Doesn’t help that they murdered a German citizen at a peace festival and then paraded her naked body through the streets to be spit on.
Israelis murder Palestinians, destroy their homes, attack schools and hospitals, shoot children, shoot doctors, bulldoze their refugee camps, etc etc, constantly, for decades and the world turns a blind eye.
Whenever there's an attack from the Palestinians the world loses it's shit.
Of course all deaths are bad but Israel are the oppressors here. Their actions are vile and now Netanyahu has said it's "war". If it's war now what the fuck was it before?
No one is pearl clutching over dead soldiers, but when you machine gun down several hundred music festival attendees (incl. foreign nationals), rape the women, parade their naked defiled corpses around so others can spit on them, and upload the video to share with everyone, you're going to get some international condemnation and re-evaluation of support.
Buddy you summed up my sentiments exactly. It feels like the whole fucking world is suffering from some form of amnesia. What do they expect the Palestinians to do, just accept their own extermination?
What do they expect the Palestinians to do, just accept their own extermination?
I mean you can fight back against your oppressors without massacring civilians, many of whom aren't even Isrealis
I am not sure I understand the logic behind fighting a war of extermination when the other side is stronger and can actually exterminate you
The logic is you hide within the general population and count on the other side to be “more civilized”. Or you’re enough of a sociopath to want the response to hit the general population to radicalize people just trying to live their lives
That's because people don't pay attention. There have been several times over the last few years where I see a story of IDF leveling an apartment block or executing a group of people, it's always hand-waved as "they were terrorists, trust me Bro I'm looking at the evidence that I can't show you for security reasons"
And the world turns.
Days later one of the victims sorry TERRORISTS stabs an IDF soldier on the street? PROOF THAT ALL PALESTINIANS ARE TERRORISTS is the gist of every news outlet.
When you move into your neighbors pool house, don't be surprised when they chase you around with a baseball bat.
Yes, it IS unfortunate that civilians get caught in the crossfire. But when one side started by targeting civilians, it's not as simple as "these guys are terrorists and the people who fight them are inherently good" like a shitload of people are trying to make it out to be.
it’s always hand-waved as “they were terrorists,
We have no way of verifying facts and obviously there was no trial in those cases, yet they have been consistently in response to terrorist attacks.
The whole area is a shitty complex mess with a long history of violence back and forth. Claiming there’s a simple solution is just naïveté, saying Israel doesn’t have a right to respond is just stupid. I have no idea if there is a way to fix it, but I know pressuring one side to not respond to terrorism is not it
It's colonizers versus natives round 1239382. The world collectives decided fuck the natives, let them fend for themselves.
Nobody ever "reviews aid" for Israel, no matter what crimes they commit.
Then again, Israel didn't go into another country and behead people at the party.
Yeah they just perpetuate a system of apartheid and kill innocent people all the time. Totally different and normal behaviour. Give them more weapons, boys!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BERLIN, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The German government said on Sunday it was reviewing its hundreds of millions of euros of aid for Palestinians following the biggest attack on Israel in years by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Development Minister Svenja Schulze said the government had always been careful to check that the money was only used for peaceful ends.
Germany would discuss with Israel how development projects in the region could best be served, and coordinate with international partners, said the minister for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left government.
Some German lawmakers, from the opposition conservatives in particular, called for an end to the aid.
"All of Europe, all 27 states, must now say: we need a new start and we will no longer finance terrorists," said Armin Laschet, chancellor candidate for the conservatives at the last federal election, calling for an end to EU cooperation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the West Bank.
Gregor Gysi, a prominent member of the opposition Left party argued against such a move, saying Hamas, and not all Palestinians, were responsible for the attack.
The original article contains 206 words, the summary contains 184 words. Saved 11%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
When two sides fight, it's the people who they represent that suffer. The people in power waging the wars never face any consequences for violence.
All Western governments need to evaluate “aid” to countries like Palestine. Billions are sent each year to countries like Afghanistan, and it’s immediately used to oppress, abuse, and murder women and minorities. We need to stop funding terrorists and pretending to be surprised when they use our funds to terrorise people.
There was hope people are less easy to abuse when they suffer less, and have some education.
There's also a humanitarian argument to be made. After all, these are humans, not everyone's pawn.
I agree it did not work as well. On the other side, we don't know how much worse it could have been without outside help.
I hope we've conclusively proven that theory to be false. Throw this on top of the theory that, as nations industrialise, they naturally democratise and become more peaceful. China has categorically proven this false.
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