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These people don't feel shame. They're wealthy psychopaths who made it to power.
I wonder what Mr. Rogers would say.
Apparently, Mr Roger’s first episode he spoke against the Vietnam war
A good start. Now we only need people to start realising it's not the 'inaction' of world leaders that's the problem; it's the active support of the genocide.
This may not be the proper place for this, but is there a video or explanation for why Palestine is hated so much by Israel? Germany is no longer seen as entirely evil Nazi's, Japan doesn't have the same stigmas from WWII either. What has Palestine done to warrant the atrocities happening? If it happened in the past, surely, by now, enough time has passed where it just doesn't matter anymore.
Israelis are indoctrinated from their youth to see Palestinians as barbarians trying to kill all Israelis (or Jews as they like to call themselves). This creates a justification for the Israeli colonists to kill all Palestinians because with their twisted logic it is "kill or be killed".
What is remarkable is Israelis frequently project evils committed by themselves in the past against Palestinians. Such as Israelis throwing children in ovens during the Nakba. Or mass the mass rape of Palestinian hostages by Israel/
If Israel accuses Palestinians of something heinous, you can almost guarantee that Israel did that very thing against Palestinians
It's simple; they're living on the land that the zionist project wants. Everything else is just working backwards from that to create ideological justification for wiping them out.
Probably being egged on by USA and Europe for the purposes of keeping the Middle East in line. Most of Israel funding comes from defense spending from the US and other countries. They don't have oil like their rich Arab neighbors. ME do not like Israel around . Also the land was stolen from Palestinians, after WW2.
Japan wasnt invaded and had their population extirpated after. They mostly kept their population there after the war
Me also not like Israel.
(sorry, couldn't help it)
What’s with the constant skip jumping? Is this part of a coherent message that she originally shared. I’m behind her but this format was grating.
In the era of instant gratification, there is no time to breath. Maybe you've caught yourself skipping a post without thinking. Some posts are just too wordy. Our brains filter it out nearly subconsciously. The result of this competitive hyper targeted content delivery is a severely shortened attention span. Thinking is becoming more and more painful.
Also, Ms. Rachel is very amateur at video editing.
Maybe she didn’t script it and she cut out gaps where she considered her next sentence. I don’t use the app but my guess is tiktok has a max on the length of a video so maybe she also cut other lines out so it would fit. I agree, I’m not a fan of choppy editing but I understand that people sometimes want to get a thought out there with just one take
If ever there was a time to stop believing in religious BS.
How TF is any of those gods going to explain this?
You don't need to be religious to perform evil acts the same way you don't need to be religious to perform moral acts.
At best the Israeli government is completely incapable of distinguishing between enemy combatants and civilians/children and at worst is intentionally committing genocide.
Given all the evidence we've seen so far, it's certainly the latter.
Either scenario should be enough for the UN to step in with a heavily armed and permanent peacekeeping force to hold a long lasting ceasefire and start of a many decades long process of peace negotiations, rebuilding, reparations, and war crime court hearings.
Religious people don't have to be bad, yes. That does not magically erase the centuries of history where religion was used as an excuse to perpetrait violence.
Sure, it wouldn't "fix" violence, but you'd have to be a complete moron to fail to understand how the world would be very, very different if it were removed.
To think the world would be no different is literally as dumb as people who argue nothing should be illegal because people do bad things anyways...
No one is saying things would be perfect. They're only saying bad people would have one less excuse.
Are world leaders defending israel for religious reason? Instead of focusing about leaders complicity with the genocide you prefer saying this bs and usrless comment
I can't believe it. It has been less than two weeks and I'm already bumping into another Bloomcole shit take. As an atheist, this chap embarrasses me.
Zionism is Atheistic. It is a racial superiority based movement. Similar to the French colonization of Algeria.
LOOK AT ME! I'M AN ATHEIST!
Great. Getting everyone in Israel and Palestine to drop religion isn't going to happen and therefore isn't a realistic solution.
But yes, you are intellectually superior or whatever. Good for you.