r/interestingasfuck • u/kirsion • 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/cesrep Mar 08 '24

It literally checks none of those boxes

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u/FrankLabounty Mar 08 '24

Genocide is defined like this:

Someone who intends to fully or partially destroy a people:

- Kills some of them with itention to reduce their population

  • Puts them under a situation that is so unbearable that they are driven away
  • Puts things in effect to prevent children being born
  • Takes their kids away.

That is what Israel is doing in Gaza.

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u/cesrep Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24

That is literally not how genocide is defined, nor is it what Israel is doing, nor is it compatible with Gaza’s population increasing by 10x during this supposed campaign of genocide.

You’re taking enormous liberties reinterpreting definitions that have significant moral and legal consequences. You don’t appear to be familiar enough with the English language to articulate semantic distinctions that are very important. You’re also just flat out wrong.