A humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It's not in Gaza

[DavidDvorkin]

Why can’t the world appear to pay attention to two great tragedies at once?

https://forward.com/opinion/757744/afghan-refugees-iran-gaza-israel/

Because only one of the two can be blamed on Jews, of course.

[hlthe2b]

1. Many of us can... But how much daily reporting (prior to October 7, 2023) from 2018-2023 was given to Sudan?

To Yemen, Syria, Rohingya (Myanmar), Ethiopia, the horrific floods and/or droughts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Ukraine only got the world's attention because Russia ruthlessly invaded. The rest, hardly any... Even with celebrities like George Clooney (Sudan) and a handful of others trying to gain attention.

So, maybe you want to rethink that grotesque hyperbole. sigh..

[hlthe2b]

5. I'm talking about MSM--given the OP is claiming that they only report on that to which they can

"blame Jews." Bullshit. Look within.

[hlthe2b]

8. All who do care are drowned out by those...

defending Netanyahu's moving after Oct 7- from an understandable retributive attack on HAMAS- to an indiscriminate murder/starvation of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, including an overwhelming number of children. These few vocal posters argued for months that there "were no innocent civilians" and that statistics on the killed children, NGO workers providing food and medical intervention, were HAMAS lies, despite all international evidence to the contrary. Now the repeated (at least a dozen horrific episodes over the past year) of IDF shooting or bombing starving and injured children (waiting in foodlines or for medical clinics) are denied, while Netanyahu--his corruption and determined goal of eradicating any and all Palestinians from Gaza is defended while accusing horrified commenting DUers-who merely want peace in the region- of supporting Hamas. These few, but repeated posters do not seemingly defend Trump's corruption and horrific (and sometimes murderous) tactics towards our own immigrants, but Netanyahu can not be criticized, else the otherwise Israeli-supporting DUers will be pelted with accusations of antisemitism.

So, no. There are plenty of people on DU who care about the many humanitarian horrors now and in recent years that have nothing to do with Israel-Palestine. They are drowned out by the ongoing and often disingenuous argumentative turmoil over the latter.

[Bread and Circuses]

2. We are paying attention! The Difference is that the USA has sent Billons to Netanyahu and Israel's Government

Persists to harass, imprison and starve Palestinians with OUR Money! Which makes us complicit it the genocide.

➡️Note: I am not antisemitic. I have always supported Israel’s right to exist and wish for peace and prosperity for all nations in the MidEast.

That’s why there is a huge outrage across worldwide media and the USA. Israel was supposed to be a moderating voice in the MidEast. ( Israel has received billions from EU and USA. )

We need to stop all military aide to Israel and tell the people to arrest Netanayahu and his entire political and military leadership and send them to The Hague to be tried for genocide.

We have tried to help Afghanistan and they don’t want our help. The people of Afghanistan have a theocracy that is cruel and criminal. Apparently, the people are powerless and their military is corrupt . Are you suggesting that the West try to stabilize Afghanistan? Because that is insane. We have no influence in Afghanistan.

Iran says that it is expelling Afghan refugees because they believe that Israel has recruited some as spies. I don’t know what happened. It’s all a mess and you can thank the Republicans and Trump.

Furthermore, these are NOT the same ! USA has no friendship or financial ties with Iran or Afghanistan and zero influence. Allegedly USA and Israel are great allies. So, it follows that Israel should respond to our desperate pleas but
Netanyahu doesn’t care. He, Trump and Putin are all the same….corrupt despots who put their own people at risk.
So that’s why the Outrage about Israel from the world.

The larger crisis is that the world is being taken over by authoritarian tyrants and people are running with their lives to find peace and safety. It’s happening across Africa and MidEast , now the USA. USA is now under a fascist dictator and we’re trying to save our country. If we loose, we will never be able to help refugees anywhere . So, join us in condemning Netanyahu and all dictators!

Note: I am not antisemitic. I have always supported Israel’s right to exist and wish for peace and prosperity for all nations in the MidEast. I hope the Israelis take over their government and clean out the war criminals and liars.

Thanks for reading my post.

[Beastly Boy]

10. This is a popular canard, but do you honestly believe tha if it was Switzereland sending billions to Israel

and not the US, things would have been any different?

I don't. Not for a minute.

[Jirel]

3. Has nothing to do with "blaming the Jews."

It has everything to do with the horrors being perpetrated against these refugees looking exactly like Dump terrorizing immigrants in the US.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. In that were so, then what's being done by Iran to the Afghan refugees would be the situation getting the publicity.

[AloeVera]

9. Actually, it's far worse.

Far, far worse. It's a genocidal campaign, soon to achieve its goal of ethnic cleansing of an entire PEOPLE who had already once before been dispossessed of their homeland.

[Beastly Boy]

11. Far worse than what is happening in Iran in the course of just a few weeks?

Worse enough to not mention Iran at all?

The double standard here is in full display.

[AloeVera]

12. No. It's because Palestinians are the dispossesed of the earth.

Victimized and oppressed for nearly a hundred years and NOW being killed and starved on an industrial scale. As the final kick in the teeth, Israel, their oppressor and occupier, just shamelessly announced their coming ethnic cleansing and dispossession of their homeland for a second fucking time.

Now what were you saying about Iran, about anti-semitism?

[Beastly Boy]

13. And the Afghans are not?