Do you have examples? If you're taking the time to read. Perhaps you should take the time to site corrections.
Be the change. Dont just armchair
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Example, Israel gets raked over the coals for their “blockades” s starving people. They allow tons of food through (even send aid themselves). Their blockades are to prevent weapons parts entering to Hamas. Nor are they the only ones that blockade. Egypt has for decades as well.
Hamas controls much of the humanitarian aid once it lands (since they are the elected gov). Hamas follows no rules of engagement, Geneva Convention or whatever you want to appeal to. They hide among civilians and their uniform is civis, just like everybody else. Hamas frequently controls humanitarian aid with attacks its own people. Flash offers no perspective, just videos of people and gun shots. There’s a reason Egypt (an Islamic nation) won’t take migrants from Gaza. Also, thousands of civilians from Gaza entered Israel on Oct 7 in addition to Hamas. There is not a clear divide between civilian and terrorist to post videos, without context, and say such and such is happening. Is disingenuous. We should have learned the fog of war from Ukraine by now.
Cody, it seems to me you are also an American, and are engaging politics in a genuine manner. As such, I’ll afford you respect by responding to your assertions with as much objectivity as I can, and hope you do the same despite how charged this issue is.
On Israel allowing “tons” of aid through, and sending aid themselves: Israel repeatedly prevented or obstructed UNRWA from delivering aid throughout the conflict. Furthermore, much less aid has been allowed in over time - prior to May 19, there was an ELEVEN WEEK aid blockade. The UN and groups such as Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Broders) report conditions of famine and a beyond-critical lack of medical supplies. I implore you to watch the testimony of American doctors and nurses returning from there in particular. On top of this, the US and Israel worked together to remove UNRWA and instead installed the GHF, which has resulted in the many videos and independent reports from journalists of “hunger games” style food distribution, wherein Gazans are shot in the process. Netanyahu himself, when announcing a less than total blockade some weeks ago, said it was only because the rest of the world would not allow the “final solution” without doing so, and promised “a basic amount of aid” (hardly tons).
On the whole, Israel has been nearly totally enabled by the current US admin since Oct 7th and has not, nor ever will, accomplish the erasure of Hamas. Our disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan proved that you cannot stamp out religious extremism with violence. We even reminded the Israelis of that shortly after Oct 7th, I forgot who from the admin though. Please do not be on the side of history that enables foreign influence to drag us in another war that sacrifices American troops and taxpayer money, for the benefit of a military industrial complex and authoritarians in a faraway land and domestically. Or on the side that enables a genocide.
“Tons” of aid refers to years and years of aid. History did not begin on 7OCT, obviously.
Israel produced evidence of 12 UNRWA staff participating in the attacks on 7OCT. Legacy media isn’t going to tell you that. Any time you hear something horrible (preventing aid, you should ask why and go look for the answer). The UN even corroborated some of Israel’s claims here.
When aid lands in Gaza, Hamas takes it. They are the de facto government. If Israel is not coordinating that aid, Hamas is being fed. Hamas does not care about its people. This is not disputed. Most senior leadership are billionaires in Qatar.
And as far as erasing Hamas, they can put a hood size hole in their operation. Ask Hezbollah. Ask ISIS. Ask Sadam. Evil exists. It always will. Radical Islam (we can debate radical and the Quran if you’d like), is that. Israel will address it.
Well articulated. Thank you!
I only have question.
Can you cite said information. Or possibly link to clips showing said events.
In no way do I think what your saying is false (or complete fact). Now that you bring it up, the view points have been very narrow.
If you do have sources. Are you willing to share with nostr:nprofile1qqsy67zzq5tc9cxnl6crf52s4hptdwhyaca5j7r8jwll535tdadedvcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqxd28ts
We can all only all grow from this.
I completely agree. My main intent is not to even tell Flash that he’s wrong, but to point to an absence of objectivity. I will work on posting sources here as I have time to dig (because looking for info that isn’t the legacy media narrative is indeed digging).
Good man. Not that its your obligation though.
But pooling or sharing resources when found could be huge
Study these. Use Brave browser (not Google or Safari).
2007–2011: Egypt, under President Mubarak, tightly restricted Rafah (only-direct access link to the outside world except through Israel).
2011–2013: After the Arab Spring and under President Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood), Egypt slightly eased access.
Post-2013: Following a military coup and the rise of President el-Sisi, Egypt cracked down again, citing Hamas ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (outlawed in Egypt).
Today:
Egypt still restricts movement through Rafah, though it occasionally opens the crossing for humanitarian reasons or under international pressure.
Egypt also destroyed smuggling tunnels under the border and created a buffer zone to curb weapons and goods flow.
https://apnews.com/article/917954d224c95b12f2550f5bde7f92af?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/25/egypts-siege-on-gaza-rafah-opens-only-for-the-dead?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egypt-close-rafah-crossing-with-gaza-monday-2021-08-22/?
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/23/egyptian-blockade-of-aid-to-gaza-earns-rebuke-from-u-s/?
https://time.com/6324766/rafah-border-crossing-gaza-egypt-israel/
Just study the Rafah border crossing. It will tell you all you want to know.
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Flash has no interest in being objective. He has a bias that’s fed early and often.
I don't want to get in the middle of nothing. I like his updates and am not emotionally involved with wars
I enjoy most of his updates. My only reservation is that there’s no context.
Be the change. Feed him perspective.
The dude grinds his whole day. I don't think depth is his forte. Or can be. Or should be. Because it doesn't need to be.
Its on the user to verify
He does grind, no doubt. And he doesn’t have to give a thesis, but there’s an exorbitant amount of editorializing from the sources he posts. Examples are easy to find in his feed. And an editorial is fine if that’s your goal, but let’s not call it news.
Hamas election in 2006. One article, but there’s plenty there.
A detailed report on who entered Israel on Oct 7
The problem is everybody gets their opinions from sound bites and headlines. Nobody reads long form. And if you dare say anything contrary, you’re called all kinds of names and people lose their minds.
I can say the same for Kaspa and Bitcoin conversation, but that’s a whole other topic.
This is well written and gets to the heart of the issue:
My point is there is no objective and critical thinking. Just mindless reposts of snippets. There’s no scrutiny of what the sources are, just assumptions. Where does the data come from?