What did you do during the genocide in Gaza?

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This is a brilliant article.

This will be taught in schools one day and our grandkids will ask us but what did you do when you knew this was happening?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/22/israel-gaza-genocide

No it’s the truth.

It’s certainly not racist to accuse people who voted in a terrorist government, who wanted to annihilate their neighbours, of doing so,

How many gave information regarding the hostages, even the offer of $5 million and safe passage out of Gaza.

How many cheered in the streets in Oct 7th and at the hostage/body handovers?

How many civilians held hostages in their homes?

How about you prove me wrong and evidence how many in Gaza doesn’t support terrorism?

Hamas is not the only terror faction there btw.

Western lib Pro Palestinians are totally deluded, although I think many of them actually know that, IMO.

It's so sad that people have dehumanised Palestinians to such an extent that they don't consider any of them innocent. Once that mindset takes hold, it then excuses and even justifies all violence against them.

By 'them' i am referring to the poster who thinks only Palestinian children can be afforded some partial sympathy.

But you seem to be dehumanising adult Palestinians by saying that they have no agency. (Edited to add: Hamas certainly exerts a tyrannical rule, but it's rather cock-eyed to blame Israel for this!)

Which then gives perceived justification for killing the civilian population of Gaza. Which is abhorrent. I see why some have very extreme views on the situation in Gaza now if this opinion is generally held. I’m hoping it isn’t and I haven’t seen much of this sort of attitude before on MNet.

Exactly as @Anonimummy they are responsible for killing their children not Israel dropping 500lb bombs on sleeping children in tents .

Hamas being voted in in 2006 and not allowing more elections that's their fault too.

Nicely absolves Israel of any blame here.

Edited to add I hadn't seen it either. Most pro Israeli posters would not (and most still so not)have held views like this or the post earlier about no one caring about Palestinians .

And that's their choice to do so.

They have the world's media interviewing them and their ambassadors to tell their story and their leader has private dinners with the American president.

Palestinians don't have that luxury.

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The posters who make stupid comments about people supporting the killing of children are frankly ridiculous.

I've been away from the CITME thread for weeks and come back and see the same virtue signalling, the same lack of understanding of the long history of hatred and the same people spouting nonsense.

I agree. The most recent shocking of which is on this thread regarding all adult Palestinians. We really need everyone to step back from the racism, Islamophobia and anti semitism if there’s to be a peaceful solution.

Stop making things up that I did not say. Do you agree with the poster that the only innocents in Gaza are the children?

Did I justify killing the civilian population of Gaza?

What is the reason for the war that is going on right now in your view?”

Right. So your contention is that this video showing allegedly a paramedic holding a baby, whilst driving and using one hand to change gears and the other to perform what looks like fake CPR (with a caption that gives credit to the cameraman) is all being done to stop Israeli lies?

Why not film after you're finished driving? Why not allow the paramedic to focus on saving the baby's life rather than catching its supposed imminent death on camera? Why not let the cameraman drive so the "medic" can perform CPR?

It's obvious to me this is a completely staged video, down to the camera credits, the gang of people chilling out and chatting in the back of the ambulance and what seems obviously to be a sleeping baby with a bit of cloth loosely wrapped around it's head, but if I give it the benefit of the doubt...

If anyone, especially a baby has a head injury, you wouldn't let them flail around like that. CPR on a baby is performed with two fingers, not a flat hand. CPR also requires rescue breaths. So the other explanation aside from it being staged, is that these two idiots are seriously risking the life of that baby to get a good video.

That's not my point at all.

I said it was a poor choice..
I agree with you.

War causes people to make poor choices and we have seen that from both sides.

The Israeli lies was in relation to the ambulance drivers being shot and the ambulances buried.

Is it racism and Islamophobia (does that mean opposition to an ideological death cult btw?) to state facts?

Why aren’t adult Palestinians requesting safe haven for their children? The UN is there, the US and Israel is there along with plenty of other international NGOs like the Red Cross and Amnesty. It’s not like there is no one to listen to them and put pressure on the international community to do so.

Ah, you’ll say but Hamas won’t let them do that, but also many on here believe Israel should withdraw and leave Hamas to it and also that there will only others to replenish them even if Hamas is partially dismantled now and so it continues.

I suppose we’re moving on now a bit now from pro-Israelis being accused of justifying the killing of Palestinian children……….

Not advocating for safe haven for children because ‘land’ and for Hamas to surrender seems to be justifying killing Palestinian children to me.

Absolutely or stating that no one cares about Palestinians.

When as humans we should care about everyone regardless of religion or ethnicity.

An attempt at deflecting away from that appalling post upthread doesn’t work with me I’m afraid. Racism disgusts me and I do not engage.

There’s plenty of those videos about as well. Seems to be the current theme.

https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1943666771312930928

Explain the racism?

I don’t feel the need the deflect from what I post, maybe you do or you would have responded also replying to the questions in my post.

Be serious please.

Palestinians don’t have the world’s media and SM focused on them, the world’s media are not quoting Hamas constantly, there isn’t protests all around the world almost every day, they don’t have representation in the UN, and are not in negotiations with one of the world’s most powerful countries?

Of course there are innocent Palestinians.

Hamas controls Gaza through fear and violence. It is not a democracy—there haven’t been elections since 2006—and dissent is brutally punished. Speaking out against Hamas can mean imprisonment, torture, or execution. Many people are simply too afraid to say anything.

I saw a video just this week of them dropping breeze blocks of the limbs of a man to break his bones because he got food from the israelis. They shoot people in their kneecaps. Its like the mafia, people are bonded in silence.

At the same time, Hamas has spent years indoctrinating the population through education, media, and religious institutions. From childhood, Gazans are taught that Jews are enemies, martyrdom is honourable, and violence is justified. This isn’t incidental—it’s systematic.

That propaganda shapes minds, and it has worked. The truth is, a significant portion of the population does support Hamas, and this was made plain when thousands celebrated the massacre on October 7. That doesn’t mean all Gazans support terror, but too many clearly do.

As for the hostages, the sad truth is that many Gazans don’t view them as innocent. They’ve been taught to see all Israelis as settlers or soldiers, not civilians. Helping return hostages would be considered collaboration, and in Hamas-run Gaza, that’s a death sentence. Worse, some support holding hostages as leverage or revenge. There’s been little evidence of widespread outrage over their captivity.

The risk isn't just your life, it's your whole family. There will be loads who don't want to live like this but they're trapped. The people who are meant to help them like Amnesty or the UN are actually helping the terrorists!!!!!!

Many wonder why Gazans don’t evacuate to protect their children. The reality is that Hamas deliberately prevents evacuations, blocks routes, steals aid, and uses civilians as human shields. Egypt won’t accept mass refugees, and Israel cannot absorb a hostile population. In practice, there is no safe way out for most. I have never in my life seen a civilian population locked in a warzone like this.

The better question is why the UN and the international and NGO community allow it to happen. I don't agree with all anons comments as I've said above, but I 100,% agree that if the UN or politicians are not doing everything they can to get Gazan children out, then they do not genuinely believe they're in a genocide.

It's easy to stand on principles here, but when Jews were experiencing genocide in Germany or facing systemic violence and persecution in Iraq or Egypt - they got out willingly even if it meant moving from their homes. What's going on here looks like it's being deliberately orchestrated and the loudest critics care more about delegitimising Israel than saving Palestinian lives.

It looks to be like an ideological battle and in a sense there, every Palestinian is probably a victim of it.

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Wow Gazawood on X Really !. I’d read some of Reuters fact checking on their propaganda. There’s a reason they’re only on X.

Indeed.

You will note though that I said in my deleted (of course) earlier post that I can’t now refer back to that Palestinians supported terrorism and IMV the adults are not innocent, I was referring to the elections in 2006 where Hamas were voted in on 44.45% of the vote with Fatah taking 41.43% and the remaining 14% of the vote being spread around 5 other parties.

Fatah hardly has a record of wanting peace with Israel.

Not sure what platform the other 5 parties were on but they got between 2-4% of the vote each. Mustafa Barghouti of the PNI and Salam Fayyad of the Third Way seem to be the only parties which did not advocate violence. Barghouti got 2.72% of the vote and Fayyad 2.41%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

My bad, I shouldn’t have said ALL Palestinians. I should have said 95% of Gazan adults in 2006 whose children are now suffering the consequences and have been since 2006.