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oh, for how many hours have the attacks been over? How many of the hostages were returned safely?

Israel has said it has fought off a majority of the militants—not that it as fought them all off.

there is no reason to think the attacks are over. There's no reason to think they won't come back with more rockets in an hour or two, let alone tomorrow.

there certainly wasn't any reason to think attacks were over back when Israel made the call to cut power.

Correction: Terrorist activity, predictably spiked after the blockade in 2007. I mean, turning countries into open-air concentration camps has that effect.

Your tactic is superficial. A blockade does not make a concentration camp. You're evoking imagery of something that is, in fact, wholly unrelated. you chose that term specifically in your intentional, racist attempt to paint Jews as Nazis. I hope to hell nobody falls for it.

What? How does oppressing civilians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem help combat terror?

Specifically, the blockade helps fight terror. The blockade prevents terrorists from getting materials to make weapons. And Hamas uses anything it can get its hands on into a weapon. That's part of the reason they work so hard to control the flow of aid within Palestine—the other reasons being quite obvious.

Also check the official definition of Apartheid. Do you need me to tell you how Israel fits the definition?

Only insofar as every border everywhere fits the definition. South African Apartheid—the thing people are trying to reference in order to demonize Israel—was intra-state apartheid. It was not an instance of border enforcement. Border enforcement is incredibly common. The Israel-Palestine conflict has nothing to do with Apartheid South Africa, but again, you people know that people think Apartheid is bad, so those are your go-tos. Israel is Nazis, Israel is Apartheid. Neither claim holds up to any scrutiny. You'd be better off arguing that Israel was a communist nation, tbh.

There's nothing necessary about the oppression of Palestinians in Israel, Gaza or the West Bank. The terror attacks you're talking about are the result of the oppression; don't mix your cause and effect.

Muslims and Arabs in the region have been terrorizing Jews since at least the late 1800s. They were never willing to accept any form of peace or coexistence.

The conflict has been raging for a long time. So have many other conflict. Nobody defends attacks on civilians anywhere else in the world; only when the victims are Jewish.

what? how so? Are you saying you do expect them to help Hamas kill Israeli civilians? Is "not being allowed to kill Israeli civilians" a form of punishment, to you?

It's a good thing Israel is the only place in the Middle East where people have the same rights regardless of race or religion. There's nothing in Israel resembling apartheid.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/24/dismantling-the-apartheid-lie/

The Israeli government oppresses the Palestinian people in response to the constant threat the region poses to Israeli civilians. I wish for peace and an end to oppression. But since Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza strip in 2005, terrorist activity spiked. Israel's concessions constantly result in the deaths of innocent Israelis. This is the conflict.

the charts you've been seeing are mostly fictitious. The most significant event those charts even attempt to depict is the 6-day war in 1967, when Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia attacked Israel, Israel defended itself, and took control of Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem and the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights in response—and that's about it.

Well, they attacked on Simchat Torah (and Shabbat). Simchat Torah is one of our relatively few Happy holidays, and it's a day where Jews are not supposed to do any work, use fire, use electricity, etc. but are in fact supposed to be celebrating in synagogue.

This is not the first time they've attacked on a Jewish holy day. It's entirely intentional.

Jewish subjects under the British mandate rebelled against the British government and the Nazi-aligned muftis. This, after decades of oppression against the Jews of the colony; finally, they declared their independence.

A lot of people are excusing, and in many cases celebrating the violence today. They love to see Jews die. This is nothing new.

They do target Hamas. Hamas likes to hide terrorist activity in homes, mosques, schools, and hospitals. Which is why Israel develops technology to try to ensure that there are no civilians present when it fires on a base of terrorist activity. And also why Israel uses a variety of technologies to warn any potential civilians who they might have missed that there is a counterattack coming to disable rocket fire. Hamas doesn't mind the headlines when a few Palestinian civilians inevitably die in one of these counterstrikes. It's part of the plan.

I don't think this is a "punishment." It seems rather foolish to expect them to supply electricity to the people actively using the electricity to kill their civillians.

People frequently feel emboldened to celebrate murder when the people being murdered are Jews.

It's already produced the result Hamas was going for. They are not fighting for better treatment, they are fighting to cause terror, murder Jews, celebrate their deaths, and revel in their control over the poeple they supposedly govern.

And what should the Jews there do until their land is theirs again? Or are only the Palestinians allowed a homeland?

People want to see more happening here. The fediverse is not quite the ghost town it was a year ago, but it's still pretty quiet, especially once you start digging into hobbies.

Of course, the good solution is not bot-driven, but human-driven. But people are lazy and think that they'd rather repost thousands of posts with a bot than figure out what links they think are good and post those.

Some animals mate for life or mate exclusively, others don't. It's not "the main form of earth," it's the norm by which humans establish long-term romantic and sexual relationships and raise their young.

I don't think society will forget that any time soon, but it's hard to predict the future. Culture does change over time.

Eh. I do also want to see lemmy grow, but it has to grow through different communities, if the only active community is 196 then it's going to grow in a very shitty direction. If it grows through hobby communities, it will slowly capture the charm and power of the Reddit network—as a place you can go to talk about anything and have any problem solved.

or those definitions have effectively flipped.

Did you finish reading my comment?

Originally, ethics were supposed to be a field of philosophy dealing with right and wrong on an individual scale, like virtue ethics, and morals, on a social scale, see "social mores." Over time, that distinction disappeared, and in some cases got flipped—see, an "ethics committee." So don't sweat it, they're interchangeable, and everybody here is just talking about the connotations they've picked up in different contexts.

Don't focus on looking for ways to find new members. Focus on ways to make people who find the fediverse want to stay. Accomplish that by putting something here that they like to see and want to see again.

When they join the Fediverse, or when they come to visit and consider joining, they're going to search for the stuff they want to see. They might look for memes, but more likely, they're going to look for their hobbies. If the only hobbies reflected here are gaming and programming and the fediverse itself, most people are not going to want to stay, the userbase is going to develop an even heavier bias towards certain types of people, it will become more alienating to other types of people, and it will stagnate.

Make an effort to post about and comment about other things. Cooking, movies, TV, sports, fashion, hair, plants, decor, architecture, history, religion, travel, a nearby city or town. Join those communities. Remember, when you see a cool article about nutrition, or a cool video guide to Copenhagen that you think people will enjoy, share it here. Post it, even if the community is small and you don't think people will care, because we need to seed communities with something. This is what I've been doing in a few communities, but mostly in !malefashionadvice. It's been frustrating, I haven't really been able to build the community up yet, but it's okay.

While we're at it, don't alienate people by posting, commenting about, or upvoting things that... suck. Keep all forms of bigotry at the door. If you're a hardcore libertarian or tankie or militant atheist... I'm not going to tell you to stop believing what you believe, but try to cool it, like 10%? Please? Nobody wants you breathing down their throats with extremism.

And... I've done this too, but let's make sure that we're not focusing too much on meta posts. They can be worthwhile, but they also are not what new people want to see.

Use Antennapod instead