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That article is from October and the link I provided refutes what was said in it.

It was Israel.

https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/israeli-disi...

They were coordinating with the IDF, what don’t you understand about that?

They told the IDF who they were and where they were going. The IDF struck them 3 separate times.

This was the act of a genocidal rogue state, one who wanted to scare any other NGOs out of Gaza and continue their forced famine.

You made the claims, you provide the evidence.

I did google and found nothing to verify your claims, outside of child soldiers being used in both sides of the Yemen conflict.

Respectfully, your posts come across as low effort trolling. Make bold claims, provide no evidence, and when called out on your false claims you gish gallop to something else.

How are they “race-supremicist[s]”? What does die hard have to do with this? Who are they trying to ethnically cleanse? How are they fascist?

I don't disagree with that. Actions can have many intentions. But that doesn't mean they don't oppose the genocide and are using it unscrupulously to attack ships (which the parent was implying). The majority of muslims In Yemen, regardless of sect, support Gaza and oppose the genocide. This is a good way to take a moral stand, gain public support and further legitimize their government, and be a thorn in the side of the US.

That was part of their war with the Saudi coalition. The parent was saying they were attacking random targets and only used the genocide as cover for more random attacks, when it is clear they are targeted attacks and for specific purposes. Appreciate the link.

Which Russian tanker? One was hit carrying Russian naphtha, the Marlin Luanda, but it was not owned by Russia. AA claims it was British[0].

What ship attacks happened prior to the 7th?

> "It's worth pointing out that if Ansar Allah succeeded in liberating Palestine, their next action would be to burn down all the mosques"

No, it wouldn't. This is pure conjecture. The Sunni and Shia conflict in Yemen is far more complex than you are trying to make it sound. The Sunni Saudis have been inflicting a famine on Yemen for years. The Sunni Emiratis have been assassinating and conducting terrorism within Yemen. This is important context to leave out.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20240127202900/https://www.bbc.c...

FTA: “It is possible it was a case of old information, as the South China Morning Post reported that the ship’s registered owner changed in February 2024.”

The ship was Panamanian flagged and the only reporting that it is Chinese owned is from the CENTCOM release. So that does not support your claim it is indiscriminate terrorism.

Flagging is supposed to be used for posts that go against the guidelines, not something you disagree with.

Ansar Allah is targeting the US, Israel, and their allies who support Israel.

China can sail the route just fine, for example.

This piece makes a series of assumptions, with no proof those assumptions are true, then says the Gaza Health Ministry must be lying because the numbers don't match the assumptions. That isn't how statistics work.

"One would expect quite a bit of variation day to day. In fact, the daily reported casualty count over this period averages 270 plus or minus about 15%. This is strikingly little variation. There should be days with twice the average or more and others with half or less. Perhaps what is happening is the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they do not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers."

Why would you expect that? Why isn't the number of munitions dropped on Gaza plotted with this data if that is the case? Why isn't it simply that an overloaded and besieged health care system can only process a certain amount of deaths per day? "Unfortunately, verified control data is not available to formally test this conclusion" indeed.

"The Gaza Health Ministry has consistently claimed that about 70% of the casualties are women or children. This total is far higher than the numbers reported in earlier conflicts with Israel."

Israel is trying to kill civilians and Gaza has a large population of women and children.

"The daily number of women casualties should be highly correlated with the number of non-women and non-children (i.e., men) reported."

Why should this be the case? It is more likely that Israel is targeting women and children at a higher rate than men.

"Another red flag, raised by Salo Aizenberg and written about extensively, is that if 70% of the casualties are women and children and 25% of the population is adult male, then either Israel is not successfully eliminating Hamas fighters or adult male casualty counts are extremely low. This by itself strongly suggests that the numbers are at a minimum grossly inaccurate and quite probably outright faked. Finally, on Feb. 15, Hamas admitted to losing 6,000 of its fighters, which represents more than 20% of the total number of casualties reported."

So they look a less than one month time frame (10/26-11/10), assumed all the deaths there are still the total now in March, then state that Hamas lost 6k troops in Feb and that makes the numbers invalid. That makes no logical sense. Obviously more people have died, likely over 100k. Sadly, Israel has devastated the health system in Gaza so numbers can't be accurately reported. So given 100k total dead, 6k dead fighters is 6% of the casualties. Which does point to the fact that Israel is targeting civilians and that they are ineffective in eliminating Hamas.

Then they have these gems:

"Are there better numbers? Some objective commentators have acknowledged Hamas’ numbers in previous battles with Israel to be roughly accurate. Nevertheless, this war is wholly unlike its predecessors in scale or scope; international observers who were able to monitor previous wars are now completely absent, so the past can’t be assumed to be a reliable guide. The fog of war is especially thick in Gaza, making it impossible to quickly determine civilian death totals with any accuracy."

Why are there no observers? Israel refuses to let them in because they are doing a genocide.

"Not only do official Palestinian death counts fail to differentiate soldiers from children, but Hamas also blames all deaths on Israel even if caused by Hamas’ own misfired rockets, accidental explosions, deliberate killings, or internal battles."

al-Ahli has been shown to not be a Hamas rocket.[0] Of course, Israel pivoted on that and started to say every hospital was a Hamas C2 headquarters, makes it harder to prove they are lying.

"One group of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared Hamas reports to data on UNRWA workers. They argued that because the death rates were approximately similar, Hamas’ numbers must not be inflated. But their argument relied on a crucial and unverified assumption: that UNRWA workers are not disproportionately more likely to be killed than the general population. That premise exploded when it was uncovered that a sizable fraction of UNRWA workers are affiliated with Hamas. Some were even exposed as having participated in the Oct. 7 massacre itself."

This argument, outside of being misleading with regard to "a sizable fraction of UNRWA workers" (even Israel's fake numbers said 10%), does nothing to "explode" the premise. Hamas has military groups and government (civilian) groups. Of course people involved in the aid distribution might be involved in the government. That doesn't mean they are armed combatants nor that they would be killed more than other civilians.

In short, this is a propaganda piece with a veneer of statistics to try and obfuscate that fact.

[0] https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/israeli-disi...

“Geoffrey S. Corn is the George R. Killam, Jr. Chair of Criminal Law and Director of the Center for Military Law and Policy, Texas Tech University School of Law and a Distinguished Fellow with the Gemunder Center for Defense Strategy (part of the Jewish Institute for National Security in America). A retired U.S. Army Judge Advocate Officer, he served as the Army's senior law of war advisor.”

Sounds unbiased, and full of integrity if he was a lawyer for the US army.

The Soviet Union was part of the allied forces.

Sorry dang, but it’s a genocide. And this site continually allows people to post propaganda uncritically and deny or justify that the genocide is happening.

Pretty much all my posts are replies to those people. I’d rather not have to post about it so much, but it’s clear this site and its methods of moderation are not equipped to handle such an important topic.

Anywho, I’ll refrain from single topic posting. Can you give me the accepted posting ratio for tech to divisive topics? Thanks.

Your points are nonsequitors and completely biased in favor of Israel. I don’t need to address them.

And I don’t care about winning arguments, I care about calling out lies and propaganda that are helping facilitate a genocide.

What conversation? The guy simple said “rapist” and I called out the source of the claim.

That UN source (which you never linked) was written by the same woman who said Russia was giving its soldiers viagra to rape Ukrainians, which she had to walk back because she was only repeating what she was told without verifying.

Lo and behold, if you read that report she is just repeating what Israel is telling her and she interviewed no supposed victims and has no evidence.

So yes, your intellectual laziness and willingness to repeat propaganda do indeed make you a genocide apologist. You’re better off saying nothing.

Pointing out the NYT published complete lies and propaganda — Hamas systematically raping women — in order to further facilitate a genocide isn’t carrying water for anyone.

Ah yes, the leftists who posted in fatpeoplehate, jailbait, theDonald, and all the gamergate subs.

You say that while the current admin is carrying out a genocide. You’re a prime example of that cognitive dissonance and compartmentalizing mentality.

This clown is really trying to pretend Israel is doing any kind of harm reduction when it comes to civilian deaths. Wonder what that looks like when they are slaughtering civilians at aid trucks and causing a famine.

Also this so called expert is incredibly biased if you check his twitter. Hardcore Zionist. So this is just a propaganda piece.

I appreciate your perspective on this. Thank you and well said.

Ah yes, pearl clutching. Like every other person who spouts hasbara lies on here. Just go on and call me an antisemite and we can move on from this.

Or you could address the points in the intercept article and show how wrong I am about the NYT piece being complete BS.

The post I replied to just says “rapists”. I added that the claims made by the NYT, that rapes were done systematically by Hamas, are outright fabrications. It’s been a hasbara talking point since that article came out and why that person said it.

You went off repeating lies about Hamas leaders being billionaires, atrocity propaganda about a dead woman, and then your feelings about how you don’t care about the genocide. So no, it doesn’t address my post.

Your post has nothing to do with what I posted. It’s about the NYT lying to help facilitate a genocide.

To add to the other comment pointing out the sexual violence against women and children by the IDF, here is another showing that NYT hit piece on Hamas was made up garbage:

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schw...

No they haven’t.

Then when Israel continues their genocide you strip them of the munitions we supplied. If they continue then a global force can move into Israel and enforce a no fly zone and prevent further bombings.

If we don’t even take the first step of trying to stop it we are complicit and the primary reason it is ongoing.

What does that have to do with the US vetoing a ceasefire? It is direct evidence the government is complicit in the genocide.