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In reply to the discussion: It genuinely looks like a nuclear weapon hit it. [View all]
Celerity
(53,337 posts)69. You are free to make an OP using aerial photos of Tokyo, Nagoya, Dresden, Hamburg, Rotterdam etc as comparisons.
I chose a nuclear weapon's damage and I am good with my choice.
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If this isn't genocide and ethnic cleansing, I'd like to know what the definition is.
lark
Aug 2025
#2
Yes, I am old and my memory isn't as good as it used to be so I have no real idea about actual deaths caused.
lark
Aug 2025
#41
Looks like the preparation for the Trump-Netanyahu villas and condos on the Med that was talked about before
LiberalArkie
Aug 2025
#28
Like I posted a few times over the months, the definition of genocide depends on who is doing
3Hotdogs
Aug 2025
#87
It's a lot less expensive to just explode all standing structures and truck surviving
allegorical oracle
Aug 2025
#109
"Death sentence': Asbestos released by Israel's bombs will kill for decades
womanofthehills
Aug 2025
#131
Text book domicide should be while people are contained like this should be against international law
uponit7771
Aug 2025
#110
The picture is fake! Hamas did it! They deserved it! Taking pictures during food drops is illegal!
Prairie Gates
Aug 2025
#3
It was answered. Also, unlike the (utterly disproportionate to the point that it's war crimes) death, destruction, ethnic
Celerity
Aug 2025
#20
A shedload less devastated. Here are more images of Gaza destruction taken from a Jordanian aid flight:
Celerity
Aug 2025
#17
Over the last century, fossil fuel weapons of mass destruction have killed more people and destroyed...
NNadir
Aug 2025
#14
You may as well have used aerial photos of Tokyo, Nagoya, Dresden, Hamburg, Rotterdam...
NNadir
Aug 2025
#51
You are free to make an OP using aerial photos of Tokyo, Nagoya, Dresden, Hamburg, Rotterdam etc as comparisons.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#69
Ok. Fine. I made my point and you made yours. We are free to abhor war in each our own way.
NNadir
Aug 2025
#72
I read OPs on DU asserting that all Americans are complicit in Genocide through our tax dollars
maxsolomon
Aug 2025
#58
Israel prohibited aerial photography of Gaza, but this journalist hitched a ride on a Jordanian aid delivery.
Martin68
Aug 2025
#22
Yes, disregarding facts to score partisan points, day after day, after day, is performative.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#83
I am not here to score point. I am here to challenge BS, including performative outrage.
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#95
It is interesting that a you cannot conceive the possibility that someone could look at the damage in Gaza and come
Martin68
Aug 2025
#121
That's what I mean. An immediate deflection into the topic raised and discussed in hundreds of threads, just to avoid
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#122
I believe we have all acknowledged the horror and criminality of the Hamas attack. Israel's inhumane and genocidal
Martin68
Aug 2025
#123
Beastly, you are living in a world of your own imagination. You have absolutely no idea what I've done to support Israel
Martin68
Aug 2025
#127
Yes, it was an honest mistake, Just as I presume the less than 3% rather than 4% (an error of more than 25%)
Beastly Boy
Aug 2025
#89
Let's see the aerial photographs of the damage from those missiles and compare. Sounds like performative bothsidesism to
Martin68
Aug 2025
#120
I don't care what anyone here thinks, what they are doing is so dead wrong its against the very laws of humanity.
Srkdqltr
Aug 2025
#27
Yes, it does. As Hamas' Charter literally, in writing, calls for this same thing to happen to all of Israel.
ancianita
Aug 2025
#36
I missed the time Hamas unleashed bombs on Israel equivalent to SIX Hiroshimas.
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#39
Yeah, know why? Because you also missed that Israel has not unleashed bombs, rockets, long range missiles 15 times,
ancianita
Aug 2025
#44
Apparently, then, it's fine to kill Israelis for who they are in their given place.
ancianita
Aug 2025
#65
Maybe Bibi can get his pal Trump to build a big wall and have Palestine pay for it.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#53
Bibi also "knows" he and his murderers are commiting war crimes and genocide.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#62
Bibi and his killers "know" that the ICC has warrants out for thieur arrests.
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#73
I hear you. But that won't stop Bibi from running this war such that these particular attackers won't ever do it again
ancianita
Aug 2025
#75
The only solution(s) I can imagine is that negations should be started and managed by
Ping Tung
Aug 2025
#77
"What's been going on since the State of Israel was founded has nerve worked." Because its enemies won't let it work.
ancianita
Aug 2025
#80
That chart is not from what's called a url. What you're seeing is actually not a real URL.
ancianita
Aug 2025
#115
Yup. Utterly horrific but it looks like many war zones within the past 100 years 😔
Arazi
Aug 2025
#97
I have that the Israels dropped bombs in the fields so Gaza folks could not plant crops and destroyed what
riversedge
Aug 2025
#57
Jared and Ivanka are waiting offshore to draw up plans for their resort and Trump concrete is prepared to pour
twodogsbarking
Aug 2025
#70
Jared's family does have some experience in renting substandard housing if I recall correctly.
twodogsbarking
Aug 2025
#86
Well, I have never personally seen a populated area that has been destroyed by a nuclear weapon.
MineralMan
Aug 2025
#125
FUD attempt fail. It is not AI. It was taken by Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times, as I put in the OP.
Celerity
Aug 2025
#128
Interestingly, not a single shot of your video resembles the picture in the OP. Thanks for the proof. n/t
Hellbound Hellhound
Aug 2025
#134