cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34252866
Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Aug 05, 2025Ahead of the meeting, Hamas is vigorously rejecting Israel’s allegations that Palestinian forces in Gaza are abusing Israeli captives by depriving them of food. “For the Israeli prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza, they are experiencing the same conditions as the people of Gaza,” Hamas officials wrote in an August 4 letter to the council obtained by Drop Site. “The famine—caused by the occupation regime—affects all areas of the Strip, and inevitably its effects are reflected upon the ‘Israeli’ captives, just as they are reflected upon their captors, their families, and the overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population.”
In oldschool bullying terms “Why are you hitting yourself? Why?.. Why?.. Why?” With adequate control of the media, the Isreali population will largely be as the German population of the 1940s. Should we worry that the US is rushing towards the same?
You know in a few decades everyone’s going to agree the current Israeli government are no better than Nazis. It’s frustrating that too many powerful people are still holding out while it’s not too late to do something about it.
I used to wonder how the Holocaust could ever happen, but in my thirties (~the last decade) I gained a much better understanding of politics… and now I know how - and I can plainly see it - but I still don’t fully understand the human psyche and how it can become so depraved.
You know in a few decades everyone’s going to agree the current Israeli government are no better than Nazis.
I just hope in a few decades everyone still agrees that Nazis are actually the bad guys.
“Everyone” doesn’t even agree or believe in that now already, and it’s been going on for years.
That ship has sailed, I’m afraid.
Auschwitz and Gaza mean the same for a lot of people now, no matter how much Israel tries to deny this.
Just to play devil’s advocate, how does helping benefit the powerful people?
The Jews in the Ghettos famously starved because Jewish gangs ran rampant. /Ssssssss
Fuck Israel lol
Okay, and the Irish caused the starvation during the potato famine?
