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Susan Becraft's avatar

Imagine having to think this about your 16-year-old missing son: “I don’t know if he died, was martyred, imprisoned, arrested, or if he got shot and the dogs ate him.”

I have no words to express my anger and disgust at the double standard. Politicians, the MSM, clergymen and heads of state express “grave concern” about missing Israeli POWs and say nothing about the thousands of missing Palestinians. They say nothing about the cemeteries destroyed by the IDF just for the (sadistic) hell of it.

In the meantime, the ceasefire is going exactly as I expected. You cease. We fire.

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Glutamine951's avatar

The term all human beings are created equal becomes a meaningless concepts when Jewish lives take precedent over Palestinians lives.

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Ron's avatar

The horror that is being inflicted on the Palestinians is beyond belief! Even more horrifying is the fact that the slaughter continues day after day while the so-called civilized nations of the world do nothing to stop it. Supposedly there is a "ceasefire." What kind of a ceasefire can it possibly be if the relentless killing continues?? I call it BS!

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Jon Notabot's avatar

"Vance did not mention the thousands of Palestinians also lying under the rubble. Nor did he mention the bodies of Palestinians buried in cemeteries that were bulldozed and destroyed by the Israeli military."

What an utter piece of shit excuse for a human being.

Here's how life works, without pretend stories about who gets to be very special and who doesn't: either everyone is valuable or no one is valuable. It's that simple.

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Valerie Carter's avatar

Every day there are more dead. And every day there is more rubble because Israel keeps killing people and destroying buildings. How can our govt say Hamas is breaking the peace treaty. Why can no country stop Israel

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Antonia Lhamo's avatar

dear dear dear Abdel Qader Sabbah

your heart wrenching observations leave me with the dust and the desperate brutality of these days but even worse is the horror the utter "banality of evil" of minds East and West their vile contamination of the ancient values, virtues, international laws that they allow such a nightmare to happen then bother not to immediately STOP it and demand justice....words fail, i only pray that the integrity of your resilient spirit and guides nourish, protect and carry you on, your country your people need you to SUCCEED

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Sharon's avatar

Why is no one else covering this?? Shame ... Maybe there's an article: Drop Site could interview other journalists about their avoidance of these Palestinian tragedies.

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Amrita B's avatar

Amen. If corporate media could bring themselves to print these stories, we might have a real ceasefire and likely we could have stopped the genocide long ago.

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Charly. Voght's avatar

Thank you for this story. Our hearts are broken . Each. and every story of what the Palestinian people have endured must be recorded and acknowledged. The world must never forget Char

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John alder's avatar

Just because hamas killed some hostages, don't make it right for Isreal to do the same

Let's get along! We need peace!

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George Leone's avatar

There’s something sacred in the act of remembering the unseen. The ones buried beneath the rubble deserve more than silence — they deserve our voices, our outrage, our tenderness.

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catfish rushdie's avatar

If there is not a special place in hell for liars like J. D. Vance, well, shucks, then, you can hang me for a toad.

Thank you, Abdel Qader, and thank you, Drop Site. Keep wising up the marks- there is a special place in paradise for those who stand up and speak the truth in the face of such psychopathic liars as are the current owner-operators of the western world.

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Thomas Cleary's avatar

The loss and desolation felt by both women and every Palestinian may possibly only be compared to the phantom pain experienced by someone who has lost one or more limbs.

Part of you is forever gone yet you feel it so acutely, so deeply that you half expect it to appear out of the ashes. It was your support, your help, your strength and now you must find some way to live without it.

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Virginia D Hoyt's avatar

Israelies have suffered enough punishment to know that inflicting it on others only promotes more hatred.

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