@ElliotMalin Irrespective of victimhood, Israel’s subsequent actions have been utterly abhorrent. And they should be banned from all competition - Eurovision included. Hope this helps.
@sabra_the 🤔 you mean when the oppressed, dispossessed and brutalised, fight back - it is ‘terrorism’. When Israel oppresses, disposseses and brutalises, it is ‘self defence’. Language does indeed matter. But you seem to have yours quite mixed up.
It’s now 12 midnight, and no one is sleeping in the tents… because sleeping is simply impossible.
The bedding is completely soaked, and the rain is pouring heavily over worn-out tents that can no longer hold up.
People have fled into the streets, to hospitals, to the remains of bombed-out buildings… to any place they think might protect them from the flooding and cold.
Most spent the night standing, with no shelter or cover only water, cold, and fear.
You can hear the coughing of children from far away, their voices heartbreaking… I saw them with my own eyes shivering from the cold, their lips blue, their summer clothes drenched, with nothing to warm their small bodies, and no one has anything left to offer.
This rain didn’t bring mercy it came to complete the pain the war began, as if death, displacement, and suffering weren’t enough.
And in the end, the whole world watches in silence.
A silence that is terrifying, painful like what we’re going through means nothing.
As if our children fall outside the bounds of humanity.
This kind of neglect is a betrayal that can never be forgiven.
@GoodwinMJ Making Maccabi fans synonymous with Jewry is deeply antisemitic. Maccabi fans are notoriously racist and have caused violent mayhem when travelling abroad - including beating a young Arab to death in Greece. The world view of Maccabi does not resonate with any Jews I know.
@realMaalouf 92 Israeli and foreign women and girls were taken hostage and held in Gaza during the October 7 attack. The majority of Israeli women and all Israeli girls held hostage were released during the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamasat the end of November 2023.
@basilthegreat 92 Israeli and foreign women and girls were taken hostage and held in Gaza during the October 7 attack. The majority of Israeli women and all Israeli girls held hostage were released during the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas at the end of November 2023.
@HonestReporting@BBCNews Detaining people - some of them children - without charge or trial, as a bargaining chip, is hostage taking. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinian hostages. Many have been abused and some died in captivity. You are right - language matters.