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Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Al-Shabaka's U.S. policy fellow, said: "This is among the worst footage I've seen. Not only were these boys clearly unarmed and present no threat whatsoever, but they were struck multiple times even after stumbling/crawling away. There is no way they could have been considered combatants. This is unreal."

Assal Rad, an author with a Ph.D. in Middle East history, said: "Have we ever seen so many war crimes take place right before our eyes? Any country still providing weapons and aid to Israel is complicit in these crimes."

[Warning: the article contains a footage whose content may distress users.]

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I sincerely wish news articles would stop linking to X posts, and instead just mirror the content, or something.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yes, I don't understand why people keep using this platforn.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It's probably an overhead or creative licensing thing. But it sucks. And if you're a day late to the article, it's a gamble that the video hasn't already been removed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The same reason people keep using FB: it's a dumpster fire if toxic waste and they like it that way

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Privacy Badger has replaced this X (Twitter) widget

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And Twitter posts as sources is always very sketchy...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It's Al-Jazeera. Their logo is their in the video, and the Arabic is a newscaster talking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The source is already gone so doesn't really matter now

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Article said it’s a must see video, I went to the website and it linked to X.

Shame… I guess I won’t see it

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Israel is comitting genocide

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gaza is also on the verge of famine now, if not already in the midst of it.

[–] IndustryStandard 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Mirror for people that don't want to click the Twitter video in the article:

NSFL https://files.catbox.moe/g3fjh9.mp4

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I could never understand why my dad hated Israel so much. Now it's my turn!

[–] cynar 51 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Just remember there are 4 groups involved, not 2. You've got the Palestinian people, and the Israeli people. You also have Hamas and the Zionist dominated Israeli government.

As far as I am concerned, 90% of the blame falls on the Zionists. They have constantly broken agreements and goaded the Palestinian people. This led to the rise of Hamas, it was the only group willing to really stand up to the Israeli government.

The Israeli Zionists are working hard to conflate issues with them with issues with Israel in general and antisemitism in general. Don't play into their hands on that.

[–] grue 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Five groups: don't forget the British/UN, who fucked up the handling of Mandatory Palestine in the first place.

Frankly, I don't think partitioning the Jews and Muslims into separate states was ever going to work and the British should've forced them to deal with each other in a single secular state instead.

[–] Dkarma 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

British should have put Israel in Germany

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I still don’t understand this.

“We fucked so we are gonna give you someone else’s land”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Zionism predates the holocaust by several decades. The plan was always to colonize an area of the middle east. The founders of the ideology wished to do so to escape persecution in Europe, and determined that enacting violence on the native population of those regions was acceptable to achieve the end goal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

who fucked up the handling of Mandatory Palestine in the first place.

The British didn't fuck up. It was done exactly as intended and designed by the Zionist movement to give the Israel the strategic leverage to occupy more and more land after the initial partitioning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That was also a problem, but before that they should've never let Zionists into Palestine or helped them in their settler colonialism nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For sure. Nevertheless it is the state of Israel carrying out the dirty work, rather than a bunch of rogue Zionists doing it by themselves.

[–] cynar 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Agreed. The state of Israel is thoroughly in the hands of the Zionist elements.

My point is that the options and views of the people aren't always well reflected in their government. A lot of countries have the same problem (US and UK, definitely!). It's human nature to band together, when attacked from the outside. Focusing attacks on the culpable entity helps a lot in correcting that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean your point is true in general but Israel just has that many genocidal maniacs. Just look how much support the war has, even though they want Natanyahu out.

[–] cynar 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Much of that is the effect of propaganda. Once it becomes "us Vs them" a lot of logical thinking goes out the window. The first step to countering it is to stop feeding into it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I guess so, but what I meant is that this isn't a case of people being misrepresented by their government. The government is following the majority (which is growing, by the way) position of "let's genocide the Palestinians for Lebensraum", setting aside why that's the minority position. This mess won't end with Netanyahu and his ilk leaving.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

100% agree.

[–] SendMePhotos 9 points 8 months ago

I'm not familiar enough with them to form a good opinion. Thanks for giving me a start.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Fuck Israel.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Real terrorist.

[–] Linkerbaan 19 points 8 months ago

But Benny Morris said the IDF air force signs off with 15 lawyers and super duper confirms all the targets. Surely israel apologists wouldn't lie!

[–] riodoro1 16 points 8 months ago

everybody needs to see this

links to shitter

Yeah, I don’t

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] IndustryStandard 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Here all works fine. Again the T link

[–] CluckN 4 points 8 months ago

At this rate the entire world won’t be able to see this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The brothers, Isaac and Ishmael, should end their stupid family blood feud. Make peace morons!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

said one writer and analyst. "This is unreal."

Wro...

x platform

I understand. I, too, have doubts. Have a nice day.

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