Israel is commiting mass murder, genocide, backed by USA.
Note that this means "83% of people killed were civilians", not that 83% of civilians were killed. As the graph in the article illustrates, that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides:
that puts this neck and neck with other recent genocides
The fact that this sentence can be said, unironically, and backed with data, is kinda depressing.
Notably, Hamas on Oct 7 killed two civilians for every military casualty. By the IDF's own numbers, the IDF are literally greater terrorists than Hamas. Hamas literally does a better job at avoiding civilian casualties than the IDF does.
If you qualify military targets the way the IDF does then Hamas killed over 90% military targets on october 7.
And we'll likely never know how many civilians/soldiers were killed by Israel issuing the Hannibal Directive on October 7th. Something we do know they issued that day.
Yes. Israel has a protocol that says "killing/harming our own people is preferred to them being kidnapped".
95% civilians of mariupol? Holy fuck
Yes, that's the result of Russia "liberating" a city. I'm surprised Grozny doesn't show up here - enough civilians got away, I guess. The city itself was completely obliterated.
Yup. This is why I had to ban someone posting Russian propaganda from a Pro-Russia Mariupol Youtube channel.
"Look how much better things are with Russia instead of Ukraine!" bullshit.
And that’s if we believe the Israelis aren’t lying to cover their genocide.
I think whomever is modding here today deserves a beer or three.
We're actually doing OK. Fortunately the tools to ban users and remove their bullshit is like, 2 clicks, total.
That being said, they've created a bunch of accounts with 8,000+ posts soooo... like 12 clicks? LOL.
Every single major news publisher trying their hardest to call this a war and not a genocide.
Sure is a good thing we didn't put those gEnOcIdAl Democrats in office, huh?
Have some respect for palestinians getting genocidal instead of defending the two cultist parties. Condemn israel instead and keep boycotting it
Like Nougat, I have enough respect and logic to be able to distinguish the Greater from the Lesser Poison for Palestinians in what was a binary choice.
More frankly: Anyone who espoused couch-sitting and MUh boTH sIdEz false equivalence fallacies are complicit in Israel's genocide because any rational person could see Israel would be more constrained by Democrats, while Bibi and AIPAC obviously preferred Trump and Republicans winning.
Also, this isn't to mention they're complicit in worsening Russia's attempted genocide in Ukraine.
Edit: Very stable folks replying, lol.
While you guys cry about your cult losing to the other cult . Other people keep fighting ,protesting, boycotting etc. You guys have zero respect you are just cultists
Rational people know that the billions of dollars that Israel get from the USA is that enabling the genocide. Only fools would believe that democrats would have stopped it. Only fools would think that dems and republicans would have constrained israel.
Netanyahu is a snake he thanked both Trump and Biden when it suited him. Netanyahu supported trump vocally more because it would create an illusion of change
This genocide would also be happening if Harris was president, nothing has changed.
The only difference would be that every Democrat would be supporting the genocide in lock step, rather than what's happening now with Democrats finally speaking out.
Trump brings out the best in Democrats.
Yeah, democrats, very known for lockstep thinking…
Were you alive when Biden was president and he was the one working hand in glove with Israel to conduct the genocide?
We're watching the same Democrats that supported the genocide under Biden suddenly pivot under Trump.
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