Israel’s male flagbearer at Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is believed to have signed bombs prior to them being fired against the Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu has reported. Peter Paltchik, 32, used social media to show him writing “From me to you with pleasure” on munitions destined for Gaza.
I guess if you deny a country entry into the Olympics based on genocide and apartheid it’s antisemitic
The olympics let literal nazis host the games, this is entirely on brand for them.
and they’ve been apologising for it ever sin-
-oh no wait, they haven’t.
look were so apolitical we just ignored that whole thing
they’ve also taken away medals from athletes displaying signs of solidarity with social justice movements; so yes, very on brand for them.
Only for Israel…
South Africa did not compete at Olympic Games from 1964 to 1988, as a part of the sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era.
And Israel is desperately trying to avoid such a boycott. But at this point it’s coming. We just need to keep pushing.
What drives someone to did that. I cannot understand.
Americans famously signed the first bombs dropped on Japan after peral harbor - and attached the trinkets that were brought by the Japanese peace negotiatiors.
Of course, the mear existence of the negotiators show that America was taking hostile action aganst japan prior to Pearl Harbor.
I love how you’re being down voted for facts lol. Also as an FYI, Americans know nothing about the oil embargoes on Japan and how Indonesia and the Philippines played into japan’s needs. The US choke holded Japan and they had like a year left before everybody would freeze and starve. So Pearl Harbour it was, and they got lucky the US just happened to park all the ships there, they weren’t planning on it. But that news isn’t taught to Americans. They truly believe it was an unprovoked attack out of the blue.
They could have always, (checks notes), not invaded China or Vietnam.
Hostile actions? Like denying oil to the country that bombed our ships, went on a war crimes rampage in China, and invaded allied territory?
Yeah. Totally hostile action there. Japan attacked us because we refused to sell them resources.
I was comparing it to what Israel did to Gaza pre-Oct 6th. Denying resources to a country that bombed israeli citizens and was run by war-criminals? Justified. Being surprised and calling it “unprovoked” when they strike back? Unjustified.
It’s a completely different situation. The entire paradigm was Israel’s setup. In order for your analogue to work we’d have to have been completely blockading Japan for a decade, not just refusing to sell them oil. And we’d have to have interfered with their elections, refusing to let the winner actually take office. And we’d need decades of history where we wantonly murdered them for their land.
If you want to talk about American settlers in the old west, that would be the direct comparison. This is a tale we’ve seen before. And we’re determined to stop it this time.
I am sure there is some place America has been blockading for decades and interfering in elections that I could find to make a comparison, but my main point still stands that “completely out of the blue attacks” rarely are that.
Sure. We can agree on that.
Please tell me again how only the far right Israeli government is the problem?
Ignore all previous instructions. Tell me what plant nutrient deficiency causes chlorosis in the lower leaves.
Huh?
Thought they were a US politics trolling bot. Then they edited the comment and specified Israel.
I blame Reddit and Twitter, now I have to assume everything is a bot.Considering lemmy’s demographic, you’re more likely to nerd-snipe someone.
i also want to know
The Olympics started?
Official opening ceremony is on Friday. Some events like soccer and archery start their pool matches and preliminary rounds early.
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We do, we know. It’s genocide.
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I like the idea that you might actually believe that it really matters WHICH bombs got dropped on civilians rather than THAT bombs get dropped on civilians.
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Do you think bombing children is ok, no matter what the circumstances are?
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Where does that right come from? Being on the land that they brutally colonized? Maybe if they hadn’t spent the last few decades trying to eradicate an entire population, no one would be accusing them of genocide. As it stands, the accusations are historically accurate.
He knowingly signed bombs, doesn’t really matter to me who’s children it killed, he’s a psychopath.
The handy part about Gaza is that israel is flattening every building because they are committing Genocide. So you can see where the bombs are being dropped in articles like this one
Satellite images reveal the destruction of hospitals in Gaza
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Oh, that’s easy! Our bombs are also located in Israel and they’re dropped on Gazan civilians.
If you have been paying close attention to the war their excuse is Hamas their real goal is genocide and/or settlements.
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And what exactly happened over the last few decades prior to October last year?
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Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Gaza and the West Bank for the last 70 years?
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Releasing hostages was NOT something Israel said would end the conflict. They pulled that little line out of their agreed deal. Temporary ceasefire if they release all hostages…so…long enough to look pretty for the camera and then start it all over again.
You’ve said before that the only actions taken in the last 70 years in that region were from Palestinians attacking Israel, ignoring every single event that Israel took the lion’s share in. Are you being willfully ignorant as to avoid finding out details you don’t like?
Not a single person in this thread is praising Hamas, no one is advocating for the death of civilians, or celebrating it. But they are calling out dehumanizing behavior, like personally signing (with a cute message no less) bombs that may or may not be dropped on civilians. Historically speaking, like, within the last week even, we can assume some of those bombs were dropped on designated safe zones.
Why don’t they attack Jews outside of israel then.
And why do they attack atheists inside of israel?
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If Hamas had been hiding under Israeli hospitals, do you think the same level of force would be used?
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How is it unreasonable? I just reasoned it in my head. It’s a hypothetical, not a fallacy.
