What I said is: you can be wrong with an allegation in the past, but it does not mean that you’ll be wrong with another allegation with no related subject in the future.
He may be wrong about Ukraine/Russia, but this subject is different from Gaza/Israel, which he is right and we have many evidences of the last one.
So it’s a numbers thing, then? Until they get to that six million, all those dead kids don’t matter? What if they stop at 5.9 million, are the Israelis still murderers? Help me figure this out, I’ve always been curious how the minds of sociopaths work.
I don’t support flagrantly massacring civilians, but since you stooped to his level by indulging in his numbers game, I grew curious how the numbers actually compare and would like to share, just as an objective reference for perspective.
Stick around/read bottom part for the big caveat on these numbers though, if it isn’t already obvious.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates 6 million of 9.5 million European Jews died in the Holocaust. Mass murder by poison gas appears to have commenced on/around Dec 08 '41 first at Chelmno and presumably ceased around the time Germany surrendered on May 07 '45. 1246 days of killing. 6,000,000/1246 = ~4,815 Jews killed per day on average.
I don’t recall the exact date Israel began retaliations, I believe it was around 3 weeks after, but I’m going to start the time window for Israel’s slaughter on Oct 7 '23 to keep things simple, mind the inaccuracy that comes with this. As of time of writing, on Feb 19 '24 (135 days since window start), Gaza Health Ministry has stated that at least 29,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war. 29,000/135 = ~215.
So when comparing the numbers killed per day, we’re still at not even 1/20th the scale of the Holocaust. Regardless, we should hope to never even be near 1/100th the scale, but this is reality and these are the numbers.
Next I want to look at population. Mosaica counts ~5 million Palestinians combined in Gaza and West Bank. This means that, so far, roughly 0.6% of the Palestinian population has been slaughtered compared to the estimated 2 out of 3 European Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust…
NOW for the caveat: we are only 135 days in. They didn’t even have Auschwitz operational 135 days into Hitler’s reign. I’m not a historian. I can’t tell you how many Jews died 135 days into the Holocaust, and I can’t even give you a ballpark range. So if you really want a numbers to numbers comparison, I guess you’ll have to wait until after history repeats itself to crunch the numbers.
You’re missing my point that there are no 6 million Palestinians, only about 2.5 million in Gaza and 3 million in the West Bank, so you will never be able to compare it to tho Holocaust, even if they kill every single one of them, that was my point. The 6 million is the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust.
It’s clearly not the same. See, the skin color of the victims is different! And the Israeli flag looks nothing like a swastika. You must can’t compare the two.
To be held in esteem by Israel - at any point in its history - is a deep stain on any reputation to put it mildly. Anyone with humanity is an enemy to fascists and ethnostates.
Look mate I agree that Israel is probably committing genocide against the Palestinians. But that doesn’t mean that everyone that Israel has ever liked is tainted.
The Nazis tainted everything they touched, I don’t see why this should be any different. And yes, the comparison is apt.
Very few things in life are black and white - this is.
You either support genocide or you don’t. You either support an increasingly fascistic apartheid ethnostate or you don’t. Lines are notoriously difficult to draw but they’re extremely clear cut here.
Israel and the Zionist project gains legitimacy by proximity to genuinely honorable people like the ones you brought up - it’s rhetorical propaganda.
I appreciate I’m taking a strong stance in my wording here but for gods sake, man - look at the whole thing. A dying empire is dusting off old world colonialism, complete with unabashed ethnic cleansing and the entire Western world is to-the-hilt complicit. History and systemic decline is being written. I don’t consider my language an overreaction - at all.
I don’t think Jesse Owens was tainted just because Hitler congratulated him.
I don’t think people that resisted the Nazis are tainted just because Israel thanks them.
That’s why I disagreed with your initial comment.
Just as we shouldn’t consider Jesse Owens to be tainted by Hitler’s endorsement, we shouldn’t consider anti-Nazi movements to be tainted by Israel’s endorsement.
That’s all we seem to disagree on.
Yes, we should be skeptical of Israel positioning WW2 heroes as champions of Israel’s interpretation of Zionism.
Also for clarification: I’m opposed to Israel’s apparent genocide of the Palestinians. I think Israel’s crimes are more similar to the Americo-Canadian genocide of North America’s first nations than with the Nazi genocide of European Jews and other marginalized minorities. Ie Israel isn’t doing “murder factory” genocide, it’s doing “encroachment and suppression” genocide (and starvation, and persecution). Also similar to what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
Now, here’s the kicker: the brazilian rightwing, which contains actual (veiled) nazis and other jew-hating groups, are siding with Israel on this matter. The jokes write themselves.
It’s really weird to see how almost infantalizing the Israeli minister is towards the ambassador. Like he’s correcting a child or something. I suppose when you’re commiting genocide you carry that attitude with you everywhere.
I don’t know the details of how the Palestinian government works, if this is legit, or if this means the war is over or whatever. But I do know that if the war ended today, there will still never be real peace after all of the chaos. I cannot fathom the amount of hate and vitriol that has been progenerated inside of Palestine.
I am not really educated on the previous Palestine/Israel conflict, but it all seems irrelevant now, because the current military action was brutal enough to keep it going for the next hundred years, no matter who was “right”.
IDF initial investigation: majority of Gazans have died due to a stampede or got run over by the trucks while trying to get to humanitarian aid and approximately 10 Gazans extremely close to a Tank and a IDF infantry squad the IDF soldiers shot towards the lower body part after the soldiers shot warning shots in the air according to rules of engagement.
Your charge of echo chamberism would stick a little better if you could find a source to support your claim that wasn’t the propaganda arm of the israeli government.
I am rubber you are glue whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you
They’re not “reporting the atrocities” they’re minimizing already known and incontrovertible atrocities. Downplaying. Pointing the finger in directions other than themselves. Pretending its not as bad as it, in fact, is. Y’know, lying. Because they are the de facto propaganda arm of the israeli government, you see.
Yes, my propaganda claim is as strong as my genocide claim, excellent point, well made.
Proof would be something, because their word is not trustworthy at all. And the onus of proof is on the IDF. They’ve killed more than 30,000 people in 4 months. They’ve destroyed half of the homes in Gaza and destroyed the hospitals. They’re keeping the people under siege, starving them of food and water and depriving them of medical care. Are we supposed to believe the IDF is being careful and conscientious? The evidence is before the world’s eyes, despite the IDF killing a good number of the journalists reporting on it. It would be quite in keeping with all this for the IDF to have killed the people in this news story as well. And even if there was a stampede, was it caused by the IDF opening fire? If so, they still killed these people.
Do we have clarity on whether the shooting caused the stampede, or vice versa? I thought the former, but this source is alleging something a bit more nuanced.
Not sure about the stampede but there’s a lot of pictures on Twitter of Palestinians with bullet holes in their head. It’s news to me that stampedes can cause that.
From what I’ve gathered, many were shot in the upper body but many more died due to a stampede in the chaos that came after IDF shooting at a crowd with thousands of people.
I want a ceasefire, Hamas wants a ceasefire, civilians on both sides want a ceasefire, civilians not involved want a ceasefire…
The only ones that don’t is Netanyahu and his far right Zionists…
They also love to start the clock on 10/7 and ignore Israel’s behavior for the last 70 years they’ve been around or that their country was formed by kicking people out of their ancestral home using violence.
Netanyahu wants total surrender, that’s not a ceasefire.
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