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The title of this thread is a mischaracterization too. None of it makes sense. Twisting reality to fit a chosen narrative.

what other option did he have?

So why dont they also ban facebook or reddit or twitter or youtube

If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, its overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts

SENATOR ROMNEY: Why has the PR been so awful? I know thats not your area of expertise, but you have to have some thoughts on that, which is, I mean, as youve said, why has Hamas disappeared in terms of public perception? An offer is on the table to have a ceasefire, and yet the world is screaming about Israel. Its like, why are they not screaming about Hamas? Accept the ceasefire and bring home the hostages. Instead, its all the other way around. I mean, typically the Israelis are good at PR. Whats happened here? How have they how have they/ and we/ been so ineffective at communicating the realities there and our point of view?

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Look, I mean, there are two things. One is that, look, there is an inescapable reality, and that is the inescapable reality of people who have and continue to suffer grievously in Gaza. And thats real and we have to have to be focused on that and attentive to that.

At the same time, how this narrative has evolved, yeah, its a great question. I dont have a good answer to that. One can speculate about what some of the causes might be. I dont know. I can tell you this and we were talking about this a little bit over dinner with Cindy. I think in my time in Washington, which is a little bit over 30 years, the single biggest change has been in the information environment. And when I started out in the early 1990s, everyone did the same thing. You woke up in the morning, you opened the door of your apartment or your house, you picked up a hard copy of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal. And then if you had a television in your office, you turned it on at 6:30 or 7 oclock and watched the national network news.

Now, of course, we are on an intravenous feed of information with new impulses, inputs every millisecond. And of course, the way this has played out on social media has dominated the narrative. And you have a social media ecosystem environment in which context, history, facts get lost, and the emotion, the impact of images dominates. And we cant we cant discount that, but I think it also has a very, very, very challenging effect on the narrative.

SENATOR ROMNEY: A small parenthetical point, which is some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, its overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts. So Id note thats of real interest, and the President will get the chance to make action in that regard.

I mean like are they actually confirmed predators and on the literal registry?

nah, if your game looks like og Zelda in 2024, I'm definitely not playing your game (i am aware this game did not come out in 2024)

But there is no good solution to the crisis. Israel had not been in Gaza for 20 years before October, and all that happened from it was a chance to entrench tunnels and launch rockets, infesting schools, hospitals, and apartments with threats to their civilians.

It's absolutely awful and completely unfair to judge the kids for this, but

The war has already taken "an unimaginable toll," and a major military operation against the crowded southern Gaza city "would bring catastrophe on top of catastrophe for children," Russell [executive director of UNICEF] warned. "Nearly all of the some 600,000 children now crammed into Rafah are either injured, sick, malnourished, traumatized, or living with disabilities."

Many have been displaced multiple times and lost homes, parents, and loved ones," the UNICEF chief noted. "There is nowhere safe to go in Gaza. Homes throughout the Gaza Strip lie in ruin. Roads are destroyed and the ground littered with unexploded ordnances."

"Rafah is also the main hub for the humanitarian response, which includes UNICEF, and the city has some of the last functioning healthcare facilities," she explained.

Israeli forces launched at least 435 attacks on health facilities or personnel during the first six months of the war, and just 10 of the enclave's 36 hospitals remain partially functional, according to the World Health Organization. As Common DreamsreportedWednesday, thousands of Palestinian child amputees are struggling to recover due to the destruction of Gaza's healthcare system.

"UNICEF continues to call for the protection of all women and children in Rafah and throughout the Gaza Stripand the protection of the infrastructure, services, and humanitarian aid they rely on," said Russell. "We repeat our calls for the unconditional release of all hostages in Gaza who need to be home with their children and families. The violence must end."

"Rafah will implode if it is targeted militarily," Elder [UNICEF spokesperson] stressed. "Water is in desperately short supply, not just for drinking but sanitation. In Rafah there is approximately one toilet for every 850 people. The situation is four times worse for showers. That is, around one shower for every 3,500 people. Try to imagine, as a teenage girl, or elderly man, or pregnant woman, queueing for an entire day just to have a shower."

TEL AVIV, Israel Israel will invade Rafah "with or without a deal" to release the remaining hostages held captive in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday.

"The idea that we will halt the war before achieving all of its goals is out of the question. We will enter Rafah and we will eliminate the Hamas battalions there with or without a deal in order to achieve the total victory," Netanyahu said, according to a statement released by his office.

This is a big example of He who fights monsters in real time.

Because he didn't say that.

What is your solution to the current crisis? I feel Itachi is just trying to be brutally honest with you. Do you see a realistic option for a nonviolent end to this conflict?

Many, many groups throughout history have had to suck it up. Palestinians arent special.

Ah yes. The Americans will bring democracy to others in their land.

Well Israel is not going anywhere, nobodys going to be able to le river to le sea them out of existence, so a two state solution is the only answer. But to my knowledge Palestinians reject that? So thats where were at. Just more meaningless violence and terrorist attacks for a completely lost cause. The cycle will continue forever until Palestinians realize that theyll have to take what they can get. Is it fair? Maybe not, but very few situations like this throughout all of history have been.