective punishment of innocent people are justified?
erodriguez
Yesterday
#45
And that's a permanent blank check for Bibi's deliberate campaign of civilian murder, is it?
Orrex
Sunday
#25
I feel like there's no way for that outrage to get through. If we had elected Kamala, she could have done
Scrivener7
Yesterday
#54
The rage burned out raging against the Biden Admin's inability to control Israel's war.
maxsolomon
21 hrs ago
#72