No, he failed to report fundamental facts about the conflict.
If you want a more accurate understanding of the conflict, see The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
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ICE is all those things, including Gestapo. Nazi Germany was heavily influenced by America after all, it's no surprise it's come full circle
No no no, if it's still in the same glass it should still be valid
Israel claims children are a security threat
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Now I'm interested in a squid ink goth lasagna
Real goth cake, on the other hand, makes the world go round
And there it is, a bunch of Zionist propaganda that has been repeatedly debunked. Your shitty hasbara isn't fooling anyone, Zionist.
No, I don't support rape, unlike those who defend Israel. Nor did I say I don't have criticisms of Hamas, I do.
UN Statements Undercut New Israeli Report on 10/7 Sexual Violence. Your atrocity propaganda has been debunked repeatedly. Meanwhile, Israel has extensive documentation of raping Palestinians systematically, even to death, as a form of torture. As well as torturing and sexually abusing children held captive.
All your other bullshit about human shields has also already been debunked, and in fact the evidence shows Israel guilty instead. Every accusation is a confession.
Blockade, including Aid
Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid.
After the 'disengagement' in 2007, this turned into a full blockade; where Israel has had control over the airspace, borders, and sea. Under the guise of 'dual-use' Israel has restricted food, allocating a minimum supply leading to over half of Gaza being food insecure; construction materials, medical supplies, and other basic necessities have also been restricted.
The blockade and Israel’s repeated military offensives have had a heavy toll on Gaza’s essential infrastructure and further debilitated its health system and economy, leaving the area in a state of perpetual humanitarian crisis. Indeed, Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population, the majority of whom are children, has created conditions inimical to human life due to shortages of housing, potable water and electricity, and lack of access to essential medicines and medical care, food, educational equipment and building materials.
- Amnesty International Report pg 26-27
Peace Process and Solution
Hamas proposed a full prisoner swap as early as Oct 8th, and agreed to the US proposed UN Permanent Ceasefire Resolution. Additionally, Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Human Shields
Hamas:
Intentionally utilizing the presence of civilians or other protected persons to render certain areas immune from military attack is prohibited under international law. Amnesty International was not able to establish whether or not the fighters’ presence in the camps was intended to shield themselves from military attacks. However, under international humanitarian law, even if one party uses “human shields”, or is otherwise unlawfully endangering civilians, this does not absolve the opposing party from complying with its obligations to distinguish between military objectives and civilians or civilian objects, to refrain from carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, and to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians and civilian objects.
Israel:
Additionally, there is extensive independent verification of Israel using Palestinians as Human Shields:
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Including Children (2013 Report)
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Palestinian children face unrelenting genocide, displacement, and systematic abuse throughout 2024
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Israel “Systematically” Uses Gaza Children as Human Shields, Rights Group Finds 2024
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Breaking The Silence - Testimonies from IDF Veterans
Deliberate Attacks on Civilians
Israel deliberately targets civilian areas. From in general with the Dahiya Doctrine to multiple systems deployed in Gaza to do so:
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The Dahiya Doctrine & Israel’s Use of Disproportionate Force
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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
Israel also targets Israeli Soldiers and Civilians to prevent them being leveraged as hostages, known as the Hannibal Directive. Which was also used on Oct 7th.
Adi Callai has written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
First of all, I didn't even mention Hamas.
Second of all, I support all aspects of Palestinian resistance unconditionally. That includes Hamas, as well as the numerous other resistance factions within both Gaza and the West Bank.
Third, there's a reason that all the other resistance groups, including the communist PFLP and the anarchist Fauda, have cooperated and coordinated with Hamas and one another both in military operations and peace negotiations. Because for all of them a unified front for liberation surpasses any ideological differences. Picking and choosing which ones you do or don't support while you're sitting comfortably at home, completely removed from the genocide, is completely ridiculous. Not to mention that Hamas is more than just the Al Qassam brigades, every department in Gaza from healthcare to education to agriculture is also Hamas.
It's the same as conflating anti-zionism with anti-semitism.
No it's absolutely fucking not. That shows how little you know or care. Zionism is a fascist ideology. Israel intentionally conflates the two to defend it's fascist actions at the expense of Jewish people globally.
Hamas is conservative, as many other anti-colonial resistance have been. It is a reaction against colonialism. Fanon discusses the nature of this at length, it does not de-legitimize anti-colonial resistance. Denouncing their resistance for that reason is playing exactly into the hands of the colonialists. Immediate survival, such as resistance to genocide and apartheid, is the immediate concern. Progressive changes happen from within a society once there is breathing room for that societal and/or political change to take place. A society can't breathe when under occupation or genocide. That mentality of conditionality for emancipation is exactly why Israel does Pinkwashing.
Lmao, that's great
If you actually flesh out your point, maybe we can have an genuine discussion.
Why Did the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Take So Long?
At the start, 0 - 57 sec, no mention of the repeated history of Israel deliberately sabatoging the ceasefire process for the entire first two years of the genocide. Also no mention of Gaza being a captive civilian population, that's been under Israeli Apartheid for over 70 years.
At 3:07 to 4:30, he states that one of Israel's primary objective is the retrieve all the hostages and that if Hamas wanted to end the war, they would need to return them all as a prerequisite.
No mention that Israel had repeated stated that eradicating Hamas took priority over the hostages, nor that Hamas has been willing to release all the hostages and give up governance of Gaza to a technocratic Council of all Palestinian factions since 2023.
He also states that Israel needed to take enough militants prisoner in order to level the playing field for the ceasefire. Which completely ignores one of the major reason for the Oct 7th operation, to release the thousands to tens of thousands of Palestinian prisoners (most of which were taken without evidence or trial, including hundreds of children, and systematically tortured while captive). The scales were already tilted far in Israel's favor when it comes to hostages, yet it's framed as necessary to even out the playing field for the ceasefire.
Again at 4:40, again he falsely states that the ceasefire would leave control of Gaza to Hamas, ignoring the technocratic committee. Also ignoring the actual Israeli war goal, the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza for settler colonialist expansion.
At 7:17 he states that preventing normalization between SA and Israel is a main factor. Which while it is a factor, still ignores that ending the Apartheid and Occupation is the main factor.
At 7:40 he frames the US as a third party, which is completely ridiculous by all accounts.
At 8:05 he calls the Camp Davis Accords "peace in the middle east" which is also wrong, it was counter Insurgency and a continuation of Apartheid.
He doesn't tend to at all, ever mention anything like right or wrong, morals, stuff like that
Genocide is a systematic form of destruction. It'sconcerning, at the least, that he fails to mention both that it is a genocide nor how exactly Israel has mechanized that destruction. Such as targets, how they determine targets, or really any nature of their military operations. He also omits the US' financial incentive of Weapon Manufacturer sales to delaying a ceasefire, as well as the ideological component of Zionism and geopolitical component of instability in the region.
Is that what you reduce anti-colonial resistance to?
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Dude is repeating a multitude of Zionist propaganda, ignoring all the evidence shown to the contrary, and 'both-sides'-ing a genocide and you consider that 'a voice of reason?' Yikes.