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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The one with the extinction countdown?

Citation needed

The one who mass raped/murdered concert goers?

Remove the last two words and that's Israel.

IDF's claims that Hamas committed mass rape and/or used rape as a weapon on October 7th have never been substantiated. Unlike the IDF themselves.

The one that lobs rockets to the other on a daily basis?

that's still the IDF.

You're comparing a few primitive rockets with no guidance systems a week to a systematic genocide deliberately targeting civilians including children and somehow arriving at the former being worse.

However its not like jews are the grand evil

Nope, "the jews" aren't "the grand evil".

The state of Israel, on the other hand, is a fascist apartheid state that has been inherently and enthusiastically genocidal for 80 years and categorically denies all responsibility for its countless atrocities

and were never attacked b4.

"Those who make peaceful resistance impossible will make violent resistance inevitable."

-- JFK, edited to fit

That's also why most of the international community shuts up about this

No. Geopolitical mafia methods from the US, Germany, the UK, and other allies of the fascist apartheid regime is why most governments don't dare point out the absurdly obvious.

They dont have a solution.

They have several, but all of the good ones require that Israel recognize that Palestinians are humans and act accordingly, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Of course as an artist you can point out problems without having the solution

That's literally the job of any political art.

When Picasso painted Guernica, nobody asked him to propose terms for a cease fire. Because that would be ridiculous.

Its easy clout for them.

Yeah, having some of the most powerful people in the world doing their best to take away your livelihood because you object to genocide is SUCH an easy mode grift! 🙄

Another reason to not like "taking sides" is avoiding potential aggravation of fans agains local jews

Again with the antisemitic conflating of "Israeli war criminals and other Zionists, most of which are Evangelical Christians" and "all jews" 🙄

Its the ~~responsible~~ cowardly and complicit thing to do.

Fixed it for you.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 9 points 19 hours ago

| The one who mass raped/murdered concert goers?

Remove the last two words and that’s Israel.

They murdered concert goers too. There were hundreds of vehicles in the area of the music festival that had the roofs smashed downward by explosives from above. Hamas had no capabilities to inflict that kind of damage on those vehicles. It was reported by IDF officers that the Hannibal Directive was used to justify "shooting anything that moves" in the area that included the festival, and 14 attack helicopters fired all their munitions and resupplied and continued shooting at vehicles on that day. There were also attack drones used for similar strikes on vehicles in the area with missiles. There are also the reports of IDF tanks being order to shoot at homes in the area that contained captives. The IDF are likely responsible for many of the deaths of Israelis and festival goers.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-war-gaza-what-hannibal-directive-why-controversial

Nof Erez, a former senior Israeli Air Force official, said that a "mass Hannibal Directive” was employed that day.

“There was crazy hysteria,” one source told Haaretz. “No one had a clue about the number of people kidnapped or where army forces were.”

Heavy Israeli fire was also aimed at a fence between Israel and Gaza. At first, soldiers were instructed that "no vehicles should be allowed to re-enter the Gaza Strip”, according to a security source who spoke with Haaretz. Then an order was issued to "turn the fence area into an extermination zone". At night, an order was given to "open live fire at anyone approaching the area [the fence]”.

In April 2024, the Israeli army published its findings regarding the death of Israeli hostage Efrat Katz. The report stated: "During the battles and the airstrikes, one of the combat helicopters that took part in the fighting fired at a vehicle containing terrorists - and which, in retrospect… also contained hostages… most of the terrorists operating the vehicles were killed as a result of the shooting, and apparently Efrat Katz."

The Israeli army also fired at a house at kibbutz Be'eri, where Hamas fighters were holding 15 Israeli hostages. Barak Hiram, a brigadier general, said in an interview with the New York Times in December that he ordered tank shells to be fired at the house as negotiations were now over. “Break in, even at the cost of civilian casualties.” Only two hostages survived.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20231105-a-month-of-israel-hamas-war-has-changed-everything

This link shows a photo of many vehicles with roofs mashed downward, and attributes the damage to Hamas attacks, which really makes no sense at all.