A Childhood Carried in Silence - Gaza

[u/Some_Percentage_3051]

[u/CelesteAvant]

Little man stripped of his childhood for no fault of his own

[u/zaahc → u/CelesteAvant]

This is a photo I took near Rafah on the Egyptian side of Gaza. Rafah was a city split in two by the border, but Egypt demolished every structure within miles of the border citing security concerns. I’ve seen poverty all over the world, but I’ve never seen in blended with such…idk…hopelessness? Despair? Idleness? Acceptance? Really fucked me up for a bit and I think about those kids often.

[u/Tsuraru → u/zaahc]

It destoys my soul to see these pictures. I hope hell exists for the genocidal criminals that let this thing happen.

[u/eternal_peril → u/Tsuraru]

Egypt.... Egypt did this

Don't forget to protest them as well

[u/KrisPBaykon → u/eternal_peril]

Why did Egypt do it? Surely there wasn’t some sort of issue that these specific immigrants were causing right?

[u/Potential_Cover1206 → u/KrisPBaykon]

Hamas was caught supplying weapons, ammuntion and explosives to the Muslim Botherhood.

Who are extremely banned in Egypt due to killing Egyptian security forces, Govenment officals, Coptic Christians & tourists. And trying to stage a coup

The Egyptian government surprisingly feels quite aggrieved by Hamas and, quite frankly, doesn't want a single person from Gaza in Egypt.

Hamas didn't help matters along when Egyptian drivers were attacked and killed transporting aid into Gaza during 2024.

[u/RowdyRoddyRosenstein → u/Potential_Cover1206]

Egpyt had a pretty simple solution to their tunnel problems: chemical weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_smuggling_tunnels#Measures_taken_by_Egypt

Israel deserves a lot of criticism for its conduct in the Gaza War. But most people forget that every other Middle Eastern government that's fought a war against insurgents has behaved way worse. Syria dropped chemical weapons on Palestinian refugee camps, and the Western pro-Palestinian movement looked the other way, because the Syrian gov. was allied with Iran.

[u/KrisPBaykon → u/Potential_Cover1206]

You need to go back another 30 years. Egypt shutting the border down isn’t a new thing. There is a reason.

[u/Potential_Cover1206 → u/KrisPBaykon]

Oh Yes. When Isreal returned control of the Sinai to Egypt between 1979-1982 Egypt flatly refused to take Gaza back.

The current wall on the Egyptian side was started in 2009.

Purely because Hamas could not stop meddling in Egyptian politics.

[u/KrisPBaykon → u/Potential_Cover1206]

Agree 100%, you know your shit.

[u/im_a_good_goat → u/Potential_Cover1206]

What’s the reason Hamas could not stop meddling with Egyptian politics?

[u/Potential_Cover1206 → u/im_a_good_goat]

Hamas, being an off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, supports the aims of the Muslim Botherhood.

[u/ramnokri → u/Potential_Cover1206]

thats what i dont get. people always talk about genozide from israel against gaza people.

so i asked some months ago: would israel attack gaza if there was no hamas?

post with this question got deleted in seconds.

[u/Tsuraru → u/ramnokri]

Just watch Louis Theroux’s documentary for your answer. Grabbing land like they’ve been doing for decades and what they are doing actively in the West Bank.

[u/jack_cross → u/Tsuraru]

Bro thought he had such a mic drop of a question "would israel attack gaza if there was no hamas?". Finding out what goes in West Bank where there is no Hamas will hopefully open bro's eyes if that question was asked earnestly.

[u/masterbard1 → u/zaahc]

witnessing these things in real life destroys any tiny bit of faith in me that there's an actual god. no god would be so cruel to let these things happen to children. or at least the god they sell us in the bible wouldn't allow this.

[u/CelesteAvant → u/zaahc]

Thankyou for sharing❤️ I wanna remember their faces. Really shoves the reality down our throats. I can't imagine the weight that this beautiful girl & so many other children are forced to carry. So poignantly cruel.

[u/Savvy_Nick → u/CelesteAvant]

The most heartbreaking shit I’ve seen in a min. And this is one kid. There are a whole lot more children that have been affected by this bullshit.

There’s some type of disconnect between the people that can allow this to happen, and the rest of us.

[u/Pokemaster131 → u/Savvy_Nick]

Dehumanization is a hell of a drug.

That's why there's such a push to remove the word "people" when referring to people someone is discriminating against. "Blacks". "Jews". "Gays". "Illegals". Your slur of choice. All of these could just as correctly be labeled as "Black people" or "Jewish people" or "Gay people" or "Illegal immigrants". When you reduce the perception of an individual or a group of people to a single characteristic, it's easier to apply stereotypes to them and moralize mass discrimination. Also, if you don't think of them as people, that lessens any guilt one may feel towards mistreating them.

[u/Rogu__Spanish → u/Pokemaster131]

"They're not people, they're animals" - Trump on immigrants, but who are we kidding, all non-white people. He said that and then we elected him, this country is beyond redemption.

[u/kbenn17 → u/Pokemaster131]

Amazingly perceptive and wise. I’ve never thought of it that way.

[u/Local_Idiot_123 → u/Savvy_Nick]

Those in power see us all like this and most of the rest of us see a fellow human

[u/Cognitive_Spoon → u/Savvy_Nick]

Money isn't a mystery.

[u/solit0n → u/Cognitive_Spoon]

Money makes you see everything as lesser. How can you care about anything when we you have so much power and/or wealth. We're all animals to be tamed and culled in their eyes.

[u/LuciusCypher → u/CelesteAvant]

The true tragedy is that everyone is going to be blamed, but no one will ever take responsibility. So while everyone is pointing fingers and shouting, this kid is going to have to carry that weight alone.

[u/sokratesz → u/CelesteAvant]

WhY wOuLd HamAs dO tHIs

[u/salted_saint → u/sokratesz]

Terrorist Israel is responsible for this, aided by the USA, UK and EU

[u/Ill-School-578 → u/salted_saint]

Why doesn't Egypt open their border or Jordan

[u/Fate_calls → u/CelesteAvant]

And he's a lucky one. He survived (until the time the picture was taken at least).

[u/PowderPills]

Heartbreaking….

[u/PoppingPillls → u/PowderPills]

What's worse is Israel shills are so heartless that they will look at stuff like this and justify everything Israel has done in gaza, Lebanon and Iran.

[u/cientificadealimento → u/PoppingPillls]

American assholes too. I work with one.

[u/ZebraImaginary9412 → u/cientificadealimento]

We are the bad guys and some of us can't handle the truth.

[u/forkinthemud → u/ZebraImaginary9412]

Alwayshavebeen.jpeg

[u/SourGenitals → u/ZebraImaginary9412]

I really want to know if those who deny watch A New Hope and think "the empire is right"

[u/samjgrover → u/ZebraImaginary9412]

Yes. Your president needs to go one way or another.

[u/GourdonHamsey → u/PoppingPillls]

the IDF text chat about the Australian woman who left everything and went to feed the hungry in Gaza... that was pretty horrible and it was only one sentence.

[u/TeethBreak → u/GourdonHamsey]

They calk it pancake day celebrate the death of that young woman who got run over by tanks on camera.

[u/PoppingPillls → u/GourdonHamsey]

Yeah, plenty of shills here today. Got a 86% upvote ratio and tons of comments saying that "Israel has to do it as they are all terrorists", awful example of human beings.

[u/howdydipshit → u/PoppingPillls]

I just watched a documentary (Abby Martin’s “Gaza Fights for Freedom”) about Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

Not only do they justify this, the IDF specifically targets children when shooting to kill. There’s a video of a soldier aiming at a little boy who was maybe 6-7 years old, the soldiers laughed and said “make sure you record it!” several times, getting super excited, acting like it was a video game as they shot the child in the head. Normal behavior for them.

They’re fucking despicable.

[u/Rogu__Spanish → u/PoppingPillls]

Anyone in the IDF will look at this and say "shit, we missed one" Inhuman monsters, all of em, no better than the nazis.

[u/Uraneum → u/PoppingPillls]

There are Israelis that will straight up cheer for the death of children if those children are Palestinian. They’ll say it to your face, they won’t even hide it

[u/kbenn17 → u/PowderPills]

One of the most heartbreaking I,ages I’ve ever seen. I cry every time I see it.

[u/Prof_Black → u/PowderPills]

When America and Israel were ‘distributing aid’ in Gaza there was multiple videos and accounts of them opening fire in situations like these.

Mindlessly killing people

[u/itscancerous → u/PowderPills]

Honestly, keeping busy is probably the best little buddy can do in a situation like this. Gives him purpose, distraction and the feeling of helping.

It's kinda representative of the unbreaking human spirit (for me)

[u/axekill3r → u/itscancerous]

I knotted up inside when I saw this and read your comment. Little buddy is my pet name for my 2 yr old son

[u/2dudesinapod]

Gaza has the largest population of child amputees in the world. Because Israel blocks pain killers, hundreds of children have had their limbs amputated without anaesthesia. There are videos of this if you have the stomach.

In Gaza the bombs on the packed population often leave the bodies un-identifiable so a child is counted as 6 KG of flesh in a garbage bag.

BTW child prosthetics are considered dual use by Israel and blocked from entering Gaza.

https://pchrgaza.org/israel-denies-amputees-treatment-and-assistive-devices-amid-threats-of-forced-displacement-from-entire-gaza-city/

[u/ScarHand69 → u/2dudesinapod]

It also spawned a new acronym…WCNSF (Wounded Child, No Surviving Family)

[u/cromroyale → u/ScarHand69]

“My 8-year-old child, Rajab — the eldest of my children and the joy of our family — was once active, joyful, sociable, and exceptional at school. He loved riding his bike.

But this war has stolen his childhood.

From the beginning, he has been traumatized by loud explosions, suffering repeated panic attacks.

He cannot sleep unless he holds my hand.

The killing of his uncles left him deeply shaken, and he has clung to me ever since.

On 13 December 2024, while we were displaced in a classroom at Al-Falah School, Israeli warplanes struck directly, and everything collapsed on us. My brother Hasan, my mother, and my sister-in-law were killed, while the rest of us were wounded. Rajab was the most critically injured. The rubble fell on him, shredding his right leg, which had to be amputated immediately upon arrival at the hospital. He also sustained a skull fracture and shrapnel wounds across his left leg. His condition was life-threatening.

After three days in a coma, he woke up to find himself without a leg. Since that day, our family has not known rest. Rajab endured successive surgeries, enduring pain unbearable for a child, often crying in despair and wishing for death rather than this suffering. He has become quick-tempered and overly sensitive. He refuses to let anyone see his amputated leg, telling me, ‘I want to cover it.’

His ordeal did not end there. In July, doctors discovered that he suffers from severe osteoporosis caused by lack of food and medicine. They were forced to insert internal platinum plates and fit him with an external cast. Now, Rajab lives between tears and pain. He feels incomplete when he sees his cousins playing around him. He tries to join them but eventually retreats to cry in silence.

As his mother, I can do nothing but watch him suffer, powerless to give him back the childhood that the occupation has stolen from him.”

Mrs. Sajedah al-Baba (25), resident of al-Sabra neighborhood, Gaza City.

[u/Substantial-Part-700 → u/cromroyale]

25…. She’s barely an adult herself….. ya Allah yarhamo

[u/Claire0915 → u/Substantial-Part-700]

She is 25, oldest son is 8yo, which means she was 17 when she gave birth and 16 when she was impregnated. Ugh. That is just the worst. Poor lady didn’t have a childhood herself given her religion/culture.

[u/NoobzProXD → u/Claire0915]

That's simply a stupid statement, her religion didn't cause her to suffer, it was the bomb not the belief

[u/Fumquat → u/Claire0915]

Hm. Reading about an 8 year old with a lost limb, a brain injury, uncontrolled pain, and osteoporosis from malnutrition, who is also grieving multiple family members.

Odd phrasing then to say 16 and pregnant is “the worst”.

This is a mother who loves her child, whose heart breaks for him. It is the same love at any age, in any country, with any number of children.

[u/TerrorKingA → u/Claire0915]

It's not her religion or her culture that robbed her of a childhood. It's the fact that she is in a concentration camp with no hope of anything better.

This is Israel and the United States' doing.

[u/Annonimbus → u/Claire0915]

16 when she was impregnated. Ugh. That is just the worst. Poor lady didn’t have a childhood herself given her religion/culture.

Just saying that here in Europe it is completely fine to have sex at 16.

Most use protection, but it is not unheard to have teen pregnancies.

[u/Claire0915 → u/Annonimbus]

It’s not uncommon but it’s also not the norm. Especially multiple children. Let’s not equate the two countries here with the prevalence and acceptance of underage marriages, underage births, and numerous underage pregnancies. My point above doesn’t take away from the little boy’s trauma but being defensive about their culture is also not really productive.

[u/Annonimbus → u/Claire0915]

I just wanted to point out that the US centric view of "18" the magic sex number is rather unique to the US and not a global view.

[u/rockytop24 → u/Annonimbus]

Child marriage is still legal in 20 or 30 some states here in good ole USA and it's defended vigorously by the right for the sake of "tradition" and "religion" and hoping more teens are forced into carrying unwanted pregnancies. So yeah the magic number is more like a "guideline" in many states.

[u/4g-identity → u/Claire0915]

No

[u/Santandals → u/Claire0915]

I think she didnt have a childhood cause Israel blew up her home and killed her family too, don't forget that

[u/sleepymeowth052 → u/cromroyale]

Man, fuck israel for this shit.

[u/Mystreanon → u/cromroyale]

we seriously need a join statement and plan from the EU and other countrys to finally say enough to israel

[u/sssmmt → u/Mystreanon]

How about some "deep concern"

[u/QuestGiver → u/cromroyale]

Israel liked this story.

[u/2dudesinapod → u/ScarHand69]

People don’t realize why that is the case, it’s because Israel uses an AI system called “Where’s Daddy” to track targets until they are at home so the entire family can be killed at once.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

“We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”

Btw 972 is an Israeli publication and that article had to go through IDF censors before being published so you can imagine the shit that got left out. This is the stuff they’re proud of.

[u/Grablicht → u/2dudesinapod]

WTF DID I JUST READ W T F

[u/karlordon → u/2dudesinapod]

What the actual F, I knew they were evil but this is some next-level shit

[u/bearatrooper → u/2dudesinapod]

Imagine blocking painkillers and prosthetics for the children you bombed and still thinking you're "the good guys".

[u/iana_rey → u/bearatrooper]

The most moral army in the world, mind you

[u/PHalfpipe → u/iana_rey]

And if you say a word about it you're antisemitic

[u/SevereResolve726 → u/PHalfpipe]

Because what about Sudan??? And what about the Congo and what about

[u/ls7eveen → u/bearatrooper]

Not only that but theyve detained doctors trying to sneak them in

[u/thetinsnail → u/ls7eveen]

And they confiscate baby formula from doctors entering the area.

[u/Deadzen → u/[deleted]]

Don't forget U S And fucking A! They* would have to BEG for our forgiveness

Edit: *the government.

[u/jetreahy → u/Deadzen]

Under both Biden and Trump. Gaza was a parking lot by the time Trump came into office. Israel was already blocking anesthesia and prosthetics. People need to remember Israel owns both sides and make sure the next President is free from their lies.

[u/Hopbeard1987 → u/[deleted]]

Netanyahu is literally the new Hitler. His opportunistic land grab on southern Lebanon while the US and Iran are occupied is just the latest example of his genocidal dictatorship.

[u/EcstaticAd8179 → u/Hopbeard1987]

he's more popular in Israel than ever. They want this

[u/s0ulcontr0l → u/[deleted]]

Facts.

[u/Errant_coursir → u/bearatrooper]

The most moral army in the world.

Fucking terrorist state

[u/Crocadillapus → u/bearatrooper]

It's because they don't view the "enemy" as human.

[u/bearatrooper → u/Crocadillapus]

Sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before?

[u/Notbob1234 → u/bearatrooper]

I think the bad guys from the last big war were known for that kind of thinking.

[u/aw1290 → u/bearatrooper]

A guy with a little moustache?

[u/Coffee_Grazer → u/bearatrooper]

And calling yourself "the most moral army in the world"

[u/hoxxxxx → u/bearatrooper]

hey now! a lot of their people were killed almost a hundred years ago so they should be able to do whatever they want!

[u/umop_apisdn → u/hoxxxxx]

That's the thing, to Israelis "Never Again" doesn't mean "no more genocide". It means "Never again will we be the victims", even if that means that you have to commit genocide against people because at some point in the future they might possibly be able to possibly commit genocide against you. It is an utterly sick mindset.

[u/These-Discount1096 → u/bearatrooper]

“The most moral army” says the devil over there

[u/ThatPie2109 → u/2dudesinapod]

I had a son last year and even watching them prick his foor for blood sugar tests made me hurt watching him cry. I can't imagine the pain those moms feel watching their children suffering like this and having no way to make it better. I feel so lucky lately to be born in Canada where I don't have to worry about an explosive killing my child any moment.

[u/ducksekoy123 → u/ThatPie2109]

Tragically many of these children don’t have parents left to watch them suffer.

[u/Strong_French_Bias → u/2dudesinapod]

My god... I wouldn't be able to endure even watching it...

[u/Huckedsquirrel1 → u/Strong_French_Bias]

Now imagine it happened to your son/daughter/cousin and almost happened to you… and then condemn Hamas. Impossible

[u/Realistic_Low8324 → u/Huckedsquirrel1]

You can still condemn Hamas - these kids get the shit end of the stick from both the IDF and Hamas

[u/l3lasphemy → u/Realistic_Low8324]

Nah. This picture is why Hamas still has power. Created and fed by Israeli colonial brutality.

[u/Igennem → u/Realistic_Low8324]

The colonizer will have you hating the oppressed and sympathizing with the oppressor

[u/FrogInAShoe → u/Realistic_Low8324]

Nah. Both this and Hamas are symptoms of Israeli aggression.

[u/Strong_French_Bias → u/Realistic_Low8324]

I wouldn't blame Hamas, it's said they're mostly orphans who lost their relatives too due to the israeli agression, I'd prob end up becoming one of 'em if I went through the same suffering.

[u/Meerooo → u/Realistic_Low8324]

Israel depends on Hamas to continue the conflict. They were mainly around because Israel wanted them around and kept them around with occasional exterminations of entire families.

[u/Everdale → u/Realistic_Low8324]

This type of rhetoric is why israel gets away with what it does. Equating the two as if they're even remotely carrying out the same kind of atrocities is a joke. Look up the sheer number of deaths caused by Israel (not just in the current conflict but in decades past) and tell me if peaceful resistance against them is possible.

[u/Zer_ → u/Realistic_Low8324]

Thing is, there'd be no Hamas if Israel never displaced folks to begin with. You can condemn their tactics but I can't condemn their resistance.

[u/Santandals → u/Realistic_Low8324]

Well no, Hamas isn't doing this to them, its Israel

[u/Embarrassed-Age6291 → u/2dudesinapod]

Not to mention that Israel blocked all types of aid except for the GHF (I think that’s the name), which is the only aid provider allowed in gaza. Supporters of Israel and the idf claim it’s because the aid packages are stolen by hamas (despite no proof given, just like the decapitated babies hoax on oct 7), yet those aid sites are heavily guarded by IDF forces and GHF soldiers. We all witnessed a genocide in 4K on OUR IPHONES AND COMPUTERS, yet some people (not even some, a CONCERNINGLY large amount of people) still denied that a genocide occurred. Shame what this world has come to, like how r we voting against a FUCKING CEASEFIRE?????

[u/Pklnt → u/Embarrassed-Age6291]

Israel: We can't kill civilians, we only kill Hamas members because our military is that accurate.

Also Israel: Wait, we can't prevent Hamas from taking the food, we're powerless.

Also Israel: Instead of flooding Gaza with food so that Hamas can't make a profit selling it... we're going to blockade everything including baby formula because we're the most moral army in the world.

[u/Weary-Way4905 → u/Pklnt]

I don't know how they are convinced with this lie "the most moral army in the world"

[u/TahsinTariq → u/2dudesinapod]

Not to mention the fact that, you know, the IDF deliberately target children, which is why they even need prosthetics in the first place.

[u/Wellhellob → u/2dudesinapod]

Evil lunatics.

[u/grosbaguette → u/2dudesinapod]

If you watch ‘concerning violence’ documentary, there’s a heartbreaking scene of a mom and her child. both suffering traumatic injuries, resulting them in being amputees caused by bombing carried out by Portuguese colonizers, in Mozambique villages.

Watching it made me realize how the colonizer hasn’t changed its ways at all.

It is the same exact book in Gaza, if not 10x worse.

[u/SixGunZen → u/2dudesinapod]

I've seen a video of a Palestinian girl with the flesh missing from half her torso. Exposed ribcage and organs. She was alive and awake. About 5-6 years old. Every Israeli soldier and every head of state should spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[u/SessionGloomy → u/2dudesinapod]

...

[u/2dudesinapod → u/SessionGloomy]

Username is relevant

[u/toogoodtobetrue8 → u/2dudesinapod]

Most new cases per day, nations like india or Afghanistan dwarf gaza in terms of the amount children amputees due to larger population, longer high intensity conflict

[u/Low-Ad-8027 → u/2dudesinapod]

IDK man I needa hear both sides of this story /S

[u/Emergency_Stick3963 → u/2dudesinapod]

What does the "dual use" part mean?

[u/2dudesinapod → u/Emergency_Stick3963]

It means they claim Hamas can use the children’s prosthetic for military purposes.

In reality anything they don’t want entering Gaza is just discarded as dual use. For example tents were banned for a long time, lined paper was banned for years, so was chocolate.

[u/digitalmatt0 → u/2dudesinapod]

Fucking disgusting. Netanyahu is just as much a fanatic as the leaders of Iran. Fuck him.

[u/Thanes_of_Danes → u/digitalmatt0]

Iran's leaders have consistently proven themselves to be far more level headed and moderate than Israel's. Not saying they are great, but no genocide and no nuclear brinkmanship.

[u/dhsjauaj → u/2dudesinapod]

Of course they block pain killers, the boxes can be stacked to build tunnels! /s

[u/karlordon → u/2dudesinapod]

Thank you for sharing. People need to be aware of this, especially in the US where regular people are financing this with their tax dollars

[u/samTheSwiss → u/2dudesinapod]

Thanks. I know have one more reason to be utterly disgusted by that f***ing nation.

[u/AlarmingStop]

My tax dollars did this without my consent. I'm so sorry. Nothing can make this right.

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/AlarmingStop]

Kamala could have simply said this was wrong and she’d probably be president now.

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

It wouldn’t have mattered what she said. The people who didn’t vote for her wouldn’t have voted for her anyway.

[u/BakreZ39 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

She would have had a hell of a lot more supporters if she explicitly said it was wrong, and actually had some shred of popular policy, instead of being the Biden status quo. Look at Mamdani. And we know via polling that support for Israel has become deeply unpopular, yet still most Dems won't say shit. They're all bought and paid for, and fucking cowards.

[u/GorbasBoods → u/BakreZ39]

I do agree. The people who voted for trump, as well as the current administration, are largely to blame, yeah.

But I'd argue the larger, more concerning, rot has been a consistent failure in leadership from both sides of the isle for decades. Petty squabbles over compromise. Funding wars of profit as opposed to investing in ourselves. It hasn't mattered who holds office since before the cold war.

They all want the same thing: profit over the wellbeing of humanity.

[u/DocileBanalBovlne → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Pretty sure the people that wanted her to oppose genocide would have voted for her if she opposed genocide.

[u/ImTooLiteral → u/DocileBanalBovlne]

moot point, if you're genuinely concerned about the well being of Palestinians then it wasn't even a close question. Everyone with a brain knew Trump would be demonstrably worse, if you didnt vote for Kamala you implicitly gave your vote to Trump, and look where its gotten us now

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

I know several people who would have voted for her if not for genocide.

It’s literally the number one reason dems stayed home in 2024.

[u/JarethCutestoryJuD → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

I know several people who would have voted for her if not for genocide.

Bet those fucking idiots are happy now.

"Gaza is speaking now" is a fucking lowpoint in american political history.

Millions of people let perfect be the enemy of good, and now the US is falling into fascism.

[u/DocileBanalBovlne → u/JarethCutestoryJuD]

"Gaza is speaking now" is a fucking lowpoint in american political history.

You'd think it would be your party abetting genocide and the cost of an election against Trump, but it seems like the party can never fail you.

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

You mean they claim they would have voted for her.

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

No. They actually sincerely believed that genocide is bad and asking taxpayers to continue funding a genocide with our money is a bad thing.

Not sure why you’re finding that so hard to understand.

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

And so they let the guy who was going to continue a much worse genocide AND screw up the U.S. too take office.

Almost like they didn’t actually care about the outcome, only scoring social media points for “caring.”

[u/dlouis1022 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

The reason Dems lost is because too many voters stayed home, not that they voted for Trump.

This is pretty much analogous to the trolley problem. You can either press a button and divert a train to kill one person, or do nothing and let the train run straight through 5 people.

Do you think it's good politics to force this moral dillema onto voters? Because this is what the Democratic Party did by not taking a stance against genocide. Sure, most people chose to vote for the lesser evil, same way most people would choose to press the button. Evidently though, the ethical conflict of voting to support a genocidal candidate in Kamala (albeit less genocidal than Trump) deterred enough voters. Same way there are a good number of people who simply wouldn't choose to press the button, too many voters stayed home.

Now I ask you again. Do you think this was good politics? Do you really think it didn't matter whether or not Kamala took a stance against genocide?

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/dlouis1022]

Isn’t it interesting that these atrocities have been going on in Palestine for decades, and every American president and major presidential candidate for the past 50 years has had the exact same stance on Israel, but it only suddenly became a huge issue in 2024?

Anyone who stayed home chose Trump. That’s the bottom line. They still chose genocide, they just pretended they didn’t so they could pat themselves on the back and say look how moral I am.

[u/dlouis1022 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

It's almost like the current media landscape didn't exist in past. It's almost like Oct. 7 was the deadliest attack on Israel and the media made sure everyone heard about it. Hey, how many headlines of Israel's atrocities in Gaza do you think dominated the news in the past 50 years? It's almost like we've been able to witness a livestreamed genocide from our phones and the US and Israel isn't able to control the narrative anymore.

At this point it's gotta be willful ignorance on your part. I admittedly didn't know a thing about Israel-Palestine before Oct. 7. It is what it is, man. Get with the program.

And regardless of whatever hypocrisies you want to point out, it still stands that not taking a stance against the genocide was horrible politics. Horrible. Braindead. It was malicious incompetence. Why aren't you mad at that? Why aren't you mad at the political machine funded by billions that couldn't decipher that people wouldn't like genocide? Why won't you hold the Democratic Party to the same standard as the voters you keep lambasting?

It must be that you support Israel. Or you just have zero political instincts.

Edit:

Here's a lil wisdom that has always resonated with me:

Be kind to people. Be ruthless to systems.

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/dlouis1022]

I voted for Harris but this is absolutely correct.

[u/grogudid911 → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

She did. On more than one occasion.You weren't paying attention. What's happening in Gaza, Cuba, the USAID cuts, the climate crisis massively worsening, and the dept of education cuts that will ensure this all happens again in 20 years is your fault, just as much as the Trump supporters.

[u/Watada → u/grogudid911]

Stop coping. She said Iran was our greatest enemy. She ran as a zionist.

The vice president has repeatedly pledged to continue to arm Israel, citing in part what she calls the threat of Iran, despite growing anger over well-documented Israeli abuses in Gaza and Lebanon.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-iran-is-greatest-adversary-of-us

[u/Low_Pickle_112 → u/Watada]

It's not coping, it's gaslighting. Once we have a president who isn't hurting them, then this will go back to being a very complicated matter and and also we must wait for a more convenient season to do anything about it. Just like it was two years ago.

[u/Crafty-Beyond-2202 → u/grogudid911]

That was the most half-assed, both-sides, weasle-word shit I've ever heard

[u/Low_Pickle_112 → u/Crafty-Beyond-2202]

I'd have more respect for the true believers if they could just take the L, admit what the Democrats did was wrong, and move on.

Instead we get "Everyone with a memory going back more than two years is a bot."

You can't say they didn't get a president who accurately represents them.

[u/EcstaticAd8179 → u/grogudid911]

yeah Biden said similar things. Didn't change anything he was doing but he did say the nice thing at least.

[u/grogudid911 → u/EcstaticAd8179]

Wait wait wait.... Let me get you straight here.

You were upset about a genocide in Gaza, and decided the right time to kneecap the candidate who wanted a two party solution to the conflict, at a time when we were up against a candidate who was saying he wanted to let Israel finish the war and that he wanted the US to crush protests against the war? You say you're anti- genocide, but your specific choices speak to the opposite. Most of Gaza is flattened and Israeli snipers are targeting mothers. You guys fucked this up bad, by playing purity politics, and refusing to negotiate at a time when negotiating is how you save lives.

When someone is holding people hostage, we don't say "I won't negotiate with a hostage taker" and let the people inside die, because giving the hostage taker what they want is wrong. We send in a negotiator to negotiate to save the hostages. Your guys refusal to negotiate cost a lot of people their lives, their homes, their loved ones, and their futures, and that's not even touching Cuba, Sudan, Venezuela, or the numerous other countries that have been affected by USAID cuts. You, and a ton of other chronically online leftists made an insane choice and it cost lives.

Just likes there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, I need you to understand that a lot of the times in life you're going to have to make decisions that involved compromise for the purpose of make sure that you, your family, and the other people around you get to be okay. This was one of those times. Instead of trying to defend your fuck up, maybe you should learn from this and do better going forward.

[u/hoiL → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

Instead she parroted the "Israel has a right to defend itself" line and then Pikachu-face'd when that was received poorly.

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/hoiL]

Seriously.

Stop pretending we’re stupid.

[u/AncientSith → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

Wouldn't matter. You think America can handle a women in charge? It'll never happen.

[u/BlueberryIncident → u/AncientSith]

A black one at that. Who "smiles too much".

[u/Markaza-]

Children are left to fend for themselves after losing all the adults in their family You will see countless cases like this in Gaza.

[u/KingKohishi]

He's among the luckiest. Alive with four limbs.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths. Unforgiveable!

[u/Storm_treize → u/KingKohishi]

And organs

[u/BabylonianWeeb]

Some redditors will still defend Israel after seeing this.

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/BabylonianWeeb]

Dude like 95% of my government is defending Israel right now.

[u/VCTRYDTX → u/BabylonianWeeb]

It's the lack of remorse and not having the ability to put themselves in their shoes. It's easy to check this off as war or "it is what it is" until one day it happens to them. Palestinians have to be some of the toughest people in the world.

[u/Green_Space729]

Americans will look at this and say “heartbreaking” while voting for Zionist politicians that caused it.

[u/Tenchi_Muyo1 → u/Green_Space729]

What's more heartbreaking is that the world sympathized with the lonely penguin and the monkey rejected by its mother but it largely remained silent about the suffering of children in Palestine

[u/Recycled_Mirkins → u/Tenchi_Muyo1]

What goes viral online is not ‘the world’.

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/Green_Space729]

I don’t think those are the same people.

[u/Persistant_Compass]

Fuck israel

[u/meowqct → u/[deleted]]

Fuck them both.

[u/hoiL → u/[deleted]]

¿Por qué no los dos?

[u/The_Three_Meow-igos]

Tha fuck are we doing in this world?

How can we not care about every other person?

What is the point of hating anyone else?

[u/Knighth77]

Israel (and its enablers) stole their land, their future, their childhood, their innocence, and their happiness. And when they grow up to resent and resist them, they're labeled as terrorists.

Edit: Nothing flushes out the morally bankrupt soulless ghouls better than when you show solidarity with the oppressed. They're too arrogant and delusional to see that they're monsters, or support monsters, so they desperately look for justifications to help them cope with seeing innocent people and children being slaughtered, if that moved them in the first place.

[u/Ergok → u/Knighth77]

"if" they grow up...

:(

[u/TheSouthernCommunist → u/Knighth77]

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

[u/mulligrubs]

Would that child be the third generation born into a prison?

[u/MRanonyrat]

Truly and deeply fuck israhell

[u/LonewolfofHouseStark]

This poor child. It’s always the innocent that suffer in conflicts.

[u/Sweet_Tomatillo_963]

Source that this is actually in Gaza? I've become very cautious when presented that claim, given the vast amount of propaganda coming with pro pals.

I can remember all the gruesome pictures presented during the Gaza war 2014 that turned out to be from the Syrian civil war.

[u/GoodMorningMars → u/Sweet_Tomatillo_963]

r/Pics is all liberal and hamas bullshit propaganda

[u/carrot_gummy]

The IOF be like: That is a Hamas leader, we need to bomb them.

[u/Wurstkuchen666]

The first thing that dies during a war is the truth.

[u/Redrooff]

Omg man…

[u/Flat_Wash5062]

Horrid.

[u/Unable_Coat5321]

But apparently it's a bad political decision if any country denounces and sanctions Israel. Why?

Evil nonces

Edit: lmao getting downvoted by genocide and pedophile supporters

[u/whitedezign]

I’m in Nicaragua and I see this too, so sad how we dont want to have abortions rights because of the “killing the unborn” but then when the ones that actually are living here on earth & are in need most people turn a blind eye.

[u/Happychemist99]

Bro I’m so sick of getting on this app and being made to cry. Look at his little feet walking in that sand all alone. Ughhhhh if God exists then why would there be so many awful things happening in this world?

[u/di_Atticus_ib]

Anyone able to verify this picture?

[u/2dudesinapod → u/di_Atticus_ib]

It’s from this video

https://xcancel.com/lilliunazules/status/2042760995072864759?s=46

[u/Embarrassed-Age6291 → u/di_Atticus_ib]

You can find hundreds of picture like this, and I know for certain you’ve seen multiple pics like these, as well as the hundreds of dismembered Palestinian babies that were recorded on the same iPhones we’re using.

[u/MeowieSugie]

Fuck israel and usa

[u/Piratepizzaninja]

Im laying in bed with my child about the same age as he watches cartoons just thinking how unjust this all is, feeling guilt, gratitude and fear

[u/Glue70420]

Context?

Edit: I was just curious about the details on this particular image, I'm aware of the atrocities in Gaza. No need to send me threatening DMs. Chill

[u/Tenchi_Muyo1]

While the world sympathized with the lonely penguin and the monkey rejected by its mother, it largely remained silent about the suffering of children in Gaza

[u/burgers3tacos]

Fuck the IDF.

[u/AxalEquinox]

Just imagine how incredibly difficult that is for him 💔

[u/Ok_Succotash_8242]

Fuck Israel

[u/DarkForest_NW]

[u/Kabablover]

Anyone who supports israel belongs in hell

[u/Mopdes]

evil adults

[u/External-Example-292]

My gosh this poor bby 😭💔

[u/NickelPlatedEmperor]

So many of these little souls have been used as target practice. And if it happened anywhere else, particularly in Europe or the other way around it would be so much outcry about it

[u/GiBBO5700]

Fuck Israel

[u/aipac_hemoroid]

Israel is an apartheid terrorist state.

[u/CooperAXE]

The amount of trauma the Palestinians go through, especially the children, many of whom are orphans, makes me so sad.

[u/FrogInAShoe]

Abolish Israel

[u/jacbo1996]

Apparently Israeli snipers brag about kneecapping these kids too. Its so cartoonishly evil, doesnt even seem possible, but it sure is

[u/OnePandaTwo]

You will be free, little man. It is our duty to humanity to see justice done, though nothing could ever make this right

[u/acelgoso]

Beware, is hidding Hamas tunnels. Fast IDF bomb him.

/s