I meant American frauds, like Chuck Schumer who are supposed to ostensibly represent the left-wing party of the U.S.
I agree. The EU should should start sanctioning Israel already.
No, it's not. You can discuss the tweet but we're not going to sink to his level, and allow comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany or Israelis and Nazis.
Pretty much this. America could come together as a nation tomorrow and vote out Trump and every other Republican from power and they would STILL be... forever and always... Israel's bitch.
Western media has been doing this forever against POC and especially towards those from enemy states. If anything it implies the media isn't as independent as we'd like to think it is from the state. It parrots and hold the same view; just a softer version of it. This time we have NYT's "Dozens Palestinians have died..." (as if they just fell to the ground and died for no reason), or BBC's "Gaza clashes: Dozens killed..." (who was killed, who killed?) or AFP's "BREAKING Palestinian president condemns Israeli "massacres", refuses any US peace mediation" (no mention of Palestinians, massacres in quotes). Remember that NYT and BBC are supposedly very respected media/news outlets in the West lol. This isn't a "woops my bad, won't happen again". It's been done so many times that it's pretty obvious how it's a deliberate effort to muddy the waters. White man media downplays the atrocities done by a European colonial settler state. Color me surprised.
American media is complicit in this. Dead how? Did they magically get killed by some unknown Force? No one can understand this phenomenon where Palestinians get hit by sniper fire coming in the direction of the IDF.
Not enough moderate rebels in Israel, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia etc.
This is the problem. The whole US political system is in Israel's pocket. With the added bonus of an easily manipulated moron in the White House.
Better to die trying than to bend over and let your rights get stomped over. I guess if we use your line of logic then the many different revolutions are pointless since many people died.
What other choice do they have? Slowly letting Gaza detoriorate further while doing nothing? Letting Israel achieve their goal of incremental genocide with their blockade of the Gaza strip?
Another great point. It would be ludicrous to presume that Israel would simply let their position of influence on both the United States and western media as a whole abate even if they were successful in their goal of annihilating the Palestinian people and purifying the Israeli state tomorrow.
See above. It is not that I think revolutions are pointless. If Gazans were using this to infiltrate Israel, or if they had engaged in an armed conflict instead, or if they had moved the protest further away from the border, or if they had hijacked an airplane etc. I could understand it (but would probably not agree with). For each of those actions, there would be an assessment (consciouss or not) of how many are going to die vs. what do we get out of it. For this particular protest, the risk-reward tradeoff seems so off to me that I question why?
What makes it so crazy is how really comfortable they are with mixing their official functions with their beliefs. It's honestly baffling.
I'm not going to condone the actions of Israel today in any way, and I want to make that clear. But I also don't think they're the only ones that should be held responsible here. Gaza is the way it is due to many other countries in the middle east not giving a shit/outright hating the Palestinians, including Egypt which also shares a border (and have their own wall) with Gaza. Israel is the only one repeatedly brought up, but there's other contributors to this problem. One more, obvious, contributor to today's violence of course is America itself for forcing this embassy move that even Israel didn't particularly want.
The population of Gaza is growing. The standard of living is the problem.
