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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges - This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen [View all]TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)28. I'd ignore Hedges' views on Israel--they're trash
Per this article he wrote, Israel is a gangster state.
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/19/final-act-of-empire-us-israel-and-the-saudis-now-heading-for-with-iran/
And according to this one from 2021, Hamas was only engaging in minimal acts of violence while Israel has passed racist laws and engaged in industrial violence.
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/15/israels-big-lie-this-isnt-self-defense--its-a-war-crime-aided-and-abetted-by-the-us/
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In a recent poll reported by Nicholas Kristof in the NYT today, 70% of Palestinians in Gaza do not
Lonestarblue
Oct 2023
#35
yes, walking 4 or 5 miles in northern Gaza now is just like a Sunday stroll from South Kensington to
Celerity
Oct 2023
#151
Absolutely! Just take the kids and the pop-up camper! Make a mini vacation out of it!
Hassin Bin Sober
Oct 2023
#42
Or stay in a urban area currently being bombed and about to be invaded, not a hard call
EX500rider
Oct 2023
#44
Sure - I see mothers walking carrying babies and guiding crying children
womanofthehills
Oct 2023
#137
How are you so comfortable with wanton killing of innocent children by the 1000's?
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#26
There weren't cell phones then to capture all the horrific child deaths
womanofthehills
Oct 2023
#116
How many Palestinian children starving and dying are you comfortable with?
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#82
Killing innocent people is wrong period. And you are not a mind reader.
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#77
I think that we are not as far apart on the statement as our argument would
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#126
I think that we are not as far apart on the statement as our argument would
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#127
Oh! oh! I know, lets ask NRA how many? They must have a dead-children number they can't accept.
sanatanadharma
Oct 2023
#62
Hamas missiles also fall from the sky and regularly go way off course in the wrong direction
EX500rider
Oct 2023
#143
If you believe all this, I feel sorry for you. Your morality is corrupted.
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#102
Internationally, it is considered occupied as Israel controls every aspect of the Gazan's life.
Big Blue Marble
Oct 2023
#108
I am sick to see so many on DU care so little for innocent women & children
womanofthehills
Oct 2023
#138
You literally have Hamas bombing the escape routes so more of their people die
Calculating
Oct 2023
#19
Yes, said Ukraine was "another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony."
betsuni
Oct 2023
#153