Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Channel 4 News"
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that's every israeli government member interviewed about this extermination operation. interviewing them is just as useless as interviewing russian officials early in 2022 to get both sides of the story. though to be fair, it's equally useless to interview hamas officials, who proclaim to have only taken israeli soldiers hostage and to have harmed no civilians, but have already uploaded various videos of kidnapped children and of beating and murdering civilians, then release elderly americans, and are actually holding over 50 foreign farm workers with only thai citizenship, who would be extremely difficult to confuse with israelis or jews. I would guess that the latter happened because many of the hamas attackers did not think that it was right to kill the thais (with the exception of at least one failed beheading utensil trendsetter), but then figured that they couldd in fact harm israel by setting a precedent that terrorism alao threatens foreign workers in order to deter others from coming to israel to work. I hear it has had that effect at least on thais to some degree, but if the war comes to an end that resembles the prior status quo, then I would expect enougg thai farmers to figure out that the real risk is not big enough to warrant a change in behaviour.
well, there is one thing for which interviewing israeli officials is useful: to let them incriminate themselves. because their comfortable expectation of impunity has them being extremely careless in controlling what they say, much more so than russia or hamas. more like W's "holy crusade" declaration, or biden falsely claiming to have been shown pictures of beheaded babies, and then falsely correcting himself to claim he had "had that confirmed" (he didn't actually have any basis for it from official information channel). or those four times biden lied that the US military is pledged to defend taiwan against china.
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you are thoroughly mistaken.
the amount of aid is so small that it's still much more so a situation of the aid not arriving than the aid arriving. in some detail:
gaza normally imports over 400 truckloads of goods a day. they have received no goods at all for two weeks, that's a deficit of 5600 truckloads. in order to replace the lost water supply with bottled water or water tanks, even just enough water for drinking, they would need many more truckloads than normal. they have now received 37 truckloads in the space of two days, a supply rate of less than 5% of the normal level.
besides not receiving the usual goods, they have also run out of all electricity and practically all fuel, including generator fuel for hospitals. to get electricity again, even just for the hospital generators or to provide the 20% of electricity that the one diesel powerplant normally supplies, they would need to import more fuel than normal, and so far, israel insists on not allowing in any fuel. they also need fuel to pump almost all water sources (except for a trickle from some wells, which is generally unsafe to drink) or to desalinate seawater as they normally do. israel has announced having reconnected parts of only southern gaza to the israeli water supply, but to get to any taps, it would need to be pumped on the gazan side with fuel that has run out.
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I would say that out of the various terms for types of captivity, calling gaza a mostly closed ghetto would be most accurate. meanwhile west bank palestinian habitation centers form a normally mostly internally open and somewhat externally open ghetto network, while the israeli encroachment between them is just unofficial fully israeli territory partially beyond the walls. palestinian habitation in israel is mostly restricted to segregated neighbourhoods, or what people nowadays call ghettos in america and europe - a historically illiterate and insensitive misapplication of the term, which would be better reserved for situations resembling medieval and third reich jewish ghettos, which form the long original history of the term.
concentration camps always have guards within, and prisons almost always do, too - with few exceptions where either successful prison revolts have established something resembling a ghetto system (like the san pedro and palmasola prisons in bolivia), or where prisons have become so horrendously overcrowded with largely already previously extremely violent gang members that guards have withdrawn and keep inmates very much like dangerous animals, doing little more than delivering supplies and removing corpses.
by contrast, third reich ghettos always had jewish ghetto police working inside, more or less reliably under nazi command. and I believe medieval ghettos also would have had (probably much more independent) community policing, since mutual distrust and disgust between christians and jews would have made both avoid contact, and made attempted impositions of control within the ghetto impractically difficult. sort of like the difficulties in today's attempts to better integrate into society europe's untouchables, the romani people.
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as a german, I wish my leaders could be made to take a p°°°stinian-guided (UNRWA) tour of g°za, or just raf°h. their behaviour is rooted in severe rac°st dehu°°nization of pal°°°inians, and the best way to realize that they are real people is to meet face to face.
pa°°°tinian suffering and heroism are almost completely absent from the german perception of the situation because their humanity is very casually not recognized. like j°°ish gh°ttos in the third reich, this is just normal for them, so it's nothing to be concerned with. and if there is some impulse to empathize, it's snuffed out by racist stereotyping of all of them being h°m°s=ISIS (germans didn't need that slogan, that's essentially the picture everybody has anyway), and the assumption that if one knew them personally, one wouldn't like them because they're all antis°°ites.
basically if you imagine pro-is°°°li generic rac°°t stereotyping newspaper comic strips about the current situation based on information from murdoch media (actually springer media) headlines, that is the mentl image the average german has whenever they think of g°za.
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@nighttrain1236 deescalate, not escalate. as we expect from everybody else. israel can easily prevent such attacks by simply manning the gazan border to a remotely reasonable degree. and israel's iron dome supply is entirely gifted by america as needed. hamas can do almost nothing to israel if they're not actively permitted.
one might want to ask netanyahu, and the head of the israeli armed forces, and the commander of the gaza division (none of which have resigned) why there appears to have been hardly any troop presence, and why it took six hours to even initiate a major counterattack.
if you take the number of active duty israeli military personnel, spread all those troops out evenly over israel and its occupied territories, and go with the smaller end of the variations of maps showing territory invaded by hamas (about equal to the territory of gaza), then the number of troops hamas would have run into is around 2200. now, many of them are not combat troops, or not ground forces, but I'm sure you would agree that the gazan border was already understood to warrant a more concentrated troop deployment than the average location in israel, would you not? I haven't found a more specific claim for that unit size or for the IDF's unit sizes, but the section of the IDF ground forces responsible for gaza is called the gaza division, and apparently divisions by definition range from 5000 to >20,000 soldiers. do you feel like what you saw on the day of the hamassacre was hamas running into 2200, 5000, or 20,000 soldiers who were already there? I know I didn't.
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@TresMar-n1u no, free food for the poor is made of the cheapest kinds of ingredients in all countries including ones richer than argentina. the reason is that practically everywhere, such programs are ao limited in their financing that they struggle to even serve enough food. upgrading to more expensive ingredients would only happen after the program is sufficiently funded to feed everybody as often as they're willing to come.
argentina is one of relatively few countries (I think australia and new zealand still partially are like that, parts of brazil are much like argentina, and parts of the US used to be more so than today) where a large portion of food calories are produced not in the form of food crops or animala raised on locally harvested or imported feed, but instead in the form of grass-fed livestock on huge ranches. it requires a lot of land in a reasonably moist and preferably temperate climate (in south america mostly land that has been deforested more or less for this purpose in the 20th and 21st century) and is not a terribly productive land use, so it tends tobe reserved for land where the soil is lacking in fertility (tropical and subtropical soils mostly are, except for volcanic soil, as what has built deep humous layers elaewhere in temperate regions is the seasonal glut of dead vegetation in the fall that then does not get broken down as completely).
the status of meat as expensive food alao ismuch weaker in rich countries using efficient factory farming methods than it is in poorcountries where much of the meat is produced on amall farms. but you're still hardly ever going to see food that meaty in a soup kitchen outside of a ranching country. I'm still a little surprised to see it in argentina, but I guess in part it also is a matter of argentinian culture probably being very big on meat (beef), much like how texans and other US southerners are about barbecue and steak.
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@Humannondancer really? shani louk on the truck bed was one of the most commonly broadcast uncensored videos. what it shows is her looking non-definitively dead. she lies face-down, motionless and certainly unconscious, with her hair caked in an amount of blood that does not look like a lethal injury (head wounds generally bleed very heavily) and the rest of her body showing no lethal-looking injuries but arguably a dead-looking grey skin tone. the gruesome part (besides her state of undress) is that one leg is certainly broken and twisted horribly, and one arm may also be, but those would not be immediately fatal injuries - but I reckon they were serious enough to have required urgent medical care to avoid death of an intensity that she is unlikely to have received.
the family's claims of proof of life seem overly optimistic/grasping at straws. they first mentioned that her credit card was "used" in gaza, but as far as I'm aware did not specify if it was just a logged attempt or a successful use with the correct PIN - and if the user did have the PIN, this could simply be because shani was forced to reveal it before being killed, or even because she wrote it down somewhere in her wallet (I hear some people do that). a few days later, the family claimed to have gotten word from someone they trust of shani being treated in a specific hospital in gaza very close to the location where the credit card was used. but they did not give a reason for why they take the claim to be credible, so it could well be a scam, and I don't know if they previously specified the location of the credit card use. if they had not, it could still be a scam conducted by someone connected to the credit card use, who heard of the family finding out about the credit card use, and concocted the story about the hospital that happened to be closest.
personally, I don't find the claim that a hostage would be held in a hospital to be plausible, as that would mean having many witnesses and a very uncontrollable risk of an israeli rescue raid. I would expect hamas to rather bring medical workers into the hideouts (probably transported blindfolded). and given so many hostages, they probably generally did not make medical treatment efforts as big as what shani louk would have needed if she still was alive on that truckbed. they mostly would have just avoided confirming any hostage deaths. they even loaded up already dead corpses and brought them to gaza presumably to pretend they were taken alive, and have not made any attempt to provide proof of life beyond a handful of hostages. a large number of them are dead and they're deliberately keeping it ambiguous. as long as they stick to mostly not providing proof of life, the unconfirmed dead are about as useful as the actual living hostages. however one could speculate that given the international attention, they likely would have provided proof of shani being alive by now if she was, as it would serve their purpose of increasing the hope for other wounded to have been kept alive (like the first proof of life video they did release of a different wounded young woman - using shani for that would have been an obvious choice if it had been possible). I give her a 10% chance of being alive. and really I don't think that anyone but her friends and family trying to be hopeful saw that video and did not get the impression that she was dead.
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@zerj2024 egypt has been my personal least favourite dictatorship since the gulf arab/US/israel-supported counterrevolutionary coup and the rabaa massacre in 2013, the deadliest attack on peaceful protesters since at least beijing 1989 (it cleared a million people off the streets in one night by killing probably a thousand or more). but at the moment, egypt is just an extremely ugly red herring, since it's functioning as israel's enforcer. or like a violently depressurized deep sea fish like a blobfish, or one of those anglerfish with the long needle teeth, like a really rotten one with multiple different species of maggots and flies on it, with the kind of smell that makes you freeze in indecisiveness about the need to get rid of it and the aversion to getting close enough to do that. plus it has a very amusing reputation as one of the worst countries to visit as a tourist, because you get constantly harassed or terrorised by the world's rudest and scummiest unreasonable demands for money (I found that out when I once googled a bit about whether I'm alone in my hatred for egypt). xD
egypt has been the arab state with the friendliest relations with israel since it became the first one to recognise its statehood. by far the biggest internal enemy of egypt's military dictatorship is the muslim brotherhood, hamas is the palestinian branch of the muslim brotherhood, and egypt's government is correspondingly opposed to supporting hamas or allowing gazans to enter egypt and bring with them a new wave of islamist insurgency in the sinai. and egypt is receiving, as part of its quasi-alliance arrangement with israel, huge amounts of both gifted and sold weapons from western states like the US and germany (germany's biggest arms buyer ahead of saudi arabia and the UAE for several of the years since universal recognition of the junta in 2014 after their "election").
oh, and israel still had to bomb the vicinity of the rafah crossing as warning shots multiple times to make egypt close it initially during the current israeli assault.
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