To kill, yes. Starve, well Hamas have a lot to blame for that. And Israel have taken steps to prevent Hamas from looting aid, by introducing a new aid programme, which I posted about earlier.

This has gone way beyond Oct 7th and what you are stating isn't backed by any publicly available data.
Every life matters including every Israeli who was murdered on the 7th Oct.

A Palestinian child is no less precious than an Israeli child... all murdered children are innocent.

https://www.barrons.com/news/how-man...ttack-9c1d8239

Erm, that data came from the links you shared.

Oops... LOL

"There's nothing funny here..." she insisted. "Unless, of course, I happen to think so."

Oop LOL indeed Livia :)

Someone posting info and then saying it's worthless when quoted back to her is quite funny.

The same Jeffrey Sachs who's last vanity project, the millennium villages, failed dramatically at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Nor the cleverest of men.

Yes
crazy, not knowing he was alive

He says all that in a suit that probably costs more than some people earn in a year, and expects to be believed.:joker:

It must be an easy life, simply choosing to "not believe" any uncomfortable thought. Children starving? FAKE. Innocents blown to bits? FAKE they were terrorists. Anyone says anything that doesn't sit quite right? FALSE, FAKE, NO EVIDENCE of that.

I'm sure it's all very comforting. Like believing in Santa.

Better than being taken in by everything.

Flip side of the same coin. Are you borrowing Crimson Dynamo's equally-daft mantra of "Everything except exactly what I believe is MSM brainwashing"? That bleating nonsense got raggedy round the edges years ago.

You do realise I'm commenting on a video of a rich nd powerful Palestinian who is saying in the video his voice is silenced, he is a child of a lesser god, he is downtrodden etc etc...

I heard his voice which he claims is silenced I can see he is succcesfull by the suit. So which part are you saying is fake, or FAKE, as you prefer to put it..

It's part of a wider pattern of there always being "some reason" that the attacks on Palestine are completely fine/valid. This is the reason "this time" -- but there's always a reason, isn't there? Always a "Well, actually..." to morally justify bombing another school or hospital. Never once a thought of "You know maybe this actually was a bit too much". There will always be a "reason" not to listen, a "reason" that it's fine, a "Oh yeah well woddabout October 7th???" in response to any criticism.

Do you think Israel bombs schools and hospitals for no reason? Hamas uses human shields. They operate from schools and hospitals.

No one says "woddabout". Are you claiming some of us are stupid or is this your ropey attempt at humour? Don't bother answering, I know your views.

The western world gets a helll of a lot of "factual" stories out of the area, without a single western journalist being in the area!

If you prefer to believe murdering terrorists every time they open their mouths, then so be it.. I simply tread more carefully after decades of Hamas fake propaganda.

I don't think "Hamas was using them as human shields" is justification for bombing civilians. That's the difference and something we'll never agree on. You think a kid blown to bits is " bit sad but ho-hum what can you do?" because the same bomb might have hit a terrorist or two.

The place has been levelled by bombs, more civilians being blown to pieces or starving every day, and the justification is STILL "there's some Hamas in there". This has been going on for years so the tactic clearly isn't very effective. "There's STILL Hamas in there".

Plus anyone with half an ounce of personal honesty will see it's fairly obvious that this is only half of the reason - the other half being that they want the land cleared (definition of this is genocide).

I don't believe either of them I just don't think there's any justification whatsoever for the scale of destruction and death of civilians that's currently occurring/occurred in Gaza. It's not about believing anyone's "side" - it's saying, there is no possible justification, it does not exist.

You think there are justifications for blowing up children. And that's your own business / moral quandry to justify. I'm not interested in justifying it, it's inexcusable and the world is finally starting to wake up to that.

Kill as many Hamas as you want but if it involves carpet bombing hospitals "cos they're IN THERE I tell ya!" - no.

You think there are justifications for blowing up children


Dont speak for me...


And tbh, I'm sick of taking your abuse every day just cause your jobs boring..I'm nor here to make your day go quicker...


See ya later tonight if you want to talk more about things, but I won't ever reply now to you during work hours from now on.

I'm not "speaking for you" I'm seeing with my own eyes that people are justifying the deaths of children and other innocent civilians as collateral damage (quite casually, zero real empathy). It probably comes from the (false, nonsensical, but ideologically comfortable) notion that Palestinian civilians are somehow complicit with the actions of Hamas / are "Hamas by proxy" (or maybe the children are "Tomorrow's Hamas so better to nip it in the bud). But no, most of them are just normal people, as is always the case in war, and they're being exterminated by an expansionist regime with the justification (flimsy, fake, just entirely dubious) excuse that it's "counter-terror measures because they're hiding amongst them".

Horrific.

But if you don't want to think about it and would prefer to dismiss my disgust as me being "just bored" because -- again -- it's easier for you to not actually engage with these uncomfortable thoughts then by all means go for it. Anything to avoid actually considering what's happening to these people right?

No.not right.