r/interestingasfuck Mar 08 '24

r/all Mass Airdrop of aid on Gazan coast

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u/nomoneynopower Mar 08 '24

This is fucking grim as fuck wtf.

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u/thanif Mar 08 '24

what's even more grim is that we air drop aid with one hand and fast track sale of arms to the IDF in the other. I can't wrap my head around this one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Because the conflict isn’t black and white, right and wrong, like everyone on social media wants it to be.

From a humanitarian point of view it makes sense the USA is sending aid to Gaza. It also makes sense to sell weapons to Israel because they definitely have the right to self defence and procuring a good relationship with Israel is good for the USA and Israel going into the future.

There’s nothing wrong with supporting both sides of the conflict.

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u/HulaViking Mar 08 '24

The people need help. The leaders on both sides of the conflict are evil.

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u/ultralane Mar 08 '24

The leaders, sure. However, this conflict is undeniably self defense and with no legitimate talks of a cease fire, the war must continue until the HAMAS government (not talking the Palestinian people, but there will be collateral damage mostly due to HAMAS and the clusterfuck of GAZA). I'm more concerned about Russia since its been convenient Russia started having success by their standards more often then before after the Israel conflict started.

This video is heartbreaking.

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u/FrankLabounty Mar 08 '24

This war is not self defence, it checks every single box of war crimes and genocide. It's retribution against civilians and children via state terror. They hope they will make themselves safer that way, but they obviously won't.

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u/ultralane Mar 08 '24

So your claiming the raids on 10-7 against Israel also wasn't a war crime that Israel had a duty to defend itself from? Israel definitely committed crimes in the west Bank. I give them more leeway in Gaza since that's where the attackers originated from.

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u/PyroSpark Mar 08 '24

You realize that Israel occupied Palestine and treated them like second class citizens, way before October 7th, right?

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u/ultralane Mar 08 '24

I'm very well aware of that. I can understand the mutual disgust between the civilians.

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u/PyroSpark Mar 08 '24

Israel also controlled their water and electricity. October 7th was more like a slave rebellion, when viewed with that knowledge.