This is the reality of what Israel is doing (part 4)

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/09/israel-gaza-hamas-hospitals/

I see the old thread is sadly almost full. I wonder how many of these I will start? 😢

Even Twitter (which is no stranger to platforming abuse) has limited visibility on the tweet:
Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Violent Speech.
And the original post has also been community noted:
"Throughout history dehumanisation has played a key role in the perpetration of atrocities."
https://x.com/Ostrov_A/status/1712750062126662133

"Fabrication" refers to the inaccurate comparisons and false equivalences being made by some posters, not to the cartoons.

All this concern over Yahya Sinwar's potentially hurty feelings because a cartoonist depicted him as a cockroach is very touching. I'm sure he's crying about it in a tunnel somewhere surrounded by his human shield hostages, stockpiled weapons and supplies while he plans his next massacre of Jewish people.

It would be great if the comparison was limited to just Yahya Sinwar, but referring to people as insects is a long used method of propaganda to dehumanise them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/30/comment.israelandthepalestinians

In a committee of the Israeli parliament in 1983, General Rafael Eitan boasted of his triumphs on the West Bank. "All the Arabs will be able to do is scuttle around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle".
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2396301

I think you've massively missed the point

It would be great if you could provide more recent, relevant comparisons than from a 24 year old opinion piece making another false equivalence with the Holocaust and a hateful anti-Arab statement made nearly 40 years ago during the war with Lebanon, neither of which really relate to the cartoon under discussion.

Ditto.

Well, it'll complement the many many cartoons in the Arab press depicting Jews variously as monkeys, apes, and pigs

Which is also very wrong and dehumanising

Two wrongs do not make it right

The good old fallacy of "two wrongs make a right". The one that goes ""if others are doing it, I can too".

Two wrongs don’t make a right- agreed.
But it’s not ok to only call out wrongs on one side … I think the PP was just pointing out there are wrongs on both sides

Yes … but if the British government stop arming Israel do you think it likely that an Iranian charity will have similar success? Im not convinced.

I didn't read it that way. Others didn't either.
Are we all wrong?

@Limesodaagain It really wasn't worded that way.

That’s how I read it … ( although it was flippantly expressed I think the point was that both sides produce offensive cartoons)

Actually- I’ve missed some of the thread . I can see how you could interpret it the way you did. Apologies

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sends-truck-full-decomposed-bodies-gaza-health-ministry-refuses-accept

I feel sick.

I appreciate your apology! Thanks.

Why? Just why?

No respect for them when alive or dead so upsetting and more trauma for people to come to terms with

That's awful 😖

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hostages-dad-attacked-with-eggs-berated-as-cancer-as-he-protests-outside-likud-event/

Sinwar is funding you,” one reportedly says.
“You are cancer in the country,” another is said to shout.

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sentences a father of a hostage has been told whilst protesting for a deal that brings their relative back home.

Jesus. That's so cruel and heartless.