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Israel's order to cut food and water from Gaza difficult to judge from afar, says Foreign Minister Penny Wong (www.abc.net.au)

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Israel has a right to defend itself, and judging its security decisions from a distance is "very difficult", as Israel's government vows to cut off food and water to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago (11 children)

They're whatabouting the fact that Hamas do, in fact, represent the views of most Palestinians. Comparing them to the Aboriginal tribes is a grave insult to the latter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

oh I'm sorry I can't support Palestine because they won't lie down and die

Imagine only supporting oppressed peoples when they don't fight their oppressors.

If your support is conditional you are not supporting.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

A bunch of teenagers at a music festival are not "their oppressors".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the 'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?

What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror--that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

Mark Twain

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