“I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto, told Intercepted’s Jeremy Scahill.
  • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
    24·
    8 months ago

    Holy fuck, that opening picture, a 6 year old just completed an operation to remove her eyeball damaged by shrapnel. That 1000 yard stare doesn’t belong on a 60 year old, never mind a 6 year old. Fuck war.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    51·
    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Israeli forces have repeatedly laid siege to hospital facilities, killing hundreds of medical workers and taking captive scores of others, despite thousands of internally displaced Palestinians sheltering in the health care complexes.

    Communicable diseases are spreading, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are forced to live in makeshift shelters with little access to toilets or basic sanitary supplies.

    Dr. Yasser Khan, a Canadian ophthalmologist and plastic surgeon, just left Gaza where he spent 10 days at the hospital performing eye surgeries on victims of Israeli attacks.

    YK: Well, I must admit the first time I went there it was partially getting used to what’s going on, seeing the mass casualties, seeing the hospital, meeting the doctors and the nurses and health care workers, getting familiarized with the surroundings, and also doing the operations.

    JS: Dr. Khan, as I’m listening to you, I’m also recalling over these past five-plus months all of the episodes where Israeli forces have attacked or laid siege to hospitals and other medical facilities in Gaza.

    And the BBC recently did an exposé documenting what I think can clearly be called the torture of these medical workers, including holding them for prolonged periods in stress positions, dousing them with cold water, using muzzled dogs to menace them, blindfolding them, and leaving them in isolation.

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    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      287·
      8 months ago

      Like, we all get it. The US is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. I don’t even think a pro-Palestinian president could change that. There is an entire massively powerful infrastructure that, for some fuckin reason, kowtows to Israel—while Israel drags everything that touches it down.

      But for those of you that are saying, “fuck Biden, he’s gonna lose [to a more brutal pro-Israel piece of shit]” like…what are you trying to accomplish? What is your point? To say, “I’m not voting for him, so you shouldn’t either?” To what end? Your own sense of “purity?”

      We are all horrified by what’s happening to the people of Gaza. But pushing for an even worse case scenario…doesn’t help the people of Gaza. It literally only helps, well, the people who get to hold up the “I’m above it” card, and Israel.

      Biden is receiving growing pressure to change course. And he’s far more likely to actually do that than trump would be. In fact, he’d be more impulsive to the calls to be worse. Because the democrats give a shit about the US being seen as they pretend to see it in their minds. Republicans…don’t. And they way they see it in their minds is fucked up. Democrats lie to themselves, yeah, but republicans know exactly what they want, and it’s fuckin dark.

      So again, my point in writing all of this: where is the understanding of the nuance of this situation? What is your ideal realistic outcome? Because under a trump presidency, all of our focus would be off Gaza and would instead be refocused back home, where we get all wrapped up in being outraged over every insane decision trump makes that affects our own politics. That can’t be what you want, is it?

      • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        96·
        8 months ago

        All it requires is for one single man, Joe Biden, to change his mind and stop supporting Zionist Israel.

        Instead there’s this whole idea that Joe Biden doesn’t have to change what he is doing and instead it should be millions of Americans swallowing their humanity and voting for a guy who supports Genocide.

        That shit is basically Putin’s Russia with extra steps.

        • Fascist Lib Instance@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          53·
          8 months ago

          That shit is basically Putin’s Russia with extra steps.

          Ignore the fact that 2 wartime economies are using the poor Ukrainians as bait while sending pennies on the dollar compared to what they send Israel

          • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            8 months ago

            Way to miss the point that American “democracy” is stage managed and hence why american leaders, quite independently of the party they hail from, are way more dictatorial than they would be if the vote was a true choice.

            Whatever his reasons for supporting the Israeli Genocide, doing if for the good of at least a large portion of Americans ain’t why Joe Biden is doing it, as even amongst the Jewish-American community - which is but a small fraction of the electorate - there are plenty of voice against the Israeli Genocide and for the rest, what exactly is there to gain for the average American in their country becoming associated with what is well on its way to becoming the XXI Century Holocaust?!

            Unsurprisingly the copium amongst many in the US about Biden not giving a rat’s arse about most of those who vote for him, is painfully similar to how Russians tell themselves that at least Putin is not as bad as things could’ve been.

            Mind you, it’s a lot easier from outside the US and without having grown up with a set of political blinders, to spot the Stockholm Syndrome affecting most of the US electorate.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        English
        33·
        8 months ago

        There is an entire massively powerful infrastructure that, for some fuckin reason, kowtows to Israel

        I mean it’s gotta be the fact that there are so many more Jews in America than Muslims, right? If that’s even the case, I don’t even know. But if that’s the case (which is my guess), that’s gotta be the reason, in my mind. The President will represent the majority for popularity, is what I’m thinking.

        • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
          53·
          8 months ago

          The primaries are over. You’re too late to be making this point. You either fight like hell for a second Biden term, or you’re going to get a second Trump term.

          I don’t like Biden. I think that despite passing some much needed domestic policies, he’s a mediocre president. But everything will get worse if Trump wins again. Being anti-Biden at this point in the game is just carrying water for fascists.

          Literally the most you can do electorally that doesn’t count as sabotage is to vote third party to make a point in a state that has no risk of swinging right. Outside of that, if you actually care about stopping this genocide, you should focus on things other than whether Biden is the right person for this moment, because while he might not be, he’s definitely not worse than Trump.

          Under Biden, the IDF might lose a lot of funding. Under Trump, the IDF will be dipping their bullets in pork blood.

      • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        8 months ago

        That power structure exists for a reason. Israel has demonstrably been a US ally, while every country around it has not. OPEC fucks with oil prices every election. The US has every right to ensure it’s interests in the region.

        • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
          61·
          8 months ago

          The USA’s rights extend to and end at the country’s borders and before the rights of its citizens. Screw the USA having the right to anything else.

          • zerog_bandit@lemmy.worldEnglish
            17·
            8 months ago

            Right now you’re typing on a product that is a result of globalization. Absolutely countries have the right to freely associate.