#i know hamas doesn't respect ceasefires

[andifthestarsweretodie]

I just saw a blog try and pretend like Gazans aren't under threat of extinction at the moment and that Israelis are the only ones who are currently under genocidal conditions. Buddy. Buddy. Please. Israelis, from what I understand, are under threat of genocidal intent from Hamas and that's what 07/10 exemplified. Gaza is getting carpet-bombed and starved and routinely pushed to leave their land under threat of death. Refugee camps are getting attacked. Civilian casualties are through the roof. People waving white flags are still getting shot. People in Gaza don't have access to clean water, food, electricity and healthcare right now. We can go into the nebulous details about whose fault that is later: I'm just laying bare what's happening. Is it so hard for people to understand that two things can be true at the same time? Hamas is a threat and very dangerous. The people at the helm of Israel's military are using the kind of dehumanising language that illustrates genocidal intent to some degree, Netanyahu will not accept the idea of a Palestinian state period and the Israeli military is being supported by the US government. There are levels to danger. Danger is danger but only one side in this bloody, deadly conflict (on all sides) will win in a war of attrition and that's a *major* problem when the people at the helm of the side with the strong military power describe no one in the Gaza Strip as innocent. Both parties can be under threat from each other. Two things can be true at the same time.

#noodle speaks #i/p #if my wording sounds off please do let me know #civilians on both sides of this conflict are in danger and that's a major problem #i know hamas doesn't respect ceasefires #i don't expect to know what to do i'm a 19 year old. i'm getting my degree in biology and japanese not diplomacy #i just get so frustrated when people of any allegiance/persuasion try and describe what's happening as entirely one-sided or entirely black #or white

[matan4il]

To the Nonnie who sent me the four anti-Israel Twitter users with blue checks, with claims to being "journalists" or similar titles... You're very right. I looked into them, and they are Assad apologists. They're literally ignoring the murder of hundreds of thousands of people by Assad's regime, including countless Palestinians who were living in Syria, while supposedly being against genocide and for Palestinians.

I didn't see something about Andrew Tate, but I didn't dig too far back, and I do believe that women who can post the following would side with a man charged with rape and human trafficking:

IDK if they're being quoted here, on Tumblr? If they are, I haven't seen that. At least not since Oct 7.

I guess the bigger issue is that when people on Tumblr see a post meant to trigger righteous rage, they don't check the source. Especially if they think they already know who the side in the wrong is, based on popular Tumblr opinion. So people automatically reblog and help spread these hateful, antisemitic massacre apologists.

Then again, the whole world is reporting Hamas' numbers on how many people have died in Gaza, how many of them were civilians, how many kids... Don't get me wrong, many people died in Gaza, and when Hamas uses civilians as human shields, many of the victims would be civilians indeed, kids included. But:

Hamas is motivated to inflate the number of fatalities

Hamas is motivated to inflate the number of civilians killed

Hamas is motivated to inflate the number of kids killed

And of course Hamas doesn't allow into Gaza any organization that can verify its stated numbers. Hamas has a complete monopoly on access to the areas affected in Gaza, and therefore on the "truth" that you get from there

Hamas has not reported a single terrorists from among the victims, they're all reported together, as if they're all civilians

Over 10% of rockets fired from Gaza at Israel are known to fail, fall inside Gaza and kill Palestinians, but Hamas doesn't report how many of the fatalities were people killed by Palestinian rockets, they're all reported together as if they were all killed by Israel

Terror tunnels built by Hamas have been well documented (there are reportedly over 1,300 such tunnels in Gaza), some sink holes that killed Palestinians are clearly the result of Hamas deliberately building those tunnels under civilian residential areas, but Hamas won't report its culpability for those deaths

There's new footage emerging from Gaza, showing people who tried to evacuate from the north, and who had been slaughtered by Hamas. You can be sure that these fatalities aren't being reported by Hamas either, so the world will be led to believe that these people were killed by Israel, too

(I'm not sharing the footage, because... it's graphic. And just like the Israelis murdered by Hamas deserve their dignity, so do the Palestinians killed by Hamas, but here you can listen to a subtitled conversation, where a Gazan says Hamas is shooting people who are trying to evacuate)

While we're on the subject of Hamas and its lack of reliability, today Hamas used a humanitarian window provided by the IDF to attack. Please remember this when Israelis point out that Hamas has broken every ceasefire ever. Including the one that existed on Oct 6.

If respectable journalists were more vocal about questioning Hamas and the numbers it reports (not to mentions their breakdown), then maybe people online would be a bit more critical, too.

I hope you're taking care of yourself, and you're not drowning in the biased material of these hate driven people! xoxox

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[gingerswagfreckles]

Hey, sorry to bother with this, but I see that you are a very smart human with a deep understanding and knowledge of things. You have probably seen that the main argument for bombing Gaza among Israeli government and pro-israeli people is "They are bombing outer cities, what choice do we have? What other way is there to defeat hamas and ensure safety?".

So I wanted to ask, what do you and your followers think could be the way to solve this?

Thankyou in advance.

@azhdakha Thank you very much, but I really don't know much more than what I feel like anyone who follows the news does. It's just that people on this website staunchly refuse to do that lol. But I honestly don't know how they can defeat Hamas and ensure safety at this point. I'm just sure that the IDF is doing nothing right now except killing thousands of civilians and ensuring the next generation of terrorists becomes radicalized.

If we could go back in time a few decades, I would say that the total blockade of the Gaza strip was inevitably going to lead to terrorist attacks as the people became more and more desperate. I would say that the aggressive increase in the settlements of the West Bank under Netanyahu was also always going to end with this, because it showed that the Israeli government obviously had no intention of respecting any sort of two state solution. They've also had an apartheid state for decades in which Palestinians literally have to follow completely different oppressive laws and face a different judicial system. That also definitely did not help.

But all of this being the very predictable precursor to increased radicalization and eventually terrorism from the side of an extremely oppressed group doesn't change that we can't go back in time and are in a really bad position now. I don't really see any good ways to resolve this at this point that could end well for the Palestinians, which is part of why I've been so angry at people celebrating these terrorist attacks like they are freedom fighters starting the #revolution. They aren't. This is an extremely lopsided war and I have no idea how anyone can be so blind that they don't see that this is going to end terribly for the Palestinian people (and already is).

I guess the only thing I can say for certain is that there needs to be an immediate ceasefire while someone somewhere figures out a more specific way of dealing with Hamas than indiscriminately bombing an extremely densely populated civilian area. And before that can happen, Netanyahu has to fucking go. His approval rating is at rock bottom for a good reason. This is what he and his hard right religious extremist faction have been driving the region towards for decades with their aggressive settlements of the West Bank and refusing to respect the rights of the Palestinians. So. I really don't know what could be done to realistically de-escalate this situation beyond an immediate ceasefire, but Netanyahu is absolutely not the person who's going to figure it out. That's all I feel confident about.

#gingerswagfreckles #israel #Palestine #israel palestine war #israel palestine conflict #i/p #i/p war #i/p conflict #hamas #gaza #gaza strip

[azhdakha]

I think it's important for us to understand the opinion of an actual Palestinian and not those of radicalized sofa political experts from the other side of the globe. So I'm sharing the message of @wearenotjustnumbers.

"I know it's tricky to find the right answers from an unbiased perspective. First of all, let me tell you I am Palestinian, I am not from gaza but I am from Palestine. And I have witnessed everything that happened, as did my parents and their parents since 1948.

Killing innocent people is morally wrong on both sides, but here is where it gets complicated.

When you talk to a Palestinian, Muslim or Christian, they will most likely be demanding for their freedom, their land back. They won't demand to kill all the Israelis.

You have to keep in mind that Palestine has been occupied since 1948, Israel government has been stealing houses, kicking families out, binging in settlers to take their place and using them against each other.

Also, keep in mind that gaza has been surrounded and cut off from the world for over a decade, people literally grew up watching their families get killed, humiliated, stripped of basic human rights with nothing to do. So when a group like hamas targets Israel, people of gaza do not celebrate it, but it's more like they don't have a choice. They don't want "revenge" on anyone, every person from gaza I talked to just wants to live freely without fearing death of their loved one every waking moment. People of gaza do not control Hamas. What Hamas did is violent and wrong, and yes the Israeli settlers didn't have anything to do with it (this just shows you how brutal the Israeli government is). But it's a little hard for gaza people to condemn what Hamas is doing, while worse things have been happening to them for decades.

Hamas did kidnap Israeli settlers, but they treated them well (for whatever reason might be). They didn't "behead" babies which was proved after Biden had lied alongside people on social media. There is no proof of rape or mass shooting. What we have, is interviewed with Israeli who have been released, saying that they were treated with respect which took them by surprise.

Of course, the other civilians have not been released yet.

Which gets you thinking, if Israel does not know where the kidnapped civilians are, but it definitely knows they're in gaza. By bombing every place, flattening the city, won't that mean they'd kill their own people?

The answer is yes. Which indicates that Israel doesn't care about their people as long as they get to kill as many Palestinians as possible. Hamas already tried to use the kidnapped civilians as leverage, asking for a ceasefire in exchange of the civilians, but Israel refused.

So to answer your question, yes. You can grief for victims of both sides, while blaming Israel government for it.

The settlers who were brought by Israel, to fight a war that's not their own. The kids who were born in a country that's not theirs, and yet forced to fight for a land they don't have a right in, simply because they have no choice. Did you know that Israel has a law which says it's obligatory for EVERY citizen, female or male, to have martial training, as well as joining the army before they even reach their 20s.

These are victims of their greedy government, who uses religion as a political device. Who mixes zionism with Judaism.

And the ultimate victims here, are Palestinian. Hamas members are extreme, but they were once kids who watched their fathers get killed, their brothers wrongfully arrested, their mother humiliated. That isn't an excuse to their actions, that is a reason of why you might find it hard for gaza to curse hamas.

I would suggest reading about sole Palestinians who grew up in gaza.

For example, search Mohammed al durra. Ahmad manasra. And Ahid tamimi."

#azhdakha

[eddieydewr]

I sent you an ask kind of recently about Noah, and you said you agreed with me in some ways, but that his take has probably changed since his post on Instagram. I thought you could be right, so I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt - I really thought his perspective would change with how much the death toll in Gaza has risen. But with his recent actions (liking incredibly racist and Islamophobic posts, and posts that actually make fun of what's happening in Gaza), I can't see how he can be defended. I could be wrong, but with his recent harmful actions, he doesn't seem to have any heart for Palestinians. If he had a heart for us, he wouldn't be liking satire about Palestinians and Gaza...satire that acts like entire family lives have not just been wiped out by Israel. I don't condone people harassing or threatening him and I hate that people are using his stupidity as an excuse to be antisemitic and hateful. But I can guarantee that whatever hate Noah is experiencing is nothing compared to the horrific reality of what's happening to Palestinians every day in front of our eyes while world powers do nothing to stop it.

honestly i respect your position, and i don’t expect you to support him or even like him. you know how people say don’t ever meet your hero? i’ll say the same for celebs. in a way, we all have a parasocial relationship with celebs we like and dislike. it’s a spectrum. i just try not to expect anything from celebs i like.

also, for what it’s worth, that video wasn’t making fun of muslims/arabs and the lgbtq community. it makes fun of uni students and young liberals who support hamas because they think hamas cares about their own people. is the video insensitive? yeah! but i doubt it means noah has hatred for palestinians in his heart. it’s just… sometimes you gotta laugh or cry. death toll will continue to rise, people are desperate for a ceasefire, and misinformation is endless. it’s just horrible and bleak.

#and it’s even worse for people who are in the crossfires of course #we just gotta do what we can instead of doom scrolling in despair and hating people who don’t have the power to bring about a ceasefire #beth answers