There is a grim milestone looming for the West in terms of total hypocrisy.
In barely a month, Israel has managed to kill as many civilians as Russia has in nearly two years of war with the Ukraine.
As of September 10, 2023, 9,614 civilians were reported to have been killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022. Even prior to the war, fighting took place in eastern Ukraine between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and separatist forces supported by the Russian government.
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This brings the overall death toll since October 7 to 9,488 Palestinians, including 3,900 children.
Russia (of course) is a war criminal for that deplorable civilian damage, and yet Israel who has killed almost as many civilians in that time is our good friend who has to commit these war crimes because you know, antisemitism.
When Russia kills civilians, they are the evil enemy who must be stopped.
When Israel kills as many civilians in a month as Russia has in nearly two years? Oh they are our righteous Ally defending themselves.
We should be collectively ashamed by this hypocritical double standard.
The only winners are the Military Industrial Complex.
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Martyn – Like you, I support, and want peace…yet, Israel is surrounded by “caged Tigers”, waiting to pounce…
The common denominator is America.
Sam – Yes
Yes, hard to see peace happening but easier to understand what is happening when caged animals is how one side of this tragedy both sees and treats the other side.
Peace in the Middle East, peace everywhere.
A O – What is the neighbouring Arab Nations relationship to Israel…”Sunshine, and Lolly-pops?”
How has Israel treated the people ‘sharing’ the same lands as them and how has this treatment shaped the views of neighboring countries? Right from the get go, we saw what Israel thought of Palestinians. Over 70 percent of the people in Gaza are refugees from the lands that Israel took from them.
“caged Tigers” essentially non-human, this is how Israel sees its neighbours, this is how Israel treats Palestinians….what more do we need to know! What does it say about people that they would freely say such a thing. It looks like this thinking is endemic. No wonder there has been nothing but endless misery in the Middle East. We think that Hamas et al have crazy ideas, clearly crazy is just human nature.
Peace.
Yes Nathan, because Israel forced them off their land and out of their homes and into the cages.
Now it’s simply a barrel shoot.
Richard + Christie – Still drinking from the ” Arabs are sweet, and without blame”, and “Israelis are bad” fountain?
As opposed to having your mouth wrapped around a hydrant that’s gushing deflection/denial. There is no justification for what the Israeli administration is doing now and ironically bombing the shit out of innocent civilians is just breeding an army of people with an absolutely iron clad reason to hate their oppressors.
“When a man’s path pleases the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.”
Proverbs 16 7-10.
I don’t expect you to consider that quotation just because it’s scripture but as it’s ancient Jewish wisdom attributed to Solomon, by reputation the greatest of the Jewish kings you might want to consider it from a historical and socio-political perspective.
There have been plenty of times when a nation has colonized/conquered new territory and then had to deal with defeated tribes and surrounding hostile barbarians. The answer is to integrate them into your systems and make their lives better, so they want to keep you around. The Roman did it with the Britons and later the British did it with the Māori.
Don’t say it can’t be done, Solomon did it.
Never trust anyone with god on their side to tell them how to fuck you on the deal.
William S. Burroughs.
Religion is why this problem is happening.
Free palestine
That is an appalling commen…. not at all because of the biblical reference, but because of the inherent defence
of colonisation.
Really ? Name one human society, just one that hasn’t colonized new territory or gone to war. It’s a typical and typically feeble leftist response to assume a personally superior attitude to the entirety of human existence because it doesn’t match up to your totally theoretical standards.
You may also wish to consider the fact that the Māori people are now stronger, richer, healthier and more numerous than at any time in history.
Thank you very much colonialism.
Caged tigers can pounce dipshit. ( I felt that needed to be pointed out.)
Neihana, no one told them to park up in the M.E. The founders of apartheid Israel David Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin, Chaim Weizmann, Golda Meir etc.. are from europe they’re europeans similarly when Pakeha came to New Zealand. Like I said stick to knitting!!
I’d call it conditioning. We are conditioned/led, mainly by our media, sometimes in tune with Govt also, we are led to believe in this and that. And this and that never collides with this, that and the other, thus double standards and hypocrisy never gets a chance to enter our mind. The winner in this endless dance is always the powerful, often spearheaded by their Military/Industrial/Intelligence machine.
No the real winner here is Israel.
They have been given the green light from the west to commit genocide
Wonder what Anne Frank would think about Israels actions these days?
(+)(+) – Hard to tell what Anne Frank would think, based on the fact that her family heavily editing her story, to remove her writing on her girl crush on another girl, and how her body was changing.
Sam – Yes
The IDF butchers and Israeli State are losing credibility all round the world at large pro Palestine solidarity marches and gatherings.
If US Imperialism turned off the cash and arms tap, Israel would be gone by lunchtime. They have had 75 years to make peace with the Palestinians and establish a state where all are welcome–but they chose not to.
Tiger Mountain – Er, no…the neighbouring nations of Israel have stated from Day One to Israel – “Death to Israel!” … in fact, the neighbouring nations invaded Israel 1948 – 47, to wipe out Israel, and steal Palestinian land.
Neihana you’re repeating Hasbara BS. Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas,Hamas, stick to knitting lol
Sad thing is, I don’t think they ever will.
Thing is in the USA so many of the powerful people in politics are duel citizens with Israel. That includes Blinkin. How do you expect these people to be anything other than staunch supporters of Israel?
Look it up, this is a well known fact
“They choose not too”
When the UN proposed an Arab State and a Jewish state, the Jews accepted the deal but the Arabs rejected it.
When the State of Israel was formed, every Arab state surrounding it declared war on Israel.
There have been attempts at a peaceful solution for years. Yet you claim it’s all the Jews fault??
New Zealand must break off diplomatic relations with Israel now! The least we can do in protest against this genocide.
Hamas are fighting against their occupier the zionist. The Zionist aren’t from Palestine there roots are from europe incorporating the arab Jews to do their bum work also to give them numbers against the indigenous palestinians. Resisting your belligerent occupier is a right recognized under the geneva convention. In Israel they have Jewish diaspora recognizing their ancestral homelands like Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Morocco etc..
tiger, how long exactly would hamas last without foreign/ngo funding?….both sides need to have their finances cut off
It’s an interesting idea and I would love to see the Americans try to unpick that particular knot.
The largest funder of Hamas (as far as I can tell) is Qatar, their leader Ismail Haniyah lives in Doha.
Qatar also hosts the largest US military base in the region. So those terrorists should be pretty easy to bomb, you wouldn’t even have to leave the base, just fire out the windows.
Their leader, to find support, in his failing leadership, we will eradicate Hamas, that is a impossible, why ideal, ideal, never eradicate, as you. Bugger, ideal!s, on both, who, us, humanity, and, TWO sTATE, that these infiltrators deny.
Maybe it is because the Ukraine military is not using human shields when resisting the Russian invasion.
Basing ones military under an urban environment and provoking an invasion is not responsible governance.
Ditto bombing above ground when you know full well that your target is below ground. Twisted governance all-round I would say.
As for the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Locating your military within civilian areas is common place for Ukraine. I don’t need to say anymore than that given what is taking place now in Gaza.
Maybe it is because Gaza is a small place so there is not much distance between the Palestinian people & the Hamas people? Israel is making the claim about human shields whenever they destroy innocent people yet they never provide any of the information they use when selecting their targets so it is most likely a case of they think there are some Hamas fighters in a location so they attack it and make excuses afterward.
Well not exactly human shields but there have been lots of dirty tricks the Ukrainian special services have pulled off in this war. Do you remember the truck bomb that detonated on the Kerch bridge? That driver didn’t know what was in the back. It’s not exactly a human shield but it’s an innocent man killed for a convenient cover. So, he went to heaven as an unwitting martyr for the cause, or he just died as a chump, depending on your particular philosophy.
Darya Dugin ate the car bomb intended for her father, a philosopher and political author. The political blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed, and a bunch of others seriously wounded by a bomb in a St. Petersburg cafe. Both of those are pretty much textbook definitions of political terrorism.
Sure, there are reasons for all of those, but let’s not confuse reasons for excuses.
Wonderful cartoon Malcolm- sums it up nicely
Indeed.
Many reject the backbones and balls given to or often forced onto them and choose a different set.
Dare breath humanity.
They’ve destroyed their public ideals for strangers.
All the intelligent know the shit of Israel. Now they’re publishing it to everyone else. Fascist.
NZ can take 100,000 Israeli Fascists like we did for white South Africans.
Israel will never be held accountable, they’ll just scream antisemitism and ask Uncle Sam to back them up.
Zionism is Facism, end of story , We have been reminded constantly of the atrocities committed by the Nazis for nearly a century, yet no one can criticise the Israel Zionists for their war crimes and atrocities.
Israel deserved to be shunned by the world just like South Africa was during apartheid.
Israel is shunned by a large part of the world. Just like South Africa was.
There is no pervasive Anti-Afrikaner ideology on the planet, pockets of this persists within consciousness of some political bigots and activists.
Antisemitism, on the other hand is real and very divisive. There is no pervasive antipalestinian ideology. That makes a difference.
Murder, abduction and rape of peaceful civilians should be mourned, never celebrated. That makes a difference.
Gazan Death Toll Passes 10,000 While Israel Acts With Impunity https://youtu.be/NqA0zzoZsyU?list=TLPQMDYxMTIwMjMKYKUSRHgivw ….
…. The IDF puts the number they have murdered closer to 20,000
Meanwhile Zionist trolls/supporters claim those who oppose Israels mass slaughter are Hamas supporters ….
…. While they lie about what Hamas actually did … Israeli government lies debunked by their own media https://www.bitchute.com/video/IeZhK9fBhgOY/
The Jews see tbe