GivingEuropeASpook [they/them, comrade/them]

this is the first I’ve heard about it.

Also Russia is totally cooking the books/cozying up to China as the lesser power in the relationship

It’s like the trenches of WWI combined with the forever wars the US fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Congratulations Russia, you’ve saddled yourself with a decades long conflict potentially and lost the geopolitical purpose of invading Ukraine within months since Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership.

Truly the only trustworthy source

Supposedly Qatar has been mediating and is promising a breakthrough “soon”.

Lady must be HOT and DUMB or me no get HARD (I am afraid of women knowing more than me) ./s

Hamas has historical ties to the Muslim Brotherhood which Sisi and the Egyptian military consider terrorists, as well as a peace treaty and diplomatic relations with Israel. As others have said, Egypt is a military dictatorship with ties to the US and support from it, these make it complicated for them to just open the border (although I do think that Israel saying they wanted Gazans to flee to Egypt means they would not airstrike it should they open it in that direction but also logic isn’t reliable in war all the time).

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He denounced specific parts of the attack. The section of international law that explicitly allows violent resistance to a military occupation or blockade doesn’t exempt the resistors from the rest of international law. The IDF/Israel and Hamas have the same obligations under international law(s).

Revenge-driven actions have not historically worked out for the people taking their revenue in the long run for eitherthem nor the cause. I’m with the Palestinian diplomats and journalists putting the violence in context without saying its good.

Not any worse than implying that every Gazan huddled in dark places praying for their lives under constant Israeli bombardment all support the murder of other people as payback

They’re commenting on a leftist forum, I try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt that that indicates at least a desire to be involved in such things in the real world.

I have had some comments replying to me before, implying that what happened at the rave is what needs to and should happen to all colonists, because clearly I don’t understand what decolonisation means (even though I am someone whose been involved in décolonisation activism in the past and at no point was my forced removal from North America or murder part of the discussion).

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I hadn’t seen anything on Hexbear or Lemmy but I did see it a few times on Twitter trying to find combat updates

The terrified inhabitants are still in the Gaza Strip, and I fear for their lives in the face of an impending land invasion of the strip. Hamas fighters are an organized militia and I will judge them and their actions differently than I will unarmed civilians. Stop equating all Palestinians with Hamas - that is exactly what Israel wants.

sees reprehensible human activity

I demand more reprehensible human activity as recompense!

Because surely genociding the entire population of Gaza will end the cycle of (uneven) violence.

Al Jazeera’s coverage is where it’s at

Even if you believe they deserved death, they deserved it through some sort of legal mechanism accountable to the people they harmed and not just one faction that also harms far more than the evil ones.

I’m saying that failing to realise the target was chosen for what was in the buildings and not just because they’re tall buildings is pure liberalism,

You know that that’s what every tall building is right? There’s literally a whole thing about how skyscrapers basically exist for capitalism. They chose the WTC because that tall building in particular would be particularly terrifying to watch blow up and collapse for the rest ofnthe city (which you know, is mostly working class people, like everywhere else).

any questioning of what finance capital actually does would lead people to realising the vast majority of these people weren’t innocents

Even if every single person of the 3k who died in the WTC was a CEO or high-level management in finance capital, they still wouldn’t deserve to die how they did. Even if I personally support lining them up against a wall, I don’t cease caring about 9/11 because I want them dead anyways.

Now, in the real world, for every finance capitalist, there is a team of employees, paid hourly, who are not capitalists but are selling their ability to work for a wage like most of us. They were the majority of the people who died in 9/11.

More like a handful of businessmen and then hundreds of hourly wage employees sitting in front of computers or cleaning bathrooms and having no involvement in the operations of capital.

Did you forget that 1 wealthy person relies on the work of dozens to hundreds of proles? Or did you think they somehow didn’t work in the WTC