From Sen. Sanders statement:

An immediate humanitarian response is vitally important, but it is equally important for Israel to have a political strategy. It cannot bomb its way to a long-term solution. Such a strategy must include, as minimum first steps: a clear promise that Palestinians displaced in the fighting will have the absolute right to safely return to their homes; a commitment to broader peace talks to advance a two-state solution in the wake of this war; an abandonment of Israeli efforts to carve up and annex the West Bank; and a commitment to work with the international community to build genuine Palestinian governing capacity.

What is happening now is butchery, not the steps to a lasting peace. Every single person and nation can walk back from the brink of madness if they realize they are wrong and start the process to peace. Peace doesn’t come at the end of a sword. It comes from an outstretched hand. Show these poor trapped people your humanity. Show them mercy in the face of crushing death and sow the seeds of a future both your children can live in.

This piece was published 4 days ago. Israel still has time to save 350,000 people dying in the rubble around them. There is always time to be human. There is always time for mercy when you were shown none.

So?
How the fuck does that stop anything? If I leave my phone at home I turn around and get my phone or I don’t. It’s not what is easier or how far I’ve driven. It’s whether it’s worth doing. In the case of saving the 330,000 civilians trapped in the rubble around the forces that have encircled them, then yes it’s worth doing. Nobody gets to act like it’s too late until there isn’t a shred of hope for those people and the hearts that beat inside them.

Nobody gets to claim the moral high ground in sacrificing the lives of the people trapped where you decided to invade or Hamas decided to defend. You cannot beat monsters by being an equally gross monster. It only leaves us a world of dead civilians filled with awful monsters. You want to beat Hamas? You have to be better than Hamas. Sanders gets that. Why don’t you?

Saving civilians is not a loss of progress. It’s the first step toward it dude.

so none? Your saying the rockets have killed none?

roger roger

and the number that you wrote please?

Maybe you should call up the Associated Press and have them correct the title. Would you call what happened to those people murder?

What the actual AI fuck?

This guy has three kids in college and no fucking bank accounts… Dude, is this guy congress Clarence Thomas? Fuck, it feels like these people are all body snatchers!

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Or they’re literal paid shills working in the name of nationalism and “diplomacy”

I don’t know about that guy. There’s soooo much weird stuff going on there. He uses such an odd mixture of words and lingo that it’s like he’s from 4 different countries sometimes. Always look at who upvotes him though. They certainly like what he has to say and they can’t all be crazy.

It’s fucking wild that people are just paid to shit post and troll in the defense of murder. I really dislike all of this. This whole time and place we’re living in. If it’s not the Correct the Record then it’s the Russians. If it’s not the Russians then it’s the Hasbara. If it’s not them, then maybe China, or a bot or an AI. The world’s going nuts from social media and the rich trying to set everyone’s brain on fire, and then there’s this shit. How much more synthetic does the world need to be? How can these forces not understand they are engaging in evil shit, just for the sake of it!

“The diplomatic mechanism relies on the hasbara mechanism,” he said. “Success in the war is reliant on this component. There’s no alternative to the civilian abilities here and on social media. It’s one of the most critical fronts right now.”

Gitam Media Group CEO Ido Har-Tov told the meeting that his company had set up a 200-person situation room that was focused on creating hasbara content.
“We’ve begun to create between 40 and 50 videos a day,” he said. “We have tens of millions of views. We can be the country’s most significant tool in hasbara.”

“Our goal is to explain to people how they can do [hasbara] themselves and explain how they help us become viral,” she said. “The country, with all its complexity, doesn’t have the tools to manage this fight. It needs to be done on the civilian level.”

Buckle up baby, it’s everyone’s turn to drink from the fire hose.

“Good” article, thanks for posting.

I’ve never missed a vote in my life, though I can’t say I’ve been wild about any of the outcomes. Let’s hope Dems can get their shit together this year because the last 3 haven’t been the most inspiring.

42 in a single day

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This slaughter guarantees it will never end. You are beyond reason and I hope you live to see the fruits of vengeance the seeds you plant now will come to bear. I don’t wish you or anyone harm, but when it inevitably comes, don’t you dare for a second excuse yourself from the knowledge that you helped further this cycle of misery upon the world. “let he who seeks revenge dig 2 graves”

You are invading, hence, you are responsible for your own actions. That’s life.

Nobody but you dropped the bomb, pulled the trigger, made the decision. Israel has agency. They’ve used it to commit murder and they will come to be known as murders for it.

So this is Israels Vietnam eh?

Tell me, when you go into perform brain surgery to extract a persons cancer, why are you using a 10 pound hammer to perform the operation? It’s called a scalpel you clod.

Also tell me, if this is so precise then why are 40% of the fatalities children? That’s 10% shy of the total percentage of the population they represent.

Minimal effort is being taken, if any, to protect the people you claim brave Israel cares about. What a joke!

30,000 active Hamas fighters according to Israel and you’ve already killed 10,000 people. 4,000 of them children. You are an unapologetic accomplice to a massacre that is still ongoing. You remember that, no matter how “moral” you tell yourself it is.

Your right, their indiscriminate “accidental” murder makes it A-OK.

It’s their naughty little kink and Israel knows how to do it just right.

I was told elsewhere that genocides only count if you mean it.
“Israel, Hamas, and the accidental genocide: Benni made a boo boo”

Israel says the group has about 30,000 fighters and an arsenal of rockets, including some with a range of about 250 kilometers (155 miles), and unmanned drones.
2.5 million / 2 = 1.25 million / 30,000 = 41 2/3
So roughly one out of every 40.
10,000 dead would mean about 244 Hamas fighters dead if the distributions were equal
let’s say they’re not, that they are targeted.
If the number were quartered, that’s still 1/10 being killed. 9 civilians to 1 fighter death.