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They killed 210 people in order to save 4. It took them 8 months to start this operation and they even lost a CT commander during.
Absolute waste of human life this whole situation is.
That was the intention of the pier all along. American soldiers actually helping anyone is such a ridiculous notion
When the first, what, ~10(?) small trucks/day crossed the pier and didn't even make it into Gaza, it was pretty obvious to everyone the military didn't spend over $300 million to help a fucking thing. My most cynical take was this would be used by the IOF as a military asset. Being right feels shit.
Yep, they can feel sorry for indigenous people when they are all dead, but they will not lose the beachhead of manifest destiny 2.0, mid east edition without a "fight". Andrew Jackson did the trail of tears and is on the 20. In a century if they succeed, big if, Biden will be on a note.
The cultural erasure of historical ethnic cleansing is a thing that troubles me a lot.
Isn'treal and and the nazis clearly modeled themselves after Amerikkka's hunger for blood and land, which hardly anyone in the world wants to admit to, because it was successful. "Yes, daughter, it was very sad what happened to those people, but that was a long time ago and there's nothing we can do about it. (Also it was kinda their fault, too.) Now drink your corn syrup and don't think about it ever again."
The modern imperial mantra being "blood now, tears later" means this train has always had brakes that are just seen as too unprofitable to use.
I feel the same way
Even the remnants of indigenous peoples are treated like shit, both here and in places in South America, I e. Bolivia, Venezuela, etc. so how sorry do they feel even now?
If nothing else, for all that they are also a threat to humanity, I'm grateful for nuclear weapons (and if need be, even the prospect of biowarfare on the table) as a result.
The rest of humanity is now increasingly building the foundations so that they can move past the barbarism the west inflicted on them, and if the west cannot choose even the most basic humanity- if our societies cannot abandon hegemony, genocide, and exploitation, and overthrow their monstrous systems themselves- if need be, they will be wiped off the map this time around, when they try to inflict the same on others.
The math makes more sense when you remember that they don't view Palestinians as people. In addition, they consider the goal of taking away Hamas' political leverage in negotiations as more important than the lives of their own soldiers and civilians.
This. The important thing is they view the very existence of Palestinians in Israel as a threat to the settler colonial project. They saw South Africa, Rhodesia, Namibia, Mozambique, etc etc etc they won’t allow the “mistakes” to repeat. Sooner or later they want all of them forced out or dead…
Israel is a lot more fragile than they let on.
Oh look another war crime.
Add it to the pile.
We're becoming inured to the horror.
It's a cope. 🤷♀️
But Trump would be worse! 
"tHiS iS JuST a TaSTe oF whAt dRuMPh wILl dO!!1!!1!"
Lol pretty much everyone on this site knew it would happen.
wow who could have seen that coming
American/Israeli regime and the word war crime will always be synonymous.
If Israel is so important to the western empire, it means.it is also a weakness. I would encourage everyone here to join BDS groups near you. If civil disobedience is new to you, it is a bit scary. Trust me, this is the first time I have engaged in it. But with good planning, recruitment, and a solid plan to win including escalation, it is possible to win the fight.
Plus it's good praxis, and an opportunity to learn how to organize
But also dont forget to explicitly support Hamas and the armed resistance. This is the actual material force fighting the war and conducting israel to its end
There's not much we can do in the West to "support Hamas" other than resolutely refuse to condemn them, and to stress that armed resistance to genocide and colonial occupation is legal and legitimate and morally correct.
That is all well and good and we should continue to push back in the information space against the lie that resistance is "terrorist", but sadly that doesn't have much immediate practical impact.
Whereas BDS, work stoppages and protests (against arms deliveries, for ceasefire, for recognition of Palestine, for holding Zionist war criminals accountable, etc.) are things that we can actually do that will have a direct impact.
surprise shock
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