11mo ago

As Gaza toll passes 40,000, the dead are buried in yards, streets, stacked graves

www.smh.com.au

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The true death toll passed 40,000 a long time ago. These are just the bodies that have been recovered and identified.
- Right, we’re talking likely 2% or more of the entire population killed so far. That’s horrific
  
  Try 10%
  The Lancet estimated 186,000 dead which would be 8%, but noted that there's no real way to know. Since they were a little conservative with their guesswork and about 6 weeks have passed since then, I think 10% dead out of Gaza's population of 2 million is highly likely by now.
Genocide. New holocaust.
- if we're lucky, there's be a paragraph about it between to the paragraph about the trail of tears and the other paragraph about martin luther king jr in american history books.
  
  I highly recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me, American history textbooks are fucking garbage lol
  For example, that the US Army hunted buffalo to near extinction specifically to starve the plains natives, it was a deliberate strategy of using starvation as a weapon. I was taught it was just """poaching""" from settlers and that it was all an accident.
The entirety of Hamas consists of about 10,000 people. So let that sink in for a bit.
How is this different from holocaust except being even more chaotic and cruel?
- Well for one metric: the nazi's killed 300 times as many civilians per day. Most of them systematically shipped off to extermination camps
  
  Gaza is comparable to a large concentration camp not the entire Holocaust.
  During the majority of the Holocaust it looked like Gaza. Only near its end were the exterminion camps in full force.
- There was nothing special about holocaust...
  Regimes and armies exterminating people is essentially standard behavior throughout history. The fact that Jews were able to turn ww2 atrocities into specifically them issue at expense of other victims of fascism is how we ended enabling the state of Israel and their genocide in Palestine.
  Note that Israeli genocide campaign predates ww2, they started this bullshit in early 20th century. Ww2 and Holocaust propaganda enabled them to expedite the process by generations.
As conservatives cheer.

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