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AMMAN, 27 May 2025 – “In a 72-hour period this weekend, images from two horrific attacks provide yet more evidence of the unconscionable cost of this ruthless war on children in the Gaza Strip.

“On Friday, we saw videos of the bodies of burnt, dismembered children from the al-Najjar family being pulled from the rubble of their home in Khan Younis. Of 10 siblings under 12 years old, only one reportedly survived, with critical injuries.

“Since the end of the ceasefire on 18 March, 1,309 children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured.

In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end of this ruthless killing of children?

  • cygnus@lemmy.caEnglish
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    19 days ago

    $12.5 billion in aid from the US since 7th October represents massive ongoing subsidisation as a military outpost for Western interests.

    This is true but hardly makes them a colony.

    Israel is unable to sustain it’s genocide and wars without direct and continuous weapons transfers from the US and Europe.

    Also true, but this doesn’t make them a colony. Saudi Arabia depends on western arms too. Are they a colony?

    Israel is completely dependent on Western technology transfers, investment and market access.

    As is the whole region (either to the west, Russia, or China)

    Military technology development is largely funded by and shared with Western allies.

    Does this make NATO a colony?

    Israel acts as a testing ground and laboratory for US and European weapons systems.

    Does this make Pakistan a Chinese colony?

    Israel relies on Western diplomatic cover for its survival

    Does this make Kosovo a colony?

    Domestic Israeli politics is based on the need to maintain Western support.

    Does this make Saudi Arabia a colony?

    Many colonial settlers are European or American in origin.

    Phew, good thing we’re not being racist here, eh?

    Zionism’s original mission was according to Theodore Herzel as a “bulwark of Western civilization against Oriental savagery”. This is no different to the “civilising mission” of Western Empires.

    That makes Israel imperialist, but doesn’t make them a colony.

    Israel serves as an outpost of Western interest in preventing Arab unity. A Western objective since the end of World War 1.

    If this is true, why do Arab states prefer to normalize relations with Israel rather than help Palestinians? They are at least as complicit in this genocide as “the west”.