Austria is south of Germany (think of the Alps), Czechia and Slovakia are next to each other (remember Czechoslovakia) and Czechia was the first country Nazi-Germany annexed parts of in their eastwards expansion so if you know that Poland is huge that only leaves 1 spot where Czechia can be
The whole period before about behaving responsibility and using masks showed you all you needed to know about how responsible and interested in the general wellbeing most people were so it only made sense to not leave it up to chance with that.
And it's not like anyone was forced - only other people were secured from coming in contact with irresponsible and self-centred people that couldn't care less about them
Even though I'm probably not reading it enough to be worth it I pay a yearly online-subscription to one of the newspapers that gained my trust with good investigative pieces in the past.
If everyone was just consuming for free then a newspaper needs to either be heavily funded by a really wealthy person that pays them (and in turn makes it less likely that said newspaper will report against people like that) or the newspaper needs to sell ad-space. So if you are consuming for free AND blocking ads on a website then you are only costing that website money - and in case of newspapers that's not a good thing since it ensures that only those that are publicly funded or funded by billionaires will survive "almost unchanged" while the rest will try to get as populist as possible to the the most amount of clicks to increase their ad-revenue
Netanjahu is directly responsible for a lot of the escalation in the last decade.
That said Hamas is still to blame for the current conflict 100% but Israel certainly helped setting a stage that enabled it.
I really hope the Israelian people will kick that scum out of power asap after all this is done - and I really hope that that's not motivation for Netanyahu to keep the conflict going for as long as possible...
With how directly Control tied into the Alan Wake universe with their DLC being completely centered around it I'd be really surprised if they wouldn't go even further now
The idea of people being human shields in their own homes is genocidal bullshit used to justify killing them.
So how do you call it if hamas is building their bases of operation in civilian buildings or launch their rockets from schools and hospitals exactly because they KNOW it's impossible to target them there without also hitting civilians?
Why is egypt not accepting refugees? Because they know that a big part of the palestinians are actually supporting hamas and are not just victims here and they don't want to deal with the risk of those people radicalizing themselves further within Egypt and having to deal with that.
And as for the dehumanizing part: which party did deliberately chose to deliberately attack civilians and not "just" accepted them as collateral damage? Sure the latter is also horrible and should be kept to an absolute minimum but the first is absolutely indefensible. There's a reason why at every other pro-palestine rally right now there are people shouting to exterminate all the jews and why jews are scared wearing their kippah again: this whole thing is not just about standing with civilians in gaza but actually coming from an anti-semitic point a lot of the time.
There is such a thing as a rule of international law that defines what's a valid target during war. A school is not, a music festival also not. Military bases are always a target even if they are within otherwise protected buildings.
I'm not dehumanizing Palestinians. I took part in protests for humanitarian aid in the past and even donated to their cause.
I feel people like you always see an ideal world where there are only perfect solutions. I've yet to read people arguing like that write what would've been a better option after the massacre. Just ignore that that group just slaughtered civilians and took hostages certainly is not an option as they'd feel motivated to do it again and it's only reasonable to seek out justice.
So what's a better option than telling people to evacuate and target bases used by Hamas afterwards? Going in with the army on the ground surely is far worse for everyone involved.
I know that Israel has the upper hand in this and it's always easier to support the underdog but in this both sites are shitty and Israel is by far less so than Hamas. The fact that civilians are there suffering inbetween is completely tragic - but a lot of them are supporting or at least enabling Hamas (which is why Egypt won't open their border for refugees).
The only reason for that attack by Hamas was to end the official talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia for peace in the region - that alone should tell you who has the moral high ground in this conflict. There's a reason Iran is financing Hamas like this since they can't accept a country like Israel existing and if they manage to make peace with more of the surrounding countries then it'll be very hard to change that fact that Israel has a right to exist.
Sure Netanjahu is an asshole and the radical settlers are only pouring oil in the fire but in the end it was Hamas that officially made it their target to eradicate Israel which made them quit any peace talks.
My heart is with the civilians there but in the end it's kind of similar to the allies bombing Germany after their people first supported the Nazis and then at least stayed complicit. Sure there were civilian deaths of innocents, too, but in the big picture it seems justified doesn't it? And I say that as a German living in one of the cities that was hit hardest.
If people are supporting or at least accepting a regime like the one in Gaza that's using them as shields there is only so much you can do if the target is to get rid of that regime.
And Hamas actually wants to eradicate all Jews - what's your point?
You surely can question stuff like shutting off the power since that's a war crime but if Hamas is using civilian buildings for their military then they make those buildings valid targets during war (other than schools and music festivals which Hamas targeted)
Sure Israel is not a knight in shining armour (far from it) but after what Hamas did they have all right to retaliate and the moral high ground as Hamas deliberately puts their civilians in the line of fire to fuel hate against Israel and make every move very hard for Israel because of that risk of collateral damage.
I guess it depends on what pedophilia is in the end of how it's developed.
If it's more like a sexual preference then it's probably there already when someone is born and not changeable, but if it's more like a fetish then those are (afaik) related to experiences and exposures while growing up and actually can change and develop over time - and in that case it could be really dangerous to have that kind of material floating around freely.
Almost as evil as Hamas sitting on a huge amount of money in Quatar and lots of oil but instead of supporting the people in Gaza they prefer using them as human shields and letting them suffer without any support and try to pin the suffering on Israel for not letting them slaughter civilians without realiation...
Most people tbf