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In reply to the discussion: I am sick of the slaughter in Gaza [View all]Beastly Boy
(11,375 posts)142. Are you saying they DO look like they are being tortured?
Your post, in its entirety:
"confessions of Hamas leaders"
Confessions obtained under torture aren't worth a damn thing.
Confessions obtained under torture aren't worth a damn thing.
My response to it: showing videos of Hamas leaders, not under torture, openly admitting on record that the actions they have taken were intended and are intended in the foreseeable future to to cause untold deaths among Gazan civilians, or, as they call them, "martyrs". The recorded testimony of Hamas leaders themselves, with nothing added by me, addresses your post directly and in no uncertain terms, making the premise of your post fly right out the window.
Unless you want to change your premise and just admit that their confessions aren't worth shit regardless of circumstances... where the hell is the promised non-sequitur?
And unless you are proposing that Hamas leaders in question are all engaged in a dash of Israeli propaganda, who else is there providing the testimony you call Israeli propaganda?
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The Palestinian terrorists releasing all of the hostages would likely go a long way to achieving this
Jose Garcia
Thursday
#1
They've got their hotels and casinos designed and ready to go, as soon as the bloody mess is bulldozed over.
msfiddlestix
Yesterday
#120
Oh... My bad. My total lack of compassion for humanity blinded me to a concept of a design. Shame on me.
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#124
Curious, no blame from you for the murderous warmongers Netanyahu/likud/IDF commanders who keep bombing the shit...
brush
Thursday
#6
A curious deflection into something that's only been mentioned a couple of dozen times in this thread alone...
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#63
Which should tell you how biased, one-sided unfeeling and bereft of humanity your op is. Get a clue.
brush
Yesterday
#65
Oh, it's you, BB. I hadn't noticed before. I know ou're totally one-sided on the matter...
brush
Yesterday
#69
"my empathy for Gazan civilians, in deed and not in word, is likely to exceed that of the most vocal performers here on
Dave Bowman
16 hrs ago
#185
No, but I certainly feel superior to the purveyors of performative outrage, and not just on DU.
Beastly Boy
10 hrs ago
#193
This is a good example of non sequitur with a dash of Israeli propaganda and two scoops of bullshit in the mix.
Dave Bowman
Yesterday
#137
I wasn't talking about these guys and your reply has nothing to do with the op.
Dave Bowman
Yesterday
#147
Wait a minute... let me process this... was I supposed to reply to YOUR post with something that has to do with the OP
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#156
I blame the gullible and/or complicit for uncritically spewing Israeli propaganda.
AloeVera
Thursday
#56
Don't support Starbucks either, every cup of beverage purchased, a percentage goes to Israel. People
akbacchus_BC
Yesterday
#111
Are you telling me there are still progressive types overpaying for that muddy piss just to show off?
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#125
Sudan: "..up to 150,000 people had been killed in the conflict across the country."
EX500rider
Yesterday
#66
Of course not. They wouldn't exist if Iran didn't prop them up in their quest to destabilize the entire region.
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#102
The reason for their formation and existence was present long before Iran got involved.
lees1975
Yesterday
#114
I think you are well aware of the reason. Just as an example, after Oct 7, there was sparce condemnation of what Hamas
JohnSJ
Yesterday
#106
It is a reason there will never be peace. Violence begets violence and revenge seems to be a basic human instinct.
surfered
Thursday
#17
Hamas is going to stop "Bibi and the Complicit West" by returning the hostages.
maxsolomon
Thursday
#28
If you can't care about the hostages Hamas took, you can't care about the civilians killed in the war either
NickB79
Thursday
#46
That's the problem. You don't care enough to ask yourself what the reason for such discrepancy is.
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#101
Bingo. Cruelty is what netenyahu has unleashed on the Palestinians. That was his goal all along and
akbacchus_BC
Yesterday
#112
I watched a great documentary the other evening. It's called "The Bibi Files".
Dave Bowman
Yesterday
#88
What is your opinion about killing illegal combatants who commit a war crime of perfidy?
Beastly Boy
Yesterday
#128
The same as my opinions about "legal" combatants who kill, starve, torture civilians.
Ping Tung
Yesterday
#129
How about the Arab countries, get off their asses, and make some demands of Bibi, and rescue fellow Arabs?
amuse bouche
Yesterday
#136
The continued slaughter is no longer self defense within the confines of this current war
Martin Eden
7 hrs ago
#195
Gaza is the worst slaughter of civilians in a "war" by any measure in the last 20 years or more.
AloeVera
1 hr ago
#202