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Video footage broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers gunning down two Palestinians on the coast of northern Gaza, even as one of them waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric. The video then shows Israeli soldiers burying the bodies with a bulldozer.

Richard Falk, former United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, toldAl Jazeera that the footage provides "vivid confirmation of continuing Israeli atrocities" and spotlights the "unambiguous character of Israeli atrocities that are being carried out on a daily basis."

"The eyes and ears of the world have been assaulted in real-time by this form of genocidal behavior," said Falk. "It is a shocking reality that there has been no adverse reaction from the liberal democracies in the West. It is a shameful moment."

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how dare you be so critical of Biden

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

..Biden doesn't want to support the genocide of Palestinians, he is just forced to given the fact that if he looks weak to independent voters from not unconditionally backing Israel's genocide of Palestinians than he is going to lose the election. Do you honestly think he would be supporting a genocide if it wasn't a smart political strategy?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx

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Ok fine so maybe even independents think what Israel is doing is awful in Gaza, but can't you people be patient and wait until the dust settles after the election, and after all the Palestinians are dead and removed from their land? We can have a discussion about whether the Palestinian genocide was right or wrong then! Stop sabotaging Biden in the meantime, he is trying real hard to swoon those independent voters and they clearly are rabid supporters of the IDF committing genocide which is definitely a fact I didn't contradict a second ago!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

4 hours and not a single right-center douchebag has come out of the woods. Maybe they’re catching on that their rhetoric isn’t working and Biden is going to flat out lose the country because of his genocidal friends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this sarcasm? I'm neurodivergent and can't tell

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yes it was. So many people come out of the wood work to say we can't be at all critical about how Biden has handled this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They’re one of those people that magically appear only when there’s some news about Biden they can shit all over. Check their comment history if you have any doubts.

For the record, I’m neurodivergent as well, I’ve just had a lot of experience with these people. It gets easy to spot them after a while.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Video is in the article.

What seems to be a tank drives up at 0:55 and shoots at 1:08.

The Bulldozer crushes them into a pile of rubble at 1:27

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I wouldn't be shocked at all to find out that that corpse laden rubbles are dumped into the sea to build the US' stupid fucking dock.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would like an explanation to the downvotes. We know that the US has been using rubbles of houses and structures to build their fucking dock.

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1770927496113828194

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is it a stupid fucking dock?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Because it's a technical solution for a problem that could be solved by a fucking phone call. The lack of food in Gaza is solely due to Israel blocking trucks at the border crossings. All Biden needs to do is call Netanyahu, tell him to let all the trucks in or he gets no more weapons, and the people in Gaza will stop starving within days. It's not an infrastructure problem, it never was, and there's no reason to spend months building a dock.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe because stupid fucking Israel destroyed the already existing Gaza port and won't let trucks in with aid? So it's a stupid fucking waste because of stupid fucking Israel?

EU, UAE, UK all vowed to use the stupid fucking dock, so the rest of the world seems to think it's a good solution to a VERY time sensitive problem.

***This post is to simply test the waters of whether Mr. Wildbus is a)anti-Biden no matter what, b)Pro-Israel no matter what, c)Elon Musk

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe it's gonna take, what? Months to complete? Why can't they just drive trucks with aid in ? Seems like they have no issues driving trucks in with building materials ... It's a diversion, and it fucking stupid. It's taking people for idiots and it's incredibly insulting to the people who are suffering.

There are so many issues with that plan, it's insane people would defend it.

Maybe the EU and the UK let's be real also all have been stalling on the issue at hand aren't exactly the moral gauge we should be looking at.

And yeah, fuck Biden, fuck him for lying that he saw evidence of dead babies, fuck him for supporting Israel no matter what for decades now. Fuck that geriatric ass hat. And if you think I like Elon, let alone Israel, you're also most as dumb as the dock itself.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-bidens-floating-pier-is-unlikely-to-meet-gazas-needs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/gaza-floating-port-aid-palestinians-impact

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-building-gaza-port-take-likely-up-60-days-2024-03-08/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gaza never had a large port. Any port being destroyed has nothing to do with one needing to be constructed to directly offload aid from ships into Gaza. The only large port nearby is in Egypt, or further in Israel. Those end up with the same issue that were in right now of aid being prevented from entering by land, which yeah it sucks but doing something is better than just sitting around saying it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the reason Gaza never had a port was because Israel has a naval blockade on the strip. They have always been kept dependent on what could be imported from Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They can save on bullets, by lining them up and shooting them through the head, before they fall in their graves.

I've read about that from somewhere in history; can't exactly remember wer war schuldig, I mean, who was guilty of it...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I wonder how long until they start building gas chambers for Palestinians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They probably should've released the hostages sooner.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

"Your authoritarian rulers kidnapped some of our people so now we get to kill innocent people with impunity" is a super shitty take

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Can you point out the hostages these two men had in the video?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Oh, look, another one parroting of the Nazi propaganda that an entire people are responsible for and hence can be killed as reprisal for the acts of a few amongst them.

Whilst conflating Palestinians with Hamas is merelly pure racist "logic", using that to justify mass murder of Palestinians is Nazi-level cruel violent racism.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Death to Israel and their supporters

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You mean the ones they've been caught shooting? Maybe the hostages are just a shitty excuse so morons like you say dumb shit like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So nothing new. Israel still going on about with its genocide.

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