Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.

Sunday’s announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to over 2 million people. It has sought to press Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in return for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.

Hamas has pressed to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase instead, which would see the release of remaining hostages from Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace. Hamas is believed to have 24 living hostages and the bodies of 35 others.

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So after Israel kills the last Palestinian- who’s next on their list?

it’s not like they’ll face any consequences for this genocide, so why not kick off another?!

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They’re already killing civilians in Lebanon and Syria, so I’m pretty sure they’ve already identified their next steps.

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You haven’t heard of greater Israel? They plan on expanding and expanding (even if the plan fundamentally is screwed now that people see through Israel)

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Plenty of other Arab countries to choose from. Stay tuned!

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No matter which side you take in this conflict one thing is clear - the incompetence of Israel and IDF is staggering.

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It’s not incompetence, it’s a racist state where the majority see Palestinians as sub-human.

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Yes op making it like some minister are stupid and there are some good apple,while they publicly say we want to level it to the ground and drop equivalent to 6 Hiroshima bombs on the region.

Their entire history built on massacre after another.

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It’s intentional.

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More collective punishment from the “good guys”

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We’re moving towards doing the same thing to the US up here in Canada.

Just shit you gotta do when you’re dealing with fascists. Sorry, we can’t hurt Fox News without hurting all of NY. Things are gonna be shit when fsacists are running things where you live.

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Except it’s NOWHERE near the same thing.

Palestine isn’t allowed to produce electricity itself or import it from anywhere else, so if Israel cuts off the electricity that means no electricity.

Without electricity, Palestine has no clean water to drink or with which to water crops. This combined with Israel blocking aid, having partially or completely destroyed most if not all hospitals and killed most healthcare workers, guarantees that the already atrocious ongoing humanitarian catastrophe is going to get MUCH worse.

The majority of the population wasn’t even BORN (let alone old enough to vote) the last time an election was allowed.

Plus nobody is murdering, displacing, and otherwise ethnically cleansing the population of New York.

You’re basically comparing apples and Orange County.

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Plus nobody is murdering, displacing, and otherwise ethnically cleansing the population of New York.

Isn’t that what ICE is doing right now?

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This type of whataboutism makes you look silly

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America is evil tho

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Canada is genociding Americans? Must have missed that in my border state.

Fuckk off with your bullshit.

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That’s an insanely brain dead statement. Did you take a drill to your temple earlier? If you did, you should finish and drill deeper.

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Weird how everyone is insulting him but nobody is rebutting him.

Almost like he has a point, but the mob mentality isn’t allowed to acknowledge it so you just tar and feather him.

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How else am I supposed to get the demons out?

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When did Canada put a concentration camp wall around the US and blockade their sea and air?

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Remind me when Canada occupied New York again?

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During the war 1812 after the US attacked first, and even then only a little bit of rural northern New York.

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If this isn’t a troll may I suggest taking a critical reasoning course or two?

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They’ve been at it for awhile so probably incapable of passing that type of course :(

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/12255722

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“Someone says something I really don’t like but I can’t argue against, so I’m just going to claim they’re trolling.”

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Yet another reminder that if a god does exist, they’re the type who likes burning ants with a magnifying glass.

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Epicurus said it best:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God

  • Epicurus
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Maybe god’s power isn’t absolute. He can do things, but it takes effort on his part and stops him from doing other things.

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Then it’s not omnipotent. That’s literally the first point

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I’ll never understand the anti-theist obsession with religion. They survey everything before them, scanning for signs of faith like a hawk searching for mice.

For me, one of the best things about atheism is I can automatically depreciate the significance of all that dumb shit.

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Because it’s a blight on society, and it cripples people’s ability to think critically.

We are living in the results of a society founded on and formed by Christianity. It’s bad.

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I actually disagree. I think most people who share your view of religion come at it from a fundamental point of misunderstanding.

Don’t get me wrong, most devout followers of religions also have fundamental misunderstandings. People like you tend to be unwilling to learn though and immediately jump to trying to invalidate the experiences and reasonings of others.

I’d say it’s coming from a position of fear more than anything else. You’re afraid of what you don’t know and rather than admit you could be wrong about something, you double-down and cover your ears. It’s an easy response to have. It’s harder to open your mind and accept that the people you disagree with might know more about something than you do.

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Its the “chosen by god to save your souls” fervor probably, which gives the licence to fuck everybody’s lives.

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This is an extraordinarily useful reply.

Thank you for that.

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So like the god of the bible then?

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No no, that’s the one with sending bears to maul children for… calling a bald guy “bald”.

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And the one that sends gay people and the people that shop on sundays to hell and sees both as sins as bad as each other but has no problem with slavery.

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I have serious theories on this that I think other cultures have tried to tackle.

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Dammit Biden, how can you let this happen!?

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What are you trying to accomplish?

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This is so obvious sarcasm…

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