It was in self-defence 🙃

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BRB, on my way to withdraw all funding for an UN agency with 30.000 employees because 12 of them have been denounced by Israel.
- Have they provided any proof yet?
  
  They don’t need to provide any proof
  https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/gaza-israel-netanyahu-propaganda-lies-palestinians/
  
  The evidence provided by Israel alleging that roughly a dozen UNRWA staffers participated in Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught is “highly credible,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, as media outlets published additional details on the implicated employees, including photos from an Israeli dossier. “We haven’t had the ability to investigate [the allegations] ourselves. But they are highly, highly credible,” Blinken said during a press conference
  https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-says-evidence-of-unrwa-staffers-oct-7-involvement-highly-highly-credible/

- Well, she's changed a lot after her 16th birthday:
  
  The nose doesn't look extremely weird anymore.
  Wow, such a massive change.

Omg, I thought Princess Leia would be more tolerant.
Really disappointed

I feel like this is a little too accurate for shitpost. I don't know the proper sub for it, but it's pretty true.
- @[email protected] Maybe you could Crosspost this to [email protected] if you're on mobile and don't have crosspost button just make a new post using the same link as this post https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/20e095d5-b044-4e69-b1d7-486f63ac3037.png and it'll count as a crosspost. So long as it's the same link.
  
  Feel free to do it yourself
- Do you think they'd accept it on memes?
  
  "Bad faith arguments" is not a reason to flag people in Lemmy Shitpost. Please do not abuse the flagging system again.

The Empire has a right to defend itself

But does she condemn Hamas??

This is some brilliantly spicy stuff, OP. Well done, I love it!

I hear at least one of the Jedi was a Sith, good thing they were defunded. Now if we could only defund all the conspiracy theorists about the emperor being a Sith as well.

Han fired first
- Maclunkey

"If you hate the death star so much, why don't you go live on Alderaan?"

While the real life situation this is based off is quite sad and upsetting...
This is hilarious beyond belief.

Real shitpost!

that sweet copium around here, even on lemmy, that's so sweet

Oh good I was really thinking my shit posting community needed more agenda posts

https://www.samharris.org/blog/5-myths-about-israel-and-the-war-in-gaza
- Lol samharris.org
  What kind of pretentious loser names an opinion blog site after himself, and bestows a ".org" at the end
  The more I read this crap the more obvious it is this bullshit article relies on lengthy annoying paragraphs that no one wants to read and a ".org" at the end to sound more official
  Myth #1: Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza.
  The term “genocide” has a clear meaning—it’s the destruction or attempted destruction of a whole people.
  Yes , 95% of people starving in the world were in Gaza when Israel chose to withhold aid to them. That is the attempted destruction of a whole people
  Myth #2: International Humanitarian Law Requires that Israel’s response to Palestinian aggression be “proportional.”
  I'm as anti Israel as it gets, and I've never heard this argument that you're legally bound to proportional, sounds like this author really likes the title of the blog counting up to 5.
  That said, there are tons of MORAL arguments against disproportionately killing civilians, but the only legal one that comes to mind is when Israel evacuated Gazans to a region in the south, then bombed that region with white phosphorus https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-white-phosphorous-gaza-palestinians-amnesty-hrw-reports/
  Myth #3: The Jews Are Colonizers and the Palestinians are Indigenous People.
  Not the Jews, but, the Israelis are colonizers. Biblically they were a nomadic war faring tribe. They never were a country. The west created a colony to project power in the middle east because they had no other allies there. Israel is a country in a region called Palestine. Palestinians never formed a government that resembled something the west could do business with
  In colonialism, the colony has superior technology. The middle east just industrialized, how the hell could Palestinians have been anything but natives the last few thousand years
  Myth #4: The atrocities committed by Hamas (and over one thousand Palestinian civilians) on October 7th were a legitimate response to oppression.
  Israel left Gaza in 2005—forcibly removing thousands of its own citizens—and billions of dollars in international aid have since been spent there. So the “oppression” of the Palestinians in Gaza—by Israel—is at least debatable.
  This is so fucking stupid I'm just going to leave this here. "Oppression" lmao, why the air quotes? Being born in a ghetto doesn't count as being oppressed?
  Myth #5: The two sides in this conflict are equally civilized, equally entitled to respect, and equally worth protecting.
  I actually agree with this. You can't compare violence between two groups when one group (Israel) is occupying the other (Palestine). The violence from Palestinians against Israel is like violence from black people to the police. It's not good, but it's not the same. One group is oppressed and radicalized from that, the other group is systematically oppressing the other
  
  Myth #1: Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza.
  The term “genocide” has a clear meaning—it’s the destruction or attempted destruction of a whole people.
  Yes , 95% of people starving in the world were in Gaza when Israel chose to withhold aid to them. That is the attempted destruction of a whole people
  Not sure why you are debating semantics here, as that statement is just straight up wrong, which can be easily confirmed by taking a single look at article 2 of the Genocide Convention (emphasis mine):
  In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such
- Here are 10 Myths of Israel (archived) by Ilan Pappe
  Palestine was an empty land
  The Jews were a people without a land
  Zionism is Judaism
  Zionism is not colonialism
  The Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948
  The June 1967 War was a war of "no choice".
  Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East
  The Oslo Mythologies
  The Gaza Mythologies
  The Two-State Solution is the only way forward
  This article, Examining the 10 Myths of Israel is a shorter version of the main points
  The book is too detailed to summarize each chapter on a comment, but it's not too difficult to find independent sources to verify each of them

Both Israel and Hamas have blood on their hands. I know we all like the whole Good vs. Bad but in an eye for eye situation, they are both wrong. People, on both sides, suffer. If the politicians would fight on the front, they would be less eager to create these situations.
Edit: I am not defending the Israeli Actions nor the Hamas actions. It is fucked up situation. Israel in the first place, shouldn't have been created. However it is, and they should make the best of it. WITHOUT COMMITTING GENOCIDE. For people who believe in a good God, they sure are willing to kill.
All I am saying is that the ones that are not fighting, are suffering. Rockets land in Gaza, Rockets land in Israel. People, yes on both sides, are dying.
I am against the actions of Hamas, I am very against the actions of Israel.
- Israel is not fighting against Hamas. Israel is fighting against all Palestinians, of which only a tiny fraction is Hamas. Well or rather they are fightinf against Hamas, but they are slaughtering the other Palestinians.
  Israel is past the need to defend itself. Now they are taking the opportunity to commit genocide and displace the Palestinians from Gaza.
  
  What do you propose Israel do about all of the missiles being fired by Hamas?
- That's like blaming Jews during world war 2 for putting up resistance against their fascist rulers. It is such a mischaracterization of the situation that it is damaging to the Palestinian people.
- I'm sorry, but whose currently suffering on the Israeli side? Because Gaza is literally starving. And the Aid trucks are idling at the border with food that the IDF refuses to let through.
  
  Possibly the families of some of the people killed by Hamas. I bet they’re suffering.
  
  The calculus changes when everything from ambulances to children could be actual, literal bombs.
  Edit: oh and, Israel isn’t the only country that borders Gaza.
- Yeah an eye for an eye if you're a barbarian. 30 eyes for each 1 is... something else.
  And it's not like the fascist Israeli settlers didn't start their share of murder before Okt.7: Israel Escalates Genocidal Violence Against Palestinians In The West Bank - YouTube TMR Jul.8th 2023
  
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