1y ago

'We cannot remain silent about what we saw.' U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza demand ceasefire in letter to White House

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As Perlmutter tried to treat the children with head injuries, he said, their “brains poured out” in his hands, in what he described as a personally traumatic moment.
Yeah, I’d say that sounds pretty fucking traumatic.
Every interview with doctors working there I've seen they just look like they haven't slept in weeks and are permanently on the edge of weeping.
I can't imagine the pressure and trauma they're having to deal with constantly. No supplies, limited staff, under threat of bombs and execution squads, a constant stream of horrifically mutiliated men, women and children coming into your care where there is no hope of being able to help everyone.
WCNSF
Fuck the Israeli government and making generations of Jews around the world more unsafe because of their bullshit.
Does anyone really think am that a ceasefire is viable while Hamas still holds hostages?
- Extremely unfun fact: Israel is holding hundreds if not thousands of times as many innocent civilians hostage as Hamas on trumped up charges if any, routinely torturing them physically, mentally, and sexually.
  So you can take your Hasbara gaslighting deflection and shove it.
  
  We're not morons. We don't have to pretend that people held by Israel are universally innocent. I'm sure there's an innocence rate just like any justice system; but a significant portion of those people did criminal things.
- It's working out so well now, you mean? When the IDF shot hostages, bombed schools and murdered thousands of innocent people?
- Israel has always conditioned the return of the hostages by Hamas with "We get to keep killing 'Hamas' if we want to after the deal." Which is not a ceasefire.
  You can't tell the side you're negotiating with to give you what you want and offer nothing, that's not how negotiation works. Hamas has offered the return of the hostages at every negotiation, it's literally the only leverage they have.
  
  You can't tell the side you're negotiating with to give you what you want and offer nothing
  Several deals have offered pullouts back to the '67 borders contingent upon return of the hostages. We (the US) strong-armed Israel into offering these deals. They've been categorically rejected.
  Hamas has demanded the right to keep hostages indefinitely a.k.a. slavery. If one side is demanding the right to own slaves, maybe they're the bad side.
- They chose to raise an army and surprise they lost.
  Significantly worse than this. They raised an army and stole $11b or more dollars of potential military funding. They invested $0 in defensive technologies for their citizens like bomb shelters. They started a war against one of the best equipped and trained militaries in the world and then didn't defend themselves at all.

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