• WuTang @lemmy.ninja
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    and the voice of a british girl (i have nothing against her) seems to worth more than the victims. strange that you need a crying girl to measure a disaster when the victims are not white.

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      She’s British Palestinian, it makes sense that a British citizen strikes a chord with the British media.

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        She’s British Palestinian, it makes sense that a British citizen strikes a chord with the British media.

        No it is not. I have litterally zero relation with the middle east, arabs and co but I am disgusted deep to my guts by this fucking genocide that we, moreover, are imposed to support!

        There’s not better demonstration of racism and nastiest

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            they are killing civilians in mass, where is the opinion? where’s the link between a Hamas squad and 2 000 000 of civilians???

            anyway. …

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              2 000 000 of civilians

              When did nearly every man, woman, and child in Gaza die?

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              Your opinion that non-british people would strike a chord with British people as well or better than a British person. As was previously noted: most people didn’t give a shit about brown people dying until the headline said “British”, and then suddenly it mattered.

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      People need to relate. It’s easier for the West to relate to a british person than a Palestinian person. It’s hard to relate to just Palestinian because a significant amount is a part of Hamas, and Hamas wants me dead because I am not Muslim. Hamas was democratically elected. That means a majority of Palestinians think their way is the right way. That little british-palestinian didn’t vote for Hamas. I can relate to her. It’s hard to relate to people that democratically elected a group that wants to kill me.

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        Correction, the election that gave Hamas power was 17 yrs ago, half the population of Gaza is under 18. Half the population of Gaza was not even born yet when the last election took place.

        If memory serves, that’s also around the time Netanyahu was funding Hamas. Your post blames children who couldn’t vote for Hamas more than the PM of Israel who was funding them.

        Hopefully this helps you relate more to the children and young adults in Palestine who had no say in their either.

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          If memory serves, that’s also around the time Netanyahu was funding Hamas. Your post blames children who couldn’t vote for Hamas more than the PM of Israel who was funding them.

          I cannot believe how much international media has ignored this simple fact even though it was all over Israeli papers…

          Yes, Bibi funded Hamas to increase their radicalization and make it possible to commit genocide.

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        It’s hard to relate to just Palestinian because a significant amount is a part of Hamas, and Hamas wants me dead because I am not Muslim.

        Hmmm, why do you think a “significant” amount is Hamas and that Hamas is out to kill non-Muslims?

        If it makes you feel any better, I’m an ex Muslim so most Muslim countries want me killed or stripped of my rights because it’s not okay to de-convert.

        Hamas was democratically elected

        That’s a gross simplification of what happened. Since half the people in Gaza are under 18, there are only few left of those 40% (a very tight election btw) adults who voted for Hamas in 2006. Hamas also then kicked out all the other Palestinian parties from Gaza, so not exactly “democratically elected”.

        The reason Hamas has support is because Israel is killing civilians and these civilians have no escape and no army except for Hamas militants. It’s not because Hamas are “wonderful” or any shit like that.

        That means a majority of Palestinians think their way is the right way.

        Really bad conclusion. Even if you think Hamas was “democratically elected” (last election was 16 years ago… such democracy), how does that make you think the majority of Palestinians think this is the right way? Again, many parties were running (Palestine is not a two-party state), and Hamas got 40%. But you forget all the Palestinian diaspora outside Palestine and everyone who couldn’t vote. That being said, this is really bad math since 40% isn’t even majority and a lot of those who voted for this in 2006 are dead now because only 2.4% (or something) of the Gaza population makes it beyond the age of 65.

        That little british-palestinian didn’t vote for Hamas.

        Even if they did, would they deserve to die under the rubble of their own home? No, neither do the Palestinians. There is also a big chance this kid’s parents supported Hamas since they live in Gaza and there are “options” in Gaza.

        It’s hard to relate to people that democratically elected a group that wants to kill me.

        Yeah, when you paint imaginary and generalized pictures of Palestinians in your head, it becomes hard to “relate” to them.