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      I think they mean “at risk of completing full genocide”, sadly enough.

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        “it’s not technically a genocide, if it’s still in progress”

        The world really hasn’t paid attention to this particular conflict, until now.

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          The genocide deniers: acting like an angry drill instructor saying “zero, zero, zero, no partial credit for incomplete genocides” …

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      UN protocols demands being careful when using certain terms when referring to a given event before a proper resolution or investigation has been carried out. If you follow the news, you will notice that they warn about obviously blatant war crimes as “might be a war crime”. What’s noticeable isn’t that they’re following their own protocols, but that they’re bringing the war crimes to everyone’s attention.

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    The Israeli mission to the U.N. in Geneva called the comments “deplorable and deeply concerning” and blamed Hamas for civilian deaths.

    (Insert “why would they do this” meme here.)

    Hamas is evil, yes, but that doesn’t prevent the Israeli government from also being evil.

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        Supporting terrorism by…condemning Hamas and Israel?

        Are you drunk? Where did I support anything except not killing civilians?

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          A common thing that seems to be going around lately is people claiming that any condemnation of Israel is support for Hamas

          Edit: Funnily enough though I see way less of the opposite. It’s almost as if those people are poisoning the well for discussion on the matter.

          I also see people saying that condemning Israel’s actions is antisemitism but I’ve been seeing less and less of that lately

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            It’s a rhetorical tool. It’s not new. I’ve been familiar with it ever since I was cognizant of global news. Fascist governments like to conflate their populations with their ideology to make criticisms difficult.

            If the facts are in your favor, you argue the facts

            If morality is in your favor you argue morality

            If historical precedent is in your favor, you argue historical precedent

            And if nothing else, you argue about arguing. This is where the "if you’re not with me you’re against me " accusations of antisemitism exist… from my perspective. It’s a bullying rhetorical tactic. When you hear this, it means the other sides already conceding they can’t defend themselves, and they’re just relying on rhetoric to shut you up so that they can get their message out there.

            I don’t blame people for using all the rhetorical tools available to them, I am sad that a lot of people don’t have the proper critical thinking skills to deal with empty rhetoric. That makes me sad.

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    Risk?!? The Palestinian’s have been murdered for 50+ yrs in a genocidal occupation. Silly UN.

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      I think Reuters very much know it’s genocide. They put the conciliatory language in there to try to mollify people from attacking them. The important thing is a mainstream, reputable, mostly objective news source is socializing the fact that this is a genocide. That’s progress.

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      I guess hornet set the bar to hight so the Israeli gov will only stop when the finally kill more then 6 000 000 innocent civilians.

      No for real what haunts me is that they are the descendents of those who survived such massacres over the history only to do it themselves when they finally gained power. (They is Israel’gov)

      Edit: Hitler not hornet, wtf sorry guys

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          I can say with 110% certainty that I don’t need to be forced to not commit genocide. Hell, I don’t even need to be forced to commit individual murders. If murder was made legal tomorrow, I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t go on a killing spree because I’m no longer forced to not murder.

          Talk about telling on yourself, if this is what you genuinely think is true for everyone

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            I can tell you absolutely that you are just lying to yourself. Under the right circumstances, and with the right propaganda, you too would have a knife to your neighbor’s throat. So would all of us. No one is perfectly insusceptible to lies, manipulation, propaganda, or the right sales pitch geared specifically to your personality, beliefs and psychological profile. All of which is pretty easy for the ruling class to both access and use for their twisted plans.

            You just don’t want to admit it because you know deep down inside, it’s true and that bothers you. Humble yourself.

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              Maybe you ought to humble yourself, given that you’re the one stating that you know with absolute certainty how another individual that you know nothing about would or wouldn’t act.

              I never said I was immune to propoganda, lies, or manipulation - there are just simply no lies, manipulations, or propoganda that could make me abandon my morals to the extent of literal genocide. You could probably get me to hate a group you wanted me to hate, but I wouldn’t murder my own worst enemy - so that’s not going to get you anywhere.

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                I do know with certainty how you would or wouldn’t act in a situation like that, because you are a human being and human behavior is both predictable and programmable. Which the ruling class does. All the time. Because it is the truth whether you like it or not.

                You’re welcome to go read a psychology or a marketing book and find out all about it if you want. Go read a history book and go learn how regular, upstanding people just like you and me out in Germany got schnookered into supporting the wholesale attempted genocide of the Jewish people. Go step outside and go to a protest here, in the U.S. today and as they and the counterprotesters come to blows, try to convince yourself you’re anything more than a susceptible, imperfect, fallible human being like the rest of us.

                If you say you know with certainty you’d never support or commit genocide, you are saying you’re immune to propaganda, lies and manipulation. And misinformation while we’re at it.

                You are not a perfect person and you are just as capable of committing atrocities as the people you look down upon are.

                Humble yourself. Grow up while you’re at it.

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                  Chill yo. Humans are inherently good. None of us want to have a bad interaction. So we try to win-win cuz that’s the easiest and best outcome for both parties and for me. See?

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      as the global population increases over time, so do deaths. a small conflict like this may not even be statistically significant.

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        Mark my words, history will remember this. We can practically watch it live with social media and so on. Wars are different now, since Ukraine. So it hits closer home.

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    “Risk” of genocide? Risk?

    They need to update their fucking AI model.

    The burning house is at risk of catching fire. The dead man is at risk of heart failure. This headline is at risk of being full of shit.

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    Netanyahu is committing genocide in Gaza in much the same way that Milosovic did in Bosnia.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    GENEVA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at “grave risk of genocide”.

    Nearly four weeks of Israeli bombardment against the Gaza Strip in retaliation for deadly attacks by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel on Oct. 7 have killed more than 9,000 people, made up of a majority of women and children, health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave say.

    “We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide,” the group of experts, made up of seven U.N. special rapporteurs, said in a statement.

    Speaking to Reuters after the experts’ statement was issued, one of its signatories said the people of Gaza had been deprived of the “the most basic elements for living.”

    “We are using the term risk of genocide because the process that is (underway) is absolutely indiscriminate, affecting, in this case, more than 2 million people,” said Pedro Arrojo Agudo, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.

    “The situation in Gaza has reached a catastrophic tipping point,” the U.N. experts said, adding that Gazans had been left with scarce water, medicine, fuel and essential supplies while facing health hazards.


    The original article contains 520 words, the summary contains 211 words. Saved 59%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      Hold up their speedy. They’re not there yet. It took the Nazis over 5 years to get to that connotation. Let the Israelis cook. /s

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      I’d rather call them facists. A core component of nazism is it’s antisemitism and that seems a touch ridiculous to call israel despite how unfriendly zionosts can be to anti/non zionosts jewish folk.

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    Genuine question to all Palestinian sympathizers: don’t you see how you encourage Hamas to bring even more kids to the active war zone with your comments and protests?

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      It’s more like “hey, that neighborhood full of families and shopkeepers has some gang members in it. Let’s bomb it all.” Hamas isn’t “bringing in kids”. They’re resistance fighters who live in the same area, which is roughly the size of Los Angeles. And in the minds of Hamas, they’re fighting for those children to have a right to that land in their future. To have a right to grow up free and unoppressed. Those children aren’t “shields” and they weren’t brought there. They were born there and are now being indiscriminately bombed as an excuse to make Hamas look bad. Where’s Mossad? Where’s Israeli special forces? Israel likes to talk a big game about their abilities, but in this conflict, “rain missiles from the sky and blame the victims for being in the way” seems to be their only tool.

      You realize Israel even bombed evacuation routes, right? Told people “it’s safe to leave this way” and then bombed the caravans leaving. You can’t even leave without getting bombed, and you think they’re just importing children in?

      What are you smoking? I want some.

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        In this video by channel 4, they briefly mentioned the story of a wounded boy, who got the permission to get through the Rafah crossing. His Palestinian father didn’t let him go, because the father himself didn’t get such permission. This is how they care about their children.

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          You must feel very good about yourself blaming civilians for being murdered by Israelis.

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          If the child did go through alone, what are the chances that family would ever see him again? Who would care for the child and advocate for his best interests away from his family? All communications have been shut down by Israel. There is no way for the family to know what happens to their children if they are taken away.

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            To me, as a father of two, there’s no moral dilemma here. You get your kids out of the hell no matter what.

            But I guess when you have 14 kids, the priorities are a bit different.

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              Would you get your kid out if you didn’t know whether or not they would be adequately cared for? Would you get them out if it meant that you will probably never see them again and that they will be taken to another country speaking another language with no one there to look after them and no plan for how to take care of them after the medical treatment is done?

              This would most likely be a permanent separation and the child would effectively, or maybe even literally become an orphan in a foreign country with nothing. Not their vital documents, not their family, not anything that would give them any hope of ever getting home. Getting your kid out in this situation means gambling your child’s life on the good will of strangers and most likely losing them for good.

              It is not unreasonable to demand to go with his child. Especially since he needs medical care as well.

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                  Yes, let’s victim blame the person being bombed and not the person launching the bombs. Hmmm. So all the school shootings in the US are just the children not running fast enough? I guess that’s one way to fight childhood obesity, but damn…

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    What even is the purpose of a ceasefire? I don’t even understand why the occupation government is against it, they could use it to their advantage. Agree to a ceasefire, give some time for people to desperately try to escape Gaza, allow some aid to the people remaining there, and when it’s all over and people stop seeing you as the monsters you are, then you can continue your “war” and less people will care.

    Afraid Hamas might use that time and aid? Well don’t worry, your army is already getting wrecked on the ground, but it doesn’t matter to you; you can continue wasting equipment, men, and oxygen for as long as you like, while Hamas cannot. Your army will take control of the area, and either get rid of everyone there or get kicked out a second time, either way, you have achieved your actual goals.

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      From an international perspective, calling for a ceasefire is reducing the window of forgiveness that Israel currently enjoys from the October 7th terrorist attack.

      The more time that passes, the less tolerance global politicians have, for blatant all-out war crimes.

      This isn’t a secret, the Israeli government knows this, the Israeli military knows this, their doctrine documents acknowledge that they have a window of activity from any tragedy, international politicians know this, their allies know this, the Americans know this.

      So every time an ally of theirs, calls for any delay, ceasefire combo humanitarian aid, they’re trying to reduce that window, so there’s less political damage control they have to conduct for their allies behavior.