U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity
U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity
“We know there are voices across the world calling for a ceasefire, but what everyone needs to understand is that the only people who stand to gain from halting the bombing campaign are people who deeply value human life,”
I do not support the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. That’s my Shibboleth. What Hamas did is unspeakable evil and unforgivable.
That said, Palestinians are human beings and around half of their population are children. When you cut off food, water, electricity, and bomb civilian areas, including the cultural hub of all of Gaza, to dust, maybe your retaliation has gone too far.
What if the prisoners held by Hamas are being treated humanely and taken care of? All this mass slaughter to get them back will look even more barbarous.
I think the claims are that Israel told Palestinians to move south, then bombed the corridors going south. The Palestinians moving south gave up on finding sanctuary there and went back home to the north. Then got bombed again.
I’m not saying that’s true, just what is being claimed.
It is very much true and documented.
in the early days of the current camapaign Israel also told people to flee to the Rafah crossing, to bomb it a few hours later. At that point it could be argued, that the different parts of the government struggled to coordinate their actions and made a mistake.
But since then this has happened repeatedly. Including the bombing on UN operated hospitals, schools and refugee camps it is pretty clear, that Israel considers the prevention of civillians killed by Israeli bombs an afterthought at best.
The other issue is that those children will see Israel as the ones that bombed them and killed their family and will be more likely to join Hamas in the future. Further perpetuating this insanity.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
There reports that Hamas actually is withholding fuel from the population to cause this.
I mean it could be just propaganda, but when Israel sent sms notifications to evacuate, because they will start bombing, Hamas started giving leaflets to stay at home, and it is just attempt to create panic. Someone posted such leaflet, unfortunately I no longer can find it.
when Israel sent sms notifications to evacuate, because they will start bombing, Hamas started giving leaflets to stay at home
Seems like those leaflets were probably good advice. Israel has told northern Gazans to move south, but then proceeded to bomb areas in the south. It's almost seems like the intent was to concentrate them to increase civilian life loss... But why would Israel do that?!
Israel also claimed that the attack on a hospital was a Hamas rocket and showed a video as alleged proof that most news outlets parroted.
Now the NYT analysed the video shown as proof by Israel and concluded it to be an Israeli rocket that exploded two miles away from the hospital.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/world/middleeast/gaza-hospital-israel-hamas-video.html
Being pro Palestine but anti Hamas is like being pro beef but anti slaughtering cows. Hamas is the means Palestine has to force Israel to quit their genocide, disavowing them is the same as being pro Israeli genocide.
Funny-sad-real.
“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”
—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)
Somebody please Photoshop emperor palpatine's laser hands onto Biden in this photo.
Darth Brandon
emperor palpatine's laser hands
So close haha
Did you, perhaps, eat the onion?
He used the onion as a suppository.
In reality it would benefit US having more time to position forces in the middle east and finally properly start that war with Iran. So not really sure if ceasefire would really net more human lives saved in the end.
It's satire. A genre often used to make fun of the political mainstream views.
Since the general political consensus in the west seems to be to blindly support Israel, that's the reality The Onion will be making fun of. If the US government were blindly supporting Hamas instead, you would expect The Onion to criticise that instead.
No, jokes are funnier when they're true, and the other perspective is a lie
The onion editors should volunteer themselves as human shields on Palestinian and Israeli side, to force a ceasefire then. Humanity will benefit even more.
Why so? Care to elaborate on your thoughts? What to explain to the class why you hate.... [checks notes] satire?
Jokes on you, they don't have any. It's right in the nickname.
So you honestly missed their one sided coverage of the conflict so far? This is yet another epistle trying to take a shit on Israel and Israel alone, pretending that it is only Israels fault that there is no ceasefire and that there is a war in the first place. So they should come down from their high horse of self perceived moral righteousness and do something actually useful.
Missiles aren't going to sell themselves.
Maybe you shouldn’t slap that part of the missile… just sayin’