Photos show scale of the destruction of Israel air attacks on Gaza

Where do you think Hamas is hiding???

How would you be able to tell the difference between a dead hamas soldier and a dead civilian? They don't carry weapons all the time, you know, and terrorist organizations don't exactly wear uniforms.

I think fighting terrorism and warning citizens before bombing is not genocide. Telling citizens they are, in fact, should not run (hamas does that), is closer to genocide.

Actual process of getting rid of terrorists is not exactly something anyone should require to trust someone, but you can check a lot of videos they publish of destroying specific buildings in Gaza.

Be sure to also check the videos of Palestinians killing innocents left and right in Israel. They recorded those themselves.

Damn bro I feel that. Thanks for sharing 😔

Way to make this about you

Because Israel is ultimately a problem created by western nations like the UK and US, have more similar culture to the west and are their strategic partner for the area whereas the arab nations are traditionally backed by Russia. So they basically HAVE to give them unconditional support to Israel or lose their influence on the region.

War is about resources. USA and Britain don't give a shit about giving the land (that they stole from Palestinians) to Jewish people. Israel and Saudi Arabia are their only ways to project power in the region to have leverage against countries with more oil.

There's the historic precedent that people have already discussed here.

There's the very effective Israeli lobby, which has integrated itself into many different governments.

There's the fact that Israel is pro-western, in the Middle East, so they serve Western interests. They can be the foil for Western influence in the Middle East, without directly implicating the West. Need a weapon site bombed in Iran? Israel will do it. This is probably the biggest reason.

The country of Israel has integrated itself into the Western global intelligence Network, especially in terms of special operations, and special intelligence gathering tools, and a weapon supplier for missile defense, drone defense etc. For all intents and purposes their military ally for the west.

The West has a bias against Muslims, and Islam. Not necessarily a deliberate bias, but there is a bias. There is a reluctance for full trust. Israel is a religious country, based on Judaism, which makes them more palatable for Western people to think about.

All that being said, is Western support guaranteed? No. At the international level real politic is extremely fickle, you have to continue to be useful. If another country with better trade-off showed up in the region, it's very likely they would also receive this Western appreciation.

Hamas are terrorists and Western governments support combatting them. Hamas hides behind civilians who tragically are the victims of the war Hamas started this time

You said it. Actions of one side are more reprehensible than of the other. In fact, much more reprehensible from what I see.

One side: "We understand you have terrorists, but it's not our responsibility to help you with it because we value lives of our people. We are going to help you with basic supplies like water, electricity, internet etc., and protect ourselves with the iron dome. It all costs a lot but lives are really what matters."

Another side: "Our objective will not be completed until your country and citizens stop existing. We were elected having this objective by our people. We will teach our children that this is also their objective. We will build rockets. We will launch them at you even if some of them may not reach your territory. We will launch them from civillian buildings because we know you care about lives of civillians. You will think twice before launching anything back, and when you do, you will be blamed by the world for killing innocents. We will kill as many of your civilians as we can, by our hands. We will brake their limbs and hold them hostages, even if they are the citizens of other countries. And when you retaliate, the world will blame you for what you have done. The world must understand that by killing your people we fight for our future, and give us everything we need. This will be glorious, and you will die, and we will prosper, and the world will forget we are the killers, and remember you as killers. We will throw every resource we have for that to happen, be it the money we got as a humanitarian aid for our citizens or baby dolls that should be indistinguishable from dead children with some mosaic. Oops we forgot the mosaic. You didnt see it. You are the killers."

I would imagine because in the west there is a ton of pressure to side with Israel no matter what, to the point people are losing their jobs for showing any support for Palestine or being critical of Israels actions.

And I've noticed their before and after photos show a before of the suburbs and any after photos showing the city. Cheap tricks. Not that I doubt the main message, but it cheapens the integrity.

We shouldn't take any single news source at face value, every new source has biases, including the political environment it publishes in. The more traditional newer sources like the BBC and Reuters and AP, have the Western bias, and the West is aligned with Israel. So it's difficult for those organizations to talk about the human toll inside of Gaza.

Al Jazeera is based in Qatar, and funded by the Qatari government. They've demonstrated themselves to be excellent reporters, but they have the biases of their environment as well. And some of that bias includes pro Palestinian sentiment.

Net net, the Arab language reporters are more likely to get data directly from Arab sources, Al Jazeera is more likely to have reporters inside of Palestine, and Al Jazeera has the appetite to show the human toll inside of the Gaza strip.

I can't speak for the non-English version, but the English version of Al Jazeera is biased in what they cover, but when they do speak of things I have not noticed any blatant lies.

To the credit of the Western reporters, they're not denying that there's a human tragedy in Gaza, they're just not talking about it. Are they lying? No. But they are demonstrating a massive bias.

I personally consider Al Jazeera a credible source, but a single source, and I still take my news as the aggregate of AP, the economist, Reuters, the BBC, the guardian, Al Jazeera. We can't rely on any single organization to provide us objectivity, cuz everybody has biases. We have to synthesize an approximation of truth by what is said and not said by the various reporters

Here's an article that showed up on Lemmy, and it talks about biases as well. The article is very biased, but it doesn't change the fact the biases they point out are demonstrable and real. So it's interesting to read https://www.medialens.org/2023/the-absolute-right-to-commit-war-crimes-gaza-israel-and-labour-opposition/ to me it just reinforces we have to get our news from multiple sources, with multiple biases.

Because Lemmy is just as hell-bent on making Israel look like the only bad guy in that conflict as Aljazeera is.

Paying to knock them down or refurbish them for Israeli settlers once they're done and shrunk Gaza. This is all the long game of Israel finally paying off. The constant stick pokes finally got a response they could use to justify the genocide they've always wanted.

Even more disgusting is so much of the world is doing fuck all AGAIN. So many times we've seen similar circumstances play out to the same end and every time those we could do something don't.

On the contrary, they already said that once they're done destroying whatever is left, they will stop providing anything to Gaza.

They'll probably still keep up the air, sea and land blockades though, so good luck to anyone else trying to help.

Would it be a a final solution of sorts? Sounds familiar

Maybe the conflict is better than the solution.

Please expound.