Dear Media: Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas." - ThreadSky

leftistlawyer.com • 9 hours ago

Dear Media:

Halting all aid to Gaza is not "pressuring Hamas." Collective punishment is a war crime. Starvation as a weapon of war is a war crime. Withholding medical care is a war crime. None of this is remotely controversial actually. Israel is doing war crimes, not "pressuring Hamas."

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junayt.bsky.social•9 hours ago

When someone attacks a Jewish person because they oppose Israel, it is a hate crime (and should be considered as such)

When Israel attacks Palestinians claiming to be striking at Hamas, it is American foreign policy

lifecoachjen.bsky.social•5 hours ago

I always scratch my head when I see criticism of how little food Israeli hostages ate in captivity. They can't seem to connect the dots that their own government is willing to let them starve along with the Palestinians.

ruthz.bsky.social•9 hours ago

There are few things I hate more than collective punishment. From this kind of language to everyone calling for harsh measures against red states, the idea of punishing entire communities for the actions of their leaders (or the extremists in their midst) is abhorrent.

dominiqmarks.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Israel is holding the entire Gazan civilian population hostage. When Israel wants something, it just threatens to murder/abduct/torture more civilians or withholds food, medicine and shelter.

stefene.bsky.social•2 hours ago

i think it is hard for people to conceive of an ethical war. it is for me. "war crimes" is redundant.

lexie1179.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I agree totally. Israel has become that which it claims to hate.

rondomane.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Israel hasn't become anything. They were created as a racist apartheid state and have never changed from that, in fact they've probably only gotten worse.

pickmesquirrel.bsky.social•6 hours ago

yeah there was never a time when Israel wasn't brutally slaughtering someone weaker than them for the express purposes of genocide and land theft

mbletst.bsky.social•6 hours ago

israel has always been this way and they are exceedingly proud of it

raptornx01.bsky.social•4 hours ago

call it like it is, pressuring a resistance movement to aid a genocidal occupier.

cattress511.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Also, what exactly does Israel expect Hamas to do? Lay down their arms & surrender en masse, where they will inevitably be slaughtered? What assurances has Israel made that the people of Gaza won't also be exterminated?

sfdave49.bsky.social•9 hours ago

You know that Israel doesn't want peace, just the total annihilation of Arabs and Muslims, all funded by the us

lukvik.bsky.social•5 hours ago

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haethre.bsky.social•9 hours ago

excellent point. I’m also tired of Palestinians being called “prisoners” while Israelis are “hostages.” @npr.org @washingtonpost.com and @nytimes.com have all done this.

leftistlawyer.com•9 hours ago

BRB going to pressure opposing counsel by bombing every house in the neighborhood where he lives and keeping him from buying food or water or the meds he needs to stay alive. All he has to do is concede the case, what's the problem?

cedarflame.bsky.social•9 hours ago

GAZA will be Israel's property next year this time. Trump has made no doubt about it. This is the Trump revenge and land grab term in Office

isauragard.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Shut the fuck up. They couldn't take it with 15 months of constant bombardment and genocide with the full support of the US admin because of Palestinian resistance, and they won't be able to now. The Palestinian people will be fighting for their land long after you have given up on them.

markaudacity.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The president using his office to get revenge on people he doesn't like is bad, actually.

rondomane.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yeah maybe Joe Biden and Kamala Harris should have done something to prevent that instead of flattening Gaza.

djtomdog.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Running the propaganda “pressuring Hamas” is also a war crime that these outlets can be prosecuted for

markaudacity.bsky.social•7 hours ago

False reporting is a war crime?

djtomdog.bsky.social•7 hours ago

if what you’re “reporting” bolsters the state’s war crimes, then, yes

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