Last Week Tonight with John Oliver covers the "Israel-Hamas War"

[benihime99]

Click to view

John Oliver discusses the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

• Talks actual numbers
• Responds in detail to the "But do you condemn Hamas?" bs: explains the rise of Hamas, what it represents, and clearly states that it does not equate Palestinians/Palestine. Debunk the whole "Palestinian people voted for a terrorist organization"
• Moves on to Benyamin

Comments

[inandoutofgrace]

so this isn't available for me to view apparently, I went searching on Youtube in case somebody else uploaded it and one of the top results was "John Oliver Denounces Israel's Bombing of Gaza." It was from two years ago.

SOMEONE TRY AND TELL ME THIS STARTED OCT 7TH. JUST TRY.

[inandoutofgrace]

Apparently our foreign minister has turned off people's ability to @ her on Twitter, not sure if our defence minister ever allowed it but I couldn't @ him this morning when I tried on Instagram. She's also apparently told her staffers to tell callers that they cannot pass on messages about Israel (lucky I called before that, I guess the death toll has now reached an unacceptable level for far more people). I'm just so fucking furious especially considering Australia apparently has even less transparency than the US on our arms deals and our weapons could in fact be used in Gaza right now???

FUCK I want to threaten our politicians some more, they don't deserve our votes.

[inandoutofgrace]

I'm probably now just ranting into the void but I don't care. I'm so angry at the fact that our prime minister and even the fucking UN are repeating this human shield nonsense.

What use is putting a couple of Palestinians in front of you in the face of a fucking Hellfire missile or chunks of a multiple storeys falling on you? We know the underground network of tunnels exist, why are these assholes still going on about human shields given it's very unlikely Hamas are just strolling around hospitals and refugee camps when it would be much safer deep underground? It's definitely possible that I've missed it but I've been following news updates across Guardian and Al Jazeera as well as Gazans and activist accounts on social media pretty closely, I don't think I've seen a single piece of objective evidence of human shields????

I'm losing my fucking mind at the nonstop gaslighting from these assholes still scrambling to justify this GENOCIDE.

[ahkna]

Also, I fully don't understand this because to me a "human shield" means you don't shoot under any circumstances. If Israel is just murdering everyone, even their own people, obviously the very concept of human shields doesn't even work so why keep perpetuating the lie?

[drbat]

It works for what Hamas is trying to do.

“Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas politburo, told Beirut’s LCBI television in an interview aired on Oct. 24. “We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.”

It’s probably also why they told the civilians to stay put when Israel was trying to get them to evacuate.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-tells-gaza-residents-stay-home-israel-ground-offensive-looms-2023-10-13/

[ahkna]

Please don't interact with any of my comments.

[drbat]

Sorry for answering your question.

[fuckinmagnets]

"Leave ur home so we can bomb ur neighborhood pls"

Why should anyone listen to a military who's forcing them to leave their homes only to still bomb them in the supposed safe areas? Why should ANYONE in Palestine follow the instructions of Israel?

[ty]

It used to work to do this
Replace tube with pak
youpak.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <--- video ID

[britty_stitches]

I saw a post yesterday that showed an article where George Bush Jr criticized Israel bombings in fucking 2002. 2002. George fucking goddamn war hawk Bush criticized Israel and it was much more intent and scathing than one word that has been uttered by Democrat president Biden. And I believe there were less than 50 children killed killed in that specific set of bombings compared to the thousands that have been massacred and displaced in the past month. Theres also been reports that US soldiers are already on the ground there walking with Israel forces. Displaced Gaza residents are claiming to have seen them. I fucking hate everything.

[altheablue]

Do you have a link? I'm ready to raise my blood pressure

[kawaiiairbender]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/23/israel2

[altheablue]

WOW