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Former UN Aid Chief Calls Gaza Genocide 'Worst Crime of the 21st Century' (www.commondreams.org)

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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

< homer-simpson voice >

The worst crime of the 21st century .. so far!

< / homer-simpson voice >

( I wish I was joking, but no: the accelerationists, far-right, etc, have MUCH worse plans for our world's next few years.

Trump wasn't kidding about wanting to possess both Greenland ( which he can use to seal-off all Atlantic trade with Canada, using Alaska to seal-off all Pacific trade with Canada, & then butcher us from mainland US, until only our corpses are in his way of total-continental-"kingdom" ) & Canada,

& in a few more years, his alliance with Putin, to butcher all the "woke" countries ( see the other article in this forum on their working to replace all the civil-rights leaders in Europe with far-right supremacist-types: https://lemmy.world/post/33478737 ) will be blatent, instead of hidden ( the temporary-difficulties between them are only temporary, & Musk's actively toggling Ukraine's internet to help Russia ( https://lemmy.world/post/33459082 ) is just a little of the evidence showing the real-truth, as The Kremlin Papers that The Guardian reported-on a few years ago, are, too ).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/02/time-to-confront-trump-putin-network

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/first-thing-what-the-kremlin-papers-said-about-trump

( keep in mind that The Guardian changed-ownership, & let-go many of their journalists, so it's possibly just a holding-company, now, riding on the pre-established brand,

AND I've seen screencaps showing its prejudice'd "journalism" protecting Israel's genociding, compared with its coverage of Ukraine, so it isn't the "Truth 1st" kind of Journalism this world needs, but .. neither is anybody else, now, from what I've seen.

Sucks, that..

Read "The Elements of Journalism", for a taste of what true Journalism is supposed to mean..

We NEED true-Journalism's return to this planet, this-year! )

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We are fucking monsters

More images from Anadolu @ Getty Images

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hard to disagree with that unless you're a delusional piece of shit

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The US is complicit. Why are so many of our politicians puppets for Netanyahu. Could also explain why many don't want the Epstein files released.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wish I knew. I wish there was some kind of leak that would explain it. I always assumed it was some stupid CIA shit that says we have to have "presence" in the middle east no matter what, even if we have to support a very obvious genocide. Or a more general explanation like the sickest motherfucking psychos have control of the world.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security."

~Alexander Haig

There's your explanation, no secret CIA shit needed. Our economy runs on oil and the Middle East got it.

Also no secret, AIPAC has bought our entire political structure. Hell, they don't even need to spend, just scream "anti-Semite" at anyone screaming "genocide!".

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

Epstein and Maxwell had ties to Israeli intelligence for decades

[–] breadguy@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago

evil mfs will excuse anything as long as they can pin it on hamas

[–] xzot746@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it is amazing how many pieces of shit are out there. Shane on all the governments just going along with it.

The way everyone is going on about punching Nazis in the face, you would think that it's start catching on with people denying this tragedy.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Britain was only a little surprising, but surprising none the less. Peoples need to start holding these shit filled bags to account

[+] REDACTED -15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I genuinely don't see Gaza war worse than Ukraine war. The difference in deaths and destruction isn't 50%, it's closer to 1000%, so in comparison gaza war is relatively tiny and local conflict.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see one place as fighting and winning and the other place as just getting wiped out. You figure it out.

[–] REDACTED -2 points 1 week ago

I'm not looking at imaginary borders but global damage caused by the war. It's not some sides, it's over million injured or dead and far more than that displaced, while also causing global economic problems. Gaza war is just not on that level and I feel like it's getting extra attention only because of Jews as other conflicts are mostly overlooked

[–] small44@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The zionist is back

[–] REDACTED 1 points 6 days ago

If supporting Ukraine makes me zionist because of Zelensky's association with Jewism, then so be it, i'd rather be a zionist but on the right side of the history.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Worst crime of the 21st Century” , so far!

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Lol .... I was hoping to see this comment ... thanks!

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Came here to say this. Just wait till Trump loses the house majority next year. We’re in for a fun 2027.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

I just love that I can post the picture without text and it's understood.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 21 points 1 week ago

So far. Humanity still has lots of 21st century to ruin after all, and that's not even counting the planetary climate disaster.

[–] decentrellis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I cant take these pictures of starving children and infants. It makes me want to die

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, The NY Times considered this breaking news that I needed to be immediately notified about:

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I mean it's bad, but what about how scared all the Zionists are of the starving children?

[–] PrinceOfSloth@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

i totally agree, I'm going to say that a lot.

[–] Bwoj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

…so far.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

True, but I think they've at least got "worst crime in the early 21st century" in the bag.

[+] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

This is simply objectively false. For example, ten times as many people died in the Syrian civil war.

"There is no prior experience in my five decades of humanitarian experience that can come close to comparison to the horror we are all seeing in Gaza."

This year is the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cambodian genocide. The Rawandan genocide was 31 years ago. This guy is either deliberately lying or an idiot.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

For example, ten times as name people died in the Syrian civil war.

The Syrian civil war wasn't one crime; it was a war by multiple actors none particularly committed to human rights. Also Syria's population is more than ten times that of Gaza.

The person in the OP is talking about their experience in the 50 years part, so it's entirely possible they simply weren't involved in aid during or after the Rwandan genocide.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the start of the Cambodian genocide.

The Gaza genocide is, in fact, keeping pace with or beating the Cambodian genocide in terms of percentage of population killed per unit time; it's just that most of them are via malnutrition, disease or outright starvation and therefore not counted in official statistics. In Gaza the deaths are also only the most extreme effect of Israeli crimes; there's also the widespread (read: near-universal) starvation and disease, and the ridiculous number of injuries. Also Israeli crimes against children trump anything the Khmer Rouge did in that department, so I'm gonna agree with the OP on this one.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Syrian Civil War is/was not a crime in itself.

50 years ago was the 20th century (1901-2000)
31 years ago was the 20th century (1901-2000)

There are 75 years left in the 21st century (2001-2100).

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the 20th century

Yes, that's why I quoted the part where he also says it's the worst in the last 50 years.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fair. But to be *more *fair, he did qualify "that he'd seen", which is less a statement of level of atrocity mathematically, and more the fact that Israel's crimes are being publicly and globally televised in real time, day by day. This is being done brazenly in the open and they aren't even trying to hide it. In that respect, with such global attention and even support for these crimes, it is unprecedented in all of human history - not just the last 50 years.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

ten times as many people died in the Syrian civil war.

We're far too early in either Holocaust to officially tally the dead. The current counts in both countries are conservative.

This guy is either deliberately lying or an idiot.

This seems like you've got a weird bone to pick with a guy reporting on an industrial scale genocide of 1.4M people.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another of user ArbitrayValues comments right here from another thread, arguing that its ok for the catholic church to keep pedo priests confessions of their crimes secret:

The issue here is that Catholic priests have a religious obligation not to report crimes they find out about in certain specific circumstances, and this law would prevent them from fulfilling that obligation

So no, I dont think your opinions about genocide matter much, buddy. You always seem to pick the wrong side where religions are concerned.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So this is a matter of religion for you? Which religion is that, and which side are you on?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So this is a matter of religion for you? Which religion is that, and which side are you on?

Cute try at redirection. Original point stands, you reliably spout nonsense.