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... and the islamists

Choosing peace instead of genocide when he had his hand on the button helped as well

Incredible protest

That he's immune to democratic elections

Oh gawd what I won't do for Lemmy

Here's the thread in the AMA

And here's the GoFundMe thread

edit: not really related to the OP anymore but here's another sad blip from this forced marriage

Why would you use a source that improved so much since, to support your argument that Gaza is presently the worst situation?

You're right that I only commented on your first source, but then why would you use it and put it on the top if it doesn't make your case? Your use of the word 'slightly' is disingenious. Unless more food came in hundreds of thousands of people were going to starve. To say that not starving is a 'slight improvement' is an understatement you're deliberately making to obscure this. This is easily countered by the report I cited as well: they improved to the same level that 5 times more people are on in Sudan. So which of those two is worse by this metric, today?

Your second source is a single doctor who says it's like nothing he's seen before. While I appreciate him weighing in, I don't think that provides conclusive proof that a certain conflict he's working in is 'currently the worst in the world'.

Your third source is paywalled, but from what I can read it's about the first two months of Israel's retaliation on Gaza, citing the number of 18.000 deaths over this period as the reason why they considered it 'nothing we've seen before'. So first of all they're talking about a period in the past where the death toll was around 6 times as high as it is today, which also means that your above suggestion that only the situation described in the first of your four articles has 'slightly improved is, to my opinion, not very honest. Secondly, citing the death count as the reason for this doesn't say everything. Is a single Sudanese village being massacred to the last child 'worse'? Is more Sudanese being massacred over a longer period less so?

Your fourth source is not one of 'the biggest humanitarian organisations' but rather a single career politician. And it's his job not to understate any crisis he's commenting on. Here he is calling the one in Sudan "the largest displacement crisis in the world".

For clarity: I'm not trying to say that I don't consider the situation for the people in Gaza SuperBad, because it is. But there are conflicts where far more people are suffering and they're forgotten and falsely considered 'less worse' not because they are, but just because they don't even get 1/1000th of the media attention.

No, you've selectively cited from press statements.

For instance, your first source is from March 2024 and only states "worst on record" in its title, and it only comments on the famine situation on that specific moment. The only part from the article that supports the use of the title is this:

In the IPC’s five-tier classification of food crises, Gaza now has the largest percentage of a population to receive its most severe rating (IPC phase 5 - catastrophe) since the body began reporting in 2004. It has also never been recorded that an entire population (or 100%) be in IPC Phase 3 or worse.

Now, of course that's grim and we all know everyone was raising the alarm around that period. But we also know that, following that, aid increased and a large scale famine has been averted.

Luckily for us, Oxfam has recently released a larger, more comprehensive paper on famine and food insecurity in 2023 and early 2024. With this newer report, I could easily make the case that Gaza only ranks #10 on their ranking on p.16 ... I hope this helps

Regarding 'destruction' I'm sure Sudan can't compete because these people had very little to begin with, but when you compare other numbers...

• 200k killed
• 10m refugees

And this comes on top on the previous genocide that just ended a few years ago and killed 300k...

I'm sure you can find plenty of people saying conflict X is 'tha worst evah' but that's just part of their job

99.9% of US voters wouldn't even be there if it wasn't for genocide

Funny sidestory here:

A week or so ago they had an AMA with someone in Gaza on Hexbear where someone dared to ask the question what the situation was with LGBTQI+ rights right now.

Dude replied: "oh there are no gay people in Gaza, because everyone's religious here"

Made me frown but upvotes galore and I think they now ran a pretty succesful gofundme for him

Yeah not to downplay the horror in Gaza but you might want to look into what's happening in Sudan, for example

But I agree comparing discrimination in the US to any of this is pretty crazy

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