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Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Israel has a right to defend itself (from children)

Hamas made Israel do it. Bombing was the humane option.

Israel provides water for the Gaza strip for FREE! (because they exclusively control the water supply and give substandard unclean water to Palestinians) They should be thankful for the supplies!

It's not genocide if I insist on not calling it that.

I know more about the conflict than anyone who is critical of Israel. If you criticize, that means you are ill-informed.

There we go. I saved every one some time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

you forgot to mention how many LGBTQ people Israel saved. They only killed bigoted children.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Oh silly me you are right! As a queer person myself I should be celebrating the military wing of the IDF Pride ally coalition bombing direct action.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@TinyPizza please note that for some reason this talking point is only authorized for use by people who show no other interest in LGBTQ+ rights whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That's patently false. They have an OVERSIZED interest in (eliminating) LGBTQ+ rights in any other context.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The world standing by and watching a genocide unfold is unconscionable. Children cannot be militants nor terrorists. Unless the kid is literally pointing a gun at your face there is never a justifiable claim of self defense

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If ~~your~~ a nation makes war. Don't use your nation's name. Don't raise their flag. Live for humanity. Denounce the old life of being submissive to people that ask you to kill for them.

Understand we are going back to an era of owning up to our responsibilities as individual human beings. Side with none. Fight for all.

Anything else is just the same old story of murder, occupation, pride and war.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The US will watch because it is the kind of things they would do, even is they don’t specifically like it when someone else does. This is far from the worst regime they’ve supported in the name of US interests. Since the US supports them, nobody else will do anything.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

America isn't watching they're actively supporting this genocide.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Exactly, Israel is basically an extension of the US, the whole thing is pretty much funded by it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The world can't do much without going to war with US empire given that the only reason Israel is able to do these things is unwavering US backing. US is currently moving a huge number of military assets to the region and warning countries not to interfere with the genocide Israel is committing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

The rest of the world: 🤙

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK weird thing for me: I'm in the US. If I click that link I get told to go to the US site (savethechildren.org not savethechildren.net) and the US site appears not to have that story, at least not in that form. I used their search function for the article title and found nothing.f

Maybe they just titled it differently and I should search more carefully, but it seems odd right now.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I checked it out, you're absolutely right and it's weird as fuck. Maybe they raise a lot of money through the US side and they think that being too pro Palestinian child or detail specific might turn some people off?

Good catch btw!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Thanks for checking. I'm sad to be right about this.

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

That's so fucked, is there anything we can even do?

[–] agitatedpotato 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope. Been writing my senators and reps for years to do more than nicely ask for peace and hit them in the funding if you really care. Before this time, the last one I sent out was in 2021 around the sheikh jarrah attacks. My senator tells me he strongly condems what happens, but his budget vote disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

tbh I assume if I wrote to my senator they'd just put me on a list (if I'm not on one already)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

If you support Israel you support genocide.