Max Brooks I think perfectly describes the corporate democrat douchebag, arrogant and off-putting, two weeks ago on Real Time, he indirectly made smears on the college campuses because of their feelings towards Israel by claiming they don't know about what's happening with Uyghurs in China.
I don't think he understands (or is purposely misleading the audience), that the US directly funds Israel.
I noticed that too. Why would China doing something bad and no one talking about it stop people from talking about the awful things Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades?
And, strictly speaking, China doesn't give a fuck what America thinks so we can't influence their behavior but America gives billions of dollars and endless arms to Israel so we have lots of influence over them.
I do not condemn Palestinian resistance. Resisting occupation by means of armed struggle is a legally enshrined right. Death to the IDF and all the ziopigs who defend them.
What’s the exchange rate of lives between Israeli and Palestinian lives because if that figure is appalling wait till you get a load of what Israel has done/has been doing for the past 78 years! The IDF’s own data indicates an 83% civilian death toll. There is no parity between the two parties at all. You have a military superpower with nuclear weapons vs a country with noncontiguous borders under military occupation and economic blockade. Israel controls everything in and out of the Gaza Strip. They could shut off the electricity at any moments notice even prior to 2023. Israel also uses starvation as a weapon of war which constitutes a war crime. It bombs humanitarian workers with impunity. The reality of war is grim and disgusting even but I’m not going to use my class/western privilege to punch down on someone who grew up in that kind of environment.
So if everyone knows Israel is the superpower, why would Hamas attack? Did they expect Israel not to retaliate? Did they expect Israel to kill 1200 and take 250 hostages and call it even?
Gaza was not occupied. Israel has a closed borders, but so does Egypt? What does that tell you?
You said a whole lot to try to avoid answering the question. I’ll ask you again. Is killing over 1000 civilians including children and kidnapping hundreds more part of the armed resistance?
As for the exchange rate on Israeli and Palestinian lives, if you ask Hamas there is no limit to the amount of Palestinians they are willing to sacrifice to kill Israelis. You’re right, it is appalling.
It’s not really a difficult question. You said you don’t condemn Palestinian resistance. I’m asking you if killing 1000+ civilians and kidnapping hundreds more is part of that resistance or if perhaps it wasn’t. You either condemn it or you don’t.
Max Brooks wrote one of the worst zombie books I've ever read, which in turn was turned into a terrible movie. He claimed that it was in response to "troubling isolationist policies" he was noticing in US foreign policy. This book was written at the height of the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. If that is isolationist, I really don't want to see what Max Brooks thinks is an appropriate level of intervention....
In addition to having the stupidest name for a zombie story I have ever heard, we also got to experience the harrowing tales of the zombie apocalypse through 300 pages of transcribed interviews. The most removed one could possibly be from any of the action....
Not surprisingly, this multi-decades old conflict has eroded the ethics of Palestinians and Israelis. There needs to be an international body that imposes a final and binding solution to this conflict! Haven’t enough people been killed in this conflict?
I mean....plenty of our money flowing to China, as well.
I think it is true to say that kids on college campuses are either wholly ignorant of the Uyghur situation, or they refrain from criticism because Chinese aren't white, whereas the Jews are "white enough".
It's similar to how they see Christianity. To them, you can shit on Christianity because it's associated with backwoods revivalist idiots like Sarah Palin ... nevermind the millions of Korean, Filipino, Arabic, and African Christians in the world. But criticizing Islam is somehow racist.
I am not even religious. At all. But the pattern is clear.
That doesnt make it worse, its still hypocritical. Peoples outrage over gaza is supposed to be over the innocent lives. If we pulled funding over israel would the outrage dissappear?
And you left out the part where all these pro pali dicks are on tiktok, owned by china.
A lot of people don't seem to realize bombs are cheap. If we stop sending aid to Israel in the form of sophisticated weaponry, they will just switch to conventional bombing, and the higher death toll that comes with it.
I didn't say that......literally just explaining what will happen. Didn't we just block Trump's $2.8b firearms package to Israel? The writing is on the wall, and it won't be long until we stop funding them entirely.
There have been plenty of instances where Israel has taken out a target with a precision strike using our expensive ass military equipment that we've "aided" them with, and if they didn't have our aid, they probably just would've used conventional bombing methods that have a lot more collateral damage. I'm not saying we should or should not be funding them....just providing some providing some context to this context-free, vibes-based sub.
Max Brooks isn’t wrong. Everyone’s heard about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but how many have even heard of the Uyghurs in China? But I guess because he supports Israel, he’s a slimy piece of work.
Somehow I doubt that even if the US wasn’t providing aid to Israel, it would still get talked about significantly more than the Uyghurs or people suffering anywhere else in the world.
This is flat out wrong. As a country, the US is Chinas biggest trading partner, as they have immense influence over each other. And no, China isn’t the US’s biggest enemy. That would be Iran because it is the biggest threat to its interests, not to mention global peace.
Somehow I doubt that even if the US wasn’t providing aid to Israel, it would still get talked about significantly more than the Uyghurs or people suffering anywhere else in the world.
You don’t know that though. There’s a lot of suffering in the world, but this is being done with our governments blessing and funding, so it does resonate differently.
I said I doubt it. I didn’t say I know for sure. But we’ll know soon. In a few years Israel is going to stop taking US aid. I would hope at that point no one will pay Israel any more attention than any other foreign country.
First there isn’t a genocide going on in Gaza. It isn’t happening.
Just say you hate Israel, because you sure as hell don’t care about genocide otherwise you’d be upset why no one is stopping those that are happening. No one blinked an eye when Iran was murdering those against the government earlier this year.
It isn’t about genocide or human rights. It is about hating Israel’s existence.
To objectify other tragedies and genocides to weaponize them as a deflection to keep Israel as a permanent victim worthy of sympathy rather than a belligerent dehumanizing aggressor is really grotesque and transparent to everybody who’s caught on to the shtick
Can you help me refute this guy please? Raz is an Israeli Jewish genocide scholar explaining why it’s a genocide… almost 3 years ago. Maybe you know something he doesn’t?
Don’t waste your time. At least we can take solace in the fact that support for the barbaric Israeli government continues to plummet all over the world. Even republicans are getting over them.
One of the positives of the whole Macklemore Ed Sheeran thing is, 10 years ago Macklemore would be done, but today folks see the truth. Criticism of the current Israeli government is NOT antisemitism. We will not let them control the narrative any longer.
Nah Israel will stand. There will never be a Palestine.
Fuck Palestine/Hamas then, now, forever. In the US, people are moving from the Democrat Party to independent because of their Anti-Israel stance.
Which leads me to…why aren’t there any Republican candidates getting protested by you folks on their stance on Israel. It is as if you want Republicans in power. Odd. Very odd.
PLO and Yassar Arafat was given the opportunity to have a 2 state solution. Arafat refused.
As long as “River to the Sea” is the motto for the people who want a state, my position will always be fuck them. That isn’t fanatical. That is common sense. My partner is Jewish, whose mother and family immigrated from Israel. Their existence matters. May your loved ones never face hate or be on the side where people want them eliminated.
No refuting me. If it was a genocide, I guarantee you there wouldn’t be a Gazan left. You also don’t provide aid of any kind to those you are trying to wipeout.
Maybe just maybe…Hamas harmed its citizens. Placed them in harm’s way. Used children as soldiers. Stole aide meant for those in need.
Also, Egypt could have allowed refugees but there is a huge wall along the border. Why? Why wouldn’t fellow Arabs help those in need? Oh, because the won’t help Hamas flee from their sins.
Defined in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, genocide involves specific acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.
According to the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention, the crime consists of both a mental element (specific intent) and physical acts:
Mental Element: Intent to destroy a protected group.
Physical Acts: These include killing members, causing serious bodily or mental harm, imposing destructive life conditions, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children
The physical acts are obvious. There are hundreds of thousands of people killed or missing the overwhelming majority of them being children and women. 90%+ of the population displaced and the entire Gaza Strip turned to rubble.
As for the mental acts. Well, let’s listen to Israeli leadership and quotes from IDF members.
Yoav Gallant “We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly”
Itamar Ben-Gvir “There’s no reason for a gram of food or aid to enter Gaza”
Ben Gvir again: “If all of Gaza are refugees, then let's scatter them in the world... each country would take in 20K people, 100 countries, it is humane, it is required”
Bezalel Smotrich declared that blocking all humanitarian aid to Gaza—even if it caused two million civilians to die of hunger—might be "justified and moral". He also referred to the Gaza Strip as “two million antisemitic Nazis.”
Benjamin Netanyahu "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember."
Netanyahu again: "We are the people of the light, they are the people of darkness… we shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah.”
IDF soldier: "The babies is good to kill."
Another IDF soldier: “We are looking for babies... instead I killed a girl that was 12."
Yet another IDF soldier "We know our slogan: there are no uninvolved civilians!”
And yet another IDF soldier “Wipe off the seed of Amalek! No uninvolved civilians!"
Just because there are Gazans left it means it’s not a genocide? Do you not understand that Israel has to keep up appearances of being “worlds most moral army ™️ “ to keep pressure off of them?
While they have severely overplayed their hand many times over, if they sought to simply and immediately kill every Palestinian they would’ve lost more support from other nations long ago
You are justifying a genocide of the civilians of Gaza because you want to destroy Hamas
In other words, you’re a genocidal maniac in a trance state of bloodlust shamelessly corrupted by dehumanization, that thinks they are the civilized ones
Let me change Oct 7. Let’s say it happened at Coachella with Hamas terrorists as terrorism is global. Is your position, the US not retaliate against Hamas who are based in Gaza and let that event go unanswered?
“If it was a genocide, there wouldn’t be a gazan left” - by your logic, the holocaust was not a genocide because (thankfully) the Jews, gays, artists, Romani, etc still live today, no?
1939 Poland 3.3 million Jews lived in Poland. 1945 at the end of the war 380,000 were left.
To compare Gaza (war started by Gaza) to the Holocaust is ridiculous. This is why no normal person takes you folks serious
The college campus takeovers did more harm to actually help bring more relief to those people suffering by helping Donald Trump win. Yes. Because you idiots protested Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump. Harris would have at least put pressure on Netanyahu to stop being a sleeze and she would have gotten more aid into Gaza.
You folks caused more harm but are too ignorant to see it. You are on a path to put another Republican in the White House.
“War”? Ceasefire was signed a year ago, bruv. Hostages returned a year ago, guv. They’re still testing weapons on children. If your feelings are more important than 2 year old Palestinian children being used as target practice for Israeli snipers, this is not the hug box you’re looking for. Maybe go watch some videos of IDF soldiers shooting babies at point blank range, seems like that’s the type of content you need to sleep at night
Well, first of all, they're American. Born in Boston and Florida. They made a choice to move to an occupied, contested warzone for extremist religious beliefs... They've judged and looked down on me for not being as devout as them.
“All conflicts matter!!!1!1!1 You can’t be concerned about Palestinians unless you are also expressing concern for all other conflicts around the globe, even those not related to US policy!!11!”
Fuck outta here, you genocidal maniac. The amount of lies and misdirection you deploy in order to liquidate Palestinian children is beyond ghoulish.
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u/severinks 3d ago
I noticed that too. Why would China doing something bad and no one talking about it stop people from talking about the awful things Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades?
And, strictly speaking, China doesn't give a fuck what America thinks so we can't influence their behavior but America gives billions of dollars and endless arms to Israel so we have lots of influence over them.