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In reply to the discussion: Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100 [View all]
twodogsbarking
(14,986 posts)13. I'm all in.
Aldous Huxley famously quoted: "It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'"
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Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100 [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
May 2025
OP
I have full confidence in you to find the fallacy imbedded in this question.
Beastly Boy
May 18
#126
You mean the UN agency UNRWA - the lifeline for Palestinians - that Israel destroyed?
AloeVera
May 2025
#103
Yes, an independently confirmed fantasy widely covered in the media as if it were fact-based. Their mistale.
Beastly Boy
May 18
#123
Thank you. Very helpful indeed. Something that you previously called a fantasy being confirmed as fact
Beastly Boy
May 18
#146
Ain't that the truth? The influence of AIPAC and the other pro-Israeli lobbyists, as well as our historically....
FadedMullet
May 2025
#4
I don't get the part where Israel is defending itself by killing women and children.
Permanut
May 2025
#79
Do you get the part where Israel is defending itself against Hamas, the Houhtis, Islamic Jihad, Iran, and Syria?
Beastly Boy
May 2025
#83
I Missed The Part About Blocking Food and Supplies to Women and Children in Mass Starvation
DrFunkenstein
May 2025
#115
I've had distain for Netanyahoo for decades...but don't forget Israel's been...
electric_blue68
May 2025
#60
You're right. I should not have said Jews. I'm usually more careful in distinguishing between Israel's rabid right....
FadedMullet
May 2025
#74
Well a good place to send them might be where they hit with the missiles perhaps??
cstanleytech
May 18
#132
The same targets they are hitting now except doing so not with a single strike but
Beastly Boy
May 18
#136
Your last question is not really a good one since most of us don't know and that's why I'm asking my question.
cstanleytech
May 18
#137
I'm not proposing it. I'm simply wondering why they choose air strikes rather than ground troops.
cstanleytech
May 18
#141
Do we need a solution to the whole issue before we can agree that this slaughter of civilians is wrong?
AloeVera
May 2025
#35
Willfully missing the point and putting words in my mouth to demonize me. Again.
AloeVera
May 18
#145
No need. The absurdity of the same old tired talking points is self-evident.
Beastly Boy
May 2025
#11
If I had all the time in the world, I am sure I could have come up with a weaker response.
Beastly Boy
May 2025
#69
Maybe you can explain how murdering tens of thousands of civilians will free the hostages
Orrex
May 2025
#21
Maybe you can explain how taking and holding the hostages will end civilian deaths.
Beastly Boy
May 2025
#52
Obviously, any link to an apologist would get alerted on for calling them out
muriel_volestrangler
May 2025
#34
I myself would never alert on such a post, although I do understand that it could be considered a call out,
MarineCombatEngineer
May 2025
#36
Not really, you don't have to call out any DU poster, just point to the thread you think it happened in..
EX500rider
May 2025
#63
No need to point to threads, beyond those with "Gaza" in the title
muriel_volestrangler
May 2025
#85
Yep. They will have to live with the stink of genocide they supported.
Hassin Bin Sober
May 2025
#110
Israel already had 10s of thousands of prisoners it held in prison w/o charges
questionseverything
May 2025
#108
And don't you pretend that HAMAs invaded Israel, torturing, maiming, raping, murdering, kidnapping
MarineCombatEngineer
May 2025
#111
You will be hard pressed to find any DUers arguing in favor of the way the Netanyahu's government conducts the war
Beastly Boy
May 2025
#61
In other words, it will never stop. Or until Palestinians are caged up in a dark hell-hole in Libya.
AloeVera
May 18
#150
She's being quite transparent in defending HAMAs and vilifying Israel.
MarineCombatEngineer
May 18
#134
Congrartulations! You found a BBC reporter who editorialized the hell out of what Netanyahu said.
Beastly Boy
May 18
#155
Yes, indeed. Netanyahu doesn't have to "trust in God's power" because he has 1000 pound bombs and fighter jets.
FadedMullet
May 2025
#75
The odd thing is that in the early Bible, the only people with chariots are the baddies
muriel_volestrangler
May 2025
#87
I don't follow Israel/Palestinians/Arabs issues That closely but I have been off & on for decades. This comment from...
electric_blue68
May 2025
#65
Yes, well the Israelis have only been trying it that way for over half a century.
LudwigPastorius
May 18
#151
Trying what? The Israelis have been trying many thubgs for over half a century.
Beastly Boy
May 18
#154