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Israeli forces have been accused of executing handcuffed Palestinian medics before burying them in a mass grave underneath their crushed ambulances in southern Gaza's Rafah.

Fifteen humanitarian workers went missing last week after responding to a distress call from civilians being attacked by Israeli forces.

The workers include eight paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), six members of the Palestinian Civil Defence search-and-rescue teams, and one UN staff member.

They were found over the weekend in a mass grave with at least around 20 multiple gunshots in each one of them, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.

At least one of them had their legs bound, another was decapitated and a third topless, he added.

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

I'm not against Jews, I'm against Israel. It appears that the lesson they learned from the Nazis is how to commit atrocities.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's almost as if the lesson should be that Jews aren't unique and are just like any other people. And if you put any group of people into an explicit ethnostate, that group of people is going to turn into Nazis.

[–] RandAlThor 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Most countries around the world are based on ethnicity/national identity. Yet they all don't manage to turn into Nazis. It's not the state type its the choice made by its people.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

There is a difference between having a dominant ethnic identity and being an ethnostate.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You cannot expect atrocities to lead to anything good. We see it in gaza right now, the ongoing genocide will breed more terrorists and more conflicts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

which is part of the plan. without constant conflict the likes of Bibi Hitleryahu could never obtain power.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And Republicans keep trying to convince us the Israeli government is the good guys. >.>

[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Please don't act like it's just republicans.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

crazy that everyone came after Rashida Talib for speaking the truth that most US politicians are more loyal to israel than their constituents.

the thing is we'll never move the republican party off their pro-israel spot except through weaponizing anti-semitism, which will do no one any good. in our two party political system our best bet is to cordon republicans away from power and to shift democrats left through quite frankly desperate maneuvers. additiunally, we must develop parallel structures of power to protect ourselves. these parrallel structures of power is what the establishment fears most, which is why they're so quick to label us terrorists

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Democrats are not the answer. If you all don’t figure out soon that democrats are poison and we have got to create a new group. This is holding us back. Will it take a devastating loss for you to get it?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This started under Biden, and centrist democrats gleefully shouted down progressives sounding the alarm like the good little fascism apologists that US centrists are. It is now much worse under the Trump regime, but you are 1000% right.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Please don’t act like it’s just USAmericans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

When I worked in a restaurant - and this was near 20 years ago, at the tail end they had us sign some condition of employment and that added a clause that we weren’t to boycott Israel as employees. A restaurant in America.

So, how many of you work for companies that have this exact thing? I quit working for others over twelve years so because of shit like this. If you work for a major corp 99% of you likely signed an anti Israel boycott in your hiring forms and you don’t even know it.

Let that simmer a bit then figure out what you need to do because these companies can’t run without employees. They need employees more than customers.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And the Democrat leader Schumer says his job is to keep the left pro-Israel, there is no redeemable politician in power here. If we had real justice they would all be hanged for supporting genocide.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

That's because Schumer is a Nazi collaborator.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Democrats lost the election because they refused to condemn Israel. For once, this is actually a "both sides" problem.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

People keep saying this and I apologise if this comes across as callous, but this is a very online opinion. I’ve seen no evidence whatsoever that the Palestinian genocide would even move the needle for the average American voter let alone be enough to sway the election. While I’m sure it didn’t help, the Democrats lost because they promised more of the same neoliberalism at home when many Americans desperately wanted a departure from the status quo and because there’s a depressing amount of Americans that are just straight up bigots, not because of their stance on Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

I haven't heard anything about Gaza not online. I work blue collar and am surrounded by low information/conservative people. I can't think of any time any of them mentioned Palestine or Gaza.

Venezuela has come up far more often. Lots of racism and at my job I'm the minority being white. I've heard absolute crazy shit from my coworkers mouths and sometimes have walked them through their thought process and that usually ends up with them saying "when you put it like that it sounds mean".

I don't think many of them actually vote though. I know personally its hard for me to make it in time to vote if I don't request off or something.

All that to say I agree. I know my little work place isn't representative of everyone but it's a common thread of almost everyone we hire.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

for a country that loves to talk about their right to exist, they sure as fuck try their best to disprove they have that right at all. nazi germany didn't have a right to exist.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Condoning or condemning atrocities has rarely been about the race, nationality, religion, etc. of who was harming or being harmed. Whoever is in power at the time decides what is condoned or condemned.

20th century Jews were at the mercy of a seemingly-unstoppable German force. Now that Israel are largely in charge of the immediate region, they set the tone, forgetting what had been done to their ancestors.

Americans weep and gnash teeth over foreign atrocities while standing on the blood of Indigenous people their powerful ancestors were perfectly fine murdering just to gain land.

African tribes slaughtered each other long before becoming victims of Euro/American slavery.

I’m not justifying any of it. Just saying it’s the ebb and flow of who is in power at the time that determines who gets to decide what’s condoned or condemned, not the race, etc. of the aggressor or victim. Over centuries and millennia, many/most nations and peoples will take turns giving and receiving atrocities. All you need is an evil leader and just enough supporters to make it seem “ok enough”.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus fucking christ this is some evil shit.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Fucking hell..... I mean how many blatant war crimes does Israel need to commit before countries start condemning them. Goddammit, seriously

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It straight up feels like we are living in, like, the world of Final Fantasy 7. They could literally be using the souls of the dead to generate electricity as it literally kills the planet both physically and metaphysically, but only like 7 people are gonna actually be pissed and try to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

The US is the behind this 100% we don't even have a ballot option against it

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago

Behold, the apex of humanity. God help us.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago

They opened fire on French forces too in Lebanon.

It’s getting fucking spicy and real weird that European Jewish refugees are building their own Auschwitz next door.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'll never get enough of saying it: this is happening with the help and support of your government

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago

AP telling the same story. Looked like Reuters was, as well, at a quick glance. So I guess this is confirmed.

What a terrible thing.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

around 20 multiple gunshots in each one of them [...] one of them had their legs bound, another was decapitated

Oh that's not good

The Israeli military said in an initial statement that trucks were struck because they were being used by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Ah thank goodness for a clear explanation

[–] npcknapsack 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

............ Fucking hell. What is wrong with Israel.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Selfrighteousness would be the most likely answer

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

also being whipped by right wing media into a constant level of terror to justify genocide

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago

Israel is literally kidnapping, raping, and assaulting civilians. by the thousands as they attempt to surrender. Beating them until they either agree they are Hamas or die, and then killing them anyway.

I get why the US government is down with that, many of our politicians are old people that love rape and genocide especially via proxy, since they can't do it themselves anymore. It's just really annoying that the same people ranting about wanting to protect women have spent the most money and time getting them tortured, raped, and killed.

[–] theacharnian 31 points 2 weeks ago

But their shills in the West will make sure that if you raise your voice, depending on your legal status, you will be slandered, roughed up by police, have your degree revoked, snatched up from your family or in the middle of the street, and deported.

And they will use the charge of antisemitism as a cudgel, all the while playing into all the worst antisemitic tropes and preparing the ground for the next round of actual antisemitic violence.

Zionism hurts Palestinians first, people who stand up for humanity second, all Jews third. It's a shit ideology.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Not surprised. There's a video out there with a journalist interviewing older IDF veterans who talk about murdering Palestinian civilians and the sick bastards are smiling.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just when one thinks IDF has reached rock bottom depravity, some war criminal finds a way to go deeper.

I hope the pepetrators (and if a command was given, their commanders, and if directions were given, the political leaders) are held responsible.

It will take a lot of time and maneuvering. Politically, Israel must lose status and become considerably weaker before justice can occur. Meanwhile, the ICC must gain status and become considerably more influential. Then...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Here is some of the footage of the digging up of the bodies for those who want video evidence:

NSFL: Longer footage of excavation

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

utterly horrific, genocidal, warcrimes

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

God damn. If there's a god, just wait.

Safely presuming there isn't, these assholes gotta get found and destroyed just like people have done with former nazi commanders and stuff.

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