Comments by "" (@12q8) on "GDF" channel.

  1.  @temp1173 what a bunch of loaded questions. Don’t generalize ‘48 Arabs like that.
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  2. ​ @kranzes0  A lot of the sources he shows the site and headline in the video, and I can simply type those quotes into google, and get the sources. It's not even a minute. Those people are being willfully lazy and ignorant.
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  3.  owenj443  That makes sense. An Israeli Arab mom was just arrested for "promoting terrorism" because of her Whatsapp status that was just praying for Palestine.
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  4. Banks will just lobby elected officials. Central banking is a mistake, and there are better ways that is not centrally-planned.
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  5.  @ormenachem341 chutzpah, pilpul, hasbara, whatever you want to call it, all to reach your preconceived conclusions that you’ve been religiously trained to protect and believe.
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  6.  @nils9853  I bet you also believe Western countries always uphold human rights and democracy and never ever engage in propaganda. There is a huge list of NATO aggression and interventionism.
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  7. ​ @anchorread68  You're being too factual. That means you're triggered for not accepting that Hamas owning anti-tank missiles means they did all the damage. Don't you know the IDF has friendly fire turned off before joining any game? Those helicopters can't damage Israeli civilians and property. Checkmate, Khamas fanboys!
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  8. Someone needs to send this video to the legal team of SA.
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  9. Yeah, try and convince evangelicals. They have god goggles on and see people as religious collectives in a continual manner. Their worldview is gullible, saddening, and superficial.
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  10.  @a7med-ess4m I guess he said a naughty word that YouTube doesn’t like. I can’t see his comment anymore.
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  11.  @nils9853  so, when I point out that NATO is not purely defensive and engages in aggressive and interventionist actions, you move the goal post to “except those that have some UN resolution that sorta-kinda legitimize them.” The fact is that NATO might have itself defined as a defensive alliance in its founding principles from the last century, but it is not acting as one at all.
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  12. Muslim youtubers are generally bigger, more exposed, and easier targets. So many youtube channels go under the radar for so long.
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  13. ​ @nils9853  Afghanistan, Libya, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, to name a few. All of these were aggressive and interventionist far beyond self-defense of member states. Counter-Terrorism during the War on Terror, and Anti-Piracy Operations off Somalia are proactive and extend beyond defending member states' territories.
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  14. They don’t even say it is imprisonment. They say “they are actually independent, and not occupied. Our army is not there.”
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  15. I never knew about this. I doubt a lot of people outside of Lebanon know. I knew Israel invaded twice and left, but I had no idea what was going on. The truth is probably the reason why it was and is obfuscated so much.
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  16.  @Salomon-py5eu  Yeah, they are even still in Syria occupying the oil fields.
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  17. The same excuses used over and over. I honestly thought your comment was a joke. Using starvation as a weapon is a war crime. It is deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part. Aside from that, the Geneva Convention IV (1949), Article 33, specifically states: "No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited." Protocol I - Additional to the Geneva Conventions (1977), Article 54. It states: "It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations, and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive." And your ninth point is ignorant to say the least. You forgot to mention that only 15 of the 36 hospitals are partially functioning and those are operating at up to three times their capacity, without adequate fuel or medical supplies. There are no functioning laboratories in Gaza, severely limiting medics' ability to diagnose patients. This also is a war crime. Article 23 of the Geneva Convention IV (1949): "Each High Contracting Party shall allow the free passage of all consignments of medical and hospital stores... intended only for civilian hospitals..." These laws have been put in place because of how bloody and destructive WWII was, so using WWII as a justification is ridiculous at best, and malicious at worst.
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  18.  @tony_5156  "The world is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal."
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  19. Same here. There is so much for the entire world to know and realize. They often neglect the past an think of themselves as different, and no longer wage religious wars like the "primitive" past when they really still do, with just different reasons.
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  20. I know some youtubers unlist their older videos so that YouTube won't recommend them, but recommend other more recent ones. It could be that.
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  21. ​ @macknut2033  wtf are you on about? I am just telling you your problem with your original comment. It's irrelevant who asked who. Lebanese people and Americans were fighting each other. Aside, your number of 60% is also wrong. In 1956, the percentage of Christians was about 55%, made up of many different Christian groups (Maronite, Eastern Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Protestant, Armenian Orthodox, Armenian Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Roman Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrian, and Copt), and that was about the highest.
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  22. And even if it was the same old charter, conflating Israel, as a state, with its Jewish population is quite ridiculous.
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  23. This is revolting, and yet unsurprising. The entire IDF was formed from Zionist paramilitaries from pre-1948 that forcibly displaced and massacred Palestinian villages.
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  24. The West propaganda that it is the embodiment of morality, so no Western country or ally can commit sin. It's no different from any other form of power historically. From the Roman empire to McCarthyism in the US, and anything in between.
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  25. Everyone talks about the Cuban Missile Crisis, and no one mentions how Israel got us on the brink of a nuclear war.
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  26. ​ @sofakingdone6941  A defensive alliance is one where the purpose is collective defense against a threat to any member. NATO is actively conducting and joining wars that are not even a threat: Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, Libya, etc. Another thing is also how the alliance is really just an excuse for the US to deploy its army abroad to seek its own interests, while not risking its mainland and sacrificing other member states' Most member states seem to just do what the US tells them anyways, so it is a guise for US interests masquerading as typical Western self-righteousness.
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  27.  @OZTutoh  false equivalency. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a completely different historical and political situation. It is not directly comparable to the struggles for independence in the Philippines or Algeria. The conflict is deeply rooted in the history of the region, including the displacement of Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent occupation of Palestinian territories. Unlike Algeria, where the struggle for independence resulted in the end of French colonial rule, the situation in Gaza and the West Bank is characterized by a prolonged Israeli occupation. Israel has not withdrawn from these territories and has even expanded its settlements in direct violation of international law. This is fundamentally different from the post-independence situation in Algeria. Israel is a significantly more powerful and technologically advanced state compared to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The power dynamic is unequal, making it challenging for Palestinians to achieve their goals through armed resistance or negotiations. The reference to a country "invading" another country oversimplifies the situation. Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are not invading Israel; they are seeking an end to the occupation and the recognition of their right to self-determination. The Palestinian struggle is also marked by human rights abuses, including restrictions on movement, house demolitions, and other forms of collective punishment, which are not comparable to the relationship between Algeria and France after independence. "Algeria doesn't have the destruction of France written into its constitution," but the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories involves complex legal and political disputes. The Israeli government's policies and actions in the West Bank, including settlement expansion, have been widely criticized and deemed illegal under international law. The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) have sought recognition and support for their statehood, rather than destruction, through diplomatic means. So, even when they are trying to have their statehood of merely Gaza and the West Bank legitimized, it is not at all. In fact, Netanyahu's entire political career is focused on the end of the idea of a Palestinian state. He even stated that he "de facto put an end to the Oslo Accords" which just makes it harder for Palestinians to trust the Israeli government in anything.
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  28.  @maquacr7014  you're really so close yet too far. It's collectivism in all forms.
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  29. ​ @maquacr7014  What does individualism have to do with "civilizing" "tribal people in Iraq and Afghanistan"? Collectivism is the root cause of all the -isms you mentioned. In fact, ideology is a form of collectivism.
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  30.  @maquacr7014 I am using ideology in the sense of doctrines and beliefs shared collectively for a political system. Individualism can be considered an ideology in the sense of it giving a coherent and comprehensive worldview. We could argue about the rationale of the wars all day and night. Ultimately, the US’s ”freedom and democracy” aren’t something I’d consider really individualistic if it needs organized and collective armies to start wars to spread. It stands in contrast to individualism in the sense of the value and autonomy of the individual. Being in the army is selling your life to it to be part of the state apparatus. The state is a collectivist entity. And whatever is made, it is merely a controlled theater that the government can stop the party whenever it deems it too rowdy for its own liking. Having a bigger cage is not freedom.
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  31.  @maquacr7014  just because we evolved this way, doesn’t automatically make it a good thing. In fact, even our social behavior is quite complex. Just because it can be exploited by collectivist dogmas, doesn’t mean our naturalistic tendencies endorses it. We also evolved to be intelligent enough to curb our animalistic tendencies. Promoting empathy and critical thinking are a good first step to get rid of it, though these are merely at the current level. For a long term solution, fostering an environment that can guide evolutionary pressures to forgo collectivism is the way to go.
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  32. Not all. Evangelicals literally are part of an apocalyptic cult to push all Jews to Israel to “bring Jesus back” or whatever.
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  33. Everyone should watch your videos.
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  34.  @macknut2033  you’re conflating the state with the people.
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  35.  @oiytd5wugho  eh, just removed the example. I think the point is clear without an example.
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  36. They don't wonder, they know. They have the weaponry of the US behind them, so they don't care.
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  37. Wow, Hizbollah would not have existed if it weren't for Israel.
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  38. So much for the secular West to be so religiously fanatical.
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  39. ​ @williambrasky3891  Yeah, pretty much. Israel claims they are the original, and that there were never converts, despite many still converting to and from Judaism everyday. The idea of Judaism being an ethnicity and not a religion is a very recent phenomena, arguably started by actual anti-Semites in the 19th century iirc.
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