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George Leone's avatar

Gaza’s destruction is not “collateral damage” — it’s the deliberate erasure of a people’s existence. Every broken home and buried life demands justice, not another round of empty political promises. The world cannot claim ignorance anymore.

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Marsha Carter's avatar

A world order and the people of Palestine must coordinate the rebuilding of Gaza.

Separate coalitions for rebuilding community market areas, for creating temporary and permanent housing, for monitoring the promised 600 trucks of food and household supplies and to insure equitable dispersion, for creating safe water supply systems and sewage and daily trash removal, for setting up healthcare and hospitals/clinics, for creating school settings for all ages of children - even if temporary, for creating places of worship, forcreating security patrols...and more.

This seems like an unimaginable task but with the industrious abilities of the Palestinian people and world assistance it will be possible.

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Don Dagenais's avatar

industrious abilities of the Palestinian people - you ARE serious. There is not an industrious bone in their bodies. They sit back and let outside forces do it all for them while they wallow in their hate.

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javahut's avatar

It's maddening, infuriating, pathetic... that the onus is on Palestinians to meet the conditions required by the people and state abusing, slaughtering, and murdering them... rather than the onus rightfully being on the terrorist Israelis and terrorist Israeli state to stop their decades of everyday illegal acts of systematic abuse, subjugation, apartheid, terrorism, and murder of Palestinians. What a horrific indictment of Western civilization and U.S. professed pro-human rights stance that has proven itself to be nothing more than propaganda.

The U.S., the West, Britain have fully supported and continue supporting unconditionally any and every atrocity and abuse the pathetic state of Israel regularly, consistently inflicts on Palestinians... a huge disgusting stain on humanity by those that falsely claim they stand for human rights and justice for all. Clearly that's not the case and has proven to be nothing more than lip-service, lies, and propoganda that continue to this day.

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Don Dagenais's avatar

How quickly you forget about the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th on behalf of the Palestinian people. Sloths, all of them.

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javahut's avatar

How disingenuous or ignorant (or both) to pretend Israel started abusing, murdering, and stealing Palestinian land only after Oct 7. Israel murdered hundreds of Palestinians in 2023 before Oct 7. Israel murdered thousands of Palestinians from 2008 thru Oct 6 2023. Israel has been murdering Palestinians for 77+ years. Eastern European Jewish militia terrorists were murdering and ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their own land decades before that. Israel is a miltant supremacist terrorist state and has been since its founding by violent Eastern European terrorist Jews.

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Fran Carbonaro's avatar

You again? October 7th was NetYenKnotHoo’s wet dream.

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Don Dagenais's avatar

And how incredibly stupid of Hamas and their sheeple to fall into that trap if that is what you think it was.

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Alan |James Griffey's avatar

You talk of October 7th. -- a terrible atrocity I agree. But what about the Israeli's

pre-emptive attack on the Lebanese on September 17th? What about the 68,000

Palestinians bombed since October 7th? It's an abomination in the eyes of God.

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Don Dagenais's avatar

You are correct in that it is written - "Vengeance is mine" said the lord. Deuteronomy 32:35

The Jews are thus carrying our god's work.

To your mentioning " attack on the Lebanese on September 17th"... HAMAS carried out the attack on Israel a year earlier. I assume you are referring to the Pager attack. Hamas had no dog in that fight. The affected were not Palestinians. You are grasping, looking for a reason to be angry at jews.

Frankly the pager play was brilliant and goes to show how incredibly dumb these Islamics really are.

"Oh boy, discount pagers, give me 5000 of those and throw in some cell phones for my Iranina masters" Duh!!!

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Patricia Panitz's avatar

You write "The Jews are thus carrying our god's work." You're right about that. The jewish god of the old testament is primitive, vengeful, petty, morally dubious. I'm surprised modern people still swallow this stuff. The old testament is about dominance, the supposed "chosen" garbage, not religious principles. Any god that condones the starvation of children carries no weight with me

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Don Dagenais's avatar

And hamsters bragging about bouncing on Allah's knee` while collecting their 72 (discount) virgins makes more sense?

BTW, in what war did any opposing force feed their enemies, specially ones who call for their total destruction???

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Jane Peryer's avatar

It's insane. Have you ever heard the victim of genocide told they must disarm before? You ask the perpetrators to disarm not the victims. Palestine has the inalienable right to self determination. It would appear some world leaders don't actually understand what that means. It means you can't mess with it. You can't add conditions, or use it as a reward. Noone but Palestinians can decide on who is going to govern the new Palestinian state. Israel and the US and the rest cannot impose things that are contrary to international law. Israel has to dismantle the settlements and follow the legal judgement of the highest court in the world (ICJ). Israel never did have the right to self defence. Whoever governs in the future Palestine can decide whether they want an army, like Israel very clearly did. Palestinians have equal rights to all other human beings. They are not lesser. I'm sure Hamas understands international law far better than all these people who have the arrogance to make such ridiculous demands.

Why would they hand over their weapons? To reward the oppressive fascist aggressor? They do not have a say in it. Nobody can decide such things but the people who's land is occupied themselves and Im quite sure they will not be disarming on top of many other things they will not be doing. Israel bullies Iran because the empires have decided they can't have nuclear weapons. Israel lectures Iran on allowing the nuclear inspectors in. All the while there is the worlds best kept secret which is that Israel has many nuclear warheads and has never allowed inspectors in. Israel is a rogue state that has lost the plot. They need to have a Palestinian state forced on them as neighbours. They will just have to get the psychiatric care they clearly all need and start to grow up. They are racist white supremacists. Zionism was always another word for fascism.

Israel invited many nazis after the war to take refuge in Israel so that they could teach the zionist state how to do land grabbing by murder and annihilation, a little better.

Zionists are antisemites. The Labour Party is antisemitic -threw out a lot of jews for being the wrong kind of jew. They are islam haters very obviously and after trying to remove Diane Abbot I would hazard a guess that unless you are white you are not wanted in the UK. It is not immigrants they don't want. It's poor people. If you have the money, there is a safe route and a red carpet when you get here. It is the poor they don't want. Some joke of a Labour Party that just isn't funny.

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Don Dagenais's avatar

"It's insane. Have you ever heard the victim of genocide told they must disarm before?"

Well Jane, one could argue that dropping nuclear weapons on major centers in Japan was gennocide - much higher death count than what has happened in Gaza in a much shorter time.

But it might help you to think of it a surrendering in a lost war vs disarmament. None of the Axis countries were allowed weapons post their WW2 loss. It's the norm, Geez!!!!

Hamas lost, and the Gaza dwellers lost even more. At least the Hamas cowardly leadership can still get decent room service in Qatar.

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Don Dagenais's avatar

Well, when all the cowardly fighting age men are hiding in the tunnels/hospitals, and there is no room for their families, children... what is left when the big bad bombs go off.??? Think Laurie.

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Sandra Shatilla's avatar

ISRAEL MUST BE DISMANTLED AND EVERY PALESTINIAN MUST RETURN TO PALESTINE.....

THESE MONSTERS WHO DESTROYED GAZA SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT!

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Ron's avatar

Frankly, I greatly fear that Netanyahu will NOT honor the later stages of the ceasefire once the hostages have been released. His behavior since October 7 is that of a deranged criminal and psychopath.

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Robin's avatar

Israel has not ever once honored a ceasefire agreement. Never.

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huey's avatar

The world can clearly see the extent of the horror that the Israelies have done to the Palestinians. Israel can't kill all the news media reporters now.

Its almost biblical seeing those long lines of Palestinians going back to their ruined homes & lives.

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Robert Auld's avatar

I have seen pictures of the destruction of various European cities, such as Berlin, at the end of World War II. This looks worse. Especially the second video where the reporter walks through Gaza City. It looks like I imagine the end of the world would look. This has nothing to do with October 7th or Hamas. It is an attempt to destroy a people. Israel will never live this down.

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Hannahlehigh's avatar

Looking at this makes me want to cry, Their homeland was destroyed because Netanyahu hates them just for existing. I know God sees all and He sees the strength these people carry with them. I wish them peace and a chance to rebuild their city and homes. I also hope and pray Israel leaves them alone.

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marth frez's avatar

It isn't only netanyahu that hates them. vast majority of those living on stolen Palestinian land (and I consider the land given to what is called israel stolen land) hate them for no reason other than they are not zionists

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Bebe Schroer's avatar

A wasteland of contaminated, hazardous rubble, soil, water, is there water? How can people rebuild on that?

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John alder's avatar

I pray, hope they get time to recover and get independence

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Jazzme's avatar

hope this truce lasts.....

May Palestine rise from the ashes and florish.

And, may the world put a pox on the zionist regime of Isreal and the USA regime and western regimes that feed the genocide for 2 years.

Turkey, Iran, Yemen, China, India, Pakistan Russia, the sourthern nation states should align and togther make a more perfect union with the parts of the world that rejects fascist capitalism and imbraces democratic socialism.....that's my dream. What's yours

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marth frez's avatar

that the pox spreads to all of the others complicit in the Palestinian Genocide and atrocities against all Palestinians in Palestine.

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Robin's avatar

This was the topic on UpFront, the Al Jazeera show with Marc Lamont Hill this week

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Valerie Carter's avatar

We in the US paid for this with our tax.money. Not only could we not stop this genocide, we participated in it. When I think of the lives that were taken. When I see the buildings and roads destroyed, When I remember the churches, mosques, libraries, schools hospitals that used to be there, I cannot breathe, I cannot swallow, I cannot speak,I cannot move. I am holding my breath a praying that Israel does not start bombing and shooting again.

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Virginia D Hoyt's avatar

Where are the intelligent leaders who understand that destrction only leads to destruction from the "other side" The world needs far sighted alterism more than ever. We MUST build, NOT destroy.

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Alan |James Griffey's avatar

I'm appalled at what the Israel's have done to Gaza. Have the Russian's done this to Ukraine?

What kind of example does this set for wars of the future? How can anyone defend Israel?

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Ola's avatar

Its Israel that needs to be disarmed not Hamas!

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