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Rob Roy's avatar

ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS ISRAEL IS A MONSTER. Israel should be taken over by many warships from many countries and be forced to face their crimes in the Hague. That way, Palestine could be returned to its rightful owners, the indigenous Palestinians.

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SSB's avatar

The Hague is run by a clique of empires that built their wealth through slavery & genocide of indigenous peoples. They all support Israel & won't condemn it for doing the same thing they did.

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Rob Roy's avatar

Then how about the UN?

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SSB's avatar

Run by the same countries. The UN has been “condemning” Israel for decades. What's come of it?

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Lulu's avatar

This isn’t even correct, it’s leaning toward Israel in the US to keep their lucrative contracts. Nobody stands with Israel or the US on this genocide. They should do a poll on how many Americans disapprove of their own government using our taxes for genocide and regime change. 😡🇵🇸

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Support the Hind Rajab Foundation

https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg

On 25 August 2025, Israel struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis twice, killing 22 civilians — including journalists, doctors, rescue workers, and a 14-year-old child. Today, the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court, exposing the full chain of command behind the massacre. Our investigation proves that the Golani Brigade engineered and coordinated the attack under continuous drone surveillance, the 188th Armored Brigade executed it with guided missiles, and senior commanders up to Prime Minister Netanyahu authorized and enabled it. This was not crossfire, but deliberate killing with genocidal intent. Justice demands accountability.

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Tom Schwoegler's avatar

It certainly appears that AIPAC money and Israeli lies are most effective in the good old USA!

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Marsha Carter's avatar

TrackAIPAC.com provides dollar total$ of AIPAC funding that is corrupting US House and Senate sitting members in favor of the position of the Israeli genocide in GAZA. Enter your legislator's name on the site or your state to see all US legislators serving your state.

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Mark Anthony's avatar

I just saw my representative on their promo pic of who they donate to. This is shameful. I will be in contact with him.

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George Leone's avatar

When a government commissions propaganda to mask mass civilian death, it’s not just a PR failure—it’s a moral collapse. This leaked report confirms what many already know: global audiences see through the spin. The fact that Israel’s own research acknowledges the “genocidal, apartheid” label abroad should be a wake-up call, not a marketing challenge. No amount of message-testing can erase the reality on the ground in Gaza. Accountability must come before image rehabilitation.

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X K's avatar
Sep 5Edited

The progression of Israel's reactions to "inconvenient truths" is first, denial; then deflection; followed by disparagement of the source; until finally, the last resort, develop a scheme that says, "Hey, we can't possibly be to blame!" by laying out an absurd logic that truth, the Zionist version, lies even more than six standard deviations away from the norm, under which 99.9999998% of observations are found.

This is all in line with the title of Israeli entertainer and pop icon Noa Tishby's bestseller "Israel: A Simple(ton's) Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country in the Solar System," an implicit acknowledgement/boast that Israel is indeed something special (indeed, but not in a way she imagined) and shouldn't be judged unfairly.

"Straining credulity" hardly describes the contortions, convolutions, and gesticulations they'll go through to assert the nonsensical. For this we send them $4+ billion per year of our taxpayer money to waste... e-r-r-r, spend.

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Tom Schwoegler's avatar

Like these that got posted in the NYT comment section during Trump1.0

THE 5 STAGES OF TRUMPISM:

1. It’s a total lie, never happened, fake news.

2. It happened, but it’s not a big deal.

3. Ok, it might be a big deal, but it isn’t illegal.

4. Okay it’s illegal, but Hillary and Obama something something, so it’s ok.

5. Get over it Libtard, you’re just a sore loser!

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X K's avatar

Whadduh ya call "people" like this - not really people to begin with - hucksters? *ucksters?

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Tom Schwoegler's avatar

MAGA & MAHA

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Tracy A's avatar

I know exactly how Israel can rehabilitate its image around the world, and I won't charge them millions of dollars for the consultation.

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X K's avatar
Sep 5Edited

Charge 'em anyway, and at your top rate plus an add-on.

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Elizabeth's avatar

And then donate the money to CAIR or the Hind Rajab foundation or someone!

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X K's avatar

Yes!

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GoodEve Rising's avatar

Holy Fuck this is like a farcical play. Its all about perception....who cares about the 10s of thousands of dead children or the total destruction of cities, the loss of entire families of civilians......who cares. And yet Palestinians do not have this kind of manipulative machine working for them - only the truth. Let's hope the truth wins out.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Activists from 44 countries plan to launch the largest civilian flotilla in history at the end of August in an effort to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the starving population of the enclave. 

The Global Sumud Flotilla, along with three allied initiatives, will send dozens of boats from Spanish ports on 31 August and Tunisian ports on 4 September, aiming to establish a humanitarian corridor and confront what organizers call Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/08/07/largest-civilian-flotilla-in-history-to-set-sail-for-gaza/

Join them, support them:

https://freedomflotilla.org

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Sean's avatar

I hope Mark Penn does as good of a job for Israel as he did for Hillary Clinton's campaign

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Call on the newly elected, American Pope Leo XIV to do what it takes to stop the destruction of Gaza, and the Palestinian people. Is there anything more important in today's world than this?

RIP, Pope Francis. I feel sure he will go to Gaza in spirit. Everyday, while he was alive he spoke by phone with the Holy Family church in Gaza. Let's keep the pressure on.


Call on the newly elected, American Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation:

https://chng.it/gkvBfY44rq

Please sign the petition and share widely.

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Dani G.'s avatar

It's gross that we're living in a world where a country could spend tons of money trying to find ways to "spin" a genocide. There is no way to spin this slaughter... Israels reputation will continue to plummet (as it should)

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Elizabeth's avatar

Americans think only 10,000 Palestinians have been killed? Wow. Just wow.

When I first read the question, I was debating whether I would have answered 60K and a bit confirmed, names dates and ID numbers, or whether I would have said when you count all the people buried under the rubble, and all the people killed indirectly by the fighting or the blockade, like cancer patients who couldn't get treatment, probably at least 200K, possibly a whole lot more.

And then I read 10K. Just wow. Most of the country is really that ignorant?

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Bashir Abdel-Fattah's avatar

It's probably much more than 200K. Trump and Netanyahu themselves have indicated that half a million have been killed, based on what they've cited as the current population of Gaza, and there were medical studies from several months ago estimating the true death toll to be in the 300,000-400,000 range.

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peta's avatar

Absolutely. The death toll(s) have been significantly under-reported by every and all media and official sources. Yes, 400k sounds about right. We've had Al Jazeera English and Arabic on in our home pretty much constantly since the beginning of the Israeli onslaught, and just by totaling the estimates every day on a calculator would be in the several hundred thousands. Mon Dieu...

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Stephanie Benn's avatar

This survey is especially important when we connect it to the $45 million budget just awarded to Google to promote Israeli hasbara.

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Ed Nuhfer's avatar

"'Radical Islam' is a threat?" What a ridiculous push-poll.

History reveals "Radical" Catholicism as an equal threat, so why not ask that too? Its past prevalence caused rejection of science, torture, witch burnings, book burnings, an Inquisition, Popes leading armies killing thousands, and initiating invasions called "crusades" with "God wills it!" holy, holy, holy proclamations. The history of Catholicism teaches civilized nations to never, ever give a religion an army. It seems to be resuscitated to a degree by the U.S. Supremely Corrupt "court" creating its own Pope and granting him Papal infallibility as he indulges in a toddler's fantasy to be able to "do whatever I want" without question and without accountability and of course never questioning his use of an army intended for national defense to launch his own inquisition.

And a great question this overpaid ridiculous polling firm should be interrogated with at every opportunity is "Why didn't you ask, 'Is RADICAL Zionism a threat?'" This question is especially relevant to US citizens governed against their wishes by a two headed cartel party bought, paid-for and controlled by Zionists' money that demands its registrants cheer-lead for a Zionist genocide and invasion and seizure of the lands of Israel's bordering nations. Every representative that has AIPAC listed as a top donor is a Netanyahu minion who received a down payment to govern American citizens at the national level and in 38 states with loyalty oaths in accord with Radical Zionists' wishes.

Control of Americans' governance and corruption of its political parties by a foreign nation should be considered by Americans as a legitimate "threat."

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Put a stop to GHF

There’s a campaign to have the Delaware Attorney General, Kathy Jennings, dissolve the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) which is incorporated in Delaware. The group DELPHR has launched an effort to put pressure on the Deleware Attorney general, with a letter-writing effort. You can do your part and sign on here:

national letter-writing tool which was created by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

More details can be found in this article:

https://passblue.com/2025/08/29/a-us-group-demands-probe-into-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-alleging-war-crimes/

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