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Thank you for writing so clearly, for offering the gifts of your pen. For finding words to address something so horrifying and maddening and agonizing and heartbreaking that words so often feel impossible. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ

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Zionists are embedded in every major European and American/Canadian media group. They suppress news unfavorable towards Israel. Full stop.

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Dumb cunt.

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look who is talking...

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I donโ€™t think thereโ€™s any going back for humanity anymore. We have seen the worst side of the very people we elected to protect us. If you still think you are on the right side of history by supporting, may God condemn you.

These past seven months Iโ€™ve seen what I thought was only present in history books.

Iโ€™ve seen women, children and men brutally killed and I would never forget that.

Iโ€™ve seen women weeping over dead bodies of their loved ones and I would never forget that.

Iโ€™ve seen people beg for a ceasefire and I would never forget that.

Iโ€™ve seen a little boy forgetting his slippers to reach a safe space because he wanted to carry his little sisterโ€™s medications and I would never forget that.

Iโ€™ve seen mass graves and I would never forget that.

Iโ€™ve seen children with charred skin on a stretcher weeping and I would never forget that.

Iโ€™ve seen beheaded babies, how can I ever forget this?

Iโ€™ve seen an entire population wiped out. What world is this?

The countless heartbreaking images that Iโ€™ve seen are etched to my soul and I will forever live with the guilt of letting it happen.

I will forever live with the pain of all these men women and children that Iโ€™ve seen, dead, alive, crying, begging.

Is this humanity?

If it is, we need to find a new word because it certainly does not reflect โ€œbenevolenceโ€

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I am so frustrated and saddened by humanity. Generally I really want to believe the world is good. But now I know that there is so much evil in the world that people will willingly lie about murdered babies so that when babies are actually murdered, ordinary citizens need to look at the actual images to know the truth. I don't want to see those photos, but they needed to be included. Thank you for your writing.

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There is no Genocide

Stop falling for this Liberal bullshit.

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At this point, those who deny genocide must explain how it is not. There is too much evidence showing that genocide is indeed underway, and has been for quite some time.

See "EXPLAINER: The arrest warrants sought by the ICC for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant strengthen the argument that genocide is being executed right now"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/explainer-the-arrest-warrants-sought

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Propaganda.

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Denial is an intrinsic part of delusion. It's also the tenth stage of genocide.

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How do you cal a state rum by terrorists that attack a group of innocent people. And then play victim when they get struck back?

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Israel is the state committing terror at this point. Palestine, remember, isn't even a state -- that's the source of this whole conflict.

No matter what atrocity Hamas (which must be differentiated from the Palestinian people as a whole) may have committed on October 7, no state is permitted under international law to respond with genocide. Genocide is never permitted under any circumstances. Even if Hamas had attacked genocidally (and I don't believe that one could say that, as they never had the capacity), Israel is entirely in the wrong in its totality, ferocity and severity of response.

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Palestine has had 6 offers to be a state, and rejected them all.

Hamas is the ruling party in the Gaza strip, which it has governed since 2006 - one year after Israel's complete and unilateral withdrawal. They were elected, then massacred the oppositions, and have since cancelled elections. That's their problem, not Israel's.

The definition of genocide does not apply as there is neither intent nor demonstrable inability to recover the population.

The term is juicy, but your application is faulty.

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"His head severed from his little body by a two-thousand-pound bomb made in America, held by a mad man as evidence โ€“ (in)human evidence โ€“ for the entire world to see."

So it wasn't someone holding a blade or metal object to behead the baby but the result of debris from a bomb that did it. Civilian casualty is inevitable in war and the Geneva Convention states that civilians cannot be used to obstruct military objectives (military targets) even though combatants should not target civilians.

The main comparison of what is going on in Gaza is when the Allied/Soviet soldiers bombed Germany in 1944 and 1945. Over 500,000 German civilians (yes, women and children included) died from the bombings. Another 200,000 German civilians died from the famine in 1946-1947. We did not call that a genocide, we did not prosecute the Allied nor Soviet army for any war crimes they committed on the German civilian population including rape or murder.

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Iโ€™m not exactly sure what point youโ€™re trying to make. Yes, the bombing of a tent village is what the crime is. Yes. Itโ€™s a crime against humanity.

Crimes against humanity occur both in peacetime and in hostilities.

While what happened in the Rafah massacre was one incident, genocide is a pattern. That pattern had been established before Sundayโ€™s massacre. Thatโ€™s just the latest iteration.

Genocides have little, if anything, to do with the total number of people killed, either in any one instance or even theoretically in total. Only one out of the five subsections of Article II of the Genocide Convention deals with death. That is to say, 80% of whatโ€™s defined as genocide is nonlethal.

As far as your examples from WWII, all of those instances of what we now call war crimes and crimes against humanity were not considered crimes when they were committed. We had to create law for those crimes to be recognized, which they were under the Geneva Convention of 1948.

Iโ€™ve written about this topic before, which you are welcome to peruse my essay: https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/why-what-israel-is-doing-is-genocide

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No, because:

1. the attack was on a set of trailers over a Km, away from the tents - not aimed at the civilians, but at the terrorists in the trailers (no intent to kill civilians)

2. the munition used were 2 bombs of 17 kg each (no massive indiscriminate use of weaponry)

3. the explosion was a secondary one of the arsenal Hamas was hiding between the trailers and the civilian encampment (use of human shields by a terrorist organisation, and loss of civilian protections by turning it into a military compound holding masses of weapons)

4. there was no intention to blow up the arsenal (at least, not by the IDF)

5. if all logic fails, and understanding that the IDF are not idiots, why would they attack a civilian encampment and use a ridiculous amount of explosives exactly on the weeks of the "all eyes on Rafah" campaign?

There is a genocide, yes, but not the one you claim. The real one is being perpetrated by Hamas and the other Islamist terrorists in the area, against both Palestinians (used as fodder) and Jews (on extremist ideological targeting). The problem is many fall for their propaganda, defend, and spread them because they cannot see the bigger picture.

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BS

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Scintillating argument.

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More BS.

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Denial (i.e., simple repudiation) is one of the most primitive defense mechanisms known.

Iโ€™ve backed up all of my assertions and arguments. You might want to think twice about what you believe you know. Thatโ€™s really all I ask of you, at this point. Ask yourself how you know what you believe you know.

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You're ignorance and pride far outweigh my denial. It's been nice chatting with you, but we are speaking different languages.

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Genocide is not limited to any one group. And it is not limited by dint of the history of any one group, I'm sorry to say.

I'm looking at this from a social science point of view. My understanding of what is occurring has nothing to do with any animus. However, if you are stuck in the POV that what many, many people are saying MUST be anti-semitic -- and not only that, but one of the worst instances of antisemitism known -- then you may yourself be overly biased to the point of blindness. You must look at the definition of genocide as defined in the Geneva Convention on Genocide and compare that to the facts on the ground. There's no other way in this situation to obtain an objective understanding.

Have you read the application by South Africa to the International Court of Justice?

Have you read the UN Report by the Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Territories?

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I donโ€™t believe a word Ms. Albanese ever says, nor do I believe the South African application. IMHO there is no genocide being committed by Israel, far from it. We will have to agree to disagree on this matter.

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I have found Albanese to be impeccable and her work entirely professional.

The South African application is strong and clearly applicable -- if it were not pertinent, the Court would have thrown out the case on jurisdictional grounds. It took up the case and have rendered multiple judgments in SA's favor.

Respectfully, this is not a matter of your humble opinion. This is a matter not only of reality but of law. You are invited to check the link that I had listed earlier, as well as several essays that I have penned here.

"South Africa has charged Israel with genocide, and the case is strong."

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/south-africa-has-charged-israel-with

"The transformation of Israeli society since October 7"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/the-transformation-of-israeli-society

"Why what Israel is doing is genocide while October 7 was not" https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/why-what-israel-is-doing-is-genocide

"Israel's inversion of reality linked to its reversal of morality"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/israels-inversion-of-reality-linked

"The reproduction of genocidal culture"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/the-reproduction-of-genocidal-culture

"Similarities between quotes of Israeli officials & RTLM radio broadcast in Rwandan genocide"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/similarities-between-quotes-of-israeli

"Genocide won't stop with the removal of one man"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/genocide-wont-stop-with-the-removal

"People say what's happening in Gaza is merely ethnic cleansing. But ethnic cleansing is itself genocide."

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/people-say-whats-happening-in-gaza

"It Was Always the Land"

https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/it-was-always-the-land

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Albanase takes money for defaming Israel, it's been proven. https://unwatch.org/uns-francesca-albanese-accused-of-financial-misconduct-by-human-rights-watchdog/

She also keeps trying to change the definition of occupation from the one over land, to the one over services (in which case, Elon Musk is occupying the whole world, with Starlink).

I'd reconsider my sources, if it includes her.

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Are you insane still it isnโ€™t a genocide?

Burning alive is self defense?

Beheaded children is self defense?

You got no soul bro you need to re think about your life it isnโ€™t worth it

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Bro, go choke on a dick.

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For an Israel shill you suck. You didn't mention "unprovoked" at least 16 times, not a peep about how Palestinians are a fake people, and no demand to censor speech in America. You need to go back to Hasbara School.

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Your defense argument is old & stale like last yearโ€™s moldy underwear. You may close your eyes to slaughtered women, men and children but thatโ€™s your choice. No one can help the blind and ignorant. The facts are facts.

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โ€œIf you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.โ€ And here you are. Lying and hoping if you just keep doubling down, itโ€™ll make it true.

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I see you like Lenin.

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I see you, miserable zionist. ๐Ÿซต๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

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Care to address the evidence of actual beheaded babies? You would have cried and moaned about it on Oct. 7th, you were the same type of MORON who did that. Yet here it is now, plain as day. SO BE CONSISTENT, THEN. Where's your outrage now?

Oh right, you don't care because to you only the lives of one race matter.

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For an Israel shill you suck. You didn't mention "unprovoked" at least 16 times, not a peep about how Palestinians are a fake people, and no demand to censor speech in America. You need to go back to Hasbara School.

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The Palestinians chose war, the Palestinians attacked defenseless people, the Palestinians killed babies, the old, mothers and fathers, desecrated the deadโ€ฆ

The Palestinians chose warโ€ฆ again and again and againโ€ฆ there is a reason your Arab Neighborโ€™s donโ€™t want you.

All one needs to do is see the shouting celebrating Palestinians raging against Jews in the very countries that have given them sanctuaryโ€ฆ

The Palestinians are the dog that bites the hand that feeds it..,

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You must be a bot Julie. Woo hoo for a very boring and unnecessary tweet

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And you are a useful idiot, or worse someone who is complicit in gaslighting people about who the Palestinians really are.

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Go back and sink in your hole Julie. The world is better off without negativity โ€œKarensโ€ like you. The only gaslighting at this point is the one coming out of both your ends.

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Ahahaโ€ฆ did all those big words confuse you Shay? Well good for you, go back to another media manufactured epithet (look it up).

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Like your moronic tweets are necessary.

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Yeah, let's forget about all those soldiers from the Gaza division enforcing the siege of an open air prison. And how many times did Israel "Mow the Lawn" in the last decade? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7cZSS8eP3l4

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No, letโ€™s not forget about those guysโ€ฆ why are they enforcing, why are soldiers entering? Because Palestinians protect the weapons, the terrorists and cheer when unprotected and innocent people, families,children are murderedโ€ฆ

You are a fool, unwilling to see what is before your very eyes.

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Speaking of folks cheering when unprotected and innocent people are murdered https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/20/israelis-cheer-gaza-bombing.

But now I see why you colonists insist on censorship. No one is buying your BS and you are worried you're gonna end up like Rhodesia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1979/04/15/israel-and-rhodesia-a-double-standard/26a58d86-6303-422c-99cc-eb0936f17737/

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Fake newsโ€ฆPallywood.

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The tribal flex is deeply engrained in you.

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Your mother claiming you weren't born retarded unfortunately turned out to be 'fake news' as well.

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Only thing that is fake is your profile and presence

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Low effort Hasbara might work at CNN or MSNBC, but you need to up your game if you want to convince anyone here. You got to throw in some claims about how Israel embrace LGBTQIDGAF, or figure out a way to tie Gaza to Vladimir Putin.

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There is no genocide being committed by Israelis. Why this obsession with โ€˜Palestineโ€™?

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Again Julie. Plain ignorance on your part. Congratulations on leading a dumb and deaf life

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Is this your first war Shay? Or is it just your general hatred of Jews.

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And congratulations to you for having no critical thinking skills, or even the ability to process thoughts rationallyโ€ฆ you are a poster child for public school blind follower ignoranceโ€ฆ how many Covid shots and boosters did you get? Maybe you can use that as an excuse..,

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Of course Iโ€™m fully vaccinated. Itโ€™s partly why I havenโ€™t contracted Covid, or measles, or whooping cough, or polio, or hepatitis B, etc.

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Nope just mass murder!

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Horrible. I believe murder is the worst sin humans can commit because there is no undoing it or trying to heal or seek redemption. Killing innocent children is the worst sin of all and the long term bad karma will haunt anyone involved in allowing to happen for generations (including the US bombs used). And whoever is involved will have to explain their evil actions to God on judgement day. God help us.

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So that means all those babies killed by the Palestinians will bring their own special karma to their killers? Maybe thatโ€™s what Nikki Haleyโ€™s bomb isโ€ฆ

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Get a life troll!

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She is truly a troll, and a genocide supporting, Palestinian -hatinv one at that.

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Awwโ€ฆ didnโ€™t like having to acknowledge the Israeli babies killed in cold blood by Palestinian โ€˜fightersโ€™? There is indeed a special bit of Karma for people dedicated to killing an entire culture. Oh wait,folks, Gina and Christopher donโ€™t realize thatโ€™s the definition of genocideโ€ฆ they donโ€™t realize that Hamas is committed to killing ALL Jews.

Silly liberal shills think that self dรฉfense from murderous Hamas is genocideโ€ฆ. Pity them.

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Thank you for writing about Rafah while everyone else keeps quiet. Youโ€™re brave.

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There are hundreds of these posts! This one is not specially virtuous. Nor specially accurate.

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Please send me the link of those ๐Ÿ™

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100% Agree. And personally I am overwhelmed with anger, horror, and deep sorrow after just now, witnessing the footage and reading testimonies from the Rafah Tent Massacre. The sight of innocent lives, especially children, being brutally taken has left me physically sick and emotionally shattered. This atrocity is beyond words and must be condemned. My heart aches for the victims and their families. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿฉท๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

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Caused by Hamas munitions blowing up. Are you still overwhelmed with anger, horror and deep sorrow? Sorrow would be the only emotion appropriate unless the anger & horror were directed at Hamas. Hamas is the source of most of the pain inflicted on both Palestinians & Israelis.

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Thank you โ™ฅ๏ธ

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Thank you for writing and taking the time to let the world know what is happening.

The injustice is disgusting to say the least.

As our hearts break, the people of Palestine are dying endlessly.

We pray for this to come to an end any minute, we pray for the safety of the people and we pray for all those affected by Genocide. Thank you for having the courage to do what you are doing.

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Guess they shouldnโ€™t have fucked with Israel, huh?

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โ€œPalestinians love death more than the Jews love life.โ€

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And we should be happy to make their dreams come true.

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Bomb the shit out of those who attacked you. If you donโ€™t like they shit, donโ€™t fuck with Israel.

Problem solved.

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‰

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From the river to the sea, Palestine is free, but the Palestinian people are prisoners to their hate.

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