05-13-2021, 11:21 PM
(05-13-2021, 02:32 PM)Morph Wrote: Seeing a lot more videos from places like sky news/bbc giving a lot of coverage to the missile barrages from hamas, I could be picking it up wrong but seriously comes across as if it's a justification for how Israel are acting.
Seen Biden saying israel have a right to defend themselves as wellThere is such a massive lack of care for life when it comes to Palestinians, the way people talk about them is as if they're not even human. No distinction between hamas and the ordinary folk and everyone is just lumped into one group.
America are sending a “top diplomat†over but it sounds as if Palestinians aren't interested in hearing it. Is there any chance of this dying down or is it headed for full out war?
He's always been a huge supporter of Israel, even by American standards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM
That hair though
It was great fun choosing between a senile ultra-pro-Israel right-winger and Trump last year
Some states have even tried to make it illegal to boycott Israeli goods. The laws are always struck down because it's about as blatant a violation of the First Amendment as you can get, but there's no end to the fuckery.
(05-13-2021, 09:53 PM)Makween Wrote: There is no 'both sides' in a conflict where one side has a state of the art military and the other has rockets that almost all get wiped out by the other's state of the art defences anyway (although saying the Palestinians fired first is disingenuous anyway after weekd of Israel ratcheting up tensions, and their far right explicitly invoking ethnic cleansing).
Supporting BDS should be the minimum at this point tbh.
