Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Channel 4 News"
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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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