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"The evidence for the justification of this raid doesn’t appear to be any more robust," I can not think of any evidence that would ever justify continual raids on hospitals that kill people who are even more vulnerable than those outside the hospital.

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"US military aggressions are passive entanglements that it keeps innocently stumbling and bumbling its way into by accident..." Because how can the US, home of "freedom and democracy" (TM) ever knowingly start a military aggression, or (heaven forbid!) enable an actual genocide in the Middle East's "Only democracy" (TM)? It's not like they're lying through their teeth about actually caring about the health and safety of Palestinians in Gaza... They're just trying to protect all those innocent barrels of oil and cubic feet of natural gas located right off the coast of Gaza. Innocent oil barrels matter!

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Looks a hell of a lot like what the Nazis did in Poland. The differences are only academic. The methods and contempt for human life are the same.

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Re: Western corporate media - Yup.

https://fair.org/home/syria-the-latest-case-of-us-stumbling-into-war/

“Will US Be Drawn Further Into Syrian Civil War?” asked Fox News (4/7/17). “How America Could Stumble Into War With Iran,” disclosed The Atlantic (2/9/17), “What It Would Take to Pull the US Into a War in Asia,” speculated Quartz (4/29/17). “Trump could easily get us sucked into Afghanistan again,” Slate predicted (5/11/17). The US is “stumbling into a wider war” in Syria, the New York Times editorial board (5/2/15) warned. “A Flexing Contest in Syria May Trap the US in an Endless Conflict,” Vice News (6/19/17) added.

“Sliding,” “stumbling,” ”sucked into,” “dragged into,” ”drawn into”: The US is always reluctantly—and without a plan—falling backward into bombing and occupying. The US didn’t enter the conflict in Syria in September 2014 deliberately; it was forced into it by outside actors. The US didn’t arm and fund anti-Assad rebels for four years to the tune of $1 billion a year as part of a broader strategy for the region; it did so as a result of some unknown geopolitical dark matter."

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Dear Caitlin, It is almost six months now. Thank you for not letting us look away, thinking we cannot bear it anymore, keeping us focused on the absolute suffering of the Palestinians subjected to a holocaust - which may even rival the 'first' - the genocidal rampage of the Zionist regime playing for all the world to see day after day. Aided and abetted by the US/West; no denying how complicit they are in the ongoing war crimes.

You and others like you keep the atrocities right and centre in spite of the false narratives of the compliant media.

All those judges of the ICJ, how long are they going to take to give a verdict? The UN seems totally incapable - after all it is only as good as its member states.

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I can't say that I have ever heard/read in the historical record of Germany talking like this or acting like this and the point is that folks who have been thru a Holocaust[s] ought to have more awareness of what they are actually doing. Of course, not all the blame can be placed upon just the zionists and the Jewish folk who support this century plus Holocaust, the West, most notably the usa, uk, are as much to blame. As the latter two are long standing specialists at doing genocides.

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Actually....it doesn't make any difference if Hamas WERE somewhere, somehow, in the hospital. Play their stupid, horrific game: IT'S IRRELEVANT. YOU JUST DO NOT ATTACK HOSPITALS (unless you have GENOCIDE in mind). Scarey to me, apparently some? many? most? people actually "buy" Israel's bull shit....? It is INSANE. It is ALL BULL SHIT ugly. Israel is populated with: ANIMALS. Fuck Israel. Having a cocktail...so letting this rant...go where it wants to go.....

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Nothing nothing is "passive" about inverted totalitarianism, economic sanctions, internal displacement, proxies, School of the Americas, CIA, NSA, DoD, Five Eyes, 9 Eyes, 14 Eyes.

It's all part of the up is down, out is in, hate is love, peace is war, fear is happy.

What's not to love about the U$A-I. AmeriKKKA's Wailing Wall White House Minyan!

https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/the-state-of-breaking-bad-and-broke

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"...the western press have an extensive track record of constantly framing US military aggressions as passive entanglements that the global superpower keeps innocently stumbling and bumbling its way into by accident..." I think this is done by all western nations. What? Who me?

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Oh, and it looks like they murdered a Gazan Police Chief, who'd been coordinating the distribution of food and aid supplies to people on the verge of death by starvation - murdered him - and then posthumously raised him in rank to some kind of "senior HAMAS" commander...

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If it looks like a Genocide, sounds like a genocide, has the hallmarks of a genocide, bears the scars of a genocide ... It's probably the 'World's Most Moral Army' doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties.

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IDF are fighting civilians. They don't know what it is to fight real trained soldiers.

Netanyahu is evil and those who follow him are not better. They don't seem to understand that we will never forget what they did, like the Nazi did in Warshaw Ghetto. The Holocaust is not a Trademark.

Refuseniks and Israeli Soldiers speak out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ga0s936ldU

Warsaw Ghetto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto

https://allthatsinteresting.com/warsaw-ghetto

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/warsaw-ghetto-uprising

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A very black eye for Israel and another for Washington as its handling of this crisis has been completely incompetent and inhumane. In all of Washington there is nobody saying enough is enough; the silence is deafening.

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The Biden people lie just as shamelessly. This morning, BBC and NPR are reporting a US sponsored UN Security Council Resolution calling for a cease fire - but it is linked to release of the hostages, which is the ISRAELI position! The US Government is sponsoring an Israeli resolution. So cynical, such a lie, and the motivation is to create a false impression in response to massive public criticism.

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Remember the Iraq war? How the U.S. fabricated evidence and then denied it?? Same thing happening again.. and then they moan why no one believes them when they lie through their teeth. If all else fails, they can always censor people and ban free speech.

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The UN Special Rapporteur on Gaza is about to lodge a Finding that genocide is being perpetrated in Gaza by the Zionist occupiers. It will be delivered to the UN Human Rights Council this week.

Speaking of the Rapporteur: she is a fetching, fiery lady called Albanese - who would be dismayed by the lisping drongo who (a) shares her surname; and (b) is Australia's PM at a time when the country was COMPLICIT in the genocide: not only withholding funds from UNRWA based on shoddy Zionist lies - which is atually AIDING and ABETTING the genocide - but also failing to exert diplomatic pressurs in any way whatsoever (declaring the Zionist diplomatic staff persona non grata would be a start).

For those playing at home: the reason AU and others renewed their funding to UNRWA is because they were advised [internally] that it exposed senior government ministers to sanction by the ICJ if a case was brought (and it will be: the "lawfare" is going to last a decade, by which time Palestine will be free),

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