The Israeli rescue service Zaka says its paramedics removed more than 260 bodies from a music festival that came under attack by Hamas militants.
The total figure of bodies found is expected to be higher, as other paramedic teams were also working in the area and Zaka added that the bodies “haven’t all been collected yet”.
Early on Saturday morning, Hamas targeted Nova music festival, a techno rave in the desert near the border with Gaza.
Videos shared on social media and by Israeli news outlets showed dozens of festival-goers running through an open field as gunshots rang out. Many hid in nearby fruit orchards or were gunned down as they fled.
I had been pretty much on the Palestinian side of the conflict for some time.
This attack has absolutely burnt any goodwill I had for the Palestinian cause. If Mexico attacked America in this manner, we would likely own everything south of the Gulf of California.
I cannot fathom what Hamas thought would come of this.
“Palestine” is not the one that did this. Hamas is a terrorist group, and their actions do not justify the fact that the Israeli government operates an apartheid state where people are given rights, status, and property on the basis of race, and also participates in the slaughter of innocent people.
This isn’t a “whoever’s worse should lose” situation. Israel commits human rights violations and Hamas is a terrorist group.
Hamas is the governing body of Palestine.
It was Palestine who did this.
Strictly speaking, it’s the governing body of Gaza, which hasn’t held elections in well over a decade. The West Bank is governed by the party Fatah, which is much less militant.
There is, however, the awkward truth that the West Bank has also not held elections in a long time, precisely because Hamas would probably win them.
At last count, Hamas had something like a 75 percent approval rating in Gaza.
The support among all Palestinians is just over 50 percent.
Only 14 percent support the opposition party.
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People trash studies constantly as if they know the one thing wrong with it that just makes it all a lie.
No, most studies are pretty damn robust. There are numerous well known statistical analysis methods that fall in line with real life outcomes despite limited n.
Chances are, unless you’re a statistics analyst publishing polls yourself, your methodoligies aren’t better.
You can almost always find the reputable studies papers or methods too. They don’t exactly hide them.
Keep harping about how they’re wrong though when properly cited. It just paints a red flag on your head lol.
Being in their position, I think I’d also support the only group fighting for my liberty and rights, even if they are morally tainted.
By this logic all Iranians support their current Islamist government, which everyone and their mother knows to not be true.
Do you support everything your government does?
My government doesn’t have a 75% approval rating like Hamas does.
I have trouble believing any government truly has such high approval.
which should suggest you something?? you are SO close
Did Germany support everything the Nazis did? No, not every citizen, but it was enough support to give Hitler his rise to power and descend into WWII.
Did Afghanistan support everything the Taliban did? No, but war was the only response to 9/11.
In the end, war sucks and many innocent people will be caught in the crossfire. But, I don’t see any other end result out of this. Israel has been so beaten down by terrorist attacks and hostility since literally the day the country was formed that war is the only way forward. They have tried every other option for the last 50 years.
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No but i still am part of my country. Every thing my government does represents my country and therefore me.
I have to disagree.
That’s why you revolt and form revolutions. But, when a majority of the country is on the wrong side, that becomes the public face of the country.
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Not what I’m saying. If my government does something I disagree with then it’s not really representing me.
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The government represents the people, the people do not represent the government.
That mindset will lead you to boot licking
Everything my government does represents me, even when it doesn’t represent me at all. Actually, nevermind.
That’s like saying when Republicans do something stupid. It’s America. It’s not. There’s far more going on. And that’s just disingenuous.
The lack of nuance displayed around here sometimes is truly disturbing.
“Them versus us” mentality is very prominent in modern society and it’s only gotten worse. Not just in the context of conflicts, it’s a general problem.
Hamas is the governing body of Gaza. They don’t control the West Bank where the majority of Palestinians live.
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No, to be consistent they’d have to say America killed them. No need to switch from blaming a country to blaming an individual citizen.
I think a majority of Americans would admit America killed them.
I think it’s quite obvious they were using the royal ‘you’, as in America (almost every American assumes everyone else is also American in the internet unless otherwise stated).
And they’re right, American soldiers did unspeakable things in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that doesn’t mean all Americans are responsible for the decisions those soldiers made.
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I do hope you’ll appreciate that everyone isn’t American though and assuming any given poster is is borderline insulting.
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Forget about consistency, this is just flat out incorrect. You’re trying to equate two different distinct sets of people, one of which contains the other.
Group A (superset) includes Bob, Alice, Sue, Mike, Cole, Anthony, Tony, Joanna, and Jerry.
Group B (subset #1) includes Bob, Alice, Sue, Mike. They voted for Anthony to run group A and received a majority, so Anthony assumed power.
Group C (subset #2) includes Anthony, Sue, Mike, and Joanna. They form a government and military over/of group A. They kill a bunch of people.
Group C is NOT EQUAL TO group A. Period. No argument, no “but what if”, they are two different groups. Note that Cole, Tony and Jerry (group D) are flatly not represented in any way by the actions of group C.
Are they? Palestine isn’t an independent state, so how is their governance determined?
I hate the phrasing “terrorist group” here. Not because what happened here wasn’t an atrocity, but because people generally refuse to call state-backed violence “terrorist” violence. The word terrorism is incredibly broad, easily describing a ton of things Israel does. Yet, we refuse to call them a terrorist organization.
Israel slaughtered hundreds of protesters 4 years ago in Gaza.
Israel and Egypt have been blockading the Gaza strip in violation of the GCIV since 2007.
In 2014, a triple-homicide was committed. Israel claimed it was Hamas, and arrested hundreds of Palestinians. Hamas sent rockets into Israel, killing 2 people, and Israel initiated Operation Protective Edge, killing thousands of Palestinians.
Not to mention the entire Israel-Palestine conflict can be traced back about 100 years, where imperialist Britain endorsed the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Balfour Declaration. Eventually leading to the formation of Israel in the late 40s and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, forcing nearly a million natives to move to make way for Israel.
“terrorism” is politically charged language with the intent of making us sympathize with a certain side. Of course we’ll side with the “Israel state” and against the “Hamas terrorist group”. The language used to describe these groups already prescribes how we should view them. Western media will never describe Israel’s atrocities as terrorist actions, so people will dismiss the slaughter of tens or even hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinians as “just war”.
Palestinians overwhelmingly support Hamas. They allowed this shit to fester.
We shouldn’t conflate the people of Isreal with the extremist State of Isreal, we shouldn’t conflate the people of Palestine with Hamas. Atrocities have been committed on both sides and each one is an atrocity, but the fact remains that the Palestinian people are living under an apartheid and therefore should be supported despite acts committed by extremists in it’s name. This situation shouldn’t be reduced to a simplistic one-sided team sport. Palestine still needs liberating.
It’s spelled Israel
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It’s difficult to not conflate them with hammas when 80% supprts them and celebrated the attack
Source, post-attack?
Just like in Israel…
Honest question: What would you do if you were born there?
Try to make peace with my neighbors and not commit terrorist attacks against innocent civilians?
It’s pretty hard to make peace with people who are literally taking your homes. Perhaps if that wasn’t happening, it would become a lot easier to make peace.
You can’t justify it. There’s no excuse for anybody to ever commit pure evil terrorist attacks that intentionally target civilians.
Understanding it isn’t justifying it. Understanding it is how you prevent it from happening again.
seek refuge somewhere else.
You expect me to believe you would simply leave behind the place you were born and all of your loved ones?
Already did so actually and it wasn’t even comparable to the situation in gaza so yes , I would definitely leave … I don’t care if you don’t believe me.
Edit: actually you can search my comments from before the recent attacks and find a few that support the fact i am an expatriate.
Fair enough. From what country are you a refugee, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’ll get back to you once you dismiss the fantasy version of the discussion we are having and ask a question in line with what we have actually said
edit: in case you are really confused, you said you didn’t believe I could leave , no one said i am a refugee…
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I stop reading and ask for a refund for the book.
Where are you getting this figure from? I see ~29% from this poll:
https://pcpsr.org/en/node/955
conducted in 2023.
your source is about voting, voting implies approval but not voting doesn’t imply lack of approval…
electing them as leaders is not the same as approving their actions. even then, from your own source 47% of the polled in gaza would vote for hamas. that is the lower bound of their approval %.
one source cites 75% approval : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/gaza-strip-controls-s-know-rcna119405
My source is a comprehensive poll covering a bunch of different topics. Most centrally:
which isn’t even close to 80% no matter how you look at it.
Your NBC News one says this:
which is a very different thing than general approval…
Hamas isn’t a rational actor fighting for a free Palestine; their one and only goal - literally written into their charter - is to eradicate every Jew from the land by force.
Every Jew they kill is a victory for them; there’s nothing more to it.
And Lemmy has a hard on for the Hamas antisemitic terrorists . What else is new
Just hexbear.
Your heart is not whole. Seek healing.
The us doesn’t hold Mexico or Mexicans in an open air concentration camp we regularly demolish buildings in with war munitions for simple allegation with no due process.
I’m going to bet it’s going to come out that this is essentially Iran and other countries sending mercs to act as Hamas just as the last major offensive was.
The native Americans would beg to differ about how the United States treated the people who were here before them.
I’m talking about Mexico today currently as was the person I replied to, and yes as a native I’m aware how shitty the us still treat its native populaces.
Shitty treatment? They were genocided and those that survived were pushed into little strips of leftover land. Hundreds of millions of colonists are happily living on the stolen land with plenty of excuses not to leave.
Did you just 'splain colonisation to a native person?
If someone minimizes genocide and oppression I’ll explain it to anybody that needs it tbh
C’mon, in the middle of all this shit, it was a small moment of humour.
I for one will take any and all little silver lining I can get in the middle of this shit, even if its just a momentary small laugh.
What part of I’m aware are you confused about. Moreover you’re arguing but you clearly don’t have a point, please get to it.
Well you seem to be claiming the the analogy of the US retaliating in a no holds barred style against a Mexican attack should not be made, because the US hasn’t acted as bad to warrant such an attack. But that is of course beside the point itself as the above poster stated.
The US has done a lot worse than Israel. They annihilated more than 95% of the natives ffs. 5 million people.
Would there be much support if people of Native American ancestry attacked a music festival and killed 500?
They are different situations, I’m not saying you can’t compare them but to do so it’s fairly pointless and irrelevant. I can compare a housecat and then planet Mercury but what honestly is the point?
Arguable to say worse just more and over a longer time since worse is a matter of opinion.
We don’t have to guess, we just need to see how the feds cleared Alcatraz during a peaceful occupation of land that was still native by treaty.
True. The concentration camps on and near the US-Mexican border aren’t open air.
There was already an article out that said Iran helped hamas.
Tehran is saying they didn’t do it. But articles from wsj and the like have said they did help.
There is no justification for what they’ve done. Senseless violence breeds senseless violence, but we can still blame those who do violence. Everyone subjected to Israel’s abuse isn’t killing civilians.
At this point it seems clear to me that Hamas is just using the Palestinians and doesn’t actually care about them.
You’re arguing a point I never made. Point to where I excuse the behavior, I’ll wait.
Duh, they were an ultra religious sect Israel allowed to exist because they were actively fighting the same enemy, secular Palestinians.
Apologies. I didn’t mean to suggest you were excusing it, but my wording certainly implies I did. I just wanted to say that observing the geopolitical cause is different from excusing the murderers – which you’ve just pointed out.
Israel’s far right government and Hamas have an unholy union where they hurt Israeli and Palestinian civilians alike. Too many people conflate this with all Israelis and all Palestinians though :/
Bingo. Most Israeli aren’t zionists but all accounts, most Palestinians aren’t terrorists or even Muslim at this point iirc though frankly the religion is just an excuse to be shitty on all sides. Christians need an Israeli controlled holy land for their end days to happen, Islam wants all of the holy land to exclude Jews especially but Christians also, Israel wants all of Israel because a book says so. It’s fucking absurd.
Can you link where that was determined to be the case in their last offensive? Would genuinely like to read this if true.
Tag me if you get something I need to read about this.
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Dont forget the paraded naked woman that was spit on by people. Hamas are savages who are funded by Iran
Had it been attacks on only military targets, that’d be one thing. I understand that this has been a long, drawn-out conflict and Israel has killed a large number of civilians themselves and have, meter-by-meter, been taking more land away from the Palestinians (essentially committing slow-motion genocide). I get that, Israel the country isn’t innocent, BUT civilians should never be considered legitimate targets by either side in the conflict. Hamas isn’t helping their cause any with these attacks.
Hamas is not Palestine. There’s why they’ve done this. The attack and all their actions just hurt Palestinians, and they don’t care. They use Palestinians regularly as living hostages.
This was an Iranian funded terrorist group, not a Palestinian liberation group. They claim to help the latter, but this attack makes it obvious they don’t give a shit about Palestinians, they just sent to hurt Israelis. Everyone is better off if the group can be destroyed.
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I’m starting to wonder if that is the point. Groups like Hamas thrive on anger and conflict.
I’m both glad and sorry that this is what made you understand, hamas was like that ever since u remember myself, Israel never start those clashes. They always shoot hiding behind kindergartens, women and elderly people while the shoot thousands of missiles.
The only difference between previous ones to this one is that the caught us off guard
so 0.05% of the population can make you change your political view about 2 millions people(plus people in west bank because fuck em right?)
then you never supported a free palestine
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This is who they have always been. In over half a century of conflict they have only ever chosen terrorism. Never once have they tried to achieve their goals through passive resistance, despite the historical lessons of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr, that this is the only strategy that works against overwhelming military force.
And the reason they haven’t tried it is because peaceful coexistance is not their goal. They want Israel destroyed, and have shown the world for the better part of a century that they will settle for literally nothing less.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/kings-message-of-nonviolence-has-been-distorted/557021/
This does not apply to other renown activists like Nelson Mandela nor does it apply to revolutionary movements like the American Revolution.
You don’t know what you’re talking about lol
That is patently false. Of course Palestinians have been using non violent civil society tactics for a very long time. What do you think the vilified BDS movement was/is about? Looking for a Mandela figure? Look up Marwan Barghouti. The problem is that every time moderate Palestinians become even a tiny bit successful at making their voice heard internally or externally, either Israel in an official capacity or the dominant nationalist Israeli political powers and their allies within and without move in to completely stifle them. This in turn allows only the most extreme Palestinian voices to survive, since in the absence of a public opinion with a Conscience and a Decency to listen to NV movements, extreme violent movements are the only ones that can thrive on persecution.
Palestinian passive resistance is well documented.
You should educate yourself on things like the Great March of Return. Palestinians (and yes, Hamas too) marched peacefully for over a year near the border fence that entraps them. Israel responded by killing over 200 people and injuring over 9000.
If you’re in the mood to get angry, go to youtube and look up interviews with IDF soldiers who did the shooting. Many smile and laugh as they brag about shooting unarmed civilians.
ROFL
Most protested peacefully, far from the border fence. However, groups mainly comprising young men approached the fence and engaged in violent actions directed towards the Israeli side. Israeli officials argued that Hamas used the demonstrations as cover for launching attacks against Israel
exactly, but that won’t stop people from continuing to try to justify it, due to their own inherent anti-semitism and anger at the christian church from crimes committed centuries ago