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How can a nation be this depraved? It’s 2025, the entire world sees what is happening, and every single day Israel continues to show that it is one of the most evil countries in the world. I am truly at a loss.

Contacting my Congressional Representatives has been pointless; few of them care to do anything about this. Trump has signaled that it will get worse (somehow) for the Palestinians.

And the world sits back and watches this unfold. What are we supposed to do to actually help bring any relief whatsoever to the Palestinian people?

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Even worse than sitting back and watching it unfold, the U.S. continues to supply Israel with more weapons. In my 81 years on this earth, I never expected to watch a live-streamed genocide, much less one in which the U.S. is an active participant. Our tax dollars are undoubtedly paying for these depraved propaganda leaflets. As for contacting my congressional representatives, I’m saddled with John Fetterman.

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Genocidal criminality continues - I ‘m not sure if I can read any more, what good is it if I can’t stop it? What good is anything if we can’t stop this?

Meanwhile 22 Palestine Action members are beginning 2025 in jail - some uncharged on remand - in UK prisons for peaceful actions against Elbit Systems UK, the largest Israeli company producing land weapons for the IDF. Elbit also produce the notorious quadcopters

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It’s becoming increasingly challenging and shameful to identify as an American. It feels akin to carrying the stigma of leprosy!

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Don't worry. The many like me opposed to this diabolical genocide, in Australia and elsewhere in the world, feel like shaking our complicit morally corrupt governments off our shoulders. Like a dog shaking fleas. You're not alone in America and have friends in resistance worldwide. It's just so hard figuring how to stop it all.

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Thank you for that information about the number killed in the first week of 2025, I will make a sign to that effect and add it to my vigil sign that informs Americans who pass me in their cars that Palestinian lives matter and that 50,000 are dead and counting.

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Would be interesting to know what Hama's messages to Gazans have been.

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Hamas does not need messages.The Israelis brutal treatment of the Palestinian people for 76+ years says it all. The people are fully aware as is the world of what is happening in Palestine. Sad that sufficient numbers of the global the population especially our youth are not demonstrating in the streets against this genocide. Israel is key to the US hegemony and is being used as an example to deter any country from opposing this.We will all pay a heavy price for allowing this to continue eventually.

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Israel Has No conscience.

It willingly exposes itself as a rogue state. Nothing can stop it.

It is the sole cause of antisemitism.

No reasonably minded person wants to dislike any country.

Israel forces antisemitism onto every one. like it or not.

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No . I refuse to be anti-Semitic . I don’t buy Netenyahu and co’s line that being anti Zionist is being anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. I never forget the Jewish people who are actively speaking out against this Genocide all over the world, inc in UK on every national (monthly) march, and a group that hold weekly demonstrations outside the abode of the Israeli Ambassador to UK - Tzipi Hotovely - (who was calling for Gaza to be destroyed back in Jan 2024) a sickening mouthpiece for the Settler movement who stated “the Nakba is an Arab lie”. She is a political far right religiously driven Likud politician, we have to remember the politics in this. Would we be anti-American or anti-Christian because they have elected a Fascist?

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It is so shameful how Israel and US governments are ignoring all international human rights laws and committing atrocities on other human beings. I think I will not be out of line to term Israeli Jews as animals.

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I don’t really see anything inherently wrong with the leaflets. Let’s be honest: tens of thousands have died in Gaza because Hamas is willing to sacrifice civilians to gain political power. It’s not like Israel cares about civilian casualties—far from it—but the real question is, why don’t the people of Gaza care enough about their own lives to tear these retards down? At some point, self-preservation has to kick in.

From my personal perspective, why would I—or anyone I care about—willingly be put in peril because of a bunch of idiots who just want to jerk off their egos? It’s like committing suicide by Israel. Whether it’s propaganda or not, these leaflets highlight a truth: Hamas exploits their own people, and that’s something Gaza’s population should confront for their own survival.

Hamas’s operational plan is literally this: cause as many civilian casualties as possible, creating enough suffering to pressure Israel into stopping. The death toll isn’t a side effect—it’s part of the strategy. And what’s worse is that the population allows themselves to be used as pawns in this horrific cycle.

Honestly, it reminds me of that South Park episode, Faith Hilling (S16E03), where a train is barreling down the tracks, and instead of getting out of the way, people just stand there yelling "Oh Long Johnson" before the train smashes them. It’s the same vibe—staying in harm’s way while blindly following absurd, self-destructive leadership.

I get that there are humanitarian laws and ideals to consider, but in the end, it’s about survival. We’re just Homo sapiens—a somewhat clever, hairless ape—and the basic goal is to keep living.

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Suggest you do more reading on the history of Palestine and not just accept the information released by right wing media sources. There is sufficient historical information available written by Jewish historians to verify the genocidal colonial actions of the US and its attack dog Israel.While I do not believe in violence and have a strong belief in the ten commandments I do believe the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves.

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I’d like to clarify that while I’m not an expert, I’ve been actively searching for information to better understand the situation, including the history of the conflict. I’ve gone to considerable lengths to expand my perspective, exploring a variety of sources to challenge and broaden my worldview.

I watch Al Jazeera daily, follow Francesca Albanese, regularly watch Breaking Points, read Zeteo, keep up with Eye on the Middle East, and have also watched a few Norman Finkelstein videos to gain deeper insights into the historical and political dynamics. After 15 months of this—consistently immersing myself in left-wing media and different perspectives, trying to find the rationality behind all of this—I’m still baffled by this behavior.

Don’t get me wrong, the ultra-Zionists and ultra-Orthodox Jews are no different in my eyes. Their behavior is just as baffling—so irrationally retarded—driven by ancient fairytale books written thousands of years ago.

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‘ tens of thousands have died in Gaza because Hamas is willing to sacrifice civilians to gain political power ‘ for all your immersing yourself in left wing media as you say (I trust yr not inc Al Jazeera under that heading) your opening statement proves you haven’t got it if you still read this Genocide as Hamas’s doing. I could go on but I’d be wasting my time.

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Ok, so what is happening now, even though it has roots in the past, is literally due to about 3,000 militants rushing over the border, killing in the most barbaric way around 1,200 people, injuring over 7,000, and kidnapping more than 240. If we go tit for tat, this is the last action that triggered such a response.

Their goal was to capture people and, through that, gain political power. Part of this calculation involved anticipating retaliation from Israel. They must have looked at the situation and thought something like, "Hmm, we can kidnap a few soldiers or civilians, and that will lead to retaliation, which will likely kill hundreds, maybe thousands, of people. But I don’t care about the people—I care about the JUST cause, for which I’m willing to sacrifice them."

It’s like Lord Farquaad from Shrek: “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

Why would I, as a civilian, accept—even remotely—the idea that I or someone I care about could be killed because a bunch of brainwashed retards want to keep 240 captives to further their power goals?

By the way, in general, we are living in a deterministic universe. There’s no such thing as changing the past or dealing in “what ifs.” What happened had to happen because it’s the culmination of states and actions leading up to it. Therefore, it doesn’t matter much what happened in the past—all you can do is focus on improving the future.

And if you think this, in any way, shape, or form, improves the lives of people in Gaza, then honestly—WTF.

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my man got south park brain

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I come back to the same question throughout all of this. Why waste time and efforts to send these propaganda leaflets, if the final goal is to ethnically cleanse Gaza? If the goal is to make Gaza inhabitable and Gazans desperate to leave, which is well on its way if not already, does this turn on Hamas effort even needed?

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