"We can afford anything when it comes to protecting our international position and pursuing national interests."

Unfortunately, international relations has never really cared about poors - if you study diplomatic relations they literally teach you that "human rights" wasn't even a concept to foreign relations between nation-states until the 20th century.

I don't know how to confirm this myself but I have read and heard that before anything else, after it was known Hamas fighters were inside Israeli territory, the IDF first move militarily was to start bombing Gaza. No one can argue honestly that the IDF defends Israelis - its literally just the most reactionary of religious Zionists that they serve.

Secular Jewish Israelis? Nah they can fend for themselves for a few hours, we've gotta attack Palestinian civilians, says the IDF. And that's not even bringing up that 20% of Israeli citizens ARE ARABS, some of whom were also attacked in their homes in Southern Israel 10 days ago, but of course the same people calling Hamas human animals will go after them next (not to suggest they aren't already, only that Gazans face more immediate extermination).

The impression I had gotten from interviews (Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Haaretz) was that Israeli civilian police were there and exchanged fire with Hamas but that it was HOURS before they came across any IDF personnel. I've been focusing on this less as the time goes on and the catastrophic situation in Gaza gets worse and worse, so maybe further sources have come out regarding the Nova Festival.

Regardless I would like to see consequences to the people who authorized a festival so close to Gaza in the first place...

Of course the US can. It's so infuriating that it has the money and resources to spend in whatever it wants and instead it's using it to finance death.

Of course, I think she's probably saying this at the GOP more than as a personal interest in war, as we've been hearing people talk about America doesn't have the resources, which even if true isn't something you would say if you "love america".

Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted and replaced a post on X, the former Twitter, in which he mentioned Turkey’s calls for a ceasefire

God, they even KNOW what's right and then scramble to make themselves wrong

Hope these are accurate! PiS's actions towards democracy and free press are sickening

That said, the situation demands historical context – not as any kind of justification, but for the sake of clarity about the way forward.

I like the way of putting it, I've been struggling to find the words myself.

Damn right when the premium plan is going up (at least in my country)

I hope lemm.ee never defeds

Yes, let's escalate the conflict further, surely this will save lives!

Very worried they're gonna level the entire strip without any regard to Palestinians civilians or even their own people

Based

There are literally Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship

Oh yeah because Hamas would totally just be like "oh okay nevermind"

Yall get that the message of this comic is that the people on all sides of a conflict supposed to be treated like humans, not that you're supposed to just flip it around in comparison to the mainstream opinions, right?

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You don't think killing 200 unarmed civilians at a music festival is a war crime?

Want to see more of this across the industry! Get 'em!

I'm not sure how much people really care if the "oh fucks" and "unh yeahs" are in their mother tongue...