[-] ira@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

And don't think you didn't contribute to that $150 mil just because you don't live in New York. NYPD received $500 mil from the federal ARP Act.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

I'm guessing Israel wasn't bombing hostages. Although that guess has been wrong a lot.

“Even if Israeli forces had intended to target legitimate military objectives in the vicinity, these attacks evidently failed to distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects and would therefore be indiscriminate,” Amnesty International said in the report. “Indiscriminate attacks that kill and injure civilians are war crimes.”

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Rafah is pretty much the last place for people to go, that's why 3/4ths of the population is there at this point. There aren't any "safe zones".

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

That's certainly a strange new precedent. I hope Congress gets to work quickly writing legislation for all the other amendments before a president realizes there aren't laws spelling out how freedom of speech is defined or how to enforce it, etc. etc.

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

And Ben-Gvir is still the National Security Minister, completely untouched.

But at least he finally took down his tribute to a mass killer that's been hanging in his home for decades. Small steps, right? I wonder if he ever gave Rabin's hood ornament back.

Quite an interesting contrast between how the US dealt with Soleimani vs. Ben-Gvir.

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the law doesn't explain who gets to determine when a country is acting in self-defense

Literally the same exact reasoning Trump used to declare an "emergency" and divert funds to a border wall. Words are meaningless so I can do whatever I want!

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Spoiler: it's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again (joined by 11 other ministers this time).

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

It's closer to 1 in every 80 who have been killed now (26,083 out of apx 2.1 million).

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An Israeli tank attack on a United Nations center sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians has killed at least nine people and wounded 75 others in Gaza’s second largest city, senior U.N. humanitarian officials said Wednesday.

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Huh, I'm starting to think that the guy who hung a portrait of a mass shooter in his living room and who was exempted from mandatory IDF service for his far right political background, might not be the good guy here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

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  • "Settlers taking land" vs "Invasion"

  • "IDF raid" vs "Terrorist attack"

  • "Administrative house demolition" vs "Terrorist attack"

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Not to be confused with the attack last Saturday.

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Israel was eerily silent, when they usually report mistakes like the UN official dying in their strikes quite quickly.

They weren't eerily silent at all. There were Israeli military spokespeople bragging about it on X until they started seeing the backlash and deleted the tweets.

IDF journalist Hananya Naftali: "BREAKING: Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza. A multiple number of terrorists are dead."

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