Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates

[Seanchaidh]

Meanwhile, in the Imperial Core

 

[Seanchaidh]

 

[Gergar12]

Haaretz the Israeli liberal newspaper publishes the photos of Palestinians children who are killed.

 

[CM156]

Meanwhile, in the Imperial Core

A requirement for libel, of any sort, is that it has to be untrue.

 

[Seanchaidh]

A requirement for libel, of any sort, is that it has to be untrue.

This is apparently not the case for anything you can tenuously characterize as blood libel against the Israeli Occupation Force. Much like you can't say that AIPAC and CUFI use dollars to influence US politics because tHat'S A tROpe.

 

[Trunkage]

A requirement for libel, of any sort, is that it has to be untrue.

Does it make it different if its a blood libel?

 

[Seanchaidh]

Seems like a reasonable reaction.

 

[Kwak]

Does it make it different if its a blood libel?

Is blood libel a fancy way to say racist?

 

[Seanchaidh]

Is blood libel a fancy way to say racist?

sort of.

blood libel refers to the myth that Jews would use the blood of Christian children to leaven their bread. It's a pretty specific idea, which makes it all the more galling that a newspaper is being accused of it for recognizing the dead children that the Israeli Occupation Force has recently killed in reality-- not myth. Zionist shills have absolutely no scruple about endangering Jewish people by attempting to collapse antisemitism into a collection of beliefs that includes both racist bullshit and true things about Israel.

 

[Dreiko]

A requirement for libel, of any sort, is that it has to be untrue.

Isn't this like calling things "x-phobic", a phobia necessitates fear, but I assure you most people are not literally fearful of groups they get labeled to be phobic against, if anything it is those groups that are phobic of the phobes. Also some groups it is a GOOD IDEA to be afraid of, such as the people who don't wear masks when there's a virus going on, so that doesn't make sense in that way as well, but I digress.


Blood libel is just a catchy term that makes you sound slightly vampiric and edgy, nothing more.

 

[Seanchaidh]

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Heard these two podcast episodes as really useful for gaining deeper context on this ongoing conflict if of any use to anyone looking for, well...context.

Part One: What the Netanyahu Family Did To Palestine - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

<p>Robert is joined by Dana El Kurd to discuss the Netanyahu Family, Zionism and Palestine.</p><p>FOOTNOTES:</p><ol> <li><a href='https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18008697net'>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18008697net</a></li> <li><a...

www.iheart.com

Part Two: What the Netanyahu Family Did To Palestine - Behind the Bastards | iHeart

<p>Robert is joined by Dana El Kurd to continue to discuss the Netanyahu Family.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href='https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com'>https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a><p>See <a href='https://omnystudio.com/listener'>omnystudio.com/listener</a> for...

www.iheart.com

 

[Seanchaidh]

Dahieh or Dahiya Doctrine.

Some analysts have argued that Israel implemented such a strategy during the 2008-09 Gaza War, with the Goldstone Report concluding that the Israeli strategy was "designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population".

Right to defend itself.

FTR, "2008-09 Gaza War" is a link in that wikipedia article to another wikipedia article but for whatever reason this website absolutely refuses to let me post or preview any text containing that link or the address it references.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Oh hey, war crimes as explicit policy, that's neat.

Has anybody let them know that strategic bombing doesn't work?

 

[CM156]

Oh hey, war crimes as explicit policy, that's neat.

War crimes are cringe and totally not poggers.

Has anybody let them know that strategic bombing doesn't work?

The inefficacy of strategic bombing as a doctrine is one of those things that can be argued from an evidence based standpoint, but it intrinsically feels like it should work, ya know?

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

The inefficacy of strategic bombing as a doctrine is one of those things that can be argued from an evidence based standpoint, but it intrinsically feels like it should work, ya know?

Same as anybody using water on a grease fire, sure

 

[Thaluikhain]

Has anybody let them know that strategic bombing doesn't work?

Very much depends on what you are trying to do.

 

[Kwak]

Very much depends on what you are trying to do.

Yeah - define 'work'.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I like to pretend that most people aren't actively genocidal.

You know me: raging optimist.

 

[Kwak]

I like to pretend that most people aren't actively genocidal.

You know me: raging optimist.

In all likelihood we all are just one 'righteous cause' away from it really. Just our threshold for what we consider righteous differs.