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Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month.

Those killed by the unmanned aerial vehicle in the rubble of the southern Gaza city appear to be unarmed teenagers or young men. According to a translation of the coverage, they were not identified in the reporting.

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 100 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's tons of footage like this by the way. These fascists just upload this shit to their social media because they know they won't suffer any consequences with the US backing them.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago

Jesus Christ. The last kid had nothing left to censor. If this doesn't create action against Israel, every politician in the world is complicit.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

A confusing thing for me about this report is ..... where did this footage come from? Was this actual footage from an Israeli drone? Was it footage from someone else who filmed the strike?

I fully support the Palestinians and completely abhor what the IDF is doing but I'm completely at a loss as to where this footage came from.

Are the Israelis that callous as to freely release footage this graphic and blatantly horrific for the public to see? Or was it secretly acquired? Or is this footage from someone else in some other way?

It's absolutely horrible that this is even happening .... it's somehow even more horrible to have footage of the actual acts happening and it's aftermath and the world generally just not reacting to any of it.

This isn't an Israeli problem .... we're all complicit in making this possible .... and we're all complicit in allowing it to continue.

We haven't evolved ... we're no better than our ancestors a thousand years ago ... we're just more efficient about how terrible we can be to one another.

[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.id 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm not exactly an atheist .... I believe in something in my own way without following any religion or in wanting to force any of my beliefs on anyone.

But if there is evidence for the absence of God and the folly of Christian/Jewish/Muslim (Judeo-Christian) religions ..... what's happening in Palestine affirms that all these religions are just runaway historic cults that are absolutely destroying our world.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This is just western settler colonialism as we've seen for the last few centuries. This region is a bridge between the Middle-East and Africa, and serves as a great base for imperial core countries like the US to destabilize the Middle-East and keep them from uniting.

Its formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named "Colonization Commission", "Jewish Colonial Trust" and the like.

Theodor Herzl, founder of the colonial ideology he called "zionism", was himself also just a racist colonizer by his own admission, and saw it as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:

“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]

Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

If there is one thing this is showing very clearly, is that Israel never evolved beyond the racist thinking of the early XXth century and the same for all those countries unwaveringly supporting it because it's "the Jewish Nation".

The mindset of Nazism is still alive and well, just more dissimulated and with a different list of ubermenschen and untermenschen.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 8 months ago

This has nothing to do with religion. Israeli settler colonialism is all about the land for the settlers and how Israel is strategically important proxy for the US in the middle east.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure what Islam has to do with a Jewish settler colony, but go on I guess.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 40 points 8 months ago

Are the Israelis that callous as to freely release footage this graphic and blatantly horrific for the public to see?

Absolutely. There's something off-putting about how casualized the brutality is when you see what they willingly post to social media.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 36 points 8 months ago

I mean, individual IDF soldiers have been uploading this sort of thing to their social media the whole time. They seem perfectly happy and proud of such footage.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago

Are the Israelis that callous as to freely release footage this graphic and blatantly horrific for the public to see?

Yes, because they know they won't suffer any consequences so long as the US is backing the colony.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They're full indoctrinated with an ultra-racist mindset, quite similar to how the Nazis indoctrinated a large part of the German population.

I mean, it's extremelly usual to hear somebody from the Israeli government say that "Palestinians are violent" (not Hamas, Palestinians) which the very kind of group blame myths as the Nazis spewed.

And then there is the whole "human animals" from an Israeli minister. Consider what kind of environment there must be in a country for an actual government minister to think it's fine to describe an entire people like that.

True Evil is not the cartoonish "being Evil on purpose because you want to be Evil and knowing you're being Evil", it's this shit: reasonably normal people (possibly but not necessarilly low on empathy) who have been brainwashed (in this case, probably since they were children) to see entire groups of people as "members of a group", not as persons, belive some "we have to get them before they get us" rationale which goes unquestioned and has been stretched way beyond any logic, and whose view of those "group members" has been so dehumanized that "putting then down" like one would do a rabid animal is not only acceptable but actually a point of pride.

Indoctrinated people like this have no shame in displaying their acts of barbary because in their minds such actions were good and righteous actions of putting down rabid animals "to defend ourselves from them".

So for them to parade this, if only for each other, makes all sense: they don't see their actions as Evil, quite the contrary, and they have pride in them and know many/most others in their country think just like them and will look up to them when they see what they've done.

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 8 months ago

I fully believe that it was publicly posted, you have ministers calling for the open settlement/colonization of the Gaza beachfront, citizens blocking aid other examples of people posting their war crimes online

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

“Everyone in the world needs to see this”

Proceeds to upload to a dying platform that requires an account to view that I shut down years ago

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.id 4 points 7 months ago

Mirror for people that don’t want to click the Twitter video in the article:

NSFL https://files.catbox.moe/g3fjh9.mp4