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In reply to the discussion: It genuinely looks like a nuclear weapon hit it. [View all]
AloeVera
(3,934 posts)78. By the grace of God...Israel is still standing...after 50 Hiroshimas!!
It's nothing short of a miracle.
Luckily for Israel, it was hit with less than 3% of the power of Hiroshima (I'm sure the confusion on your part of the kg to kilotonne equivalent was an honest mistake. As was the kilotonne power of Hiroshima, which was actually 15, not 12.)
Lucky for Israel also that there is a bit of a difference between nuclear fission and home-made rockets. Which totally nullifies a silly comparison using explosive strength as the comparison. Even IF the underlying claims about rocket numbers and their explosive power in kgs are true - which of course have not been substantiated.
(Sometimes I play with the Ignore Option in hopes of finding amusement. Never fails. But this expedition should last me for awhile.)
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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