I think they are humans caught up in group think. What you said may also be true

I think he was saying people in the Israeli govt who support the killing of kids because they could be Hamas, are racist

I believe that to be true as well, but the language needs to be more precise. There were too many very negative and possibly bigoted interpretations of that post. So just a warning is all, friends

israel. everyone in this video, for a start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xz3TA4uuQg


about the entire country, seeing as how this genocide seems to have 90-95% support or whatever, feel free to tell us what the latest polling says though

Which genocide? There is no genocide ongoing in the area (even if terrorists attempted that)

Is it allowed to say someone claiming his own citizens are worth more than foreigner a racist? Even if it's foreigner of the same race as many citizens?

Like take Korea where race is literally non controversially the same in the north and the south.

How could it be racism for a soutk Korean if he cared more about his fellow citizens than his enemies on the north? And viceversa ofc

Well I don't disagree but I was trying to be generous to the Israeli government and IDF.

If Palestinian lives had ZERO value for Israel why is ANY aid allowed in, why didn't they starve them all to death, that would solve problems in Gaza

International community would find that a step too far (slow genocide is acceptable though clearly).

Public relations. Why does it matter if you torture someone and kill them or just kill them?

It’s because torturing is wrong and people will be even more mad if they kill Palestinians so inhumanely

No, that wouldn't be acceptable. If you mean the use of starvation as a weapon, that's a crime and the Israelis have been warned about it. The ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber I, which ruled in February 2021 that the Court does have jurisdiction over Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, is considering the prosecutor's application for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, as well as against Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri and Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, for war crimes and crimes against humanity since last October.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/palestine

They are already accused of withholding aid and starve Palestinians (absurd because they aren't).

That's why if they actually gave 0 value to Palestinian lives they would actually cut all aid forever and solve Gaza in 2-3 months.

Worth considering what was actually happening in Palestine at the time, with an Arab agricultural recession and a wave of new Jewish immigration, doubling the Jewish population to 370,000 in 1931-6 (and the European Jewish immigrants tended to have more money and heft than the Arabs), which triggered the Palestinian Arab revolt of 1936-9. Since it was known that Zionism aimed at Jewish 'supremacy' in Palestine, as Herzl put it, this is what the Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs were reacting to. They were hardly going to approve such a prospectus and it was obviously bound to enrage them and, in the case of the Palestinians, to cause them a fear of dispossession and annihilation in their own lands. The main reason why Edwin Montagu, sole Jewish member of the British Cabinet in 1917, objected to the Balfour Declaration was that it would lead to a resurgence of anti-semitism around the world, and it duly did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E...t_in_Palestine

That's a matter for the court.

They can't 'solve Gaza' because they can't afford the necessary troop commitment, they can't get rid of Hamas and they wouldn't know what to do next even if they did. And if they 'cut all aid forever' the responsible cabinet members would certainly face international arrest warrants.

It is a matter of fact that Israel is letting far less aid in than is necessary to keep Gaza’s civilians from starving.

Hamas shooting rockets at crossings to make aid even harder to deliver doesn’t help but if Israel wanted to let more food through, they could.

Nobody thinks they could solve it this time around. But they can restore deterrence and buy time, and possibly space for dialogue

Gs3737, low content posting and personal attacks are not allowed in the thread. I’ve deleted your last post. Please take a time out from the thread until 12:00 AM Eastern Time.

Please address topics and content, friends.

That is ridiculous. The US should value American lives over Canadian ones. Does that mean it's racism?

More responsibility for. Same value

It's the weekend. I don't know where you live, but it's gorgeous where I am today. So I totally understand oversight on modding on a beautiful Saturday in June.

I ALSO didn't report the post, which means I can't expect you to be perfect.

HOWEVER, you did give G33737 a timeout for low content posting after this post happened:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...ostcount=28603

The post where our good friend here confirms that "about the entire country" are "psychotic, racist pieces of ****"



I'm not heated. It's too gorgeous out for that. But this thread cannot be productive with hate speech like that in it. And that is top notch full blown hate speech. So NOW, I'll hit the report button.

Happy Saturday, y'all

"hate speech" ... against a country? interesting concept

72off, may the odds be ever in your favour.

I believe this thread would only stand to gain without you in it. Perhaps this is a minority opinion, I don't know. We will let the mods decide what is theirs to decide.

For everyone else, I look forward to more productive discussions any time.

Lives have the same value regardless of where in the world they are.

Governments convince you that your compatriots lives are more valuable to you only because they are more valuable to them (because of votes).

There is a proximity thing as well meaning that we are more emotionally affected by deaths near us than on the other side of the world, but that's mainly evolutionary and it's nothing to do with the value of a human life.

Funny that you can post that much crap and not answer a simple question.

what was crap about what was posted