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What if one of them was your daughter? Your sister? Your niece or cousin or best friend? What would you do to bring them home? You would do whatever it takes. Karina, Liri, Daniella, and Agam, we haven’t forgotten you, and we will do everything we can to bring you home. Whatever it takes.

Can you explain to yourselves why you chose to condemn Russia in every second post but chose not to condemn Hamas?

Is there such a thing as a proportionate response to rape?

It's not political, it's basic humanity. Bring the children back home. Now.

What will help you f***ing get it?!

Rape must be condemned

An Israeli soldier NEVER put a knife into a baby's skull. Today I absolutely know that this cannot be said about Hamas.

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.@AbuAliEnglishB1: "AlJazeera saves Israel from the lie that it is responsible for the attack on the hospital. Attached here is a recording of Aljazeera's live broadcast today against the background of Gaza. Pay attention to the broadcast time on the right. 18:59 - In the background we can see a failed launch that crashes inside the Gaza strip - exactly at the time when the red alert warning was activated across Israel. The line of reports running at the bottom of the page talks about the elimination of Hamas commander Iman Nofal so that the broadcast is certainly from today. Do you remember that I wrote to you that the incident was first reported around 19:10? That is, a reasonable period of time of about ten minutes from the moment of the impact to the Gaza news channels. Here is live proof courtesy of Aljazeera - a launch from Gaza is responsible for the impact inside the Gaza Strip" "Attached also on a Hamas-identified channel: a preliminary report on the attack on the hospital at 19:10 this evening. The schedule is perfect!!!" Thanks to the “Hot News” Telegram channel for the video! (To summarize:) "A rocket intended to kill Israeli civilians hit a hospital in Gaza and now "the Jews are to blame". Upside-down world." t.me/englishabuali/…

Gaza against Gaza

what is a proportional reaction for a women rape?

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The West Is Next!

@EdKrassen The west is next

BREAKING: Hamas appears to be taking more cowardly disgusting moves. The IDF just released these photos showing that Hamas is intentionally blocking roadways heading south in Gaza. This is apparently being done to prevent innocent Palestinians from evacuating ahead of massive attacks by Israel. This is another case of Hamas using women and children as human shield. They are cowards. Does anyone disagree?

@dcinvestor Hey. I'm from Israel. In the jungle, a lioness kills a zebra and immediately eats it to survive. During war, fighters die and it turns out that innocent people are killed during the fighting. But what do you think should be done with "people" who kill people just for fun?

When I was younger back in ~2008, I worked and lived in the middle east for close to 2 years. First in Saudi Arabia (KSA) and then UAE. I was working with a US company, but all of my clients were based in the region. While there, I lived and worked closely with people from all over the region, and I had the opportunity to travel across most of it (save for Israel, because back then, if you had that stamp in your passport, you weren't easily getting back into KSA or even UAE). I found the region to be a warm and hospitable place, probably because of the people who I worked with, who were gracious guides and hosts when I traveled. Most of the people I worked with were Lebanese and some were Palestinian. They grew up through civil and international wars, and it deeply shaped how they lived their lives. They were some of the brightest minds from their respective countries, and they almost never talked about any ancient hatreds they may have harbored. All they wanted for themselves and their families were lives free of conflict. They didn't want their kids to grow up the way they did, so many no longer lived in the countries from which they originated. Many preferred the stability of a place like UAE to their home countries. It's easy to dehumanize people from afar, or even forget that they are people. I grew up in a small town where my American high school classmates used to callously joke about "turning the Middle East into a glass parking lot and starting over." I was excited at the prospect of recent moves towards Middle East peace, and not for the first time in my life. I was almost shocked when I learned that the US was close to brokering a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia and Israel. I thought about how years ago, if I had that stamp in my passport, I wouldn't have been able to get back into KSA, and I reflected on how much things had changed. Of course, things just changed again, but for the worse. It's easy to forget that most people are decent humans who just want to live their lives in peace and be prosperous and help their families. But terrorists don't care about that. Angry zealots of any stripe don't care about that. They want violence, and they want a reaction of violence. It breaks my heart to see that cycle of hatred and violence be rekindled by the recent Hamas attacks, while still recognizing the real struggles which Palestinians living in Gaza must endure every day. Terrorism is not a legitimate answer, and it almost always ends up bringing greater harm to the people which it claims to help. It is a *dead end*, literally, for those who perpetrate it and for many who are around them. But nation-states must also take great care to ensure they do not become the enemies they seek to smite. History shows us that it's all too easy to lose yourself in the blood lust, even if you feel that it's legitimate retaliation. It is easy to "postpone" your humanity when you find yourself enmeshed in a group which becomes obsessed with achieving victory at any cost. I'd say there is a balance, but if it exists, I have no idea what it is. I won't be so bold as to prescribe a solution, as if there were an easy one, perhaps it would have been found by now. There was a younger and more idealistic version of me who was in college during September 11, 2001 who changed my major from Chemistry and Comp Sci to Government almost on the spot, based on the belief that maybe I had something different to contribute to the world than the path I was on. Now like everyone else, I watch, feeling somewhat helpless, and can only hope things don't get worse, that the toll on innocent civilians of all nationalities can be minimized, and that it does not conflagrate into a new quagmire of regional instability which embroils the rest of the world. 🕯️

BREAKING: Hamas has reportedly just released this footage showing their militants with children they allegedly kidnapped. In the video they also appear to make a child repeat an antisemitic word before he can drink his water. How can anyone support this insanity, this evil, and this pain that is being caused to children and their families? These kids are the definition of “innocent.” They have done nothing wrong to anyone. To believe that Israel has no right to attack back, or try and rescue these children is absurd!

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