I Was Wrong About Israel: What I Learned on the Ground
I Was Wrong About Israel: What I Learned on the Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgUzVZiint0
Tag: terrorism
Doctors in Gaza struggle to fight rare paralytic illness under Israeli blockade
“Dangerous viruses that cause severe paralytic illness are thriving in Gaza, where starving children living under an Israeli blockade can’t access the food or treatments they need to recover.
For months, health officials have warned that the destruction of the Gaza Strip’s sanitation facilities by Israel could fuel the surge of infectious diseases, as seen in last year’s polio outbreak. Now, doctors are reporting a surge in cases of acute flaccid paralysis, a rare syndrome causing muscle weakness that can make it hard to breathe and swallow.
Cases in Gaza include acute flaccid myelitis, which mostly affects children, and the better-known Guillain-Barré syndrome, said Ahmed al-Farra, head of pediatrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/doctors-gaza-struggle-fight-rare-paralytic-illness-under-israeli-blockade-acute-flaccid-paralysis-guillain-barre/
CNN Reporter Says Network Suppresses Gaza Genocide Coverage
Senior CNN reporter says American news networks are underplaying the frequent Israeli killings of journalists in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eOI7LfioY
Jonathan Conricus says Hamas would win “by a landslide” in new election — Sky News Australia
Countries recognizing a Palestinian state while Hamas is in power helps cement their power because Hamas can claim that their strategy worked. Their strategy of terrorist attacks and using their people as human shields worked to get the Palestinian state recognized by more countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQkD_vkxRE
I don’t know how to cover this anymore
The Israel-Hamas conflict is surrounded by so much misinformation, and people latch on to the misinformation and propaganda so unquestionably, that it makes it hard to tell what’s going on and many professionals don’t want to even touch the story. Everything is so he-said-she-said and stories always change after bad information has already spread, that it is difficult to know what the truth is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOOi-d-bOU
Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? | The Ezra Klein Show
Aid workers have confirmed, Gazans are starving.
Seems pretty clear that Israel can argue that their goal is regime change, not genocide. It makes sense that a country would not want to live next to a regime that actively wants to wipe them off the face of the planet. Hamas and other terrorist groups could end this at any time by surrendering and allowing the rule of a non-terrorist entity. As long as they don’t, Israel has to either fight the terrorist group, which cannot be done without civilian casualties, or just wait for the next Hamas attack. Nevertheless, Israel has committed war crimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrhBypHFYPY
The Occupation
“the Israeli military will also start a complete occupation of Gaza in order to stamp out Hamas, with the end goal being to surrender the territory to “Arab forces that will govern it properly without threatening us,” in Netanyahu’s words. This means the 800,000 to 1 million Palestinians who still reside there will be evacuated south, with a deadline of October 7 of this year.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/08/the-occupation/
Why Does Gaza have so many Hospitals?
Gaza has a lot of hospitals relative to their population. This is partly because Gaza has smaller hospitals. Hamas has intentionally built terrorist tunnels under hospitals to make targeting terrorists in them a war crime due to a hospital being in the way. Hamas forces Israel between a rock and a hard place. If Israel doesn’t hit the terrorist/military targets to avoid hitting hospitals, then Hamas can continue to operate there. If Israel does hit the targets, then Hamas propaganda can scream about how evil Israel is for hitting hospitals. Hamas is sacrificing its own people and civilian infrastructure as a tactic against Israel. Many in the West aid Hamas by screaming about hospitals hit while ignoring Hamas’s tactic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXgdGLNSkw
Dispatch From Gaza’s Nasser Hospital w/ Dr Tarek Loubani | MR Live
DC has record low crime, yet Trump is acting like it is out of control and using exaggerations to take over the policing of the city. He describes how people do what they want to police, yet he pardoned the January 6th attackers who were actively trying to hurt police.
A doctor in Gaza says all his patients are noticeably not eating enough food. He says Gaza has violent gangs that work for Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdfgY4EtIHQ
Pay Attention to the War of the Words in Gaza
“Huge numbers of Palestinians need something to eat. Can Israel do more to get them some food?
“It’s as if anything that doesn’t qualify as famine isn’t a problem,” one humanitarian organization official told me. A second aid official said the Israelis in particular talk about such hunger crises as if “it’s a binary — on, off — rather than a sliding scale. It’s a sliding scale.”
Words are among the many tools being weaponized by multiple sides in several ongoing global conflicts. “Famine,” “genocide,” “terrorism,” “antisemitism,” “occupation” and “apartheid” are just some of the terms whose definitions inspire public relations, legal and policy fights.
The war of words is increasingly exhausting and alarming to policymakers and others who deal with humanitarian issues. Several told me they worry the semantics — especially in a conflict such as Gaza — could hurt efforts to save lives or forge peace, including by hardening the positions of people accused of wrongdoing.
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Activists who push to use the term “genocide” often seem to suggest that if any label short of that is used, it means that a group’s suffering doesn’t matter.
This is unfortunate, Malinowski and others say, because other legal terms that could apply, such as “war crimes” or “crimes against humanity,” are still very grave offenses whose perpetrators should be held accountable.
A government’s decision to accuse another country of genocide often comes down to politics.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/29/gaza-war-words-political-tools-00481466