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Do you have any data that shows those deaths of Palestinians in recent decades were a result of unprovoked attacks by Israel?
Do you think Palestinians can achieve anything good for themselves by starting violence?
At a certain point it is no longer about "who hit first" but about "who hit last".
The biggest issue is the attacks are not proportional. Just like 9/11 what happened in Israel to flare this up again is but a drop in a bucket of years of lived experience of those in Gaza. It doesn't justify any of it but it does provide important context.
And fuck Hamas.
There can be no context for violence that hamas has shown recently, solely because it was aimed for citizens who did nothing to them. Anyone who doesn't understand this also has to answer how exactly this helped anyone anywhere, other than accepting that hamas only wanted to kill more Israeli with no meaningful purpose in mind.
Right, that's one way to deal with Terror, ignoring the reasons the terrorists became that way and killing everyone close to them to avoid new terrorists.
What reasons? You can't reason with people who want to kill and create terrorists out of their own citizens. They have the internet so they could at least educate themselves on how history and terrorism work, how they could live fine as is, without resorting to violence. How they will not live fine if they practice terrorism.
Propose a better way to deal with terrorism, or just accept the reality.
Well that's quite literally not true. People in Gaza can not "live fine as is" because they are cut off from the whole world, relying on an enemy nation to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered. People in the Westbank aren't allowed to use their own land because Israel is keeping it occupied and keeps building settlements.
This is true, but kinda unrelated to what I said. I said there are reasons people become terrorists. Whether or not you can still reason with them after that point of radicalization is not what I was arguing.
"Either solve an unsolvable problem, or accept that bombing civilians is an acceptable solution" isn't really an argument, it can be turned around to justify the terror the Hamas is spreading: "Propose a better way to deal with the occupation of our land and the killing of our people, or just accept the reality". It's just an absurd.
Well guess what doing terrorism will bring them? Certainly not getting new connections in the world. If they wanted to do anything positive, they wouldn't build rockets in the first place.
The reason being: hamas propaganda. You can't justify those reasons. They need to be rectified properly. Israel existence is not one of those reasons.
Accept all the help from the world you can get, and do the rest yourself. Build infrastructure, hospitals, universities etc., not rockets. Just stop being terrorists and making more terrorists.
Depends. How far do you want to go back? The aborigines of Palestine were Arabs. But throughout the 20th century we saw provocation as land was continuously annexed for Israel to the detriment of the local Muslim populations.
In recent decades, does it matter? If Israel is pretending to play the high ground here, why is everyone feigning complete ignorance to massive civilian collateral damage when they as a non-terrorist state SHOULD be held to a higher standard?
To that end, do you really think their bombing civilians isn't going to radicalize the surviving family members...?
As for Hamas' goals, I have no idea. But then again, the world is talking about them. Like any toddler for lack of words on the world stage, throwing a tantrum is the only way to get attention.
Yes, there is no use in looking in the past. What matters is the future. Israel is now trying to secure a safe future for their citizens. On the other hand, I don't believe hamas had any thought about what would they achieve by starting violence again. So it is hamas who does useless things, not Israel.
Getting attention by violence doesn't seem to have worked well for anyone who started it.
Radicalizing civilians is not something that can be avoided, especially when current hamas propaganda does basically the same thing.
The future right now is that Israeli forces are committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Israel is not at all in any way or capacity trying to secure a safe future for their own citizens and got the Palestinians.
What you said here is illogical.
If ethic cleansing is what's happening right now, then why exactly was it not done before? Nobody would've stopped them anyway. If they really wanted it, that is.
Hamas did not at all in any way or capacity try to secure a safe future for Palestinians by killing 1000 people in Israel.
Leaving terrorists as is will guarantee more terrorism.
There are ample sources that show exactly how Israel does that
Generally, human rights organizations hsve taken a stance that denounced Israeli state terrorism and apartheid against Palestinians.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/
Israel has been accused of genocide on multiple occasions (https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-un-envoy-accuses-israel-genocidal-campaign-against-gaza-2023-10-10/ is one recent example) yet no sanctions are ever placed on them
Look at all the fucking UN resolutions condemning Israel so far. It's so shameful that Israel is allowed to continue this.
Etc, etc
My own family were terrorized by Israel's Deir Yassin massacre, the news of it spread everywhere and they decided to flee and ended up in Jordan after armed confrontation with Israelis where many were killed or went misding. Life in Jordan was frankly shit as a family of Palestinian refugees and I really admire my grandmother for standing up from that.
Screw Israel. Because of them I had to live as a second class citizen in anothe country where I never felt home and always had less opportunies and protection than others who were Jordanian despite being granted a citizenship. I'm happy my grandmother at least didn't live long enough to see this shit unfolding after she lived through 1948 and lost everything in it. She deserved to go back. If any of these UN resolutions were followed she would have been home, happy and healthy for once in her life without having to become a goddamn refugee. Israel ruined so many lives, Israel removes whole families from existence. These are facts, and worse of all Israel's human rights violations are always overlooked.
So basically your stance is:
How do you put words in people's mouths like that? Not at any moment did I say any massacre is okay. With all due respect, fuck Israel.
So the rest of the words have been put correctly? Perhaps I'm not so bad at that.
Would it be okay with you if I say "fuck Palestine" because I, too, don't like massacres?
Or do you say "fuck Israel" because not enough Israeli have been massacred?
You're a troll.
A country whose governmental and military bodies are dedicated to apartheid should go fuck itself.
You really mean that all people of such a country should have been massacred though. You are okay with constant terrorism. You think the world should understand and connect with such terrorists. You are delusional.
No. I don't mean that. You can't even find where in my words I said that so you have to keep adding it. Anyway I ain't got no time for trolling
You never said fuck Palestine terrorists, that's the main issue. They are preventing any good future for Palestinians, not anyone else.
Right, so you confirm that I didn't say any of that shit you accuse me of and that you had to put words in my mouth.
Go check my fucking history to see how I feel about Hamas.
And again from the depths of my heart and for all the victims that died in the hospital bombing by Israel yesterday: fuck Israel, Israel is genocide embodied.
The ones who will get fucked are not Israeli and they have themselves to blame for that.
Won't be checking anyone's history. Palestinians elected hamas.
Hospital bombing? There is literally a video confirming it was a hamas rocket, and photo evidence showing no traces of bombs. People died to fire.
Fuck people who can't publicly admit they want Israeli to die when they say "fuck Israel".
Yeah since it pisses you off so much, here it is again:
Fuck Genocidal Israel
Nah it doesn't, feel free to write those useless words as much as you want. People who can read and are able to think critically will see that you are refusing/avoiding the simple truth either way.
Securing a safe future is very well the goals of Palestinians, including Hamas in their very charter. The difference is Israel seeks to maintain status-quo because they're living comfortably with a massive GDP largely dependent on foreign aid and tourism. Meanwhile Palestine are confined to ghettos / open-air prisons as they look on for what Israelis took of their ancestors' land.
Also I completely disgree on your notion of producing more terrorists. Israel has only two choices: make more terrorists, or commit genocide against civilians yet to be radicalized. Otherwise your argument doesn't make logical sense. But ultimately if we step back and choose other options as opposed to reactive violence, there are other ways in which Israel has agency to change this.
"By killing Israeli we will achieve our safe future", sure.
If they can have their own television in their "open-air prison" surely they can have pretty much anything else. Build infrastructure, not rockets.
"Ancestor's land" huh? Maybe first make yourselves look like a civilized people? When you become a terrorist, you lose all culture and therefore any rights for your ancestor stuff.
Defending against terrorism is not a genocide.
I mean, what the fuck do you think Israel has done to the native Arab populations there for decades on end...? Why is it a one-way street for you? You do realize that more Palestine civilians have died at the hands of Israeli soldiers than Israeli civilians from Palestinian terrorists... Riiiight.... ?
So I can do whatever the fuck I want to you in my prison, so long as I give you a television and an antenna...? Interesting. Think that through a bit more.
Has it ever occurred to you that we were terrorists when we firebombed and carpet-bombed 90+ Japanese cities? Did it ever occur to you that many civilians died in Dresden, Germany...? It's all about context, my friend. Hell, Americans were terrorists when we defied the British monarchy. If someone literally took ships full of people to YOUR land, and then slowly began displacing and annexing your land as you continue to wane into poverty, yeah, you would get pretty upset, too. Hence the famous adage, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."
You have little empathy; that is, you lack the historical awareness or capacity to place yourself in the shoes of these people.
You do realize that math doesn't allow anyone practice terrorism, right? If you justify terrorism with that nobody will listen to you, and rightfully so.
The point is, if you call such a life "a prison" you have no idea what a prison really is. Can they build? Yes. Can they educate themselves? Yes.
Has it ever accured to you that you are justifying terrorists who do terrorism regularly and are teached to do so by hamas?
You are avoiding the context. The context being a current state of the world society. If Palestinians really want to come out from their "prison" and connect to the world, someone should've told them that regular terrorism will not lead there.
Hell yes, I will never want to put myself in the shoes of people who want to and enjoy killing. The lack of historical awareness is on Palestinians though.
Perhaps the real terrorists are indeed the squatters stealing slowly stealing land and killing the majority of civilians throughout this conflict...(hint: Israel).
Your arguments are not even remotely compelling but utterly deflective while excusing mass atrocities by Israel.
Perhaps? Or perhaps terrorists are those who teach their children they need to kill Jews.
So is it about the land or the killing? How exactly do you think doing terrorism will help "unsteal" any land?
Are you excusing mass terrorism by Palestinians? I think you do. Is that what you call "compelling"?