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Gaugamela

(2,911 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 12:58 PM Wednesday

Genocide: A Sport and a Pastime

Arabs, including Palestinians, are a semitic people. To use the word "antisemitism" to protect only the White European Colonial Settlers in the region who happen to be of semitic extraction is itself profoundly antisemitic. As Jews were overwhelmingly the only semitic people in Europe through the Middle Ages, this usage reflects a Eurocentric worldview that was imported into the region by the colonizers.


"It's hard to conceive of evil that's this bad, so it's hard to say, "Yes, I thought of it." On the other hand, once you have a people that can weaponize the Holocaust, that can weaponize antisemitism -- that is the prescription for the worst kind of violence the world has ever known."



The Guardian: ‘Man-made mass starvation’ in Gaza, WHO chief says
The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday that a “large proportion” of Gaza’s population was starving, while aid organisations urged Israel to ease its aid blockade as more Palestinians died of hunger.


The Guardian: Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Doctors and medical staff in Gaza say their increasing hunger and the lack of available food is beginning to leave them too weak to provide urgent medical care to patients inside hospitals full of malnourished and injured civilians.
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Genocide: A Sport and a Pastime (Original Post) Gaugamela Wednesday OP
It is painfully obvious... GiqueCee Wednesday #1

GiqueCee

(2,599 posts)
1. It is painfully obvious...
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 01:04 PM
Wednesday

... that Bibi is an out-of-control psychopath. The people of Israel have had it with him.

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