Israel has continued bombarding Gaza’s south despite telling 1.1 million people in the north of the besieged enclave to relocate there ahead of an expected ground offensive.

“We were displaced from Tal al-Hawa to Rafah at the request of the Israeli army, and this is what happened to us. My son is a 3-month-old martyr,” the father of a child killed in an attack in Rafah told Al Jazeera.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Cryptofascists will cite dead children to justify slaughtering many times more children in retaliation, each and every time, because they see those that are killed in that retaliation as less than human. us-foreign-policy

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        I assume you're joking but just in case you're not (or for the sake of people reading this that didn't catch it) by crypto- as a prefix I mean deceptively veiled fascist ideology that pretends to be something else or justified in some ostensibly politically acceptable way.

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypto-fascist

        • jamhandy@lemmy.ml
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          8 months ago

          Why assume he's joking? It's probably the first time many are hearing that term.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            Because I assumed that not many would immediately associate cryptofascism with cryptography.