Israeli govt has been pretty clear that it wants to occupy and depopulate the whole region. The perp openly admits the crime, and still the US, UK, Germany line up to send them the funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to commit it. Despicable state of affairs.
The final fate of all water, no matter how much the bottle cost.
This argument frustrates me greatly. Humans are far more adaptable than most other species, and the damage we are already doing to less adaptable species and ecosystems is incalculable and irreversible. We will kill off much of Earth’s life long before we manage to destroy ourselves.
Species are going extinct at a rate of 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than the normal “background rate” of extinction, driven by habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Every species that we drive to extinction represents a multi-billion year legacy that will never return. Arguing that life will continue after the collapse of humanity is only partly true. There are a hell of a lot of species that will never continue, because our actions destroyed them.
We’re also roughly at the halfway point of Earth’s ability to support complex life, which emerged about a half billion years ago and has roughly another half billion years before the increased heat of the aging sun disrupts carbonate weathering to the extent that one of the main pathways of photosynthesis is no longer possible. Yes, during that 500 million years, in the absence of ongoing anthropogenic extinction, species will again diversify to fill the gaps. But there will be no tigers or elephants or rhinoceros after humanity, just as there were no non-avian dinosaurs after the asteroid.
The moon landing was pretty cool. But it also happened right in the middle of the Vietnam War, so yeah, your point stands.
“Holocaust” has existed in the English language for a thousand years and derives from its Latin counterpart that dates to ancient Rome.
It means complete destruction, and I use it here intentionally, and accurately.
Yes, I was glad to see it, but it does seem like very little and very late.
It seems to me like a lot of countries, including Germany, talk out of both sides of their mouth on Palestine. The UK has been doing the same thing - demanding a ceasefire while at the same time arguing in court that there’s “no evidence of genocide in Gaza,” - a clear lie - while also criminalizing and arresting even peaceful protesters who speak up about the Holocaust being perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
I’m thankful for small shifts in a moral direction, but I don’t think this will change the fundamental reality on the ground. Likud’s stated goal in their founding platform is to deny any Palestinian sovereignty and conquer the entire region. It will take a lot more than a temporary, partial delay of shipments from one nation to prevent the genocide of Palestine.
Germany and the UK are two of the worst offenders outside the U.S. I certainly don’t expect either of them to take a stand for Palestinians’ rights to peace, land, and sovereignty.
And various species of pangolin being endangered or critically endangered.
No. The end goal of Zionism is the complete colonization of all of Palestine and the eradication of the people living there. It’s not a secret - Israeli sovereignty over the entire region is in Likud’s founding charter. Israel has no intent of a ceasefire. They have no intent of allowing a Palestinian state. They will murder, and murder, and annex, and murder, until there are no Palestinians left to kill and no Palestinian land left to steal.
I’ve read that in some of Europe public support for Israel has fallen to about 20%. The trend is in the same direction in the U.S. but not as pronounced. And yet for some reason all these governments keep shipping as many crib-seeking missiles as possible to Israel.
Yeah, I truly wonder whether the U.S. autos were even consulted on this. Retool domestic factories to make a tiny number of left-hand drive pickups that don’t even fit on Japanese streets? Sounds expensive and pointless. There’s simply no market.
Forget a year ago, Britain was in court a month ago arguing there was “no evidence of genocide in Gaza” after a challenge on supply of military parts to Israel.
Some of these countries I put a little more stock in, but the UK, like the US, is duplicitous as fuck and fully complicit in this Holocaust.
Exactly. Genocide was wrong then and it’s wrong now. It should not even be a question that we all condemn Hitler and his genocidal Nazi regime - just as it should not be a question that we condemn Israel and its genocidal Nazi regime.
The Holocaust of the Jews was a horrific, unforgivable crime. So too is the Holocaust of the Palestinians. This is non-negotiable for any person of conscience.
As an embarrassed American, I would urge you to boycott any remaining goods until such time as we’re not a Nazi shithole. Might be a while.
And U.S. consumers lose because, if there’s still anyone unclear on this, we pay the goddamn tariff and not a single person in Canada.
I won’t be satisfied that this attempt at fascism has collapsed until we no longer have plain-clothes, masked goons kidnapping people off the street.
Israel’s been calling it a “selfie yacht” like people really take an Instagram vacation to a fucking war zone where the entire population is starving and children are slaughtered en masse.
Israel’s approval rate in Europe is 20% and falling. People are finally waking up to who the modern Nazis are.
In their minds, they’ve made up a fake alternate history where it all belongs to them.
You’re right. Imagining that Israel would ever comply with international law or abandon its long-term goal of colonizing the entire region is indeed a crazy thought.
They’ve attacked most of the journalists, too. This attack was par for the course of Israeli terrorism.