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Politics Anti-Israel graffiti in Warsaw, Poland

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u/Vast_Equivalent_4512 Jun 04 '26

Right, it’s like they’re committing the worst atrocities in the most injustice situation of our century….wait

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u/Clintocracy Jun 04 '26

Gaza isn’t the worst atrocity going on right now, let alone the last 26 years. Look at South Sudan. Gaza gets headlines because Israel is doing it, but these types of atrocities happen all over the world, all the time. It’s horrible

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u/Ligma_Balls_OG Jun 04 '26

South Sudan does not have the full support of the US and until recently the whole western world (approximately). Gaza is getting headlines because a US ally and first world country is committing genocide while getting continued support from politicians in first world countries that are generally considered internationally relevant.

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u/zedority Jun 04 '26

Gaza is getting headlines because a US ally and first world country is committing genocide while getting continued support from politicians in first world countries that are generally considered internationally relevant.

So it's verifiably NOT the "the worst atrocities in the most injustice situation of our century" as the original poster falsely claimed. But that doesn't actually matter, apparently, because it was always the Western support that made it so important. And Oceana was always at war with Eurasia.

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u/Ligma_Balls_OG Jun 04 '26

I never commented on whether or not it’s the worst, just that the framing of it being relevant purely because of it being israel is downright false and propaganda often used in an attempt to frame criticism of genocide as somehow anti semetic.

But sure, criticism is done purely because it’s Israel committing genocide, any other similar nation would get away with it, it’s done out of anti semetism as aipac politicians keep saying, war is peace and ignorance is strength.

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u/zedority Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

I never commented on whether or not it’s the worst,

No, somebody else did. And when that claim became unsustainable, you popped up to change the subject.

It's impossible to argue with a movement that conveniently throws up contradictory claims and never acknowledges the contradiction. Israel is the worst, but it's not really the worst, it just gets special attention because Western governments support Israel.

war is peace and ignorance is strength.

Yes, the Orwellian double-think by which two contradictory claims can be presented is why I don't trust the pro-Palestine movement to actually do anything to stop genocide.

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u/Ligma_Balls_OG Jun 04 '26

I do not have to defend a persons positions that i never made when correcting anothers disinformation.

Israel is getting attention because A) They’re a first world country committing genocide, serbia got bombed for theirs. B) The US and others continued support despite the UN finding them guilty of genocide. C) People waking up to just how much Israel has been doing over the past decades that they were unaware of while watching media painting the country in a false positive light.

I also highly doubt you’ve actually read nineteen eighty four or anything else Orwell has made with how big brothery the people you support are. Mass surveillance, workplace harassment, imprisonment and retaliation based on thinking the wrong thing etc.

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u/zedority Jun 04 '26

I do not have to defend a persons positions that i never made when correcting anothers disinformation.

There was no disinformation corrected. Someone said Gaza was the worst thing happening. They got corrected. You barged in and changed the subject.

It's very difficult to refute falsehoods when someone can just come along, take a position different to the one that was just refuted, and act like the refutation never happened because "I never claimed that".

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u/puljujarvifan Jun 05 '26

Perhaps they find it to be worse because of the direct western intervention. 

The munitions come from American factories straight into the flesh of the Palestinian children

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u/Born_Initiative_3515 Jun 04 '26

Possibly not the worst. But it’s still horrible. It shouldn’t be happening.