This is so strange. How can people have so little empathy for the lives of innocent people?
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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Israeli citizens are subjected to daily propaganda (e.g. "there are no civilians in Gaza", "Hamas is ISIS", "Hamas wants to murder all jews", etc.) to legitimize their fascistic policies.
There are a lot of parallels to the US short/y after 9/11.
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Religion
It's part of Israel's propaganda to make this about religion to invoke irrational "War on Terror" sentiments in people who haven't looked into it that deeply.
In reality, they're dehumanizing and targeting all Palestinian Arabs, including Christians. Hence the shooting up and bombing of churches along with everything else.
Some of them are Kahanists but I don't think religion figures into their motives as a wider group except for scapegoating purposes.
Fascism
You just need to convince people that the "innocent people" are not people
Well to quote the Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
They think Palestinians are subhuman. Israel has become the evil it once fled.
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A lot of people's hearts are too full of hatred to hold anything else.
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5% of the population is psychopathic. Folks forget this stat. They also forget that moral competence exists on a spectrum, so that even regular people are capable of great evil, especially in service to their religion.
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It's only a genocide if the west disagrees with it.
Genocide has a pretty strict definition.
But yet the West refuses to apply it to Gaza, which clearly qualifies...
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All religions are shit. Humanity really needs to shed this primitive baggage already.
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A bunch of terrorists
All the righties in any other situation would be screaming that protesters blocking a road should be run over.
I don't really agree but perhaps we should respect their wishes this one time. 🤔
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I suspect every country has their MAGA. And the problem is when it gets to big.
I think when people feel survival precarity, its easy to get into their head they have to hoard what they got from the Others.
That figured pretty largely into the story of Sodom, it didn't end well, albeit by deus ex machina.
The problem also exists when the middle is content, asleep, or paid off.
The media want us to believe that the Problem with Israel is the far right government, while in reality it is the whole fucking Nation.
I have known a number of actual Israelis. The majority just wants to live peaceful lives.
This is definitely the MAGA side.
The polls show that Israelis still overwhelmingly support what's happening in Gaza.
They seem to believe that the only way to live in peace is to kill all Arabs.
The majority just wants to live peaceful lives.
Problem is what do we define "peaceful lives". You and I think it just means being able to go about our daily lives and just that, but Israelis have been drowning in propaganda. It's like saying "Americans just want peaceful lives right after 9/11/" Sure, but what they think will get them their peaceful lives is an armed invasion and genocide. It was a popular enough view to get Bush reelected.
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Your social media feed wants you to think that, but the reality is that these protesters are the far right ultra orthodox types that vote for parties that are the furthest right of the governing coalition. Yay for proportional representation where you can form the government by making a coalition with the furthest right parties, right?
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Can anyone provide further information?
Kerem Shalom crossing: Israeli protesters hold up aid trucks to Gaza
TLDR: According to Israelis all Palestinians are Hamas so they're justified in killing them through starvation.
It seem to me like it's a thing that zionists have done more than once?
The New Arab - Israelis dance, camp out at Gaza crossing while blocking aid for Palestinians
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A "rave" in the barest sense of the word. That's got to be the shittiest "rave" I've ever seen in my life, and I was barely coherent or intelligible through most of them.
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That's not a rave. That's fascists celebrating preventing aid for people who they hate because they believe in different skydaddies
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