Moment Israeli airstrike hits Gaza tower block after Hamas attack – video
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First of all, you're right to take the lump sum, definitely take the lump sum.
Then... There are some things I'd definitely want to spend on up front, like housing in particular. In the long run, the money would pay my property taxes, fund my clothing hobby, support parties with my friends, etc. I'd probably get a private chef to cook good, nutritious meals for me regularly. A personal trainer and a private gym in my home. And I'd travel more.
This advice is important:
https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/whatsthehappiest5wordsentenceyoucouldhear/chb4v05/
"Hamas may be using its civilians as meat shields, but no matter how careful Israel is, you're not allowed to call them careful because many of the meat shields still end up dying!"
You're a Hamas apologist. I haven't defended anything that could be called apartheid, and wouldn't. But go ahead and blame me for citing facts.
I'm so confused, "various Jewish countries?"
Do you really believe that there won’t be any retaliation strikes from Israel that won’t involve civilian deaths on the Palestinian side? Because if you do you are a fool!
I didn't say that.
I really don't think Israel will target any civilians. Some rogue IDF soldiers have done so in the past, but it's rare and generally punished quite quickly.
I can't say which side will suffer more civilian casualties, but I know that Hamas's goal is to cause as many as possible, and Israel is making very active efforts to cause as few as possible. The fact that Israel is well-equipped to defend itself and Hamas doesn't feel like it will, inevitably, skew the statistics.
lol what?
"Genocide" is really hard to argue when their population keeps going up and most of the people being killed are active enemy combattants who target civilians.
"Apartheid" is hard to argue for a totally egalitarian state on the basis that it has borders. Oh no! The US is engaged in Apartheid with Mexico! The Apartheid lie is very easy to argue against, because there's no basis for it.
I believe my people have a claim to the land of Israel because our ancestors live there—we didn't live there because God says though, we lived there because we actually lived there, and there is no shortage of evidence in this matter, there is no room for doubt—and because my people have a right to self-determination in their homeland, as all other people everywhere do, and because my people have been ostracized and oppressed and killed in every other place we've attempted to make our homes in, and because our safety is not conditioned on your approval.
Self-defense against this little teenage monster, huh? https://www.instagram.com/p/CyG1HdsA5I9/
There's no such thing as self-defense against a civilian who never hurt anybody.
These are not incidental victims while the terrorists target the IDF. These are the targets. They are targeting innocent little girls.
Yes, murdering and kidnapping civilians is inexcusable, why would that be excusable?
The Palestinian Mandate was, at the time, Britain's "own land." The indigenous people of Judea rebelled against the British and declared their independence. Give Wales to the Welsh and Ireland to the Irish, the Jews have no connection to or interest in Wales, it's patently ridiculous to think we would want to live there.
but people do praise Hamas. People celebrate when Jews die.
Here's a few tweets and retweets by Mia Khalifa (via Nitter):
https://nitter.net/miakhalifa/status/1710663220619313397#m
https://nitter.net/farzndeimam/status/1710532280291049891#m
https://nitter.net/NadiSaadeh/status/1710628721151942987#m
https://nitter.net/miakhalifa/status/1710641662068670834#m
https://nitter.net/miakhalifa/status/1710722638975279537#m
And, while we're at it:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CyG1HdsA5I9/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIyIEPO-OI/
So yeah, some people are saying Jews should die. Should I bring up the Hamas charter?
The blockade started in 2007. The terror started a solid century before then. Shit, the second intifada started in 2000.
The revisionist history is strong in this thread.
That's a metaphor, ever heard of it?
It's a racially charged metaphor, and intentionally so. And it's a very, very weak one, except for that racism.
The blockade caused the terror. Like literally the rocket attacks started with the blockade; you can look at the timeline.
You're literally making up a lie for the purpose of blaming the victim, but luckily, it's easily falsifiable. Rocket fire began in 2001, the blockade began in 2007.
Also I like how you now narrowed your definition to the blockade, because you can't justify anything happening to Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
What are you talking about? I gave an example. Do you want me to go through the security basis for a dozen more regulations? Would that be a constructive use of my time, here?
You mean anti-Jewish sentiment began to rise when the "let's take Arabs' lands for ourselves" movement began to gain steam? Say it ain't so. Also give me an example of that terrorization.
Have you ever heard the term "victim blaming" before?
Early Zionism was entirely peaceful. Zionists purchased land in Israel, and only settled portions of land where nobody was. They didn't displace any Arabs until the 40s, until after the Muftis broke bread with the Nazis, until after the Jews in the British mandate had been suffering under active Arab oppression and pogroms for decades.
I'm sick of you people coming at me with this stupid fucking logic. Look it up, it'll take less than a minute to find a few of the early pogroms in the British Mandate. I'm not responsible for educating you.
Allow me to clarify.
Their first priority is to stop their citizens from dying.
If they need to cut off electricity to terrorists to do that, they will. If they need to cut off electricity to whole regions of the Gaza strip, or the Gaza strip altogether, to keep their people safe, they will.
More targeted enforcement would be preferred. Sure. But that's not what I said was happening.
You know, intel that would be worth a fortune for them considering that’s kinda their enemy and it would be an incredible chance to get rid of them once and for all.
Fun fact, Israel is very good at intel. Israel can often find which building are occupied by Hamas.
Fun fact, Hamas enjoys operating from, and firing rockets from, civilian homes, mosques, hospitals, and schools. Here's a handy list: https://kbin.social/m/Israel/t/368817/A-handy-list-of-sources-describing-where-Hamas-produces-stores
One of Israel's greatest challenges is finding ways to stop terrorism given this unfortunate reality. They develop technology to try to detect civilian presence in these buildings, and to, in case they miss anybody, warn the civilians and give them time to evacuate.
This same asshole had the audacity to tell me that my ancestors never lived in Israel. Don't engage.
How fucking dare you tell me who my ancestors were. I know where my ancestors lived. If you don't believe me, you can go fuck yourself.
Israeli civilian deaths from this attack—which again, was actively, intentionally targeted at civillians—were 250. IIRC, the latest number of Palestinian deaths, including combatants, in 2023, is "over 200."
But I wasn't talking about numbers. I was talking about intent, effort, strategy. Yes, some Palestinian civilians do die as a result of attacks by Israel. Israel tends to be better at protecting its civilians, Hamas intentionally puts its civilians in harm's way. Yes, to some extent, the numbers reflect that.
And by the way, there are also Palestinians dying to friendly fire caused by haphazard rocket fire.
There are many people living in Palestine, it's important not to generalize them all as having the same will.
But for Hamas (which holds a majority of the seats in the PA), the answer is unambiguously yes. Their charter explicitly calls for the eradication of Israel, and also of all Jews. Their actions confirm their intent. They are popular and irredeemable.
More generally, a common phrase among Palestinians is "from the river to the sea." There are varying interpretations of this phrase, and its exact meaning, so not everybody who says it means that Israel should be razed off the map, but it likely includes at least a "right of return" for not only Palestinian refugees, but their descendants (who are often confoundingly referred to as refugees themselves). This influx of millions of Arabs into Israel—a democracy—would make it impossible for Israel to function as a safe haven for the Jewish people. That is intentional.
There are a couple of youtube channels going around just asking people questions. Different people have different perspectives. But by and large, Palestinians are not willing to accept current borders, or 1967 borders, or the UN's proposed borders from the 1940s, or any such thing without other concessions that would seriously damage Israel.
Neither was Israel. Israel retook its homeland from British colonizers through a conflict with the British, the Jordanians, and another group of Arabs (the word "Palestinian" at the time referred to everybody who happened to live there, not particularly to the Arab subgroup it refers to today). It was not planted, it was liberated by its indigenous people.
I mean, it's usually more like... Jews the world over are sick of their home countries and want to live in Israel, don't realize how expensive it is, go there, can't afford housing in Israel proper, and are told they can go live in the settlements. Or, demand causes Jews in Israel to seek cheaper housing.
Which is still an issue, but your conception is really not the norm.