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Israel-Gaza Megathread #1
This is a megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
No electricity, water, or fuel for Gaza until hostages freed - Israel
Israel's Energy Minister Israel Katz says the siege of Gaza will not end until Israeli hostages are released.
In a social media post, Israel Katz said no "electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened and no fuel truck will enter" until the "abductees" are free.
I think this is a smart move. Even if the hostages being released remains very unlikely, it puts more of the moral burden for the siege on the Gazans, who do (broadly) support Hamas.
At this point the optics don't matter. I genuinely believe that Israel could detonate some tactical nuclear weapons in Gaza, killing everybody there, including the prisoners, and would suffer almost no negative consequences for it.
Israel, and by extension the Jewish diaspora, has an absolute grasp on western media and government. During the American house speaker recall debate, one of the congresswomen gave a speech explaining that we should keep McCarthy as speaker because he has done the most to bring other congressmen to Israel. Major American policy debates center around support for Israel, a small foreign country.[1]
The Palestinian terror attacks were a type of brutality I don't think anybody in the modern western world has ever seen before. They were uniquely horrific, and I think this will be remembered as a turning point in modern history the same way that 9/11 was.
Israel is out for blood, and nobody in the west with any real power is going to stop them.
And by the way: good for them. I, a Catholic American, am jealous (although jealous is the wrong word since that sortof implies an animosity, which I have none of) of the power that the Jewish people have. Much of my criticism of The Church centers around not behaving more like The Jews. Why no Catholic equivalent to "Birthright Israel"? Why not make Catholics learn latin anymore? These are good things that people should do.
(Although I don't think they should be nuking Palestine.)
The Palestinian terror attacks were a type of brutality I don't think anybody in the modern western world has ever seen before.
Baffling statement as far as I am concerned. Nothing I've seen so far made we wince the way some videos from Ukraine do. Then there are cartel videos, and minor events like, for example, that tourist woman getting beheaded in Morocco (?). This is of course just the tip of the brutality iceberg that's easy to access.
I've seen some videos of Israelis getting shot, some dead women, some captive scared women. Stuff that, to me, does not feel out of place in Israel, considering the unresolved conflict. Is there any actually gruesome stuff out there?
I think the Hamas videos have mostly hit that sweet spot of "bad enough to be shocking, tame enough that people will watch it" that have allowed them to go viral. A lot of people have seen the German girl in the back of the truck getting spat on or the dead Israeli soldier getting stomped on, but not so many have watched the one where Hamas is trying to decapitate the Filipino guy with a garden hoe. That's just too much.
Right exactly, like you have to be an extreme degenerate to watch some of the worse cartel videos, they’re truly scarring. The Israel ones are shocking but the descriptions lead people who would never click on ‘NSFL Cartel Execution’ to watch them.
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Its A/B testing all the way down
2rafa 1yr ago
I guess I'm an extreme degenerate then. But I'm a strong believer in diving first swimming later. You don't grasp the true weight of the situation if you don't see the worst of it.
Am I scarred? No. If anything I'm better off. No matter how bad things get, at least I didn't piss off the zetas. The cartel videos gave me a new scale of how bad things truly can get.
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No electricity, water, or fuel for Gaza until hostages freed - Israel
[From the BBC news live tracker]
I think this is a smart move. Even if the hostages being released remains very unlikely, it puts more of the moral burden for the siege on the Gazans, who do (broadly) support Hamas.
At this point the optics don't matter. I genuinely believe that Israel could detonate some tactical nuclear weapons in Gaza, killing everybody there, including the prisoners, and would suffer almost no negative consequences for it.
Israel, and by extension the Jewish diaspora, has an absolute grasp on western media and government. During the American house speaker recall debate, one of the congresswomen gave a speech explaining that we should keep McCarthy as speaker because he has done the most to bring other congressmen to Israel. Major American policy debates center around support for Israel, a small foreign country.[1]
The Palestinian terror attacks were a type of brutality I don't think anybody in the modern western world has ever seen before. They were uniquely horrific, and I think this will be remembered as a turning point in modern history the same way that 9/11 was.
Israel is out for blood, and nobody in the west with any real power is going to stop them.
And by the way: good for them. I, a Catholic American, am jealous (although jealous is the wrong word since that sortof implies an animosity, which I have none of) of the power that the Jewish people have. Much of my criticism of The Church centers around not behaving more like The Jews. Why no Catholic equivalent to "Birthright Israel"? Why not make Catholics learn latin anymore? These are good things that people should do.
(Although I don't think they should be nuking Palestine.)
Baffling statement as far as I am concerned. Nothing I've seen so far made we wince the way some videos from Ukraine do. Then there are cartel videos, and minor events like, for example, that tourist woman getting beheaded in Morocco (?). This is of course just the tip of the brutality iceberg that's easy to access.
I've seen some videos of Israelis getting shot, some dead women, some captive scared women. Stuff that, to me, does not feel out of place in Israel, considering the unresolved conflict. Is there any actually gruesome stuff out there?
I think the Hamas videos have mostly hit that sweet spot of "bad enough to be shocking, tame enough that people will watch it" that have allowed them to go viral. A lot of people have seen the German girl in the back of the truck getting spat on or the dead Israeli soldier getting stomped on, but not so many have watched the one where Hamas is trying to decapitate the Filipino guy with a garden hoe. That's just too much.
Right exactly, like you have to be an extreme degenerate to watch some of the worse cartel videos, they’re truly scarring. The Israel ones are shocking but the descriptions lead people who would never click on ‘NSFL Cartel Execution’ to watch them.
I guess I'm an extreme degenerate then. But I'm a strong believer in diving first swimming later. You don't grasp the true weight of the situation if you don't see the worst of it.
Am I scarred? No. If anything I'm better off. No matter how bad things get, at least I didn't piss off the zetas. The cartel videos gave me a new scale of how bad things truly can get.
Yeah. Pissing off the Zetas is suicide, if you do it it's best to always have bombs or grenades on you...
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