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Hamas plans on broadcasting hostage executions. I hope the platforms they use promptly take down these videos.
Nobody said the only people injured were children. They said the only people treated were children. Insisting that others must have been treated assumes the necessary resources to treat everyone, which would not be the case. Doctors Without Borders isn't going to be some well stocked and staffed medical facility. In an active military conflict with a continuous influx of injured, treatment could really be little more than triage.
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It would make sense that the children would be treated first.
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For the record, a doctor who is there estimates anywhere from 20% to 40% of patients he's treating are children, both of which are far from 100%. And let's face it, what you suggest isn't how medicine is done. Even where children are concerned, triage rules the day. For example, an adult who might survive will probably be treated before a doomed child is. And a lightly injured child will be treated after a more seriously wounded adult.
The polls are brutal.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-767880
86% in a Jerusalem Post poll say the surprise attack was a failure of leadership.
56% call for Netanyahu's resignation at the end of the war.
It seems inevitable that at the end of all of this, Gaza will have less self-determination than they had a week ago.
The simple goalpost is whether it's reasonable for a doctor to say that everyone treated at a standard medical clinic in a 24 hour period was a minor.
If he's lying, it's propaganda for one of the worst organizations on the planet.
It also seems that anyone commenting on this who is respected from Gaza should recommend everyone in Hamas surrender immediately, and everyone else fight against Hamas.
There are few situations where it is as clear who the bad guy is. In this case, it's Hamas. They are pretty close to the modern equivalent of Nazis, and we should consider it in that context.
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I was watching MSNBC tonight, and Ari Melber actually showed proof of babies being killed and burned alive. Not to be gratuitous, but to set the record straight.
Well, Scalise just pulled out of the Speaker race, so here we are.
I hope that innocent Palestinians are spared, especially considering how large a percentage of them are children and teens, but I also want those baby killers all dead because that's just beyond the pale into the most horrendous shit I've ever heard in my goddamn life. Fuck Hamas.
Anyone hear anything about this so called Day of Jihad that is being called for for Friday? My aunt said she saw it being talked about on Fox News. Some kind of follow up to the Hamas attack where terrorists all over the world are going to stage attacks?
Has anyone else heard of this from a real source or is Fox News just doing their basic fear mongering ratings grabs again?
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This is true.
A former Hamas leader called for a Day of Jihad tomorrow.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...el-2023-10-11/
"Jihad" officially means struggle, so the term includes both a holy war and protests.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/m...-and-practices
So it can be argued that he is just calling for protests. And material support for his allies in Gaza.
But he is on the side of monsters who butchered babies, so I can understand why some are not going with a generous interpretation of his call to action on behalf of one of the worst organizations on the planet, a group that is already doing terrible things on a level that is pretty much unparalleled in the 21st Century.
This worries some teachers on a New York City Department of Education stuff Facebook group I frequent, and some students are concerned about it as well. You'll often have concerns due to weird rumor-mongering, and I don't think it's worth shutting down schools or anything, but this is different than the Ebola panics a few years back.
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Thomas Mets
Isreal feels they were attacked in an act of war. They will respond to eliminate those who attacked, Hamas. But in war it matters not if the civilians support their leaders or not. As we didn't with Germany or Japan in WWII. I am not saying this is right or just. It is the nature of war.
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