I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.
EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.
Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.
It seems they were not blowing it up for a ‘gender reveal’, but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.
Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.
That’s not a good look for Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera is always extremely anti Israel. The Arabic version even more so than the English one.
That’s like saying science is anti-conservative
You’d expect them to be factually accurate though.
Updating the article to provide more correct information as soon as it’s uncovered is part of that
Well, you can check it yourself. Go to Arabic Al Jazeera and use machine translation and compare it to the English version. Then compare the article to the same topic on the BBC and Times of Israel. Compare and contrast.
Al Jazeera is Qatari state media. There’s no press freedom in that authoritarian kingdom.
Yeah well you can check it yourself as well. I don’t know how any of your mental gymnastics relate to the dumb shit you said originally.
Why does ‘state media with no press freedom in an authoritarian kingdom’ only seem scary when it’s al jazeera’s and not BBC’s or Times of Israel’s?
You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing
You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing
…and yet, being anti-Israel was considered a far-right neo-Nazi position not that long ago. It became acceptable again from the start of the current flare up (the current fighting isn’t something new, it’s been going on and off for decades). Before that, anti-Israel meant anti-Jew meant obviously Nazi. It’s wild how when things change so many people will just quietly drop the old narrative and pretend it never existed. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia and all that.
The reality is that the US supports Israel, has for a long time and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It’s not because of being pro-Jew or wanting to ethnically cleanse Arabs, it’s because they’re our only real ally in the Middle East and thus we’ll remain safely on their good side unless and until we get a strategically more useful ally in the Middle East. Then keeping them happy becomes less important.
OK, that’s somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation’s soldiers would make that same joke.
The world isn’t real. This is simply too ridiculous to have happened. I have been in a coma for the last six years and this is all just a weird fantasy playing out in my mind.
wait, but does that mean i’m in a coma, or im a figment of your imagination and im in your coma?
but i agree, it’s too absurdly horrible to be plausible
I think, therefore I am. You think, therefore you are.
well how do i know you think?
You don’t, and neither do I.
fuck
I think I think, therefore I think I am.
You’re either in your coma or their coma, but either way, you’re in a coma!
it’s the only plausible explanation
I had a concussion in 2008 and I’m wondering if I didn’t wake up from it and any day now I’ll wake up in spring 2008.
shakes you vigorously
“Wake the fuck up and take us with you!”
“I’m tired of being a figment of this dickhead’s imagination!”
Headline was inaccurate - they didn’t bomb a place for a gender reveal. Instead they bombed a place that produced blue smoke for some other reason and joked about how it resembling a gender reveal. That’s…not better but it’s an important distinction - one is blowing shit up to announce it’s a boy and the other is blowing shit up to blow shit up and then joking about the color of the smoke.
You would need to be entirely devoid of any semblance of humanity to even conceive of this idea, right?
How do you want to celebrate the joy of a new child? Oh, I don’t know, how about we make a light of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Fucking ghouls
A lot of times soldiers when they come back from war have a lot of post-traumatic stress and they end up drinking a lot and they have a high suicide rate. So when the war ends it really doesn’t. They just bring it back home. And Israel is on the verge of a civil war. So all the mistakes of that society will come back and blow up in their face. We just have to be patient. I really question if the state of Israel is going to last. I mean, a lot of people in the United States despise Israel, and they will isolate themselves from the rest of the world and be notoriously known as terrible tourist. So they’ll be discriminated against and shunned. Justice will be served eventually. The United States really at the end of the day is just using them as a proxy. They think they’re controlling us, but we are using them to control our population for our imperialist endeavors. And just like Ukraine, we’ll throw them in the gutter, because these are all just dildos of empire. What you do overseas will come back to you and me. The imperialist boomerang effect. We just live in dystopic times and we just have to realize that the world we live in is not the same and so our likes and dislikes need to change. Our habits, our patterns, our hobbies. You name it. We’ve got to start thinking locally. Stop giving corporations money, get a hobby, be productive, stuff like that.
“Won’t somebody think of the poor genocidal murderers!?”Edit: didn’t read it beyond the first few words and had a kneejerk reaction. My bad.
“I didn’t read it but I’m mad anyway!”
Yeah, you’re right,
Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza and laugh about ‘gender reveal’ ‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza while laughing that the blue smoke resembles a ‘gender reveal’.
Fuck israël ans fuck IDF
I’m decently sure they don’t have the self awareness to even say that. The IDF just believes they’re the good guys
They are well aware they are doing evil, but they plan to stop at some point and just forget it ever happened. They will bury the history and whats left, they will each pretend they never personally supported. Did you see the new marvel movie? “We all did some bad things, those were some dark dark times, but whats important now is that we stand together and protect the people”
And while they were at it they turned captain america into a white guy again (and only ever mention previous cptn ameria being steve rogers), and the “new avengers” has 3 russian heros in it, each of which has no moral compass. Thats after they tried to title the last Avengers movie, “A new world order”, and spend 15 minutes of it on a backstory of “sadaf” and israeli superhero protecting the motherland from terrorists bent on destruction and killing of innocents.
I’m not kidding. They arent particularly subtle about any of it. They are practically announcing their propoganda and sales pitch on it now. And we’ll lick it right up too.
Fuck Israel.
Fucking Animals
Please fix the title.
Yo did the jews forget this same shit happened to them? Like multiple times?
Hello?
don’t mix up the Israeli people and the Israeli state
More than half the Israeli people actively support the state. There were more protestors against the rule change that would’ve stopped rape as being used against prisoners than there have been against the genocide.
The Israeli people, at the very least, are Nazi civilians. I’m sure there’s a few good ones in there. Hopefully they find a country to live in that doesn’t require genocide to function.
The Israeli people have either been supportive of the regime, or just too milktose to do anything about it.
We’re long past benefit of the doubt.
Not all Jews are Nazis but the whole state of Israel could be compared to fascist Germany. This is a neo liberal take the humanizes the oppressor. This is why I don’t bat a eye when the Palestinians went full on Nat Turner
And dont mix up Jews and Israelis and Zionists
There is no such thing as a “Jew memory” shared by all Jews.
The individuals doing this shit certainly heard the stories as that stuff is constantly repeated and part of the national identity in Israel, but they didn’t feel the suffering and in fact most of them don’t even come from families which suffered in the Holocaust as most Israelis are not from families that came from Western Europe.
Even when people felt the horror by being on the other side, they need to actually be able to empathise with their victims to not want to inflict that same horror on them: in other words they need to not be sociopaths or psychopaths and to see those victims as fellow human beings. Notice how in Israel, just like in Nazi Germany, the targetted ethnicity are constantly dehumanized with extreme racist statements about them, to the point that Palestinians in Israel are called “human animals” similarly to how Jews in Nazi Germany were “untermenschen” (sub-humans).
With a population of people were 99.999% did not in fact suffer anything in the Holocaust (there is literally only a handful of people in Israel who were alive back then, living in Western Europe and who were caught by it), with an actual constitution stating the superiority of their race (literally “the chosen people”) and enshrining discriminatory treatment on race (the Israeli constitution says that only Jews can be Israeli Nationals), under constant extreme racist propaganda in most of the Press and in statements from politicians very literally dehumanizing the ethnicity they’re targetting (“human animals”) and with sociopaths and psychopaths not just part of the highest levels of government and the military but in general being given free reign to execute their most violent fantasies with no pushback as long as it’s against the “lesser” races, this kind of shit is not just unsurprising, it’s innevitable.
What do you mean exactly?
Israel isnt Jewish. They’re Zionist.
The majority of Jews in the world have not forgotten and are anti-zionist
Hurt people hurt people.
Superstitious uneducated indoctrinated swine repeat history.
aka intergenerational trauma
Yes. Which, to be clear, does not excuse what they are doing. It just partially explains how we got here.
You will not receive an honest answer to this question on lemmy lmao.
It was just a question to the skies like WHY SKY DADDY, WHYYY
Aw! It’s Satan gray! No wait, its pure evil blue, its a trump!. Nah! If you look closely you’ll notice all the buildings belonged to poor defenseless people. So it’s probably a rich evil asshole!
what the fuck man
The gender is genocide.
They’re creating exciting new hate crimes, in this case gendercide
Ethnic Genocide is now fully Normalized in Israel.
In some ways this is actually beyond Nazi Germany, were the actual perpetrators of the genocide did not make a public show of their murdering of the people they saw as untermenschen.
This kind of thing is a pretty good indication that there is far broader acceptance (glee, even) amongst the Israeli population for Genocide than there was amongst the German population in Nazi Germany.
I wonder what if nazi germany had access to social media, recommendation algorithms, bots, etc… influencing masses has never been this easy in history
From what I’ve heard the extreme racism is generalized in the Mainstream Press in Israel, so I’m not sure that it’s the Social Media that’s making Genocide along ethnic lines be more broadly accepted there than it was in Nazi Germany.
That said, the fables in Israel around “The Jewish People” and its identity with the Palestinians as “antagonists”, have been spun for far longer and the antagonism has been going on for far longer (since the creation of the state of Israel) than the ones in Nazi Germany with Jews as “antagonist”, so maybe the much longer time (about 70 years) during which Israelis have been indoctrinated about their own ethnic superiority and the “antagonism” of Palestinians in Israel compared to the length of the similar indoctrination of the population in Nazi Germany, is the main cause for the more broad acceptance of Genocide amongst the populus in Israel than in Nazi Germany.
If you’ve grown up hearing about how you’re part of a superior people (“God’s chosen people”) and Palestinians are The Enemy who hate you and want you dead, and your parents too grew up like that, you’re probably far, far, more likely to be an extreme racist that trully believes themselves to be inherently superior and that Palestinians as not really human like themselves - hence having zero empathy for the suffering of Palestinians and maybe even relishing in it - than somebody who has only been exposed to similar shit for a decade or two.
This is a game for them isn’t it. Pushing buttons on missile systems and drone controllers to try and take down the most buildings and get the most points…
The ICC should go into Israel and try Nethanyahu.
