Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Thursday that Israel is committing the crime of extermination and acts of genocide by depriving the civilian population of Gaza of the necessary amount of water to survive.
HRW said in a press release that its 179-page report found “that Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinians in Gaza of access to safe water for drinking and sanitation needed for basic human survival.”
“Israeli authorities and forces cut off and later restricted piped water to Gaza; rendered most of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure useless by cutting electricity and restricting fuel; deliberately destroyed and damaged water and sanitation infrastructure and water repair materials; and blocked the entry of critical water supplies,” HRW said.
The report found the restrictions on water have likely caused thousands of deaths. “Doctors and nurses told Human Rights Watch that they had seen numerous infants, children, and adults die from a combination of malnutrition, dehydration, and disease,” the report reads.
HRW said it spoke with 66 Palestinians in Gaza, who discussed the near-impossibility of securing water for themselves and their families. “If we can’t find drinkable water, we drink the seawater,” one father displaced in Rafah told the organization in December 2023. “It happened to me many times when I had to drink the seawater. You don’t understand how much we are suffering.”
The report found that, on average, Palestinians in Gaza live with 2-9 liters of water per day for their drinking, cooking, and personal washing needs, far below the 50-100 liters per day the World Health Organization (WHO) says in the minimum people need to meet their most basic needs. In protracted emergency situations, the WHO says a minimum amount of 15 liters of water per person per day for drinking and washing is needed.
HRW said Israeli authorities have “deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza.” By doing so, Israeli officials are “responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide.”
HRW said this “pattern of conduct, coupled with statements suggesting that some Israeli officials wished to destroy Palestinians in Gaza, may amount to the crime of genocide. “
The HRW report comes after Amnesty International released a 296-page report that concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US government, which is implicated in Israel’s crimes due to the huge amount of US military aid to Israel, denied Amnesty’s conclusion and said on Thursday that it “disagreed” with HRW’s report.
“When it comes to a determination of something like genocide, the legal standard is just incredibly high, and so the finding in this scenario we just disagree with,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters.
The Holocaust of our time.
All for Money, Money Money…!
A most ironic one.
One would have thought that the Holocaust would have given the Israelis some empathy for others, but apparently not.
According to Finkelstein, it is used as a shield against any criticism of Israel.
The Holocaust Industry
A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate.
Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/233020/the-holocaust-industry-by-norman-g-finkelstein/
Yes, this list allows questioning and justification of the Gaza Holocaust, but not the German?? That's gotta tell you somethin ….
The word Holocaust is derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ʿolah, meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to God. This word was chosen, and gained wide usage, because, in the ultimate manifestation of the Nazi killing program—the extermination camps—the bodies of the victims were consumed whole in crematoria or open fires.
https://www.britannica.com/story/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-holocaust
– Maha al-Sarsak, displaced Palestinian
The word Holocaust within the context of its origin, and the religious imperative behind it, more accurately describes what Israelis are doing v what Nazis did, for which there was no religious component stated, as far as I am aware.
~Netanyahu
God commands King Saul in the first Book of Samuel to kill every person in Amalek, a rival nation to ancient Israel. “This is what the Lord Almighty says,” the prophet Samuel tells Saul. “‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament
An Israeli government spokesperson said that such measures are justified because some of the residents of Gaza are members of Hamas, and many more support Hamas. Besides, they are all in the way.
"An Israeli government spokesperson said" cutting off water is "justified because some…residents of Gaza are members of Hamas"
Ah, see their point – Hamas members drink water, children drink water…pretty sure that makes water a 'dual use' item to be cut off.
Of course Israel is engaging in ethnic cleansing, and freely uses mass terror killing. That is who they are, and what they do, everywhere.
And the US applauds it and helps Israel with more deadly weapons and money galore.
The neighboring Arab countries are remarkably indifferent to the suffering of their brothers in Gaza. For example, Egyptian authorities could create a humanitarian corridor between Egypt and Gaza by the military force, but they don't even talk about that, probably, because they are afraid of American military might.
Would you really help one of your neighbors if another neighbor had the means and told you that he would destroy both you and that other neighbor?
That's what it amounts to with the world right now. they are afraid that the USA will once again unleash one or more of their nukes and cause deaths in the trillions.
"trillions."? There are only 8 billion humans in world.
You don't know history. Neighboring muslim countries used to allow palestinian refugees but they were repaid for their troubles with palestinian terror attacks and attempted overthrow of their governments. Historical facts.
😂. Project much? In return for the horrible decision of the British to facilitate the creation of a “Jewish State” without consulting the majority population in Palestine, the Brits were in the receiving end of literally hundreds of terrorist acts by the Haganah as well as the Stern and Lehi gangs. Thomas Suarez—Palestine Hijacked. And you’re accusing others of not knowing history? You can’t make this up.
Provide some data for your claims.
You are doing some obvious projecting.
"neighboring Arab countries are remarkably indifferent" It has been that way for the last 75 years.
Israel has facilitated the transfer of over a million tons of supplies to Gaza. They have connected a desalination plant in Gaza to the Israeli electrical grid which can produce 20 million litres of water daily. Israel has facilitated the repair of hundreds of water infrastructure sites that were damaged. The destruction and suffering is real in Gaza. But Hamas claims 42,000 dead and does not distinguish between civilians, Hamas fighters and natural deaths. There have been more that 60,000 live births in Gaza since October 7. To claim that a “genocide” or “Holocaust” is being perpetrated on a population whose numbers are increasing is to lie.
Take your F'n blinders off Sherlock!!!
Agree to disagree but respectfully, please!…
Odele doesn't deserve one ounce of respect.
True. They are a liar of Burnsian magnitude.
Odele's blinders are welded to his skull.
How does one weld blinders to tapioca pudding ?
For some unfathomable reason, welding blinders to fossilized hollowed out tapioca pudding works for a while.
My cousin Herschel is a big MIG/TIG guy, gotta run this past him. I learn something new every day !
An extraneous, irrelevant, and the trivial argument.
Odele and his other monikers may be AI, therefore does not have a skull.
At least we have another lying clown to laugh at, besides Timbit & Almond.
Even BEFORE the war, Gaza struggled with water supply
The Gaza Strip has no streams, lakes or other surface sources of water. In the years prior to the war, water for bathing and laundry in the Palestinian territory has come mostly from a coastal aquifer that had become contaminated. About 97% of the water from that source doesn't meet World Health Organization standards for human consumption, the U.N. says.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/29/1221571110/gaza-water-israel-crisis-hamas
There have been more that 60,000 live births in Gaza since October 7. To claim that a “genocide” or “Holocaust” is being perpetrated on a population whose numbers are increasing is to lie.
You are quite the piece of work. What kind of health do you think those children are experiencing living in the conditions that they are living in (at least those still alive)? Good? Fair? Poor? And what word should we be using instead of genocide or holocaust? Would you be using those words if the roles were reversed? Of course you would. I heard it being used when Oct 7th happened and "many" of those deaths occured at the hands of the IDF. So, please take your fucking sickening bullshit elsewhere. There has to be an echo chamber of sadistic assholes just like yourself where you can feed off each other.
Try writing a comment without the use of the F word. You get so emotional.
Always argue in terms of the extraneous, the irrelevant, and the trivial, because that's all you have.
Awfully big words to spend on Timbit.
Yo Burns so dumb, he brought a spoon to the Super Bowl.
Yo Burns such an idiot, it takes him 2 hours to watch '60 Minutes'.
Yo Burns such a moron, he took a measuring tape to bed to see how long he slept last night.
Look whos reduced their comebacks to childhood banter
Bringing it to just above your level.
Just below, hahah
Says the liar whose moral compass is a line drawn protectively around the Apartheid State of Israel.
Coming from a representative of the most neurotically paranoid people the world has ever seen, that’s rich.
Whether I'm emotional or not, I use the word fuck. Why you can't get that through your fucking head is beyond me. Fuck is a wonderful word. It has so many meaning it's fucking unbelievable. And the fact that it bothers you make me fucking happy.
Just shows your lack education and ability to communicate. Which of course you don't understand. However feel free to display your ignorance like you just did.
You replying to my comment makes it obvious that I can communicate while using the word fuck, fucked, fucker or fucking.
fulla' surprises, tim-tim – one post to the next – never know if the cold-blooded genocide apologist or the prissy scold's gonna have the upper hand…
…though when ya' think about it – well listen to him: both sides are emotionally repressed – so it's not just yer arguments – which he avoids, not being the 'arguing' type – and not even yer f'-bombs…
…truth is, it's yr expressing anger he has a prob' with – "You get so emotional"? – guaran-fuckin'-tee ya', in real life guy's a cold fish…
Ah, Tim.
Where are your two alter egos that have shown up periodically, with the same verbiage?
Or, have you created others, like, Odele and Lodz'
Listen prick. If you don’t like what I’m writing you can block me. I’m happy not to have to listen to your warped, angry, hateful rhetoric. You do not control the site and I assume that everyone is free to voice their opinion. And when it comes to bullshit, you’re quite a foul pile of it.
SUCH PROJECTION ! Claiming Wars Russel is doing PRECISELY WHAT YOU DID. You realise we're not idiots like joke and Almond and Timbit, right ? That 90% of Commenters on here can tell instantly that you're a hapless clown and a liar ? Simply that the rest of us haven't said it out loud in your dishonest dimwit face quite yet.
No way. I will continue calling out you sick perverted douchebags who condone the slaughter of innocents. And nothing I say is bullshit. They're facts. Real numbers. And if the roles were reversed and the slaughter was happening to the people of Isael, you'd be screaming at the top of your lungs, HOLOCAUST/GENOCIDE. And what's funny is, SO WOULD I. That's the difference between me and you. You're the hater. But instead you, and a few others, come here and spew your hasbara like garbage knowing full well that the vast majority disagree with you. And that's your right. But it is also my right, and many others here, to continue to call you out.
The holocaust was incomparable to anything ever
Don't compare some bombing to a state sponsered genocide resulting in more than 12 million deaths.
Absolutely pathetic and morbid comparison
I didn't compare "the" holocaust to anything that is happening now. Just like when I use the word "genocide". I'm not comparing it to any other genocide. The words don't just apply to singular events.
Well when people think of “holocaust” its obvious which one theyre referring to, which you use to your advantage
And you're full of shit. Go back and read how I used the word "holocaust". I wasn't using it to my "advantage" and I wasn't comparing it to anything. I said if the same thing was happening in Israel that is happening in Gaza, people like the commenter "Odele" would be screaming holocaust. So stop with any accusation you might be attempting to make because it's a load of bullshit.
But do you ever ask why it’s illegal in some countries, and soon in the US, to even question some of the details of the event? That’s the behavior of people with something to hide. Just a fact.
Lets use our thinking heads to answer that
Maybe because the only people questioning it are far right neo-nazi fascist lunatics
Answer your question?
So that particular event is the one and only event in human history which the establishment historians of the period shortly thereafter got exactly right, down to the finest detail, with no exceptions?
And anyone who doubts that is just a far right neo-nazi fascist lunatic?
You realize that the establishment narrative, for decades, has been that the Polish people were broadly supportive of, and somewhat active in creating, that event’s perpetration, right?
Then why would the Nazis slaughter hundreds of thousands and even millions of us as well?
Because we were just so darn supportive of the 3rd Reich?
So you’re saying the establishment narrative was incorrect, you far right neo-nazi fascist lunatic?
Usiny my words against me, smart
Well, they’re your words. I didn’t make you say them.
😂. I see, so anyone who might have reasonable questions about certain events relating to the event is a lunatic? You do realize that skepticism is at the very foundation of science? Of course, science and facts have no role in your narrative of it makes Jews look bad.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable to question an event that #1 has been used to justify the abuse of millions of people and #2 the facts of which primarily come from the same group of people who have proven to be compulsive liars for the past several decades.
A note on the site’s guidelines: Early on as moderator, I asked my bosses whether “holocaust denialism” constitutes a violation of the rule against “slurs or supremacist claims based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion,” etc. , because I didn’t want to be unclear on the matter and banning people who weren’t really violating the guidelines.
The answer was yes, it does. That was also the answer on the “Jews I don’t like aren’t REALLY Jews, they’re European Khazars” stuff. So you might want to exercise a certain amount of care in commenting.
That said, the questions here seem to be whether the Holocaust was somehow a unique “worst thing that ever happened” in terms of numbers murdered, such that anyone identifying with one (and only one) of several victim groups from that event, is justified in waving the bloody shirt to excuse their own similar actions.
Claiming that it is, or is not, such an event doesn’t seem to be a violation of the site’s guidelines. I have an opinion on that matter (which is “if you’re acting like Nazis, claiming that you’re acting on behalf of ‘the Jews’ doesn’t justify your actions”), but disagreeing with that opionion is not a guidelines violation.
Wow.
Just wow.
Auschwitz is like 150 miles from my home I can show you around
Why don't you tour Gaza.
Enjoy the stench of the dead bodies in the rubble.
For you it will probably be like a wonderful perfume.
Why don’t you tour Ukraine, which you certainly have made clear you have no particular liking towards
A note on the site’s guidelines: Early on as moderator, I asked my bosses whether “holocaust denialism” constitutes a violation of the rule against “slurs or supremacist claims based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion,” etc. , because I didn’t want to be unclear on the matter and banning people who weren’t really violating the guidelines.
The answer was yes, it does. That was also the answer on the “Jews I don’t like aren’t REALLY Jews, they’re European Khazars” stuff. So you might want to exercise a certain amount of care in commenting.
That said, the questions here seem to be whether the Holocaust was somehow a unique “worst thing that ever happened” in terms of numbers murdered, such that anyone identifying with one (and only one) of several victim groups from that event, is justified in waving the bloody shirt to excuse their own similar actions.
Claiming that it is, or is not, such an event doesn’t seem to be a violation of the site’s guidelines. I have an opinion on that matter (which is “if you’re acting like Nazis, claiming that you’re acting on behalf of ‘the Jews’ doesn’t justify your actions”), but disagreeing with that opionion is not a guidelines violation.
I appreciate the clarification. I think there are many layers to this. I don’t think questioning certain aspects of the Holocaust constitutes “Holocaust denialism.” The fact that debating these aspects is forbidden in many places, and that literally any other event on earth can be questioned without legal recourse, should raise eyebrows at the least. The more people double down on the absurdity of this prohibition of discourse the more absurd they appear. This isn’t a reference to this site but to the way the West is headed in general. An absolute intolerance to “unacceptable viewpoints” is one of the hallmarks of fascism. I always hear that doubting some of the aspects of the Holocaust endangers some of the members of our society. Propaganda doesn’t serve the interests of a society in the end. Again, not a reference to this site which has considerable leeway compared to most. Appreciate the clarification and I’ll mind my manners.
My own view is that, as you put it, “prohibition of discourse” is a symptom. It’s not really about which side of the debate has the facts right. It’s about one side of the debate believing, correctly or not, that allowing the debate at all threatens its existence.
IMO, a regime that believes it can’t survive open debate is 1) probably right, 2) on its way out regardless, and 3) not worth mourning the demise of.
As I suggest before, google the open letter sent to the U.S., to the New York Times, in December, 1948, warning of the intentions of Menachem Begin and the "Freedom Party".
One of the signatories was Albert Einstein.
And
How about the purges conducted by the Bolsheviks…20 million killed by some estimates? Is that not allowable because some of the main perpetrators were Jews like Yagoda?
“some bombing”….you’re truly diabolical in your defense of the Zionists and their very much state sponsored attempt to erase the Palestinians from existence.
Called the Holodomor?
Ill remind you about what you said when you try to post some pro Russia drivel
So you’re a supporter of the far right, neo-nazi Azov battalion, or are they the “good Nazis”?
So you’re a supporter of the far right, neo-nazi Azov battalion, or are they the “good Nazis”?
No, and the Azov is mostly depoliticised, unlike “Rusich”
Followers of Bandera too?
No. But if the Volhynia Genocide didn’t happen then I would have some affinity to him.
Well, Dr. Amos Goldberg of Hebrew University has referred to what the IDF was carrying out in Gaza as a genocide.
Using numbers as a method of comparison is erroneous.
Killing only one person in the act of exterminating a people is important to remember.
Whether is be a man, a woman, an old man or woman, a child, a toddler, a baby.
Lancet has estimated that more than 118,000 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF by various means: bombing, shooting, starvation, cutting off potable water, allowing disease to permeate Gaza, even polio.
"Some bombing", eh.
You just denegrated the lives of the dead.
I pity you.
We wouldn’t have this problem of cowardly Hamas gave up.
Well in that case keep your mind open. You may learn something.
You of all people shouldn't be telling anyone that.
Ha ha ha. You are full of it. Real numbers, innocent people. Clueless halfwit.
Are you a subscriber to the narrative of the Israeli leadership that no Gazans under age 4 are innocent, or that there are indeed “no innocents in Gaza”? Do you endorse the targeting killing of toddlers by the IDF, as documented by the Jewish surgeon Dr Perlmutter?
Which makes you what? An idiot.
I am smarter than you will ever be. Halfwit was being kind.
Are you really Odele?
There have been posters on this blog who have used two or three different monikers, but the tone and verberage is the same.
Quite amusing, it is.
Actually, what you write is quite amusing. Desperation, actually.
Rather than accept that a wrong is being committed in Gaza, man up to it, you choose to grab "facts" out of thin air.
Well said. Adele there is a complete moron.
You're lying.
You really ARE as ignorant as you sound.
From antiwar's front effing page :
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/gaza-aid/
I see, because the number of babies born exceeds the number of people, the vast majority having nothing to do with Hamas, slaughtered by Israel, a genocide therefore cannot be taking place?
By any metric, the number of humanitarian aid allowed into Israel since 10/7/23 is far below what was determined to be needed before the conflict. Only an idiot, or a Zionist detached from reality, takes reports from the Israeli press as truthful.
And what was needed BEFORE the conflict was above what Israel allowed in. Plus, over 90% of the water was contaminated BEFORE the conflict.
Electricity to drive pumps was limited or not provided at all.
Raw sewage sat or backed up.
The defining question is: would you accept a captive population of Jewish people held under the same conditions as Palestinians are in Gaza?| or say in the West Bank?
Would you accept and defend gentile or Christian only roads and other such race based preferential laws in the USA?
As for population numbers increasing that is just a matter of sampling times… If Jewish population has now increased to surpass the numbers before WWII does that mean that the crime of the holocaust can now be expunged?
It’s almost 80 years since the Holocaust and the Jewish population has not replenished itself yet. I’m talking about the Gazan population increasing during the time that this “genocide” has allegedly occurred
"the Gazan population [is] increasing during the time that this 'genocide' has allegedly occurred"
If the population is going up, then Israel cannot be engaged in acts of genocide?
Wow…
…you made that up yourself. Didn'tcha?
It's not Israel propaganda, not a right-wing thing.
It really is your idea – an imbecility unique to your teeny brain.
Yer not only a nasty piece of work – but one dumb mu' fu' to boot.
How about answering his questions? I asked the same ones (more than once), and you avoided them as well. Tell us Odele, what would you be calling what is happening in Gaza if it were happening in Israel? Self-defense? I think not.
"How about answering his questions? I asked the same ones…and you avoided them."
tryna' fox her in t' responsible argument? why of all the sneakin' lowdown tricks known t' varmints…
"Israel…facilitated…transfer of over a million tons of supplies to Gaza."
1/ Thanks to US refusal to enforce US or international law, Israel has, w/impunity, choked-off post-Oct '23 aid to Gaza to – now – near lows.
2/ This is true regardless of exact 14 mo. tonnage. As you surely know.
Making you? Just one more gross lil' genocide denier – no dif than Holocaust & Armenian genocide deniers, or machete-swinging Hutu butchers, crying their innocent lil' eyes out in front of Rwandan courts.
October 2024: "In Oct 2024…daily average of humanitarian supplies reaching Gaza hit its lowest point since…Oct 2023."
November 2024: "So far in Nov., every attempt by the UN to access besieged areas of North Gaza…with food and health missions to support tens of thousands of people remaining there was either denied or impeded." [ uncha.org ]
November 2024: "Aid to Gaza falls to lowest in 11 months [despite] US ultimatum"
"Nearly a mo. after US issued an ultimatum to Israel threatening sanctions if humanitarian supplies to Gaza were not increased…aid reaching the war-torn enclave has fallen to its lowest level in 11 months since December, according to…report citing official Israeli figures" [ firstpost.com/world/aid-to-… ]
December 2024: "Gaza aid close to all-time lows…
"Extreme food scarcity as looters and IDF attacks on Palestinians guarding convoys choke off supplies" [Finacial Times 12/14/24]
Wow . . . big brave IDF killing women and children and old people! What profound "courage"! How many Israeli military will take their OWN lives eventually being haunted by what they've done for the devil? I hope they are HAUNTED FOREVER!!!
Can a being with no human compassion be haunted by their own barbaric behavior?
The question answers itself, unfortunately.
And big, brave Hamas hiding behind women and children, in schools and mosques, underground, and forcing civilians to live above ground, stealing their food and selling it back to them at exorbitant prices…
You're a liar and nobody takes you seriously.
You support terror
False.
True
Projection.
Projections much??
"Hamas…stealing [Gazans'] food and selling it back to them at exorbitant prices"
You never support your claims. Why is that?
I noticed you didn't argue with his claim of the IDF killing "women children and old people". But of course, it would be hard to argue against that. But instead, you compare them to a group that is on the designated terrorists list. And since Israel has killed thousands upon thousands MORE innocents than Hamas, that must mean that Israel should also be on that same list that Hamas is on. Only they, Israel, would be at the top.
Which is not true.
And you know it.
What about big, brave Israel, pounding tent encampments with 2,000 pound bombs, burning alive children and adults. Or, double tapping, a IDF sniper shooting a child, then dropping a bomb on the people who run to aid the child.
Or, bulldozing the bodies of dead Palestinians.
Dr. Perlmutter, MD, one of the 99 medical professionals who signed an open letter to the Biden administration, was interviewed not long ago.
He said that all of the previous work in war and disaster zones did not prepare him for what he saw.
Children shot twice by IDF snipers. Twice. One in the torso then in the head. Perfectly.
He said that it was in Gaza that he held a baby's brains in his hands for the first time as a medical professional.
For all of those who do not know, Dr. Perlmutter is Jewish.
You’ve mentioned about 9 million times now that Dr. Perlmutter is Jewish.
Even if it was relevant — it isn’t — and even if people couldn’t figure it out from his name — they could — everyone knows it already. Do you also feel a need to constantly inform people that water is wet?
You’ve mentioned about 9 million times now that Dr. Perlmutter is Jewish.
Even if it was relevant — it isn’t — and even if people couldn’t figure it out from his name — they could — everyone knows it already. Do you also feel a need to constantly inform people that water is wet?
Well, it is actually relevant. You could argue that it shouldn't be and you'd be absolutely right about that, but reality is that it is relevant. Since Israel proclaims to be a Jewish state and since it does everything to pressure Jews everywhere to identify with it and charges every Jew who dares to be critical of it in any way, shape or form to be "self-hating", carrying the connotation of betrayal, treason and so on, conspiring with non-Jews who by the same measuring stick are deemed to be anti-semitic, meaning they are Nazi's in disguise, it does carry extra significance for any Jew to criticize Israel.
And this is recognized as such by the extra special hatred reserved for the Jewish students protesting the Gaza genocide, and who specifically identify as Jewish – "not in my/our name" – distancing themselves from the crimes of Israel – for this particular reason.
OK, so maybe it's a little relevant.
But so relevant that it has to be mentioned every time, time after time, when it's both obvious and has been mentioned 9 million times?
Well, that perhaps not. As it should not be relevant at all, it should therefore preferably be treated as such. Because, no matter how well intended, the nefarious backside of this particular coin to lavishing praise on an individual standing out (while) belonging to a group, is what is being implicitly said about the group in general by contrast.
And Jewish reservists who refuse to take part in the genocide.
Who gives a sh*t if I had.
It is a fact.
I will mention that fact until I breath my last breath.
OK?
You are certainly free to constantly repeat a fact everyone already knows if it makes you feel superior or something.
Do you also always and every time refer to "my gay friend Jim," "my black friend Bob," "my Indonesian friend Rahmat," etc. when talking about them to people who already know them?
Please consider this to be the wrong hill to die on. The truth about the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza do not depend on the ethnicity, gender or religion of the person conveying it. Extra credence can be attributed by the direct personal experiences and observations of medical personel by the fact they are well-placed to evaluate those by their profession. I hope you agree that the statements of a Palestinian MD on this subject should receive equal weight than those of a Jewish MD. Then leave the racism to the Zionists.
I tend to say: Children often live what they learn…
In certain cases, how they were indoctrinated.
Miko Peled, the son of an Israeli general wrote about the learned hate that Israel infests their children with. It goes back to the Zionist school of the 7th Century B.C., ancient texts.
It is madness.
Gabor Mate talks about generational trauma, too. Parents instill anxiety and fear about perpetual victimhood, going back to the WWII Holocaust, and a generalized sense of paranoia, that everyone is always out to get them.
That’s why propaganda is so pervasive on antisemitism, who Israelis are creating more than anyone, with acts of barbarism.
But the indoctrination of “world’s greatest victims of hate” keeps the victimhood agenda going and then people believe everything is being done “in defense”.
It’s an incredible mindfuck. Of course our govt, Netanyahu and others know the reality, but intentionally promote this to accomplish their real agendas.
It does not take a 179 page report – or a 296 page report – to figure out what is going on in Gaza, and the rest of Palestine. The real question is what does one do to stop it. Obviously, no one in a position of enough power to actually stop it are lacking the balls to do so. So where does that leave us minons?
As is true with all such organizations, Human Rights Watch, …, watches. These organizations are only of use in a world with integrity and a conscience.
Planet Earth is infested with vermin.
The US has made Israel what it is. When a country is supplied with endless, unlimited weapons and perpetually shielded from all consequences, this is what will happen. You will create a country on a rampage. Unlimited power corrupts absolutely. The US is ultimately to be fully blamed for all that Israel does, because without the US facilitating Israel's actions, it could cause no harm. If without you there could be no crime, you are the true cause of the crime. The US is a criminal entity through and through.
… ass over tits. The US politial class is got infected with ZioNazism (its US variant, NeoConNazism) via the carrier virus AIPAC (ZioNazi) money.
Let's see what Mr. Trump does.
I seem to remember Mariam Adelson presented $100,000,000 to Mr. Trump.
Ukraine?
Mr. Putin is in a position to be a much more ardent negotiator than he was 8 years ago.
Mr. Trump withdrew from the INF treaty, then trashed the Open Skies treaty.
Mr. Putin, I would imagine, will present those facts during any negotiation.
Assuredly Putin and Lavrov know Straussian realpolitik better than you and I … better than its wunderkind, Sullivan & Blinken … the fatuous vision that finally destroyed Bismarkian Germany. Our neoconnazis think their “noble lies” the height of subtlety while in truth their bad faith is so gross and palpable only the simplest are fooled. The absolute horror of Gaza is the naked Strauss, signaling the death of the soul of the West. It’s true Trump is not a neocon. Like the standard issue of US of I politics (and Biden in spades) just a bottomless maw of greed where his soul should be, willing to do anything to get money. His support for the Gaza holocaust signals clearly what an easy tool he’ll be in any area of policy.
The clown theater will go on unabated:
Dershowitz, ex-RHONY star among contenders for Trump’s antisemitism envoy
https://nypost.com/2024/12/21/us-news/alan-dershowitz-ex-real-housewives-star-among-contenders-for-antisemitism-envoy/
First off, the entire idea of an antisemitism envoy is absurd. Secondly, Epstein Pal Dershowitz or a moron from reality TV?
The show must go on!
Bt far the most privileged minority on earth needs its own thought police bureaucracy to protect its ourtrageous privilege. …seems right to me??
With his pants on, of course.
If you kick someone straight in the balls it is ridiculous to not expect to be hit back 10 times harder
Palestine had it coming
Yet another lame excuse for indiscriminate mass murder.
no excuse
Sigh.
How much money are you making in University in Israel typing your stuff?
He's at a University in Ukraine.
None
Have you no decency???
Several months ago, it was determined that over 700 babies under the age of one had been butchered in Gaza. Whose balls did they kick?
The people who removed 12 millionths of the Israeil population from exsitence
I asked whose balls the over 700 dead babies under the age of one kicked. Try to follow along. And the IDF removed many of those "12 millionths".
births exceed deaths in gaza
quite the genocide
People like you make Hitler look like an Eagle Scout.
Ok sure
Genocide is an intent, not a result.
Yes, births exceeding deaths COULD be evidence of no intent to commit genocide.
Or births exceeding deaths COULD be evidence of not succeeding in the intent to commit genocide.
Public statements by public figures from the Israeli regime are better evidence for genocidal intent than birth rates versus death rates.
What is the infant mortality rate?
Just a another lie of omission. And it still is terrible,
What does that have to do with what we were talking about? Nothing. But that's what one does when one can't refute simple facts.
Huh?
Wha!!!!!!!?????
“Huh????????”
“Whahhh””
Oh, I get it.
Let us forget about the 5.5 million non-Jews that perished at the death camps.
The total murdered by the NAZIs was 13.3 million.
That is soft holocaust denial, “The holocaust happened, but it didn’t specifically target the Jews; it was against everyone!”
Soft-holocaust denial is commonly used by people trying to prove an antisemitic statement, as you do in your comment.
Thank you for your entry in “dumbest thing Tom Knapp has to read this week.”
Pointing out the undeniable, irrefutable, incontestible fact that the Holocaust had several groups of intended victim groups in addition to Jews — including but not limited to gays, Roma, Jehovah’s Witnesses — isn’t Holocaust denialism of any kind.
Sorry for making that list
I know the Holocaust had more than just Jews as a target, but Putler – err, Hitler, hated them exeptionally, he blamed people like us for all of Germanys problems which you know
Sane human people know better, you sound like a dehumanized animal.
Wouldn’t you be screaming “Anti-Semite!” if I said the Jews that supported the ethnic cleansing and massacres of Palestinians that have been going on for decades “had it coming” on Oct 7?
Yeah, Right.
The Palestinians had their balls stomped on for 75 years.
From the year 2000, up to 7Oct, the IDF killed 2300 Palestinians children. Children!!!
After Hamas won an election deemed fair (by President Carter and others), Israel and the U.S. put up a brutal blockade that has lasted. Even potato chips and chocolate were not allowed into Gaza. Limited or no electricity each day. Potable water shut off. With rare exceptions, nothing in or out of Gaza, not even for medical reasons.
We know that you know all of this. Being emersed in Zionism that is based on texts 2700 years ago, your mind has been blinded, your soul soured, vacant.
I pity you.
WHo launched the arab-israeli war?
Who launched the Yom Kippur War
Who launched the 6-days’ war?
Who launched the Intifada?
Who launched the Nakbha, forcing 700,000 Palestinians off of their ancestral lands.
Who committed massacres during those days, the most notable being Deir Yassin.
The warning came in the form of a letter delivered to the New York Times in 1948.
It was an open letter to the Times, warning of the intentions of Menachem Begin, and the "Freedom Party", a political party "closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the NAZI and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership of the former Irgun Zval Leumi, a terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine"
Among the signatories to the letter was Albert Einstein.
Dated : December 2, 1948.
Google the letter.
The Nakbha was an actual genocide
Humanity much?!?!!!
Reality much?
Put a little love in your heart! It is never too late!
I do have love, bt less for scummy terroritsts
I should like to start this day by reminding everyone:
There is no fighting on antiwar.com!
Let us keep our focus where it needs to be!
NO WAR!
https://x.com/i/status/1870342929614573615
In other news, the sun rises in the east and water flows downhill! When oh when will the world put Israel in its place or AT LAST get in line with the ICC's arrest warrants for the war criminals doing all this?
Or we could contemplate that neither are justified?
Yes, well that’s a moral commonplace; but, outlawing a topic overtly or implicitly, means it’s a lie. We see this as recently as Anthony Fauci and “gain of function” research, no? … where one is force to conclude the worst, biological weapons.
I think the Fauci bullshit doesn’t force a conclusion but clearly opens very wide suspicion. But that’s an entirely different type of conversion. Fauci didn’t justify gain of function, he denied it. Then pretended what they did was not falling under the classification of gain of function. But he was never forthright if the purpose also extended to weaponry.
Is there really any case where there is justification of ethnic cleansing or genocide?
With Fauci and the lab leak, we have opinions. With Gaza, we’ve had live streaming.
1. Can’t count the times I’ve heard “Oct 7” cum mass rape and the whole litany of atrocity porn to justify it. Whereat the structural congruancy with “Reichstag Fire” is glaring. Added to which, the absolute bar against third party investigation, the conclusion is unavoidable.
2. The truth of Oct. 7 so far as we know is that the Hamas raid was for hostage taking to bargain for the release of Israel’s Palestinian hostages. The “atrocities” aspect needs to be investigated along with the historical context that produced it, but as clearly there was no “holocaust” intended. By the same token, Israel’s onslaught against Gaza is as clearly nothing but holocaust.
3. Finally, Israel’s ceaseless and blatant lying has made it impossible to believe any ZioNazi assertion. It’s all filth. As ever the all-important-context is barred from the discussion.
Yes. I understand and know all this.
I guess I misunderstood your original comment where I thought your intention was to advocate for determining if there were “legitimate” German “reasons” for their atrocities.
Patel should know killers always say they did not do it, just like he would say he never tells a lie when in fact he never tells the truth.
What a revelation.
For the past year we have known that.
The writer is such a Sherlock, isn't he???
Zionism is antiquated…
Quid Pro Quo?!?!
I really hope that Hamas returns all the hostages so this war can end.
”So this is Christmas! And what have you done?!”…
Much love, joy and Peace to us ALL!
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My friend in Gaza lost his fifth and final brother today. He was blown up by an Israeli warship as he sat on the beach, alongside two friends. What is there left to say? They keep racking up kills while the world idles away https://x.com/i/status/1870882276621300221 https://x.com/i/status/1870882276621300221
Israel is a sick, blind, unfeeling nation of people infected by Zionists who run the country as if it were still in the 7th Century B.C., applying texts as if they were written today.
Insanity……………..
I just read an interview with Democratic Senator Fetterman. Recently, he went to Israel and spoke with Netanyahu, and has been criticized for doing so.
The article criticized those who would criticize Fetterman for displaying his belief that the "war", the killing of several hundred thousand Palestinians is somehow "defending Israel", and he is all for the actions of Israel.
Netanyahu thanked him for his visit and his commitment to Israel and its right to "defend itself".
I guess some Jews do not see the light, the happenings in Gaza, Lebanon, and now Syria. Many do, and are blessing.