corbindallas@fedinsfw.app
on 20 Jun 18:11
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No one is angry enough.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
on 20 Jun 18:26
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Oh, i am and some others too, but it would take someone with an army to fucking bomb Israel back to the stone age to stop those madmen. I never thought i would say that, but if Israel vanished in a giant nuclear fireball, it would be a net positive for the world at this point.
Israel disappearing would probably be a big step towards peace in the Middle East, given their tendency to start shit with their neighbors.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 22 Jun 00:34
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I used to think “dude, why does everyone on the middle east seem to hate Israel”
Then I got a minor in history
Then I tried using it. It’s embarrassing how many years there were between the two. Please don’t ask
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 20 Jun 19:28
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I told every politician that represents my address taking AIPAC money is a nonstarter for my vote a long time ago. They didn’t give a fuck. Being angry enough has nothing to do with it, they won’t / don’t care until supporting isn’t real starts losing them money. And this blue no matter who shit some people love to throw around explicitly helps further genocide. Never vote AIPAC, no matter who.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 05:18
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i’m compartmentalized dude.
also if you’re the corbin i know, NEPHEW GET OFF THE NSFWS YOU ARE TOO YOUNG wait at least 7 years. crab jesus kid what happened to you
idiomaddict@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 07:29
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An 11 year old Corbin… High School Musical fan parents spotted.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 07:31
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is that where my idiot brother got the name? i always thought it was after Jeremy Corbyn.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 07:33
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I’d probably just want to keep believing that vs HSM, lol.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 07:35
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i mean, i had a flatmate in college who would turn on the disney channel and watch high school musical every day. i told him if he was going to do that, at least take the TV (it was a big ol’ 13 incher. also mine.) back to his room because i didn’t want to watch it more than once a week. all i managed to absorb was that vanessa hudgens exists.
Corbin Dallas is from The Fifth Element. An amazing scifi movie from the late 1900s
corbindallas@fedinsfw.app
on 21 Jun 12:53
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Daddy?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 16:35
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i said nephew. i may be a grampa but i ain’t got no kids.
corbindallas@fedinsfw.app
on 21 Jun 20:09
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That u know of.. gimme yo dna
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 20:35
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uh, what were your parents doing in 2005 that’s the only year i don’t have accounted for. my asshole was steering the ship though so i don’t think i’d be doing much breeding or interacting with people in a positive manner.
amnesia sucks dude
corbindallas@fedinsfw.app
on 22 Jun 07:09
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I had my second kid and was full speed ahead into my second divorce.
I was wondering why some of my friends were not reacting, then I remembered most of them are on antidepressants. I’m starting to think too many antidepressants users out there, and many of them probably take them because they can’t deal with the state of the world.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 22 Jun 00:42
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MAJOR DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE THIS IS MY OWN EXPERIENCE
There’s that, and there are a lot of chemical imbalances that are covered up by SSRIs. I have a MTHFR (MoTHerFuckeR gene yes the capitalization is important) (dear gods I’ve typed that phrase so many times my autocarrot knows it) mutation, so I cannot methylize folate, so if I do not eat methylated folate (as a pill supplement), it is bad. SSRIs mask that “bad”. If I take methylated folate at the right dose I am myself. If I SSRI it up, I’m a zombie. Took years to figure everything out and the right balance, and I’m still learning shit about my other defects. But it took a lot of work to get to the place where I could get off the SSRIs, and there were more than a few failed (md approved) attempts.
panthera_@lemmy.today
on 20 Jun 18:12
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The UN should investigate to determine if this is true.
Mihies@programming.dev
on 20 Jun 18:14
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Israel has been using it for a long time and nobody does nothing.
Did the US join the condemnation? If the UN determines that Israel has been using White Phosphorus in a way which violates the Geneva Convention, the US might join. Otherwise, Trump will have to explain the reason.
Mihies@programming.dev
on 20 Jun 20:22
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That’s an awesome level of naivety. Dude, wake up, Israel is committing genocide in broad daylight and the Orange is enabling them. You think some phosphorus will change anything?
Yes, because proving the use of white phosphorus in violation of the Geneva Convention is easier.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jun 20:32
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They’ve already proved it with soil samples elsewhere that Israel has attacked. Their crimes have been documented in every possible way and brought to the UN, for decades. Official UN bodies have condemned them. Israel and the US instead says you can’t trust the UN or Human Rights Watch or any other monitoring group.
Soil samples per se doesn’t indicate illegal use of white phosphorus (WP) since the Geneva Convention permits some uses of WP. Bring the evidence before the Security Council for discussion. Israel’s actions in Lebanon are part of the Iran deal.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 22 Jun 03:48
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That is true, but as a permanent member of the UNSC the US vetoes any measure that would hold Israel accountable. But yeah it would still useful to have the discussion and illustrate their crimes and to have the record of it.
Correct. Israel would be embarrassed if the evidence shows it has been using white phosphorus (WP) illegally since Israel denies it. Also, Israel’s actions in Lebanon are now included in the Iran deal. Israel’s illegal use of WP would get sympathy for Iran.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
on 20 Jun 20:35
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Trump will have to explain the reason.
Trump hasn’t had any sane explanation for anything he has done this term. He doesn’t care. He just mumbles some gibberish and attacks the next country.
What’s wrong with suggesting that the UN investigate? Meghan Markle says she is the most trolled person in the world. Her only offense is marrying Prince Harry.
The usa may join lol. The usa is still defending israel and refuse to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. Like people also said it is already confirmed that israel use it
What’s embarrassing is that the country trying to be a Jewish ethnostate is committing genocide. If that is not embarrassing enough, a violation of the Geneva convention definitely won’t be worse for them.
… Although I would not actually be surprised if a significant portion of the American population most supportive of Israel are really motivated by a desire to have a place for Jews to live so that they don’t live in the USA
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jun 16:37
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Isn’t that why Israel was created out of thin fucking air to begin with? So Europe could have a place for Jews after moving them all out? Wasn’t Lord Balfour (of the Balfour Declaration) a white-supremacist anti-semite?
mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 20 Jun 21:38
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Because both the usa and israel are terrorist states
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
on 20 Jun 22:21
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Because we made Israel for a reason, and it’s delivering.
The two wars are different in that The war in Ukraine is a state-to-state conflict, while the one in Gaza shows an asymmetric war in the besieged enclave
The Israeli wars are just dirtier than anything most have seen or heard of.
In the UK you are more likely to be awarded something for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine than anything else.
But protesting against the more violent, more aggressive and more illegal wars commited by Israel will likely get you arrested and possibly treated as a terrorist.
Would you look at that, a wild genocide connoisseur appeared!
Go fucking extinct with your comparisons of human suffering. The only thing you prove is your own lack of morals. The only thing you achieve is total disrespect to those suffering.
Some of the politicians are definitely hypocrites yeah. And racism counts for some of it as well. But mainly I think it is good ol’ imperialism at work. The politicians feel they have to support Israel and they don’t know what to do about the genocide, and simply ignore it. This is not an excuse. Everyone complicit needs to go to the Haag.
I was not comparing the wars for the wars.
I was going to explain at the end, I ran out of time, but I naively thought it would be understood.
I can only say what was in my head when I posted it.
Or you did understand it, and approve of what’s happening.
I am not (I thought obviously) condoning any war.
I’m not saying that one war is “better” or “worse” than any other war.
My main point (really, my only point) is that Starmers government compared the two and decided that one is bad and the other is good.
Despite all the atrocities that Israel do (which I was trying to accentuate in the post) - People are getting locked up as terrorists for agreeing with Palestine action.
it’s fucking ridiculous
in the UK we can be arrested for protesting against a genocide.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 22 Jun 00:31
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that Starmers government compared the two and decided that one is bad and the other is good.
I mean, not just Starmers. Your point stands for a whole lot of governments.
Well, yes. But afaik Starmers is the only one that you can get arrested and have it reclassified as a terrorist action and imprisoned for lengthy sentences.
Or get arrested as a terrorist. But unlikely to happen due the exact same offence if protesting a different war.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org
on 20 Jun 23:40
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Would you look at that someone blindly defending Israel.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Jun 02:20
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Largely agree with what you wrote, but let’s not whitewash russia to make isreal look bad in comparison. They have absolutely used/been using white phos munitions on Ukrainian civilians
mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jun 02:52
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Not sure where you see the whitewashing of russia there?
The part where OP said there havent been any accusations of russia using white phosphorous bombs. There is proof of russia using those weapons in bakhmut in 2022, which is what I linked to.
Maybe he really didn’t know that russia used it too. I still don’t see strong evidence of him whitewashing Russia especially with his links about gross russian war crimes.
Edited. Thanks.
Wasn’t whitewashing Russia at all.
I used Qwant, DDG, Google, and even asked a couple of AI bots, but couldn’t find anything about Russia using it.
But I never said that they didn’t, because I am well aware that they commit war crimes too.
Huh. Thats concerning if those kind of general searches about russian warcrimes are being suppressed. For reference, I remembered the bakhmut thing offhand so my search query for the article I linked was something super specific like “2023 bakhmut phosphorous”
Yeah, I’ll have a look through my history and see how I phrased it, but it was something like “accusations of Russia using white phospherous or illegal weapons and war crimes” in a few different ways.
ai was useless (no surprises) but thought I would see if it spat out anything different anyway.
They just asked me for reference links to feed them with. Which I obviously didn’t have.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jun 20:26
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Weird, maybe too many words? I searched on DDG “russia white phosphorus” and it was nothing but claims about Russian use of it
<img alt="DuckDuckGo search feed displaying several articles from mainstream western sources discussing Russia’s use of white phosphorus" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/92581a51-c918-4c94-931d-3340f7b109e6.webp">
I did get results for chemical weapons, Specifically chloropicrin, as it’s in one of the links and their other heinous war crimes. I just didn’t see any for white phospherous in particular. 🤷
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 22 Jun 00:28
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I mean, space Karen has taken some obvious pro-rus actions. He has the money to make that happen. Not stating fact or causation, just making unkind speculation about pissant teakettle heeljerks.
Good comparison and data, but I’d like to point out that the leading stats are actually 16k civilians killed in Ukraine (and 46k injured), as per the source. While in Gaza there are 72k direct deaths and 172k injured (mostly civilians and 50% women and children)
It’s disgusting how Western governments still approach one country with all possible sanctions, and the other is just business as usual (and finger wagging if we’re “lucky”).
There are so many sources citing different figures, I just picked the one that is mostly used by media. Also, it is believed that the figures in Gaza are much higher than the figures that the data shows. But without proof, I didn’t/couldn’t link it.
Oh… so they’re war criming against Lebanon exactly like they have their other enemies?
Can’t really say I’m surprised
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
on 21 Jun 01:56
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Again. Again again.
They keep doing this.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 07:54
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I see on social media and Reddit of Israel-apologists and obvious Hasbara accounts saying the white phosphorus are for smoke covers. Like, sure, the smoke from burning bodies of victims of white phosphorus provide smoke covers.
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jun 08:17
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Are you suggesting that Real Jews should die for lack of smoke cover from the bodies of untermench children? Do you think dead burned untermemench are worth more than a life from the master race? Antisemite!
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jun 08:15
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Yes they permanently scar important agricultural land that may be necessary to the future of humanity for basically no reason, but asking them nicely to stop would be antisemitic.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca
on 21 Jun 16:17
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For Zionism being all about the “land of Israel”, and wanting to build “greater Israel”, why do they hate and abuse the land so much? I mean ok, they hate the people, I get that, they are fascist colonizers. But why the land? They do the same to the West Bank when they destroy centuries old olive groves, and that’s in their supposed “Judaea and Samaria” that they are supposed to love so much that they want to ethnically cleanse.
I hate Israel.
Of all the nations I’d have thought them the most compassionate after what happened at Hitlers command.
How can you do this to people.
And who produced the goods/delivery system cos you’re equally to blame.
Sincerely hope you are judged for this
Gates9@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Jun 21:45
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Don’t most abused children become abusers themselves? I’m not justifying it, but it seems to that it’s the result of inter generational trauma. Not just centuries of oppression and pogroms, not just the Nazi holocaust, but a lot of Israelis came directly from places in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that were brutally oppressive.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
on 21 Jun 21:55
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Babylon 5 still being relevant, unfortunately:
Sinclair: “In order to be free, you had to learn to fight; no one questions that. But you’ve over-compensated. You’re like abused children who have grown big enough to do the same thing to someone else… as if that will somehow balance the scales, it won’t. If you let your anger cloud your judgement, it will destroy you.”
Israel uses American-made 155-millimeter M825A1 artillery projectiles and denies deploying the substance in violation of the laws of war.
All the photo and video evidence shows they did but they’re in full “nuh uhuuuhh!”
Fuck Israel
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip
on 22 Jun 03:24
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That’s why they (and others) wrote the “smoke cover” loophole into international law.
They just don’t clarify that the “smoke cover” happens inside of their victim’s lungs, as well as other body cavities after the phosphorus burns through the skin.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 22 Jun 00:24
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“No one” isn’t the genociders using the white phosphorus. It should be, but it isn’t.
threaded - newest
No one is angry enough.
Oh, i am and some others too, but it would take someone with an army to fucking bomb Israel back to the stone age to stop those madmen. I never thought i would say that, but if Israel vanished in a giant nuclear fireball, it would be a net positive for the world at this point.
Israel disappearing would probably be a big step towards peace in the Middle East, given their tendency to start shit with their neighbors.
I used to think “dude, why does everyone on the middle east seem to hate Israel”
Then I got a minor in history
Then I tried using it. It’s embarrassing how many years there were between the two. Please don’t ask
I told every politician that represents my address taking AIPAC money is a nonstarter for my vote a long time ago. They didn’t give a fuck. Being angry enough has nothing to do with it, they won’t / don’t care until supporting isn’t real starts losing them money. And this blue no matter who shit some people love to throw around explicitly helps further genocide. Never vote AIPAC, no matter who.
i’m compartmentalized dude.
also if you’re the corbin i know, NEPHEW GET OFF THE NSFWS YOU ARE TOO YOUNG wait at least 7 years. crab jesus kid what happened to you
An 11 year old Corbin… High School Musical fan parents spotted.
is that where my idiot brother got the name? i always thought it was after Jeremy Corbyn.
I’d probably just want to keep believing that vs HSM, lol.
i mean, i had a flatmate in college who would turn on the disney channel and watch high school musical every day. i told him if he was going to do that, at least take the TV (it was a big ol’ 13 incher. also mine.) back to his room because i didn’t want to watch it more than once a week. all i managed to absorb was that vanessa hudgens exists.
Corbin Dallas is from The Fifth Element. An amazing scifi movie from the late 1900s
Daddy?
i said nephew. i may be a grampa but i ain’t got no kids.
That u know of.. gimme yo dna
uh, what were your parents doing in 2005 that’s the only year i don’t have accounted for. my asshole was steering the ship though so i don’t think i’d be doing much breeding or interacting with people in a positive manner.
amnesia sucks dude
I had my second kid and was full speed ahead into my second divorce.
Amnesia sounds awful, sorry bruh
I was wondering why some of my friends were not reacting, then I remembered most of them are on antidepressants. I’m starting to think too many antidepressants users out there, and many of them probably take them because they can’t deal with the state of the world.
MAJOR DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE THIS IS MY OWN EXPERIENCE
There’s that, and there are a lot of chemical imbalances that are covered up by SSRIs. I have a MTHFR (MoTHerFuckeR gene yes the capitalization is important) (dear gods I’ve typed that phrase so many times my autocarrot knows it) mutation, so I cannot methylize folate, so if I do not eat methylated folate (as a pill supplement), it is bad. SSRIs mask that “bad”. If I take methylated folate at the right dose I am myself. If I SSRI it up, I’m a zombie. Took years to figure everything out and the right balance, and I’m still learning shit about my other defects. But it took a lot of work to get to the place where I could get off the SSRIs, and there were more than a few failed (md approved) attempts.
The UN should investigate to determine if this is true.
Israel has been using it for a long time and nobody does nothing.
If the UN investigates and determines that Israel is using white phosphorus, the UN could condemn Israel.
The UN has officially condemned Israel well over 100 times. I doubt one more will make much difference.
Did the US join the condemnation? If the UN determines that Israel has been using White Phosphorus in a way which violates the Geneva Convention, the US might join. Otherwise, Trump will have to explain the reason.
That’s an awesome level of naivety. Dude, wake up, Israel is committing genocide in broad daylight and the Orange is enabling them. You think some phosphorus will change anything?
Yes, because proving the use of white phosphorus in violation of the Geneva Convention is easier.
They’ve already proved it with soil samples elsewhere that Israel has attacked. Their crimes have been documented in every possible way and brought to the UN, for decades. Official UN bodies have condemned them. Israel and the US instead says you can’t trust the UN or Human Rights Watch or any other monitoring group.
Soil samples per se doesn’t indicate illegal use of white phosphorus (WP) since the Geneva Convention permits some uses of WP. Bring the evidence before the Security Council for discussion. Israel’s actions in Lebanon are part of the Iran deal.
That is true, but as a permanent member of the UNSC the US vetoes any measure that would hold Israel accountable. But yeah it would still useful to have the discussion and illustrate their crimes and to have the record of it.
Correct. Israel would be embarrassed if the evidence shows it has been using white phosphorus (WP) illegally since Israel denies it. Also, Israel’s actions in Lebanon are now included in the Iran deal. Israel’s illegal use of WP would get sympathy for Iran.
Trump hasn’t had any sane explanation for anything he has done this term. He doesn’t care. He just mumbles some gibberish and attacks the next country.
Even if he doesn’t care, he would still have to explain the reason he is not condemning Israel for illegally using white phosphorus.
You seem to have been misinformed about how things work in this world. Maybe try reading some newspapers.
Are you a troll or what?
What’s wrong with suggesting that the UN investigate? Meghan Markle says she is the most trolled person in the world. Her only offense is marrying Prince Harry.
The usa may join lol. The usa is still defending israel and refuse to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. Like people also said it is already confirmed that israel use it
Things have changed. Iran is tying Israel’s activities in Lebanon to a peace deal.
Still waiting for sanctions on Israel and blocking all aids to it
You have a long wait. The US won’t go along. The US is already considering fusing its weapons development with Israel.
Oh. So you are a troll. Great thanks.
lol what is that going to do to a fascist imperialistic madman? It’s like Chuck Schumer’s “strongly worded letters” to Trump
It would be embarrassing to Israel since they deny using it against the rules of the Geneva Convention.
What’s embarrassing is that the country trying to be a Jewish ethnostate is committing genocide. If that is not embarrassing enough, a violation of the Geneva convention definitely won’t be worse for them.
Both would be embarrassing but proving the illegal use of white phosphorus would be easier.
I CONDENM THANOS!
Perhaps if the UN confirms that Israel has been using White Phosphorus in violation of Geneva Convention rule, the Avengers could be assembled.
fuck the avengers this is a job for the x-men
Yes, from looking at the new trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Spider-Man and the Hulk will be busy.
It’s true, there were videos of it a few months ago. They’ve been using it for a long time
A UN report would have more weight.
Its been reported 1000s of times for decades. Israel doesn’t deny it’s use either, they just lie about the purpose of it’s use.
Majority of countries have signed onto international agreements to not use it during war because of how detrimental it is.
Israel uses it on civilian populations but lies about its battle use to get away with harming civilians and the growing fields that they depend on.
Edit: And to beat you to the hollow response, its been reported by the UN and the Human Rights Watch (UN Partners)
ohchr.org/…/20241106-Gaza-Update-Report-OPT.pdf
hrw.org/…/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-leban…
Have it brought to the UN Security Council for discussion.
Lol, dolt
dammit phosphorous is too good a fertilizer to waste it on war crimes what the fuck
This is SOP, they do it in Palestine and Syria.
Why are we bombing Iran when we should be bombing Israel instead?
Tap for spoiler
This is sarcasm
… Although I would not actually be surprised if a significant portion of the American population most supportive of Israel are really motivated by a desire to have a place for Jews to live so that they don’t live in the USA
Isn’t that why Israel was created out of thin fucking air to begin with? So Europe could have a place for Jews after moving them all out? Wasn’t Lord Balfour (of the Balfour Declaration) a white-supremacist anti-semite?
Because both the usa and israel are terrorist states
Because we made Israel for a reason, and it’s delivering.
Because they have nukes.
But honestly America could tank a few Israeli nukes. We need to just rip the bandaid off.
According to ACLED, from 7 Oct 2023 - December 5, 2025, Israel attacked these countries (There have been many more attacks since then): (LINK)
Countries attacked by Russia since 24 Feb 2022 - Ukraine
Sanctions on Russia: 20 Sanction Packages
Sanctions on Israel by EU and HERE (harder to find any) 3 Sanction Packages
Israel war crimes in the war on Gaza. They’ve cut electricity, fuel, food and water to Gaza’s population and severely curtailed life-saving humanitarian aid, all of which are acts of collective punishment. The ICC has issued arrest warrants naming Israeli leaders and alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity (including starvation as a method of warfare). They have also been accused multiple times of attempting genocide. Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes - how governments respond could haunt them for years to come
I can’t find any accusations of Russia using white phospherous- EDIT (thanks @Gust@piefed.social)The two wars are different in that The war in Ukraine is a state-to-state conflict, while the one in Gaza shows an asymmetric war in the besieged enclave
FACTBOX - Ukraine and Gaza wars compared
The Israeli wars are just dirtier than anything most have seen or heard of. In the UK you are more likely to be awarded something for protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine than anything else. But protesting against the more violent, more aggressive and more illegal wars commited by Israel will likely get you arrested and possibly treated as a terrorist.
Let that sink in.
Would you look at that, a wild genocide connoisseur appeared!
Go fucking extinct with your comparisons of human suffering. The only thing you prove is your own lack of morals. The only thing you achieve is total disrespect to those suffering.
Where is the disrespect? They just point out the moral ambiguity of the west.
Nothing ambiguous about it. Insert family guy skin color swatches meme. You might be looking for the term “hypocrisy” instead.
Some of the politicians are definitely hypocrites yeah. And racism counts for some of it as well. But mainly I think it is good ol’ imperialism at work. The politicians feel they have to support Israel and they don’t know what to do about the genocide, and simply ignore it. This is not an excuse. Everyone complicit needs to go to the Haag.
I was not comparing the wars for the wars. I was going to explain at the end, I ran out of time, but I naively thought it would be understood. I can only say what was in my head when I posted it. Or you did understand it, and approve of what’s happening.
I am not (I thought obviously) condoning any war.
I’m not saying that one war is “better” or “worse” than any other war.
My main point (really, my only point) is that Starmers government compared the two and decided that one is bad and the other is good.
Despite all the atrocities that Israel do (which I was trying to accentuate in the post) - People are getting locked up as terrorists for agreeing with Palestine action.
it’s fucking ridiculous
in the UK we can be arrested for protesting against a genocide.
I mean, not just Starmers. Your point stands for a whole lot of governments.
Well, yes. But afaik Starmers is the only one that you can get arrested and have it reclassified as a terrorist action and imprisoned for lengthy sentences. Or get arrested as a terrorist. But unlikely to happen due the exact same offence if protesting a different war.
Would you look at that someone blindly defending Israel.
new label… genocide supporter. there you go!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65506993
Largely agree with what you wrote, but let’s not whitewash russia to make isreal look bad in comparison. They have absolutely used/been using white phos munitions on Ukrainian civilians
Not sure where you see the whitewashing of russia there?
The part where OP said there havent been any accusations of russia using white phosphorous bombs. There is proof of russia using those weapons in bakhmut in 2022, which is what I linked to.
Maybe he really didn’t know that russia used it too. I still don’t see strong evidence of him whitewashing Russia especially with his links about gross russian war crimes.
You can debate the word whitewash, but his point is valid - op said no WP, but there is evidence of WP.
Op also said that the comparison of condemnation can still be valid without the WP point.
I didn’t say no WP, I said I couldn’t find any accusations of it… and I couldn’t. But I have now added that link anyway.
Edited. Thanks. Wasn’t whitewashing Russia at all. I used Qwant, DDG, Google, and even asked a couple of AI bots, but couldn’t find anything about Russia using it. But I never said that they didn’t, because I am well aware that they commit war crimes too.
Huh. Thats concerning if those kind of general searches about russian warcrimes are being suppressed. For reference, I remembered the bakhmut thing offhand so my search query for the article I linked was something super specific like “2023 bakhmut phosphorous”
Yeah, I’ll have a look through my history and see how I phrased it, but it was something like “accusations of Russia using white phospherous or illegal weapons and war crimes” in a few different ways.
ai was useless (no surprises) but thought I would see if it spat out anything different anyway. They just asked me for reference links to feed them with. Which I obviously didn’t have.
Weird, maybe too many words? I searched on DDG “russia white phosphorus” and it was nothing but claims about Russian use of it <img alt="DuckDuckGo search feed displaying several articles from mainstream western sources discussing Russia’s use of white phosphorus" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/92581a51-c918-4c94-931d-3340f7b109e6.webp">
I did get results for chemical weapons, Specifically chloropicrin, as it’s in one of the links and their other heinous war crimes. I just didn’t see any for white phospherous in particular. 🤷
I mean, space Karen has taken some obvious pro-rus actions. He has the money to make that happen. Not stating fact or causation, just making unkind speculation about pissant teakettle heeljerks.
Good comparison and data, but I’d like to point out that the leading stats are actually 16k civilians killed in Ukraine (and 46k injured), as per the source. While in Gaza there are 72k direct deaths and 172k injured (mostly civilians and 50% women and children)
It’s disgusting how Western governments still approach one country with all possible sanctions, and the other is just business as usual (and finger wagging if we’re “lucky”).
There are so many sources citing different figures, I just picked the one that is mostly used by media. Also, it is believed that the figures in Gaza are much higher than the figures that the data shows. But without proof, I didn’t/couldn’t link it.
Oh… so they’re war criming against Lebanon exactly like they have their other enemies?
Can’t really say I’m surprised
Again. Again again.
They keep doing this.
I see on social media and Reddit of Israel-apologists and obvious Hasbara accounts saying the white phosphorus are for smoke covers. Like, sure, the smoke from burning bodies of victims of white phosphorus provide smoke covers.
Are you suggesting that Real Jews should die for lack of smoke cover from the bodies of untermench children? Do you think dead burned untermemench are worth more than a life from the master race? Antisemite!
Yes they permanently scar important agricultural land that may be necessary to the future of humanity for basically no reason, but asking them nicely to stop would be antisemitic.
Welcome to North Bank
For Zionism being all about the “land of Israel”, and wanting to build “greater Israel”, why do they hate and abuse the land so much? I mean ok, they hate the people, I get that, they are fascist colonizers. But why the land? They do the same to the West Bank when they destroy centuries old olive groves, and that’s in their supposed “Judaea and Samaria” that they are supposed to love so much that they want to ethnically cleanse.
Simple. Money. Just look at New Gaza Project
I hate Israel. Of all the nations I’d have thought them the most compassionate after what happened at Hitlers command. How can you do this to people. And who produced the goods/delivery system cos you’re equally to blame. Sincerely hope you are judged for this
Don’t most abused children become abusers themselves? I’m not justifying it, but it seems to that it’s the result of inter generational trauma. Not just centuries of oppression and pogroms, not just the Nazi holocaust, but a lot of Israelis came directly from places in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that were brutally oppressive.
Babylon 5 still being relevant, unfortunately:
Look up the Havara Agreement. Look up what they did in Palestine right after Palestine accepted them.
All the photo and video evidence shows they did but they’re in full “nuh uhuuuhh!”
Fuck Israel
That’s why they (and others) wrote the “smoke cover” loophole into international law.
They just don’t clarify that the “smoke cover” happens inside of their victim’s lungs, as well as other body cavities after the phosphorus burns through the skin.
“No one” isn’t the genociders using the white phosphorus. It should be, but it isn’t.