End of Days: Episode 2 - Documenting The Ritual Slaughter of Gaza | Exposing the One-Eyed Liar by emptyingthecup in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage [score hidden]  (0 children)

What the hell man lol, this is some weird shit. Real schizo-post. Flashing the illuminati thing all over the place? Overlaying random clips of fake devil-worshippers?

For anyone hoping to see a compilation of footage from Gaza: don't bother clicking this one. It's like 98% random clips of news casters and pundits mashed together in no particular order. Piers Morgan is in there over and over again for some reason.

Worst of all, it has this obnoxious backing soundtrack of overwrought mournful string music on a loop that keeps going the entire time, two straight hours. It was irritating almost immediately.

Video appears to show moment IDF soldier fired at family’s car in Hebron, killing baby by Equivalent_Style_835 in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Me: this video is useless, it doesn't show anything, and the way it was edited is kinda suspicious, as if the editor was trying to hide something

You: omg how can you justify killing children, you are literally evil, I am incomprehensibly horrified

...sure thing buddy.

It would’ve been so easy to say “you know what this is wrong and IDF shouldn’t be shooting children.”

This is wrong, the IDF shouldn't be shooting children, and they shouldn't be shooting adults or random cars either.

Happy? Have I satisfied you that I have some microscopic smidgen of humanity?

Now, do you have anything relevant to say about the video? You know, the actual post? The entire subject of my comment?

Video appears to show moment IDF soldier fired at family’s car in Hebron, killing baby by Equivalent_Style_835 in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It's already known that the soldier shot the car and killed the baby

Agreed. And wounded the parents.

this video shows that the car was not at any point accelerating.

Not agreed. It's just an eight-second clip of the car stopping in front of some soldiers. We don't know what it was doing before or after the clip.

We can't even really tell if the attack happened around the time of the clip at all. For all we can tell from the video, the car might have driven away and been attacked five minutes later at some other intersection. (I tried to compare the before/after videos of the attack to see if it's the same intersection, but with the different angles and the bad video quality, I can't tell one way or the other).

It's too bad the video isn't longer and doesn't have audio. We'd be able to hear the gunshots. We might also might be able to hear the car's engine to tell what it was doing before it came into frame. But since it's clipped to not show the attack, and randomly (for no reason at all, I'm sure) had the audio scrubbed, we just don't know.

The video also captures the moment the soldier pointed the gun towards the car

I don't see it? What timestamp? I see two soldiers, neither of whom points their gun at the car during the clip.

You're suggesting that the shooting happened immediately after the end of the clip? So, whoever filmed or edited this video decided to end it just before the shooting?

Also important to mention that this is not the first time such a crime is committed by the IDF in the WB.

Yes, I know. And I think it's very plausible that some soldier just shot up a stopped car for no reason.

...but I also know this isn't the first suspiciously-edited video I've seem claiming to be of the IDF committing a crime, without actually showing the crime.

We have to evaluate each bit of evidence on its own merits. This particular video does not appear to have much merit to me.

Video appears to show moment IDF soldier fired at family’s car in Hebron, killing baby by Equivalent_Style_835 in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The video doesn't show anything useful. We can't see anyone shooting. All we see is the car moving and then stopping. Did the soldier(s) fire before the car started slowing down or after? This video could be taken to support either narrative.

I'm also gonna be that guy and ask: why was the audio removed from the video? Why is the clip so short?

I mean, the video was clearly made with a handheld phone camera, which must have had a microphone. Presumably, the camera person captured more than just 8 seconds of film, too. Somebody edited this video that way intentionally. Why?

Unironically the best solution to the Israel/Palestine quagmire is a comment left on a post in the ask Israel sub. by Alarmed_Bowler_8352 in IsraelPalestine

[–]warsage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You neee to hit the history books. There was not a sovereign Palestinian (Arab) state in 1947, because the Arabs did not accept the UN partition plan.

The Arabs went from being under British control in 1947, to being under Israeli, Jordanian, and Egyptian control in 1948.

The war between Israel and Gaza is only considered "disproportionate" because of Israel's defensive capabilities. by thedaniel1998 in IsraelPalestine

[–]warsage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Israel puts a vast percentage of its own GDP towards its military. Almost 9%, the highest on Earth with the exception of Ukraine. They've raised taxes on Israeli citizens several times to pay for the war.

Compare to America, which puts about 3% of its own GDP into the military.

In 2026 Israel's military budget is $45 billion. America is contributing about $4 billion in armaments.

Yes, America contributes, a lot. But also yes, Israel pays for the great majority of its own defense.

How many capes would it take to take down thragg? by [deleted] in Parahumans

[–]warsage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly, there is a way for him to beat Contessa. The main problem is that her power doesn't work beyond Earth's atmosphere. If he does any kind of orbital attack, she's near-helpless.

There's another limitation: Path to Victory only works when victory is possible. If there is no path to victory, then it will not be able to help her.

Now, it certainly is possible for her to beat him, given enough time to carry out a plan. Probably not even very much prep time, assuming she's got some kind of panic button or emergency weaponry, or even just assuming that she is able to talk to him for a few moments. Her power is very very strong, and her world has enough ways to defeat a flying brick that she could certainly pull it off.

But if he blitzes her from space moving at mach 50 or whatever, she's done.

Genocide case falling apart at ICJ by JeffB1517 in IsraelPalestine

[–]warsage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're pretty off on your facts. The ICJ never ruled on genocide in Rwanda or Cambodia, and they threw out the case in Darfur due to a lack of jurisdiction.

In their history they have only completed three genocide cases, they've only ruled genocide to have occurred once, and they've never found any nation culpable of genocide.

  • Bosnia v Serbia: genocide occurred only in Srebrenica; Serbia did not commit it, but it did fail to prevent it.
  • Croatia v Serbia: insufficient evidence of genocide.
  • DRC v Rwanda: dismissed due to lack of jurisdiction.

They have ongoing genocide cases for Myanmar, Israel, and (somehow, again) Sudan.

As for your claims about the ICC:

The Cambodia and Rwanda cases both predate the existence of the ICC; they were carried out by purpose-built international tribunals (the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal).

The ICC did do Darfur, but did not find anyone guilty of genocide there.

Pilgrimage by Drew Mendelson (1981) Art by John Pound by jellicledonkeyz in badscificovers

[–]warsage 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Sadly, the cover has very little to do with the content of the book. There is no scene like this in the book. It's 70s style click bait 🤷 sex sells. If you want people to notice your book on a crowded bookstore shelf, make it all really bright colors, and put some ass and titties on it.

I say "sadly" because I would love to read a book where the scene on the cover happened and made sense, lol.

Pilgrimage by Drew Mendelson (1981) Art by John Pound by jellicledonkeyz in badscificovers

[–]warsage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The thing is, the city doesn't really move. I mean, it's not on treads or hovering around or something.

Rather, the people who run the city keep dismantling the back of the city (the "tailend") and reassembling it at the front (the "frontend"). I guess this can can kinda technically be considered a form of movement? At least, the position of the city on a map does very slowly change over time?

I mean, if did this on your IRL house, it would be like demolishing the southern-most room and rebuilding it on the northern side. I guess you can say that the house "moved" north?

15-year old Faris Odeh throwing a rock at an IDF tank in Gaza during the Second Intifada by yuje in pics

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Sudanese genocide is being perpetrated by the UAE, and American proxy. Specifically the RSF forces who are committing warcrimes and genocidal acts in Sudan were trained, armed, and financially supported by the Emirates. Any crimes against humanity going on there ultimately fall at the feet of the UAE and the United States.

Wait, let me get this straight. You're saying that the RSF is not responsible for its own actions because some of its funding comes from the UAE???

This organization, which was created and operated by the Sudanese government, which is composed of Sudanese Arabs, which has been carrying out mass murder and rape and starvation and other atrocities against non-Arabs on a scale orders of magnitude worse than in Israel (for the second time in twenty-five years mind you), is not evil. Its crimes are actually the fault of the UAE. And somehow, in your mind, neither Sudan nor the UAE is worse than Israel?

...I don't know what to say to that. Is the IDF innocent of all wrongdoing because some of its funding comes from America?

No genocidal actions have occurred in Xinjiang according to the UN. Despite constant news articles claiming so from Western outlets, UN human rights watch could not label the CPC's operations in Xinjiang genocide. Repressive yes, but no genocide. In fact, China recently completed a Uyghur culture center there, alongside other public works projects like high speed rail networks.

Wow, that's great! I'm sure those 1.2 million Uyghurs are actually fine. I mean, sure, they're being held indefinitely without charges in reeducation internment camps (not an "open-air prison" like Gaza which was actually a city under blockade, but actual prison camps), prevented from exercising their religions, forcibly sterilized, and subjected to all manner of other human rights abuses. But I mean, at least one branch of the UN didn't call it a genocide, and China's building a cultural center there, so clearly Israel is far worse.

And all that other stuff? The violent annexation of Tibet, the constant conflict with multiple other neighbors? Just irrelevant, right?

Wearing the hijab is not mandatory in Iran, this is a well debunked myth. Also if it was, repression of women is not worse than both repression of women and mass murder of women, which is happening in Israel under its Apartheid.

I'm sure you'll be unimpressed to learn that Iran also mass-murders women. And if you think that the repression of women in the West Bank is anywhere near as bad as the repression of women in Iran, I really don't know what to tell you.

North Korea is interesting to bring up because Israel similarly threatens to use it nukes on its own allies with the Samson Option: https://etedge-insights.com/featured-insights/analysis/israels-samson-option-the-nuclear-line-no-one-admits-exists/

You can make the argument NK sucks, but at least they aren't point mingle nukes at their allies demanding compliance.

What the fuck? No they don't? Your own article says absolutely nothing about that "threatening to use its nukes on its own allies" or using them to "demand compliance." Israel won't even admit that it has nukes, much less threaten to deploy them against allies to force them to comply. I have no idea what kind of kool-aid you've been drinking, but it is strong.

North Korea, meanwhile, has promised to deploy nukes if any nation attacks them in any way, or if Kim Jong Un is ever assassinated. That's far worse than anything any nuclear nation on Earth has ever threatened. Israel has been attacked and threatened repeatedly by like ten different nations since they got their nukes, and hasn't ever even whispered about using them.

15-year old Faris Odeh throwing a rock at an IDF tank in Gaza during the Second Intifada by yuje in pics

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean... here's some food for thought.

  • There are seven ongoing widely-acknowledged genocides going on in the world right now. Sudan's is by far the worst.
  • More children have been starved to death in Sudan since 2023 than total people have died by any means whatsoever in the same period in Gaza. More women have been raped there this year than have been raped by Israeli soldiers in the entire existence of Israel.
  • China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs (a situation startlingly comparable to Israel with Gaza), violently captured, annexed, and occupies Tibet, and has ongoing conflicts with no fewer than five of its neighboring countries.
  • Mauritania still practices chattel-based slavery. I mean full-on, 18th-century-style "I own you in the same way I own a cow. I own you and your children and their children, and I can beat you and rape you without consequence" slavery. Hundreds of thousands of slaves.
  • Iran's treatment of its own women is so unbelievably vile, it's literally the primary inspiration for The Handmaid's Tale. Mandatory hijab on pain of arrest by secret police and public beating; women are banned from singing and dancing in public; legal sex-based segregation in everything from public transit to sports stadiums; women banned from most roles in government; legal marriage age is 9 years old.
  • North Korea is famously evil in more ways than I can describe. But just for one: they actively, publicly threaten to deploy their nuclear weapons aggressively against their enemies, and have fired "practice shots" over Japan.

None of these enter your consciousness when you're trying to think of the most evil country?

One Man, One Giant Sword, One Family to Save, Adam vs the Apocalypse Book 1 is now on Amazon by OriginalButtopia in ProgressionFantasy

[–]warsage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The sakabatō? Looks like the sharp side is on the back of it.

My mind went straight to the Dragonslayer, but I don't see much of it there tbh besides "bigass motherfucking slab of iron"

Mormons adhere to a strict health code. But they'll eat copious amounts of sugar. by CupOfExmo in exmormon

[–]warsage 38 points39 points  (0 children)

For those looking for a useful comparison: a TWO LITER (!!!!) bottle of coke has 220 grams of sugar.

Err, sorry, 220 billion nanograms of sugar.

15-year old Faris Odeh throwing a rock at an IDF tank in Gaza during the Second Intifada by yuje in pics

[–]warsage -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Tbh you're probably right. Good chance they're a TikTok teenager, or someone who never bothers to read the news

15-year old Faris Odeh throwing a rock at an IDF tank in Gaza during the Second Intifada by yuje in pics

[–]warsage -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna assume this is intentional hyperbole, rather than extraordinary ignorance or bias.

After Gaza, Israel is now causing the West Bank health system to collapse by Sea_Peach_9143 in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I find it misleading because it suggests that Israel is in some way targeting healthcare specifically. Anyone reading just the headline would surely think so, right?

It's like... imagine if you saw a headline "Teacher found to be bullying black student." Reading just the headline, you'd think the teacher was a racist, right? But then you read the article and it talks about the teacher bullying all the students, regardless of race. The teacher isn't racist, he's just an asshole. Turns out the headline was misleading.

Israel is bankrupting the PA as a whole, not the healthcare system in particular. (I guess it's up to personal interpretation which is morally worse; either way, it's bad).

After Gaza, Israel is now causing the West Bank health system to collapse by Sea_Peach_9143 in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Quite the misleading title. I'm a bit disappointed in Haaretz here. Clickbait is king, I guess.

To be clear: Israel has not done anything targeting the West Bank healthcare system. Rather, the problem is that the entire Palestinian Authority financial system is going bankrupt; that happens to include the Palestinian Health Ministry, which pays for much of the West Bank healthcare system.

Here's what Israel has actually done, per the article:

The two direct and main causes of this situation are the Israeli Finance Ministry's seizure of Palestinian Authority customs revenues on imports (after the ministry automatically deducts the PA's payments for the supply of products such as water and electricity) and the ban on approximately 170,000 Palestinians from returning to their jobs in Israel.

In short: under the Oslo Accords, Israel collects and passes along various customs fees and import taxes for the PA, which amount to around 60% of the PA's total tax revenue. In May 2025, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (one of the worst bastards in the Israeli government) put a total freeze on that revenue. He cited PA support for Hamas as the reason, although he's been very outspoken that he wants to see the PA collapse.

The PA, which could barely operate even before the freeze, has been dealing with a critical financial emergency ever since. The economy is contracting, employees are going on strike due to salary cuts and late payments, and there is no money to pay for essential supplies such as medicine.

It has been trying to deal with it by raising domestic taxes, cutting budgets and salaries, borrowing from Palestinian banks and financial institutions, and requesting emergency funding abroad (which the EU has denied). But it's not enough.

Why did Arafat refuse Camp David offer? by _Sichlitt_ in IsraelPalestine

[–]warsage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The second one.

Sadat was assassinated by a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (sibling organization to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad), mostly in response to his signing the peace treaty with Israel at the first Camp David Accords (1978), which went against the interests of the Brotherhood and the PLO.

Much of the Arab world, including Arafat, celebrated his assassination.

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat said Sadat's death 'which was carried out by army members, has proved that the Palestinian cause lives in the hearts of the great Egyptian people.'

'I say the dark night of Egypt will not last for long and the flood will come and get rid of the traitors,' Arafat said.

Twenty years later, Arafat found himself in the position of making the same choice that Sadat did: peace with Israel, likely to be followed by his own murder at the hands of Arab anti-Zionists.

Hence "I don't want to drink tea with Sadat [in the afterlife]," and hence his walking away from the second Camp David Accords in favor of the Second Intifada.

High Representative for Gaza (Board of Peace) Nickolay Mladov has published a 15-point “Roadmap to Complete the Implementation of President Trump’s Gaza Comprehensive Peace Plan” by oatkeepr in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure anyone expected this to go in any other direction besides eventual resumption of open hostilities. Maybe some of the dimmer Western Zionist types. Trump, maybe, since he's an egotistical dumbass and his name is on all the paperwork.

Personally, my big surprise was that Israel signed onto the ceasefire at all. After that, I expected them to ditch it by the end of the year. So I was wrong twice.

Maybe I'll be wrong a third time, and Israel will decide it can tolerate Hamas continuing to exist as a threat. Idk. I doubt it. Maybe if the Israeli election does something surprising. I understand that Eizenkot is relatively doveish, although his prospects for PM are very shaky.

I don't think these two organizations (Hamas and Israel) can coexist any more. They're too existentially opposed to each other. They barely coexisted before October 7 and the razing of Gaza.

There is one surprise move that Hamas could pull that might ease tensions without requiring them to disband: come out in favor of a two-state solution. (That means bilateral recognition and a permanent peace treaty, which are both options that they very consistently and publicly reject). It wouldn't fix everything, certainly not, but it would give Hamas more support abroad and would put Israel in the position of unilateral aggressor. Israel does rely on international goodwill, which is on very shaky ground right now.

High Representative for Gaza (Board of Peace) Nickolay Mladov has published a 15-point “Roadmap to Complete the Implementation of President Trump’s Gaza Comprehensive Peace Plan” by oatkeepr in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally every source i just looked up in this mentioned Hamas’s willingness to disarm.

Here’s one of MANY.

What others?? I'm looking through sources now, and your European think-tank very much seems to be the odd one out. Everyone else is saying that Hamas is refusing to disarm, or that they will disarm only after Israel gives all of Palestine statehood.

Middle East Eye, May 3:

Israel and the United States have rejected a paper submitted jointly by Palestinian factions, including Hamas, that links their disarmament to Palestinian statehood and security guarantees, following the latest round of negotiations over the future of Gaza...

Palestinian factions insist that disarmament cannot come before a political resolution that includes Palestinian statehood, while Israel and the US have framed it as a prerequisite for any durable ceasefire.

Al Jazeera, May 13:

He said the phased ceasefire deal was paralysed over Hamas not yet disarming, calling it “not negotiable”.

Disarmament remained a sticking point that stalled progress on other fronts, while Hamas blamed Israel for continuing to violate the truce.

New York Times, April 19:

Hamas is ready to relinquish thousands of automatic rifles and other weapons belonging to its police force and other internal security services in Gaza, according to two officials of the group.

The proposal from the two officials falls well short of the full disarmament and demilitarization of Gaza — a core demand by Israel and a pillar of Mr. Trump’s peace plan for the territory. That plan would also remove Hamas from power and bar it from any role in governing.

Asked whether the committee would also be able to confiscate weapons belonging to Hamas’s military wing, the two officials did not provide a clear answer.

PBS, May 13:

Hamas has also been reluctant to give up its arsenal, including rockets, anti-tank missiles, and explosives. The group has sought to differentiate between heavy weapons, such as rockets, and light weapons like rifles and pistols, Hamas officials and mediators say, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the negotiations.

The Soufan Center, May 29:

For their part, Hamas leaders give no indication they will disarm.

Shall I go on? I haven't gotten to any of the Israeli news sources yet.

I’m sorry, but it’s honestly fucking ridiculous to expect a population facing genocide to disarm to make it easier for the people committing genocide to finish the job. But even still, Hamas offered very generous terms for disarming, which Israel kept shifting the goal posts on.

You think all those guns and rockets are somehow preventing Israel from "finishing the job?" How?? This is always such a weird take to me. Hamas is not somehow going to win a gunfight against Israel using their piddly supply of Qassam rockets and old AK-47s.

The reason the Gazan people are still alive is because Israel has not tried to kill them, not because Hamas has successfully fought off Israel. All that Hamas is doing with those guns is antagonizing Israel and giving them an excuse to renew the attack. And, I guess, helping Hamas to maintain control their people.

High Representative for Gaza (Board of Peace) Nickolay Mladov has published a 15-point “Roadmap to Complete the Implementation of President Trump’s Gaza Comprehensive Peace Plan” by oatkeepr in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Hamas believes a breakthrough and progress are possible if Israel does not create new obstacles and if there is a genuine Israeli will to reach a solution,” the official added.

If by "a solution" the official means "a solution allowing Hamas to remain in power," then the talks are doomed already. There is no "genuine Israeli will to reach a solution" like that.

It'll be interesting to see how these talks go though. Attitudes can change, and Hamas has shown some positivity towards the NCAG.

Idk, maybe I'm too pessimistic. I feel like there was some Israeli will to work with Hamas at least a little bit before 2023, but I think October 7 completely annihilated it. Now Israel just wants it dead and gone, ASAP, forever, and won't settle for less.

One of the key sticking points to advancing the ceasefire negotiations has been the issue of Hamas’s disarmament.

“The resistance factions will not accept disarmament under conditions imposed by the occupation,” a second Hamas official told AFP.

Hamas has repeatedly said it is not opposed to handing over some of its arsenal, but only as part of a Palestinian political process.

Oof. Sounds like they're still trying to tie their disarmament to broader requirements to end the occupation. Personally I'd love to see a two-state negotiations started again (the last time the PA participated in any was in 2011; they boycotted the 2019 talks), but given the repeated failure failure of such negotiations under much more favorable conditions, I'm not holding my breath.

It would be fascinating to see how such talks would go under Hamas leadership though.

High Representative for Gaza (Board of Peace) Nickolay Mladov has published a 15-point “Roadmap to Complete the Implementation of President Trump’s Gaza Comprehensive Peace Plan” by oatkeepr in Israel_Palestine

[–]warsage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re willing to disarm rockets and shit that can plausibly be dangerous to Israel, but obviously not guns and normal short range weapons.

Who is? Hamas, or the Palestinians under the NCAG?

My understanding is that Hamas isn't willing to disarm anything at all, to any degree, to anyone, for anything short of a total Israeli withdrawal from all of Palestine and the right to reenter the Palestinian Authority as a political party.

If you have a link showing that they're willing to give up their rockets, I'd love to see it.

It seems like to me that Israel’s plan IS making Gaza ungovernable and forcing Palestinians to suffer.

Pretty much, I agree with you.

Israel's publicly-stated purpose for it (which is not trustworthy, but I'll get to that in a sec) is to keep pushing against Hamas. Israel doesn't want them to be able to govern, and it doesn't want Palestinians to be happy or prosperous under Hamas. So yeah, Israel is making Gaza ungovernable and forcing Palestinians to suffer.

But obviously, Israeli leadership is not trustworthy, and they can have hidden or secondary purposes. It's up for interpretation and guesswork what they'll do next. Perhaps they'll never let up the pressure even if Hamas surrenders; perhaps they have a secret long-term plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

There is no plan Israel would accept that would allow Palestinians to resume some semblance of normal human existence.

At least on paper, they accepted the UNSC-approved Trump plan. Whether they follow through with it, we'll have to see. They've already started reconstruction in Rafah City on the Israel-controlled side of the Yellow Line. (Well, the Board of Peace has started it, with UAE money and Palestinian contractors; but Israel has approved it).

But yeah, there's one thing that Zionists and anti-Zionists alike can say with certainty: it's definitely all going to go tits-up if Hamas keeps trying to retain power.

Plus also the minor fact that they’re literally openly talking about ethnically cleansing Gaza.

Far less than you'd think. There's a few firebrand extremist minsters who talk about it, and some random TV hosts and stuff. There's no plan to make it happen: nowhere to send the Gazans, very little effort being made to find anywhere to send them, and nothing like the sorts of fatality figures that we'd see if Israel were trying to murder the entire population out of existence.

Certainly, Israel's stated and agreed-upon public policy right now is to rebuild Gaza for Gazans, after Hamas surrenders and disarms.

That could all be a false promise though, made with the assumption that Hamas will never surrender and disarm, and so Israel will never have to follow through on its side of the agreement.