Video footage broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers gunning down two Palestinians on the coast of northern Gaza, even as one of them waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric. The video then shows Israeli soldiers burying the bodies with a bulldozer.

Richard Falk, former United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, toldAl Jazeera that the footage provides “vivid confirmation of continuing Israeli atrocities” and spotlights the “unambiguous character of Israeli atrocities that are being carried out on a daily basis.”

“The eyes and ears of the world have been assaulted in real-time by this form of genocidal behavior,” said Falk. “It is a shocking reality that there has been no adverse reaction from the liberal democracies in the West. It is a shameful moment.”

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    Video is in the article.

    What seems to be a tank drives up at 0:55 and shoots at 1:08.

    The Bulldozer crushes them into a pile of rubble at 1:27

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    They can save on bullets, by lining them up and shooting them through the head, before they fall in their graves.

    I’ve read about that from somewhere in history; can’t exactly remember wer war schuldig, I mean, who was guilty of it…

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    I wonder how long until they start building gas chambers for Palestinians

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    “It is a shocking reality that there has been no adverse reaction from the liberal democracies in the West.

    Not that shocking, really. Liberalism would be self-determination everywhere, not the west protecting the world and instituting its own values. If someone somewhere else wants to operate under a different set of values where human life is not considered important, a liberal does not go over there and fix them.

    Liberalism is not inherently “good”, it’s inherently hands-off. Like the Swiss. This is partly why its become somewhat out-dated as an ideology post-WW2. Expecting someone who believes in liberty to control the fates of lands and peoples not their own is misunderstanding it though. That’s not liberty, it’s the spreading exertion of power and influence–the opposite of liberty.

    Liberty doesn’t defend anything except itself. This is the root of US isolationism tendencies, and why hating the UN is so common here.

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      The classic hands off approach of sending israel weapons and money to commit Genocide with.

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        Sometimes, yes. Genocide prevention is not the job of military alliances, unfortunately. If it was, there’d be far less organized killing in the world.

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          That’s so smart and realpolitik wow.

          The contracts state that if a party commits war crimes America isn’t allowed to deliver them weapons so you’re also dead wrong.

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            Yes, in more recent years that was made law, and we should start to abide by it.

            But it’s not “smart” and “realpolitik” to simply acknowledge what a military alliance is. That’s just agreement of basic definitions. Depending on who we have in office, our tolerance for war crimes and following laws changes dramatically.

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      “Your authoritarian rulers kidnapped some of our people so now we get to kill innocent people with impunity” is a super shitty take

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      Oh, look, another one parroting of the Nazi propaganda that an entire people are responsible for and hence can be killed as reprisal for the acts of a few amongst them.

      Whilst conflating Palestinians with Hamas is merelly pure racist “logic”, using that to justify mass murder of Palestinians is Nazi-level cruel violent racism.

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      You mean the ones they’ve been caught shooting? Maybe the hostages are just a shitty excuse so morons like you say dumb shit like that.