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As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode

www.theguardian.com

I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? asks retired professor of transplant surgery Nizam Mamode

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250202125411/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/02/surgeon-gaza-children-britain-sniper-fire-drones-labour-arms-israel

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I went looking to see what was being said about this article elsewhere on the web. Unfortunately I didn't find anything, but I did find...this Reddit thread from ten years ago. Fuck it's depressing.
- Oh my God I'd forgotten over this past year how infuriating Reddit Zionists were.
  
  Huh? For sure that's a real problem over there (my search also turned up a thread on /r/IsraelPalestine where the genocide excusals were really quite disturbing), but I scrolled a fair way down in that thread and I don't think I saw a single pro-Israel comment. I'm sure there would be some, but the overwhelming majority were calling out how awful Israel's actions were.
  The thread itself was quite refreshing. It was the news that thread was about that's depressing, and the thought that even 10 years ago people were calling out how evil Israel was being, and yet even still today when the genocide has just been ramped up more and more, people still defend them.

It's better to dis-identify with the state that violently controls you, than to feel personally ashamed of its insane actions.
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