Horrors in Gaza

[Chick]

https://www.map.org.uk/landing-pages/watch-now-gaza-one-year-in

[SpringTime]

Not nice. And how about those poor folk in Sudan, Darfur, and Chad. What are they worth. Hardly any coverage for them.

[sica99]

True. But I hope you aren't saying that to try and erase the situation in Gaza? Where our government is actively contributing to the genocide by selling arms and contributing to intelligence missions (via Cyprus). As well as a complete failure to meaningfully condemn 

[SpringTime]

It's the same with Darfur  -  is that right?

[KalamityKel]

15 hours ago, sica99 said:

True. But I hope you aren't saying that to try and erase the situation in Gaza? Where our government is actively contributing to the genocide by selling arms and contributing to intelligence missions (via Cyprus). As well as a complete failure to meaningfully condemn 

"erase"? oh come now, that's quite over dramatic!

War is terrible regardless of where and how and certainly shouldn't be ignored - which is the point right? *waits for a barrage of rudeness as is typical these days on this forum

Edited November 6, 2024 by KalamityKel

[sica99]

It sounded like classic whataboutism. Which is often about erasing the horror in question. Why not start a separate thread about Sudan? What's behind your post? If it's not about diverting or erasing, then what was the point you were making?

[Chick]

More horror in Gaza:

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/decapitated-and-shredded-bodies-survivors-recount-israeli-attacks-on-gaza-schools/?ml_recipient=140971047439566464&ml_link=140971023149303798&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-12-17&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation

 

Edited December 17, 2024 by Chick

[Tosca]

Thank you so much for posting this.  I was planning to go to the MAP site to ask for a copy of their report.  But of course, the videos are so much a part of the experience.  I set out to watch it and I found it unbearable.  I had to switch off because the opening shot is of a bomb striking.  Suddenly my house, my neighbour's, and my neighbours' neighbours' houses don't exist.   I find it unbearable, and I realise that this is only a scintilla of the experience of those who live there.  Please, please, give money to Medical Aid for Palestine, or Médicins Sans Frontières, or Amnesty.  The world as seen from the eyes of politicians in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin is pure political calculation.  They see what's happening in Gaza and Syria like players of a board game.  I don't normally talk like this, but Biden, Starmer, Macron, and Scholz have blood on their hands.  [I hesitate to name Angela Merkel - she did seem like a Prime Minister who had a powerful maternal instinct.