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Conflict in the Middle East

Shiri Bibas and children

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whatwouldyoudoifisangoutofkey · 22/02/2025 08:20

I don't understand how it's known how they died.
I think speculating on how a person died is against MN talk guidelines but does anyone know what % of certainty we can have in the reports ?

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dairydebris · 22/02/2025 11:39

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:37

Well, why aren't there any posts about the children and families of Gaza? Why don't they matter? Because they don't have MN posters who know about them?

There loads of threads about this.
Unfortunately they are mainly under headers such as, 'Israeli Atrocities in Gaza' or 'Look at what the IDF has done'.
Almost as if people hate Israel more than they care about Gazans.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:39

quantumbutterfly · 22/02/2025 11:36

That's grand, let's all move to Africa the climates great and it's rich with minerals.

????

The European powers, and now China etc, moved in and massacred/ abused the local population

Is that what you advocate?

myplace · 22/02/2025 11:39

Palestinian people kidnapped this family. Someone then chose to murder the children and lie about their deaths. It isn’t surprising no one knew if they were alive or dead, whether Hamas could not be believed- they are clearly liars spreading disinformation at every opportunity and using hostages.

The tragic deaths in Gaza are war deaths. Children were not targeted. Areas were targeted, Hamas was targeted. Palestinian Babies were not stolen and murdered in cold blood.

Seagullsandsausagerolls · 22/02/2025 11:38

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:37

Well, why aren't there any posts about the children and families of Gaza? Why don't they matter? Because they don't have MN posters who know about them?

There are many.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:37

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:35

Why don't you go and make a thread about the DRC?

Oh, it's because you want to derail this thread, which is meant to be about the Bibas family.

Well, why aren't there any posts about the children and families of Gaza? Why don't they matter? Because they don't have MN posters who know about them?

quantumbutterfly · 22/02/2025 11:36

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:27

To add, I am very uncomfortable with the far right narrative of the replacement theory. I don't think any piece of the world, the UK included, 'belongs' to any ideology or people with a specific skin colour. I don't think white people own the piece of land that is the UK. Or that Jewish people have a God given right to various territories.

Everyone has the right to live in peace with their neighbours

That's grand, let's all move to Africa the climates great and it's rich with minerals.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:35

I am an anti semite, and also Jewish?

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:35

Why don't you go and make a thread about the DRC?

Oh, it's because you want to derail this thread, which is meant to be about the Bibas family.

hihelenhi · 22/02/2025 11:34

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dairydebris · 22/02/2025 11:34

hihelenhi · 22/02/2025 11:30

Why are you choosing to derail the thread which is specifically about the Bibas family when there are plenty of other threads you can discuss this on?

We are discussing named individuals who were specifically murdered, by hand, having been kidnapped from their homes, by terrorists during the 7th October atrocity, or pogrom.

No, their individual lives are not more important than any other child. However, in this context - children killed as a result of bombing, and children snatched from their homes and gleefully murdered, by hand, then their bodies returned to their families in a grotesque display filled with anti semitic imagery, we are allowed to discuss the particular circumstances.

Are you as interested in all the other children all over the world who are killed as a result of war, or just Gazan ones? Why do you think ones killed in Israeli military strikes are more important than all the other children in the world who are killed by various governments' military actions? Why don't you start a thread on them?

Oh, because you don't actually care at all but just want to whatabout on this specific one due to your choice to blame Israel for the revolting actions of Hamas.

Well said.

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:34

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:29

The agenda? You know nothing about me, except I have said that the killing of any child is horrific

Your agenda is to derail any discussion of the Bibas family. You have made this clear by derailing a discussion of the Bibas family. I'm not sure what's confusing. You also refused to acknowledge that simple reality that Hamas is to blame for the deaths and suffering of Gazan children, because you want to direct blame at Israel.

I'm amazed that you think there is anything unclear about your manner of posting. Seems disingenuous.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:33

Well, I do care about other children being killed and abused, such as in DRC

What Hamas did is revolting. What Isreal has done in response is to kill even more children. Where does it end?

hihelenhi · 22/02/2025 11:30

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:20

Well, Oxfam figures say over 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli military action since October 7

They haven't been given the dignity of a name, or details of their death.

If you think they are victims of Hamas - a valid point of view - why aren't you raising their cases?

Why some children and not others?

Why are you choosing to derail the thread which is specifically about the Bibas family when there are plenty of other threads you can discuss this on?

We are discussing named individuals who were specifically murdered, by hand, having been kidnapped from their homes, by terrorists during the 7th October atrocity, or pogrom.

No, their individual lives are not more important than any other child. However, in this context - children killed as a result of bombing, and children snatched from their homes and gleefully murdered, by hand, then their bodies returned to their families in a grotesque display filled with anti semitic imagery, we are allowed to discuss the particular circumstances.

Are you as interested in all the other children all over the world who are killed as a result of war, or just Gazan ones? Why do you think ones killed in Israeli military strikes are more important than all the other children in the world who are killed by various governments' military actions? Why don't you start a thread on them?

Oh, because you don't actually care at all but just want to whatabout on this specific one due to your choice to blame Israel for the revolting actions of Hamas.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:29

The agenda? You know nothing about me, except I have said that the killing of any child is horrific

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:29

By the way, the only "far right" trope in this thread is the anti Semitic note being repeatedly struck.

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:28

I see. Proving again that it is impermissible to discuss the Bibas family here. Thanks for making it so clear what the agenda is.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:27

To add, I am very uncomfortable with the far right narrative of the replacement theory. I don't think any piece of the world, the UK included, 'belongs' to any ideology or people with a specific skin colour. I don't think white people own the piece of land that is the UK. Or that Jewish people have a God given right to various territories.

Everyone has the right to live in peace with their neighbours

hihelenhi · 22/02/2025 11:22

Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot · 22/02/2025 10:43

But surely that was the only information the public had at the time? Now they are back in Israel (and I have just read that Shiri’s body has been confirmed) the truth can - and should be- found.

"Information" provided by whom?

Hamas. As propaganda.

This wasn't "the only information the public had at the time." It was the Hamas line which people had no problem believing uncritically. That is the point we are making.

The other information we had at the time was a) the video of the Bibas family with a terrified Shiri clutching her babies, being kidnapped by Gazan civilians b) The knowledge of the atrocities carried out on Oct 7th, which we gained from first hand survivor reports and the disgusting bodycam videos that the attackers decided to take themselves while proudly murdering, torturing and raping Jews. c) The information that Israel was bombing Gaza in retaliation with many killed.

So yes, it was possible that hostages had been killed in airstrikes. But it was equally possible that they some of them had been brutally murdered in captivity, especially if taken by adjacent groups to Hamas.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:20

Well, Oxfam figures say over 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli military action since October 7

They haven't been given the dignity of a name, or details of their death.

If you think they are victims of Hamas - a valid point of view - why aren't you raising their cases?

Why some children and not others?

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:07

@Baital Hamas are responsible for both. Why is it impossible to discuss Hamas's murder of these specific children, and how they have been used to torture Israelis and Jews around the world, without any thread on the subject being derailed? What Hamas is causing to happen to the children of Gaza is also absolutely horrible, yes, but their reasons for doing that and the mechanism by which they are harming those children is obviously different to strangling them.

Baital · 22/02/2025 11:05

Their murder is horrific. So is the murder of children in Gaza. It is possible to condemn both

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:03

I have not seen a single thread about these babies that hasn't been derailed into blaming Israel and Israelis.

verysmellyjelly · 22/02/2025 11:02

Hamas are a terrorist group and no one should be regurgitating their disgusting propaganda. Anyone who, at this stage, repeats the foul lie that the Bibas family were killed in an air strike, is spreading Hamas's toxic myths whether they are aware that that's what they're doing or not. Furthermore, derailing discussions of the Bibas children with whataboutism is instantly recognisable as what it is: anti Jewish hate masquerading under a facade of compassion.

Wildflowers99 · 22/02/2025 10:58

LunaTheCat · 22/02/2025 08:45

It’s awful… poor woman, poor children. Hamas is evil… but so is the Israeli response. An Israeli death is not worth more than a Palestinian mother and children’s death.
The ( mostly men) who continue this war should be put together and kill each other and leave the innocents on both sides out of it.

Stunningly naive.

Seagullsandsausagerolls · 22/02/2025 10:57

Of course it should 😕 my point is some people will never stop believing Israel is at fault for everything, even with ALL the evidence in the world.

Think I'll leave it at that. To much morphine in me and will end up banned.

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