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The Economist @economist.com

Hamas’s crimes do not excuse Israel’s actions in Gaza. The Jewish state is a democracy. Its leaders should hold themselves to higher standards than terrorists

aug 10, 2025, 6:40 am • 733 181

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Jennifer Lorraine @jennxyz.bsky.social

This is what Israel holds to

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George N. Killoran @olapguy.bsky.social

And that's the dumbest argument I've heard for a while.

aug 10, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦 @manhasnoname.bsky.social

Zionist state = terrorist state

aug 10, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

That is the nicest possible way to put it.

aug 10, 2025, 7:09 am • 0 0 • view
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TheRobBell @therobbell.bsky.social

Free the hostages !

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aug 10, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kev Moore @kevmoore.bsky.social

These hostages?

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aug 10, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 2 • view
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Antifish @alltingsconsidered.bsky.social

A terrorist attack does not excuse a genocide, nor does it excuse the apartheid and oppression that provoked the original attack. The war criminals of Israel must be brought to justice.

aug 10, 2025, 8:55 am • 5 0 • view
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Antifish @alltingsconsidered.bsky.social

And clearly it is not for the genocidal criminals to hold themselves to account. The Netanyahu regime must be toppled, arrested, charged and tried by the ICC in The Hague.

aug 10, 2025, 8:57 am • 4 0 • view
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Antifish @alltingsconsidered.bsky.social

All nations who profess to care about justice and international law must withdraw all support for this evil regime and implement sanctions. Israel should be de-militarized and a UN peacekeeping force should be brought in to ensure the violence does not continue.

aug 10, 2025, 9:05 am • 3 0 • view
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Marilyn August @augustmoon99.bsky.social

Tell that to the hostages

aug 10, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Grey Pilgrim @grey-pilgrim.bsky.social

On October 6th, Israel was already holding over 7,800 Palestinians as hostages. Israel uses indefinite detention as a punishment and means of control. But you didn’t care about them, do you? In fact, you didn’t even know that little detail until now, when I just told you.

aug 10, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social

They don't know about these things even AFTER you tell them. These 'people', (many of them aren't actual people), exist to sell one-liner nonsense. They're not there to be persuaded. They talk nonsense, they're corrected, then they move on to talk precisely the same nonsense elsewhere.

aug 10, 2025, 1:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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Marilyn August @augustmoon99.bsky.social

Souce please

aug 10, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Grey Pilgrim @grey-pilgrim.bsky.social

Not only was Israel holding 7,800 Palestinians as hostages, but over 2,000 have never been charged of anything. They’re pawns, being kept in Israel’s back pocket, to be used as bargaining chips for some future event. Oh. That 7,800 figure is actually higher now. www.btselem.org/statistics/d...

aug 10, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Grey Pilgrim @grey-pilgrim.bsky.social

More: www.amnesty.org/en/location/...

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Marilyn August @augustmoon99.bsky.social

Got it.

aug 11, 2025, 5:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Josh @hobbesjosh.bsky.social

100%. Those who try to put all the blame on Hamas are letting Israel off the hook for their actions.

aug 10, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social

Nice try . How much proof does 🇮🇱need to show you that they are not .

aug 10, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blackheadkoi @blackheadkoi.bsky.social

What? Until only the terrorists are left? Hamas (and other groups in the Middle East) were formed specifically to wipe Israel (and the Jews) off the map. It is time to rid the world of the terrorists - of all religious terrorists. 50 years of living in fear of the next attack? That's enough!!

aug 10, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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AdamantiteKnight @adamantiteknight.bsky.social

So you'd be fine with getting rid of Israeli settlers too then right?

aug 10, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blackheadkoi @blackheadkoi.bsky.social

Where? On other land bordering Israel? Oh, right, palestine was actually a place at some point in time.

aug 10, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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AdamantiteKnight @adamantiteknight.bsky.social

You are being purposefully retarded.

aug 10, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blackheadkoi @blackheadkoi.bsky.social

Ah yes - a proper hamas sympathizer. Descending into name-calling when faced with uncomfortable facts.

aug 10, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
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TM @tmsoc.bsky.social

Not a terrorist. A hungry little boy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

aug 10, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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Blackheadkoi @blackheadkoi.bsky.social

50 years of rockets into Israel, culminating on Oct 7. It's time to end hamas. It is hamas that has built tunnels under, and fired rockets from all manner of hospitals, schools and residential buildings. It is unfortunate that there are some innocents in gaza.

aug 10, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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Josh @hobbesjosh.bsky.social

You will never end Hamas. And in fact, Israel has reached diminishing returns. The longer they continue the campaign, the more angry Palestinians they are creating that may be the next group of terrorists that they will have to deal with.

aug 10, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Renee Cascada🥄 @cascada57.bsky.social

I think the world needs to also keep in mind that IDF was aware of Hamas getting ready to do the attack. They ignored those manning the surveillance stations. On pupose?

aug 11, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Daith @attentir.bsky.social

Its people must hold their leaders accountable, but themselves responsible. They, as we, have a lot to atone for.

aug 10, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
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Maluwa @maluwa.bsky.social

In the year of October 7, the apartheid state killed 39 children, in the years before that more than 1,200 children, everyone is silent about that, so is anyone surprised that Hamas strikes?

aug 10, 2025, 6:50 am • 4 0 • view
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2charlotte45.bsky.social @2charlotte45.bsky.social

I think that ship has sailed long ago

aug 10, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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No Ka Oi @nokaoi2024.bsky.social

#GazaGhetto #FeedTheChildren #Shame

aug 10, 2025, 6:44 am • 0 0 • view
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RB @ratherreadabook.bsky.social

Jews, the victims of the largest genocide of the 20th century, are now the perpetrators of the largest genocide of the 21st century. Jewish Holocaust survivors are spinning in their graves.

aug 10, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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א @anjagorod.bsky.social

gaza people turned their place into hell on earth by their own choice the way earlier than they turned lives of their neighbours into brutal tortures, rapes and murders on 10/7. maybe call to stop terrorism instead of calling for standards from your coach.

aug 10, 2025, 9:28 am • 1 0 • view
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DavidWEC ♍🇺🇸☕🐉 @davidwec.bsky.social

The sneak attack does not and will never justify genocide. Israel has carried it's war too far.

aug 10, 2025, 1:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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sosorryaboutthat.bsky.social @sosorryaboutthat.bsky.social

You should try to win a war instead of licking nazi boots from your "coach'

aug 10, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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John in Halifax @john-in-halifax.bsky.social

Jesus... You don't have a clue do you?

aug 10, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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1984 @1984georgeorwell.bsky.social

I honestly don't know - how much of a democracy really is this country? "Flawed Democracy" according to your own index. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eco...

aug 10, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cafe Tel Aviv @cafetelaviv.bsky.social

Keep on dreaming. The reality: Israel’s „government is racing toward erasing Gaza. Thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Gaza will be Jewish." Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu Eliyahu is not alone with this notion. It is just not appreciated in Israel to say such things in public.

aug 10, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thia Fin @thiafin.bsky.social

The world must hold Israel to account.

aug 10, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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mlflaherty.bsky.social @mlflaherty.bsky.social

Too late

aug 10, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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sosorryaboutthat.bsky.social @sosorryaboutthat.bsky.social

Genocidal ethnostate

aug 10, 2025, 1:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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stassigirl @stassigirl00.bsky.social

"The Jewish state is a democracy?" Stop lying.

aug 10, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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wiscolib.bsky.social @wiscolib.bsky.social

Totally agree. Unfortunately, the same could be said about the US.

aug 10, 2025, 2:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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TM @tmsoc.bsky.social

Thank you for speaking out. #Israel stopping the ongoing starving of 2 million people is a bare minimum. The world is sickened by this unrelenting violence against civilians.

aug 10, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Peter Davidson 🇦🇺 @petedavo.bsky.social

Maybe the Israeli Government still thinks it's still the Stern Gang and Irgun?

aug 10, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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dublin-murphy.bsky.social @dublin-murphy.bsky.social

It's not a democracy any more. Netanyahu is a dictator

aug 10, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Giuseppe Dimola @giobbe56.bsky.social

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stiffelman.bsky.social @stiffelman.bsky.social

That’s as plain as can be and sufficient argument to get Netanyahu and his criminal allies deposed.

aug 10, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lori Barnett @gigharborlola.bsky.social

Arrest Netanyahu. He is a war criminal.

aug 10, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Traditional Christian Boyfriend 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @lilgav.bsky.social

John Wayne Gacy must hold himself to account.

aug 10, 2025, 9:49 am • 0 0 • view
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shorttimer.bsky.social @shorttimer.bsky.social

Netanyahu is a criminal. As is Trump. They are racing & raping- and planning to profit.

aug 10, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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FarkinAustralia @farkinaustralia.bsky.social

looks like they'll need to ad Gaza to the israel Holocaust Museum now

aug 10, 2025, 7:00 am • 1 1 • view
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Supernova @taleosri.bsky.social

Gaza not being a democracy is the problem of other democracies? That's more f'ckd up than Bush forcing elections in that area.

aug 10, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pilthy Figsty @pilthyfigsty.bsky.social

Hold itself to account? Probably the same reason you didn't let Germany hold itself to account after WW2.

aug 10, 2025, 7:10 am • 1 0 • view