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AloeVera

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7. Every single one is a well-worn and discredited talking point and excuse by Israel for starvation and genocide.
Mon May 18, 2026, 05:56 PM
Monday

You probably should check your sources, you'll find they come from COGAT (a conglomeration of sociopaths paid for their ability to lie and starve people), the IDF, Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir et al and Facebook "sources".

Try reading the reports of humanitarian organizations who dealt with Israel's duplicity and saw the suffering or even - gasp - some Palestinian or Middle Eastern sources. The UN perhaps (gasp). Even some Western media not pushing the Israeli narrative, though few those may be. I can send you some links.

I'm shocked those Hamas fighters did not die from overeating. After all, the 20,000 of them, and dwindling over time, ate for 2 million people!! And stealing right under the noses of the IDF, they must have made themselves invisible to do it.

The Biden Administration came to the conclusion that Israel lied about Hamas stealing aid. But you know what it also concluded? That the aid was being stolen by criminal gangs and tribes funded by the very state of Israel. Would you rather believe your "sources" than Biden?

Israel throttled Gaza's emerging economy from agriculture to manufacturing, fishing and so much more. Bombed its airport and port. Restricted food and regularly shut off water and electricity, unless of course it was bombing its power plant. You could read up on all of this, there are many independent sources out there.

If Israel had "taken pains" there would not be 50,000 dead women and children. Perhaps you think that is taking pains, but I don't. You could read up on Israel's use of the AI program Lavendar and "Where's Daddy" to gain some understanding of why that particular talking point about "taking care" is actually quite sickening. +972 Magazine has a good expose on that.

I won't be engaging further in this thread. I'm tired of fighting the same old propaganda talking points. I believe most people by now have seen through it. Those who haven't - well, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that they get themselves better informed. I don't want to believe that it is because they don't view Palestinians as full human beings worthy of a right to life and protection from rape, slaughter and starvation - like anyone else.


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