Gaza facing man-made 'mass starvation', says WHO's Tedros (www.reuters.com)
from RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 23:13
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Tm12@lemmy.ca on 23 Jul 23:39 next collapse

What can we do?

Wav_function@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 23:53 next collapse

Ignore. Plug your ears and avert your eyes. Anything bad you see is propaganda. Ignorance is strength.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 24 Jul 00:23 next collapse

If you're from a country materially contributing to this madness, ruin your government's day until they stop. Especially if you're from an EU country, push for a repeal of the EU-Israel treaty and sanctions. If you're not, then unfortunately nothing.

NotSteve_@piefed.ca on 24 Jul 01:40 collapse

I'm proud to be from a country that wrote a sternly written statement

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 02:53 next collapse

Hell yeah, buddy! Jolie is THE Queen for signing that sternly worded letter with twenty five other people! So massively proud of her, I could just Kiss her all over. I don’t even care that her and Gibeault (my Rep) were completely silent on the issue for the past two years.

Edit: shit, forgot it’s Anand now.

wheezy@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 08:24 collapse

China is the king of those.

We don’t like this. But we like trade so we literally won’t change anything.

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 02:04 next collapse

At this point? Not much. For americans the last major chance was elections, but too many of us either voted for this or abstained (which allows the R party the most efficient path to arm Israel).

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 24 Jul 02:16 collapse

That's what they want you to think. The people's power doesn't end where the ruling class decides. Elections didn't end the Vietnam war; mass popular resistance did. Most things you believe the government "gave" to you were actually taken by force.

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 02:41 next collapse

mass popular resistance did.

Neat, where is it? I am not trying to be an asshole here, but many of my fellow lefties here keep acting as if the elections didn’t have a consequence. There aren’t mass protests, certainly not at the scale we need them. Insofar as what the relief Palestine needs; nothing is in place and it will take months we no longer have.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 24 Jul 03:58 collapse

I'm not saying that the election had no consequences; I'm only saying that things can (and usually do) change without elections, so elections weren't really the last chance for anything. Whether they will this time aside, they at least in theory can; the problem is lack of popular will, not lack of opportunity. Again not dismissing the impact of the election, just keeping things in perspective.

markko@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 03:06 collapse

I don’t know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though. The government has been detaining regular protestors alongside movement leaders/organisers to scare people into thinking that nobody is safe. The Trump administration has even been targeting people for deportation based on the fucking Canary Mission.

Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io on 24 Jul 04:08 collapse

I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though.

The 60s and 70s were the height of COINTERPRO and CIA shenanigans so if anything protesters today have it good, but that aside:

Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.

True, but we're really not looking at just the genocide here. There's a whole full-speed march to fascism that already is and will continue affecting the majority of Americans, so really what we should be seeing is mass anti-fascist resistance that would naturally have strong anti-Zionist presence. The fact that there's no mass anti-fascist resistance is the big problem here, but that's not due to lack of impact on the average American. Also given that the IDF trains American cops using lessons learned from their subjugation of Palestinians, I'd say there's a fair bit of impact on minority communities.

helmet91@lemmy.world on 24 Jul 05:10 collapse

I’ve been wondering a lot, for over a year. The solution is to donate money. Right now that’s the most important thing you can do, because people are dying of starvation, and this is their only chance to buy something to eat.

And yes, it’s really hard to find a legit way to donate. It’s not like Ukraine, where there’s an easy central donation platform like united24 plus various other foreign platforms. Since the world fails to even acknowledge the genocide, individual people must take the matter into their hands. Everyone. Every single person who considers themselves a human.

Here’s an example: chuffed.org/…/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-famil…

I briefly talked to one of the kind family members on Mastodon in an attempt to verify whether it’s a scam, and it seems very legit. And they really appreciate all donations.

I guess, there are plenty of other similar fundraisers as well. Do some background check, and donate, and share the link!

Another important act was this: apnews.com/…/greece-israel-gaza-protest-syros-cru…

Protest! Show some solidarity towards Palestine.

And last but not least, do vote on elections. Preferably for those who are not completely incompetent for leading your country, and their foreign policy is in its place as well.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 00:28 collapse

The Israelis are going to regret this for decades to come. The world will not forget.

Mrkawfee@feddit.uk on 24 Jul 07:09 next collapse

They really don’t care. They are indoctrinated into thinking they are the victims and the world hates them for being chosen by God.

As long as they exterminate all the Palestinians it’s mission accomplished. They have enough puppets in the West to make sure the blowback isn’t too severe.

wheezy@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 08:22 collapse

The west is falling. I pray history will bring justice for Palestine. Stay strong comrade.

Mrkawfee@feddit.uk on 24 Jul 09:37 collapse

Thank you brother, you too.

wheezy@lemmy.ml on 24 Jul 08:18 collapse

Only if the world makes them regret it. I wish I could say that with the mountain of documented evidence (mostly by IDF soldiers themselves) that the history will bring justice for Palestine.

But, I didn’t think we could be 655 days into a genocide and still have the New York fucking Times running articles saying “it’s totally not. Because not enough babies have died yet. Israel could kill so many more babies if they wanted to”.

The one thing that will be true with time though is that Israel will collapse. Fascist Ethnostates are by their very nature self destructive and cannot maintain themselves.

I just want to live long enough to see it fall and the children of Palestinian today be able to serve out the justice to the western world that they deserve.

I want everyone from Israeli officials all the way to New York Times writers to be brought to justice and answer for their crimes.

One day; everyone will ‘have always been against’ this.

And those people that today still spread genocide propaganda will pretend they were always against. It is important we don’t let those demons get away with it.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 24 Jul 08:38 collapse

It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. Support the Hind Rajab Foundation. We’ll make the fuckers pay.