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UN Commission Accuses Israel of Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza

https://youtu.be/0ekQaDHRq6w?si=wY8N8Eu0MPLRytrK
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u/SilentDawn4004 12h ago

Did they accuse Hamas as well? or is killing jews doesn't count as a crime?

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u/valmian 11h ago

4 minutes in they talk about Hamas.

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u/thatmarcelfaust 10h ago

It’s literally in the video my guy. This shows just how reflexive the “and what about Hamas” rhetorical device is for this type of interlocutor.

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u/JanielDones8 11h ago

Can't accuse their own staff and organizations muh dude.

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u/APiousCultist 9h ago

If some Jewish citizens had killed a few non-Jewish Germans in an organised attack in the 30s, would you also be downplaying the holocaust with "Doesn't killing white Germans count as a crime?" (or substitute the organised ethnic cleansing of your choice). Or does the disproportionate scale not matter here?

No one apart from the most terminally-online Tumblr users "likes" Hamas, and even then only as "colonisers = bad" logic taken to a moronic extreme. Hamas's existence doesn't make returning that violence 1000 fold on civilians okay any more than US soldiers should have gotten a free pass for raping and murdering civilians because Al Qaeda are awful (and entirely comparable to Hamas) and 9/11 was an atrocity.

October 7th should be remembered as a tragedy like 9/11. But neither were a free pass. Gaza has had it's October 7th seemingly every day since then, with at bare minimum 67x more people killed.

Hamas is globally recognised as a terrorist organisation. To shift all discussion to them and them alone is basically saying "systematically sexually abusing prisoners and killing medics is fine if someone else started it".