Palestinian professor who reported on Gaza’s suffering dies before replying to final message
Palestinian professor who reported on Gaza’s suffering dies before replying to final message
Refaat Alareer, the teacher and writer who had shared the hardships of war with EL PAÍS, was killed along with six family members in an Israeli attack
Refaat Alareer, the teacher and writer who had shared the hardships of war with EL PAÍS, was killed along with six family members in an Israeli attack
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I saw the article mentioned he had defended the Oct 7 attack so after some googling:
Soon after the 7 October Hamas attack – which killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, with about 240 kidnapped – Alareer caused outrage during a BBC interview by calling it “legitimate and moral” and “exactly like the Warsaw ghetto uprising”, the broadcaster said.
Yikes. Defending oct 7 was pretty fucked up move on his behalf but what Israel keeps doing is arguably worse. Both Hamas and Israel leadership need to be removed from this world....
What Israel is doing is worse, yet most world leaders are justifying Israel's actions. Nobody seems to be condemning these political slimeballs. It seems that Hamas, a violent liberation movement is being held to a higher standard than nation states.
It's pretty hypocritical to start a war and then, when the people you started the war with come for you, to claim that they're being too aggressive. It's not a morally coherent position. When you start a war, you know for a fact that there will be a counterattack and there is no universe in which said counter isn't going to involve lots of civilian casualties. Hamas knew this but did it anyway, so who's really to blame? Do we really expect the Israelis to just back off and not respond? Why don't we treat any other countries that way? Why the double standard? What's really going on here?
Violent liberation movement? Holy fucking fanboi apologists batman. You gotta be a sick fuck to be pro hamas.
They're terrorist monsters that can only be exterminated. Hamas who by hiding behind civilians, intentionally murder those civilians and celebrates the PR opportunity. All the while dumb fuckers fall for the propaganda and call these scum a "liberation movement".
I celebrate every time one of those animals is put to death. Hamas has murdered more Palestinian Arabs than any other entity, bar none.
People called the ANC in South Africa and Nelson Mandela a terrorist too. It's a label to try and vilify and dehumanize the other. The reality is that Israel is an apartheid state, and it's committing genocide against the Palestinians. Hamas is only a product of that and they can only be defeated by ending the crimes against humanity.
You stupid fucker, Mandela didn't target civilians for slaughter and war crimes. Your ability to reason is as weak as your character. Terrorist sympathizer scum.
I'm looking forward to all Hamas dead, and then we decide what to do with Hamas allies, apologists, and propagandists.
Switch sides, you confused sicko.
Get educated:
"Many people were killed in protests, and the ANC’s armed wing was linked to several high-profile bombings that killed South African civilians throughout the 1980s, prompting some among the country’s white minority to blame the “terrorist” Mandela."
https://globalnews.ca/news/5201623/nelson-mandela-apartheid-terrorist-south-africa/
Learn to fucking read. Where does it say Mandela targeted civilians and murdered them. Do you even know who Nelson Mandela was?!? To compare him to Hamas should make it impossible to post a comment ever again--instant stupidity ban.
LOL, just so fucking ridiculous. It's sad how dunning kruger this crowd is, so stupid they think they're clever and way too dumb to know the truth.
What the allies did to the Nazis was worse too.
Words don't justify a death sentence. This is the same bullshit reasoning that gets trotted out by bootlickers every time a cop murders a black person in the US. There's a mad scramble to find the worst thing the victim ever did and claim that makes their murder ok.
Oct 7 was retaliation against occupation. When you give people no other choice than violent resistance and mass slaughter them when they peacefully protest this is the result.
All the worst stuff that Hamas had supposedly done was a complete lie by the IDF. There was no rape or child beheadings. Targeted attacks with a low (3/4) civilian casualty rate compared to US and israeli avarages of 9/10 and 99/100, and taking of hostages.
You would be out here condemning Nelson Mandela and the ANC after they started their violent revolution against the Apartheid in South Africa. Cut the hypocrisy already.
I hope hamas at least pays u
Sadly Hamas doesn't have a paid army of internet shills to lie about their deeds.
Unlike the IDF which pays millions of American tax dollars to people like you who shill for them online.
Why are you defending the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians? "Yikes" indeed.
October 7 was a military attack against Israel. It'd be a different story if he defended the rape and murder of civilians that happened during October 7th. As of right now we don't have any evidence that Hamas leadership ordered that, and the attack as a whole had clear military objectives.
I mean yes in the sense that the capture of civilians has a clear military objective. Doesn't make it less awful.
One genocidal state doesn't justify another one. There are no good guys in this conflict. That said one side has more bombs than the other so we should be focusing on that side. But please, no justifying war crimes.
Doesn’t make it less awful.
It does, though. Hostages are one of the few ways Hamas can get Israel to release Palestinian hostages (also known as detainees) and get the blockade loosened. While it sucks that this is the current situation, with the status quo at hand the capture of civilians is absolutely justified. Otherwise thousands of Palestinians won't be making it home again.
do u even read what u write?
I'd say you're an IDF shill, but honestly a shill would actually have talking points so I think you're just an idiot.
I think many find it hard to believe Israel now. The Hamas side of the story is that Hamas were good to the hostages (and we have testimonies for that), and that many attacks were done by Gazan civilians who followed the fighters who broke down the fence, and indeed the video of Shani, the German Israeli, showed non-combatants parading her naked, not Hamas fighters.
Probably in a different narrative, Hamas performed a justified military operation to take hostages to free their own prisoners (whom we know are illegally detained by Israel without a charge and living through hell and torture in Israel prisons, at young ages). So far, it looks justied. Add to that all the evidence we have showing that many people on October 7th, especially those burned, were killed by IDF that was acting as though on steroids. I would be naive to assume no rape happened, but Israel's evidence for "systemic rape as a war tactic" is extremely flimsy. Israel killed its own people and is now milking their dead bodies for PR to justify a genocide.
That being said, no documented crimes can be denied. A Hamas fighter throwing a grenade into a safe room full for people - there is footage of that.
that being said, no documented crimes can be denied. A Hamas fighter throwing a grenade into a safe room full for people - there is footage of that.
Yeah. That guy should probably be hung.
If only executions reduced or prevented overall crime and violence...
That guy should probably be hung.
What's the size of his cock have to do with it?
u really eat what a terrorist organization feeds u that easily?
You*
delusional point of view