Didn’t realize Liam Cunningham was going too—wasn’t his Game of Thrones character called the “Onion Knight” for smuggling food to starving civilians during a siege?
I wonder how many civilians in Gaza Israel would have to murder in order to gain the same amount of press as they would receive for killing two famous white people.
I suspect there were never enough people there to solve this equation.
Ah see you've fallen into one of their many thought traps - because the calculation is made impossible by them repeatedly claiming 'there are no civilians in Gaza'. 12 year old boy playing soccer? Hamas terrorist. 8 year old girl in line outside a store? Hamas terrorist. Newborn baby? Somehow also Hamas terrorist.
The Israeli admin won't stop the genocide. Not until they have some massive political upheaval, remove existing power brokers and prosecute all the war criminals. That will take decades, if there's even an appetite for it at all amongst the Israeli populace.
I don't know many israelis, but the ones I do know are on the streets protesting all the time now. Accounts differ, but there are many signs that Netanyahu is not particularly popular even at home these days.
What is pretty unique about Israel's genocide is that it is strangely democratic in nature. Sure, Israeli democracy is hardly a democracy at all, but it plays by democratic rules for the part of the population who are considered full citizen. And within this democratic system Netanyahu and his crooks have painted themselves into a corner, where they need to appease the most extremist extreme right terrorists they have chosen as coalition partners. Because the second they stop the government will fall and they will almost certainly be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
So the combination of the existence of these crimes and the democracy-like institutions in Israel are actually forcing Netanyahu to double down on genocide. It's pretty crazy.
In the third Reich, the first thing the NSDAP did was to abolish democratic institutions. Israel's genocide is very different - dynamics of democratic government are actively fueling the fire of their holocaust. It's the first ever democratic genocide. When the dust settles, I think this is going to give us a lot to think about.
The part that bothers me is how many people ignore and are trying to iron clad state that antisemetism is anti Jewish. Semites include Arabs as a well. Basically if you are looking down/hating on a group for their beliefs or languages, you probably fall into antisemetism. Thus if their logic that anti Israel is antisemetic, then anti the people from Gaza would also be antisemetic. Attacking Iraq, or Afghanistan who's official religions are Islam - anti semetic. Attacking Spain, we can call it antisemetism because I believe Catholicism is the official religion, and you guessed it. Christians fall under Semitic usually, because Jesus happens to stem from the middle east..
I really think celebrity changes the nature of this. I suspect the media's urge to cover celebrity news is even greater than their urge not to talk about Israel's crimes.
High profile human shields tho? That's an altogether different game unfortunately. That's gonna go places where the story otherwise wouldn't. Gonna get in front of eyes that wouldn't otherwise care. As awful as that is.
Can't wait for CNN et al to begin reporting on violent Hamas assassinating Greta and using it to justify sending more tax payer funded F35s into the bottom of the ocean only to find out a number of decades later that the IDF made the call knowingly.