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112. Unprovoked

Reply to ancianita (Reply #65)

Wed Aug 6, 2025, 10:15 AM

Aug 2025

LOL...that's a good one...

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It genuinely looks like a nuclear weapon hit it. [View all] Celerity Aug 2025 OP

How many undamaged structures exist in Gaza? Renew Deal Aug 2025 #1

If this isn't genocide and ethnic cleansing, I'd like to know what the definition is. lark Aug 2025 #2

It is beyond that Hornedfrog2000 Aug 2025 #7

Post removed Post removed Aug 2025 #23

(I'm not quite as old as you, but..... lastlib Aug 2025 #32

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

There were also deaths on a larger scale in Biafra thucythucy Aug 2025 #60

This is a situation of authoritarianism as opposed to democracy soldierant Aug 2025 #106

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

And if you don't stop taking pictures we'll turn the plane around! AloeVera Aug 2025 #5

The people starving is the goal Bettie Aug 2025 #24

I think it's less absurd than that. But plainly immoral. AloeVera Aug 2025 #35

Yep. Bettie Aug 2025 #45

I'm a bit slower I guess! AloeVera Aug 2025 #47

Knowing how we got there is Bettie Aug 2025 #49

So there was no "starvation plan" in place in October 2023? lapucelle Aug 2025 #52

Actually- Netanyahu just said that - womanofthehills Aug 2025 #130

Maybe the far left progressives who voted for Trump gab13by13 Aug 2025 #4

If they survive Covid and the flu and other pandemics that are coming Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 #29

No. progressoid Aug 2025 #64

Wasn't it guys like that creepy Hamtramck Mayor jfz9580m Aug 2025 #108

Courtesy of U.S. taxpayers dalton99a Aug 2025 #6

We are so good at it. Meanwhile millions go hungry, there and here. twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #9

What did it look like before? Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #8

Shhhhhh Hieronymus Phact Aug 2025 #11

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

Tacitus quoted a captured victim. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #34

Thanks for posting these, Celerity Bayard Aug 2025 #56

Less rubble, more human beings out and about IronLionZion Aug 2025 #19

Satisfied? Cirsium Aug 2025 #21

Not particularly. Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #30

Oh, I see Cirsium Aug 2025 #40

Did you see #17? ECL213 Aug 2025 #67

before what? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2025 #25

This is not a war randr Aug 2025 #10

Truth! Jay25 Aug 2025 #18

Netanyahu the Barbarian democrank Aug 2025 #12

Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche... 3825-87867 Aug 2025 #13

Over the last century, fossil fuel weapons of mass destruction have killed more people and destroyed... NNadir Aug 2025 #14

Hiroshima After Atomic Bomb Dropped Celerity Aug 2025 #42

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

There are no winners in war. Only survivors. Bertrand Russell Ping Tung Aug 2025 #66

It has been genocide for months. Lonestarblue Aug 2025 #15

May all involved receive everything they deserve. niyad Aug 2025 #16

I read OPs on DU asserting that all Americans are complicit in Genocide through our tax dollars maxsolomon Aug 2025 #58

It never fails to astonish me how such a simple sentence, clearly niyad Aug 2025 #93

Your "simple" sentence is exceedingly vague. maxsolomon Aug 2025 #99

Actually, it is quite specific, and I have even explained it. So now I am niyad Aug 2025 #101

Israel prohibited aerial photography of Gaza, but this journalist hitched a ride on a Jordanian aid delivery. Martin68 Aug 2025 #22

Gaza bombing equivalent to SIX HIROSHIMAS. AloeVera Aug 2025 #38

Hamas fired over 12,000 missiles at Israel in 2023 alone. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #63

"Performative" outrage? Cirsium Aug 2025 #74

Yes, disregarding facts to score partisan points, day after day, after day, is performative. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #83

Partisan points? Cirsium Aug 2025 #94

I am not here to score point. I am here to challenge BS, including performative outrage. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #95

Sure Cirsium Aug 2025 #96

Not exactly. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #100

Thanks Cirsium Aug 2025 #119

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

You may have acknowledge it, but that's where it ended. A while ago. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #124

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

I have a very good idea of what deflection is when I see it.. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #129

You got that right, you are unreachable. Martin68 Aug 2025 #138

By the grace of God...Israel is still standing...after 50 Hiroshimas!! AloeVera Aug 2025 #78

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

I corrected for BOTH of your two mistakes. You, of course, didn't AloeVera Aug 2025 #132

You should have read my second paragraph. Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #137

Please cite your source. PufPuf23 Aug 2025 #88

Let's see the aerial photographs of the damage from those missiles and compare. Sounds like performative bothsidesism to Martin68 Aug 2025 #120

NEVER FORGET !!! Exp Aug 2025 #26

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

That's beyond shocking. Are there any intact buildings left in Gaza at all? Ocelot II Aug 2025 #31

War? Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #92

Looks like Hiroshima wolfie001 Aug 2025 #33

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

Oh.My.God. AloeVera Aug 2025 #46

Your God has nothing to do with your lack of logic. ancianita Aug 2025 #50

Why are Jewish Rabbis gab13by13 Aug 2025 #61

Because they are effin religious nutcases whom nobody is taking seriously? Beastly Boy Aug 2025 #90

It seems like most autocratic governments these days (dictatorships) slightlv Aug 2025 #103

Apparently, it's fine to kill everyone in a given place Bettie Aug 2025 #54

Apparently, then, it's fine to kill Israelis for who they are in their given place. ancianita Aug 2025 #65

Never forget. writerJT Aug 2025 #104

Unprovoked radicalleft Aug 2025 #112

Yes but don't forget the settlers have plans for Gaza too. AloeVera Aug 2025 #68

it's hopeless Skittles Aug 2025 #102

Maybe Bibi can get his pal Trump to build a big wall and have Palestine pay for it. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #53

Are you suggesting a maga solution, or just being sarcastic. ancianita Aug 2025 #55

Bibi also "knows" he and his murderers are commiting war crimes and genocide. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #62

You really don't know what Bibi knows. ancianita Aug 2025 #71

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

Everything is subjective and relative. Ping Tung Aug 2025 #82

ICC issues arrest warrants for Israel, Hamas leadership: what happens next? Celerity Aug 2025 #91

Okay, then. I stand corrected. Thanks. ancianita Aug 2025 #113

Israel started the 6 day war and most of the other battles questionseverything Aug 2025 #85

It did not. Nor did it start any of the others. ancianita Aug 2025 #111

I can't post links from my phone but all you have to do is google questionseverything Aug 2025 #114

That chart is not from what's called a url. What you're seeing is actually not a real URL. ancianita Aug 2025 #115

Then don't use your phone to make claims you can't source. ancianita Aug 2025 #116

I can say what I like, you are not in charge questionseverything Aug 2025 #117

Understood. ancianita Aug 2025 #118

No, that's an interesting hypothesis... and one to be considered given the slightlv Aug 2025 #105

Your tax dollars at work. ( Fucking sick!) Exp Aug 2025 #37

That is what a years-long siege looks like. Every building destroyed. maxsolomon Aug 2025 #43

Yep. And Sinwar ancianita Aug 2025 #48

But it doesn't iemanja Aug 2025 #84

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

The other day, someone actually claimed that the famine was Gaza's fault iemanja Aug 2025 #107

Long ago I used to hunt, gab13by13 Aug 2025 #59

Jared and Ivanka are waiting offshore to draw up plans for their resort and Trump concrete is prepared to pour twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #70

They might get a nasty surprise. Gaza is a toxic sludge AloeVera Aug 2025 #81

Jared's family does have some experience in renting substandard housing if I recall correctly. twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #86

Wow Demovictory9 Aug 2025 #76

The unimaginable 21st century tragedy is Gaza lees1975 Aug 2025 #79

Interesting "tilt shift" effect on that photo. Oopsie Daisy Aug 2025 #98

Well, I have never personally seen a populated area that has been destroyed by a nuclear weapon. MineralMan Aug 2025 #125

Looks like AI to me. Hellbound Hellhound Aug 2025 #126

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

Wow. Just wow. Here's a video for your AI fantasy vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #133

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

Denial, denial, denial. I wish I could say I was surprised -eom vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #136

All too common. No surprise at all. writerJT Aug 2025 #140

Why aren't you surprised, the Star of David as my profile pic? Hellbound Hellhound Aug 2025 #141

Figures -eom vanessa_ca Aug 2025 #142

Anything to excuse genocide. writerJT Aug 2025 #139

Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson thought so too: muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 #135