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Gaza - Genocide by starvation (Original Post) malaise 11 hrs ago OP
The BBC News a couple days ago reported that Israel has now allegorical oracle 11 hrs ago #1
It's the global silence that frightens me malaise 11 hrs ago #2
It's horrific Johnny2X2X 9 hrs ago #5
Supporting Israel IS supporting the total eradication of Gaza. AloeVera 8 hrs ago #6
At this point I agree. Johnny2X2X 7 hrs ago #9
Thank you, very good points. Nt AloeVera 6 hrs ago #14
And still some among us attack any criticism of Israel Orrex 10 hrs ago #3
Yeah. It's NOT antisemitic to call out the Israeli fascist genocidal government. It's fact n/t Cheezoholic 9 hrs ago #4
The United States should cut off all aid to Israel if it doesn't allow large scale humanitarian relief in Gaza Martin Eden 8 hrs ago #7
Gaza's inevitable trajectory was set before 2025. AloeVera 8 hrs ago #8
Gaza enid602 7 hrs ago #10
Never Again! Martin Eden 7 hrs ago #12
Yes. AloeVera 7 hrs ago #13
DURec leftstreet 7 hrs ago #11

allegorical oracle

(6,593 posts)
1. The BBC News a couple days ago reported that Israel has now
Wed May 20, 2026, 07:22 AM
11 hrs ago

"taken over" 60 percent of Gaza. The reporter added that some sources are saying that it's closer to 65 percent.

(Meanwhile, the U.S. Developer-in-Chief is waiting like a spider to start building his new Gaza Riviera.)

Johnny2X2X

(24,438 posts)
5. It's horrific
Wed May 20, 2026, 09:08 AM
9 hrs ago

Israel is bombing Gaza almost daily and the people there are wasting away dying of disease and lack of food.

The world is distracted with Iran and now Lebanon, but the people of Gaza have gotten almost no relief and are hanging on by a thread.

The Free Gaza movement in the US was a political football that has been abandoned now that it serves no political use for the Right. The people who were there before the the 2024 election are still there, but the paid rabble rousers are gone and the media attention is nowhere. But it will still be useful to the Right this election, so we'll hear more then. I see it on Reddit all the time, so called liberals who won't support candidates because they support Israel with little nuance into the fact that the GOP candidate will support the total eradication of Gaza.

AloeVera

(4,415 posts)
6. Supporting Israel IS supporting the total eradication of Gaza.
Wed May 20, 2026, 10:00 AM
8 hrs ago

The only way to stop Israel's genocidal behaviours is to stop SUPPORTING it.

I think most voters of good conscience see that.

Johnny2X2X

(24,438 posts)
9. At this point I agree.
Wed May 20, 2026, 10:50 AM
7 hrs ago

Israel under Netanyahu cannot be trusted with the immense resources we provide to them because it creates too large of a power imbalance in the region. Israel doesn’t negotiate peace because it can just kill its enemies without any real threat of a response exacting a proportional death toll for them. They kill and violate international law with impunity right now, so why would they want peace?

Let them go it alone is my opinion. We get nothing from them worth anything anymore. And our support of their military assaults prevent us from making peace with our adversaries.

Cheezoholic

(3,917 posts)
4. Yeah. It's NOT antisemitic to call out the Israeli fascist genocidal government. It's fact n/t
Wed May 20, 2026, 08:43 AM
9 hrs ago

Martin Eden

(15,879 posts)
7. The United States should cut off all aid to Israel if it doesn't allow large scale humanitarian relief in Gaza
Wed May 20, 2026, 10:00 AM
8 hrs ago

Of course, that won't happen while Republicans control Congress and the White House.

In fact, I question whether that would happen if Democrats controlled both.

AloeVera

(4,415 posts)
8. Gaza's inevitable trajectory was set before 2025.
Wed May 20, 2026, 10:19 AM
8 hrs ago

Anyone who doesn't see that hasn't come to terms yet with the true meaning and consequences of "unwavering" and "ironclad" support - by both parties.

Martin Eden

(15,879 posts)
12. Never Again!
Wed May 20, 2026, 11:15 AM
7 hrs ago

Perhaps the former victims need some introspection on its meaning, as applied to people other than themselves.

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