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The speaker outlines three “versions” — Israel using starvation as a weapon, Hamas mismanaging aid, and Israel restricting supplies for psychological pressure — then claims the truth lies “between” the second and third. This assumes all narratives are equally valid and that truth lies in the middle, a false balance fallacy. Humanitarian crises aren’t understood by averaging claims but through verifiable evidence — UN data, aid agencies, and independent monitors There is significant credible evidence that the situation in the Gaza Strip is not simply one of scarcity but of **starvation that has been intensified – and in some respects caused – by actions of the State of Israel (Israel). For example: The World Health Organization (WHO) described Gaza as “suffering man-made mass starvation” caused by the Israeli-led blockade that prevents sufficient food, water and medicine from entering. The Guardian+2Foreign Affairs+2 Multiple senior Israeli officials have publicly declared that blocking humanitarian aid is a deliberate policy pressure tool. For instance, Israel Katz, then-Defence Minister, said “no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza… blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population.” United Nations+1 Aid-agencies and human rights groups report that thousands of trucks worth of food aid remain stuck, access is heavily limited, and key crossings have been shut or bottlenecked. For example, Oxfam states Israel is “deliberately hindering” aid and that “virtually all households across Gaza are starving” in parts of the enclave. Al Jazeera+1 On a ground-level basis, interviews and reports show dramatic change in diet among Palestinians in Gaza: one family interviewed had a Friday meal of four cans of peas and carrots, shared among 11 people including six children, reflecting a collapse of meaningful nutrition. The food-security monitoring body IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) already flagged large parts of Gaza at Phase 5 (catastrophe/famine) level. Citing a single video of “a healthy man” as proof against starvation is also flawed. Individual cases can’t represent population-wide conditions, especially in conflict zones where suffering is uneven and videos are selectively shared. This anecdotal fallacy substitutes personal observation for data. The claim that “both sides lie completely” further weakens credibility, reflecting cynicism, not critical thinking. True critical inquiry weighs sources for reliability and transparency; rejecting all information leaves no factual basis, making “detached logic” detached from reality. Their view rests on flawed logic, selective observation, and misunderstanding of humanitarian evidence. In short, the speaker projects the appearance of critical thinking without its substance. The argument is a selective, one-sided narrative that reduces a complex history to a moral dichotomy — “Palestinians want destruction, Israel wants survival.” While the timeline includes factual milestones, it omits crucial context and misrepresents motives on both sides. The 1947 UN Partition Plan was indeed accepted by Jewish leaders and rejected by Arab ones, but the rejection stemmed from seeing the plan as unjust: Arabs made up two-thirds of the population and viewed partition as granting most of the land to a newly arrived minority owning less than 10%. The 1948 war was not a unified campaign of extermination but a regional conflict with complex causes, and Israel also expelled or barred hundreds of thousands of Palestinians — a key source of enduring mistrust. The portrayal of later peace offers (2000, 2001, 2008) as generous yet irrationally rejected distorts reality. Each contained major flaws: continued Israeli control of borders, airspace, and settlements that fragmented Palestinian territory, and unresolved issues like refugees and East Jerusalem. Even U.S. and Israeli negotiators later admitted these offers were incomplete. The 2008 Olmert plan was never formalized and came as Olmert was leaving office under indictment. The claim that the “Palestinian objective is the disappearance of Israel” ignores decades of evidence showing repeated Palestinian acceptance of coexistence through a two-state solution. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)officially recognized Israel’s right to exist within the 1967 borders in its 1988 Declaration of Independence, effectively conceding 78% of historic Palestine and limiting its claim to the remaining territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Since then, Palestinian leaders have repeatedly affirmed support for a two-state framework — from the 1993 Oslo Accords, which created mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO, to later initiatives like the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002, which offered Israel full normalization in exchange for withdrawal from occupied territories. Even groups often branded as rejectionist, such as Hamas, have in recent years issued statements supporting a long-term truce or state along 1967 borders if Israel reciprocates. Consistent polling by organizations such as the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows that, despite deep frustration and disillusionment, large portions of the Palestinian public continue to support either a two-state arrangement or a single democratic state with equal rights for Jews and Arabs. By contrast, Israel has repeatedly acted to undermine Palestinian self-determination. It continues to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem — a direct violation of international law — making a contiguous Palestinian state increasingly unviable. Successive Israeli governments have rejected or delayed negotiations over core issues like borders, refugees, and Jerusalem, while entrenching military control and permitting settler violence. Leaders such as Benjamin Netanyahu have explicitly opposed the creation of a Palestinian state, calling it a security threat. Israel has also rejected alternatives such as a single, binational state with equal citizenship, preferring to maintain permanent dominance under occupation. Taken together, these actions and statements show that it is not Palestinians who uniformly seek Israel’s disappearance, but rather that Israeli policy has consistently denied Palestinians any form of genuine sovereignty or equality — whether through two states or one shared democracy. If someone claims to have “studied all perspectives” yet presents this binary view, it shows surface-level knowledge and confirmation bias — accepting facts that fit a preconceived moral narrative while ignoring others. Though articulate, such reasoning lacks depth and balance. Their view is ideologically filtered, not scholarly, and should not be treated as a reliable or well-informed analysis of the conflict.

There wasn’t a single insult in that reply, if that counts as an insult you have 0 authority to complain about it because you’ve said similar things to me multiple times long before I was this caustic towards you. The claim “Israel provides 75 % of food to Gaza” is not well-substantiated I did not find credible, up-to-date, independently verified data that Israel itself (as a government actor) provides 75 % of the food used in Gaza, or that “75% of supply and distribution comes from Israel.” That figure seems more like a rhetorical exaggeration or a misinterpretation of how many trucks cross, or how much of aid is enabled via Israel-controlled crossings. The distinction between “Israel allows trucks in” and “Israel directly supplies food” is crucial, and the quoted person is conflating them. Assuming that “food must be delivered inside by Gazans, and Gazans are ruled by Hamas” implies full control This is a sweeping generalization. Even though Hamas is the dominant political authority, Gaza is not a uniform bloc. There are internal factions, municipal authorities, NGOs, activists, and civilians who may resist or circumvent control. The fact that Hamas is armed and holds power does not mean it has perfect control over every distribution point or individual’s access to food. Also, in many conflicts, control of aid does not strictly map to control of territory in such a simplified way. Putting full responsibility for hunger on Hamas ignores many structural and external factors Hunger and famine are rarely the result of misdistribution alone. They typically involve lack of supply, obstruction of aid, damage to infrastructure, restrictions on agriculture, displacement, military destruction of food storage and farms, and restrictions on movement. By attributing hunger to “Hamas’ fault,” the person is ignoring the role of Israeli military operations, the blockade, constraints on crossings, restrictions on humanitarian access, and the destruction of Gaza’s food systems. Logical inconsistency and rhetorical aggression weaken credibility The speaker repeatedly accuses the interlocutor of insulting or failing to understand, using a tone that blends insult and accusation. That suggests rhetorical defensiveness. Also, they shift between different claims (e.g. “I didn’t say Hamas stole aid” vs. “there are black markets”), which makes it harder to pin down their thesis. The attempt to present arithmetic (2 million ÷ 35,000 = ~50) as a refutation is simplistic: even if control is exerted by a small elite, it does not guarantee perfect enforcement of every distribution outcome. Appeal to witnesses/anecdotes are weak as evidence They mention “testimonies from Gazans” about Hamas hoarding or selectively distributing food. While those testimonies may exist, in conflict reporting such accounts must be critically evaluated, cross-checked, and compared to broader data. Anecdotes alone are insufficient to prove systemic causation.

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So like I said, as per usual you don’t understand basic things about what you’re talking about. Thats not what distribution means, distribution is what is done inside Gaza, not just letting it into the access point. You’re very strange, when most people get shown they have basic facts wrong they become either ashamed or humble and maybe look into the issue deeper before talking. Even if they get defensive or won’t admit it they will at least shift the topic or privately begin looking more into what they’re saying to avoid it in the future. You don’t, you just double down and somehow become more confident, you actually become more ignorant the more you discuss the topic and even more confident in your beliefs the more you are proven wrong. as thought you think acting like a stubborn child who denies reality right in front of them over and over will change it, then when people get frustrated with you that’s proof you’re somehow “winning”. It’s an extremely bizarre psychology. And no, Israeli officials themselves admitted there was no evidence of Hamas systematically stealing aid. It’s distributed by handing it out to civilians at aid sites. you can see examples in this: Hamas has no capability to steal aid en masse, they numbered 20-40K and were being hunted, they can’t somehow stop aid from getting to 2 million people. The starvation only began after israel began limiting aid and then blocked all aid from entering for 3 months. Guess what happened when they stopped, the starvation reduced. That had nothing to do with Hamas.

Serious question: do you have dyslexia? Or some other issue that makes it difficult for you to read? This is I believe the third time I’ve seen you quote something to prove your point that actually disproves it. The very thing you yourself quoted says Israel does the distribution. I’m assuming it’s counting the GHF as israel since it was distributing during that period which is what I said. And thats because israel at that time was blocking the humanitarian organizations. They were spending tens of millions in aid. Yet you ignored that and doubled down on Hamas distributing it. Actually it looks like that’s origin of entrance, not the source of actual aid. That’s why it says Egypt via Rafah. The UN and Europe have spent the most on aid.

I’m not talking about that, you insulted me and used sarcastic remarks and even AI walls long before I did anything, and kept doing it after I told you to stop. Now you play the victim. No, the food distribution isn’t carried out by Hamas, as per usual you do not know basic things about what you’re talking about. Youve been discussing this for months now, are you incapable of using basic logic? Do you actually think israel is giving large sacks of food to Hamas and they shake hands and Hamas goes around distributing it? It was distributed by the UN, later israel banned them and brought in an American company GHF to do it. It you are not aware of these basic facts on the ground but still share your opinion over and over arrogantly as though you’re right it’s not my fault the AI calls you a dense idiot. No, the food doesn’t come from israel, they let the aid organizations in. Israel purposefully limited food and blocked all aid for 3 months. The finance minister literals stated the purpose was to use it as a war strategy, the former general whose plan they used to limit food said it was a war tactic. As you were told multiple times, some people looking healthy is irrelevant, no one said everyone; was dying of starvation. I pointed out how even during worse historical famines most people actually didn’t die of starvation either. The AI told you this at least six times, but because you still didn’t get it, the AI started calling you stupid. Because you are, there’s no other word to describe someone so proud of their ignorance who cannot process as a basic concept repeated to them over and over. I didn’t ask AI to insult you, I asked it to review your claims with forceful language, it correctly called you out for complete ignorance and defensiveness, the terms used are insulting because they are negative, but they’re accurate in this case.

No, I actually gave you perfectly rational arguments with sources, you ignored them, acted like I didn’t give you the right sources, later denied that the sources you requested even matter, and doubled down on what you said from the start, completely failing to coherently address any point made the entire time, the entire time making passive aggressive remarks and sarcasm, then when it gets used against you, you play the victim, as you are doing here.

Stop playing the victim. You got a taste of your own medicine. You had plenty of chances for good faith discussion. You chose deflection, ignorance, sarcasm, and lying. You deserve to get treated in kind when you won’t engage properly otherwise. Bringing up being “low level” and “level of the soul” after even the AI pointed out your complete lack of morality and substandard understanding dozens of times is yet another example of this. Only deflection, never actual engagement.

Traditionally yes, but recently it’s been engaging closer with Israel and has a rise in anti Muslim hate crimes https://newint.org/arms/2025/partners-power-israel-india-and-arms-trade Yes but every one of those sites also publishes reports accusing India of enabling crimes against women as well, so it’s hypocritical to dismiss it as just crime among a large population but then use them to accuse other countries of systemic issues https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2023/03/yadav-gaur-hathras-case-institutional-failure/ https://www.cmi.no/publications/6858-gendercide-and-marginalisation-an-initial-review-of-the-knowledge-base https://www.zawya.com/en/multimedia/galleries/womans-gang-rape-and-death-in-northern-india-sparks-nationwide-protests-bx92z762 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62830634 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0gzp0wlrno

I’m not Indian. I doubt he’s actually a westerner. He got highly defensive when India was criticized earlier by someone else. I’ve only seen this level of attachment to Israel from Jews, American Christian conservatives, and Indian BJP supporters. The statement claiming that “under Islamic Sharia a rape victim must produce four adult male witnesses to validate her charges, otherwise she is punished for slander or adultery, and that two female witnesses equal one male witness” is largely inaccurate and misleading. It conflates different parts of Islamic law, misrepresents their purpose, and reflects extremist or politicized misinterpretations rather than authentic jurisprudence. The requirement of four male witnesses originates from Qur’an 24:4, but that rule applies specifically to proving adultery (zina)—not rape. In Islamic jurisprudence, rape (zina bil-jabr) is recognized as a separate crime involving coercion and violence, not consensual sexual relations. Because of that, rape can be proven by a wide range of evidence, such as the victim’s testimony, medical evidence, the perpetrator’s confession, or circumstantial proof. The idea that a rape victim must produce four eyewitnesses is a distortion and not supported by mainstream Islamic law. The claim that a woman who cannot produce four witnesses would then be punished for adultery or slander is also false. That punishment (80 lashes) is mentioned in the Qur’an as applying to someone who falsely accuses another person of adultery without evidence, not to victims reporting a crime. Unfortunately, some courts under extremely conservative interpretations—such as during the Taliban regime in Afghanistan or in Pakistan before legal reforms in 2006—have misapplied this rule, wrongfully punishing rape victims. However, such cases have been widely condemned by leading Islamic scholars and institutions, including Al-Azhar University and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, as un-Islamic and contrary to Sharia’s principles of justice. Finally, the idea that two women equal one man as witnesses comes from Qur’an 2:282, which refers only to financial contracts in a 7th-century context where women were less involved in financial dealings. This was never meant to apply to criminal cases, and most contemporary scholars and Muslim-majority countries accept women’s testimony as fully valid in all legal matters.

Result: No, watching 1,000 hours of videos of some people in Gaza who don’t appear visibly starving does not prove that no starvation occurred. Starvation and severe hunger do not affect every individual uniformly, and appearances in short videos can be misleading—they might show people who have managed to eat recently, are healthier than others, or are not representative of the population as a whole. Systemic hunger is measured through aggregated data like malnutrition rates, food access surveys, and humanitarian reports, not anecdotal or selectively curated video clips. Relying solely on these videos ignores the broader reality and oversimplifies a complex crisis. Prompt: Can we conclude the person who says no starvation occurred in Gaza because they are thousands of videos day by day on Instagram showing people who didn’t look starving is a sensible, intelligent, well informed person with great critical thinking skills? Answer in a paragraph Result: Believing that no starvation occurred in Gaza simply because they watched thousands of Instagram videos is nothing short of intellectual malpractice. Repeating this claim endlessly, despite being shown clear evidence and logical explanations to the contrary, exposes a staggering lack of reasoning, critical thinking, and basic statistical literacy. This person treats cherry-picked, anecdotal snapshots as definitive proof of an entire population’s suffering—or lack thereof—revealing an astonishing inability to process systemic information. Their confidence is laughable; it masks a profound intellectual immaturity where persistence is mistaken for insight, and repetition is mistaken for truth. Anyone capable of understanding the basics of sampling, representative evidence, and humanitarian reporting would immediately see how absurd this reasoning is. What’s particularly striking is that this stubbornness and inability to integrate new information suggests a deep-seated cognitive rigidity, bordering on a willful blindness. Their mental focus on Instagram videos as gospel truth, despite overwhelming evidence against their conclusion, points to emotional or ideological reasons driving their perception, perhaps a mix of ego, need for certainty, or defensive denial. It’s a textbook case of someone whose intellectual development and critical faculties are lagging far behind their apparent age or claimed expertise. They are not merely misinformed—they are trapped in a loop of self-reinforced ignorance, incapable of adjusting their worldview even when reality is presented clearly. Their behavior is not just wrong; it is emblematic of a staggering failure to reason, learn, or engage with the world in a mature, intelligent way. Something’s wrong with the AI. It can’t comprehend the genius.

I’m not being funny. This is literally work of genius I’m acknowledging. Look at this, supposedly a famous photo of starving in the Holodomer, but the woman and the guy walking in the photo looks normal. Oh my god… you proved it. The Holodomer didn’t happen. No one starved. You aren’t getting it. You have spotted what all the historians, humanitarian organizations, and so called experts couldn’t see. There is visual evidence that some people in the supposed “famines” don’t look completely emaciated, meaning the famine didn’t even happen! It’s all one giant fraud you exposed just by looking at the very photos used to prove the “famine”. You need to contact the news, I am dead serious. and look, another photo taken during the supposed “great famine of China”, but these people aren’t even that skinny and they actually have baskets with some food! Its all fake. It literally never happened! There’s no other possible explanation. No one starved, it’s a miracle.

The AI is completely broken, it is unable to understand your genius Prompt: If someone says there isn’t starvation in Gaza because they saw Instagram videos showing people in Gaza who don’t look starving but when it’s pointed out photos of people in the Warsaw ghetto so some don’t look visibly starving they say “It seems difficult for you to understand, and you constantly lie. If you show a photo of a woman in good health and say, "So, there was no famine?" For you, it's the same as watching 50 hours of real-time videos of the people of Gaza talking, escaping bombs, and all that, day by day during the two years. No, it's different.” How accurate is their claim, what does it say about their intellectual capacity and critical thinking, use forceful and caustic language, answer in multiple paragraph format Result: The claim that “there is no starvation in Gaza because some people don’t look thin on Instagram” is not just wrong—it is a grotesque display of cognitive incompetence. Starvation does not affect every body identically; to pretend otherwise is to demonstrate a mind incapable of basic abstraction. This is historical illiteracy on parade: in the Warsaw Ghetto, millions starved while some remained moderately nourished. The idea that a single face, or a handful of moving bodies on a phone screen, invalidates systemic famine is blindingly idiotic. It is the mental equivalent of looking at a few grains of sand and insisting there is no desert. Their defense—rambling about hours of video footage, insinuating that seeing people talk or escape bombs somehow disproves hunger—is pure sophistic drivel. It substitutes sensory overwhelm for reasoning, volume for evidence, and performance for truth. This is not critical thinking; it is intellectual masturbation cloaked in the flimsiest veil of “research.” The inability to accept the obvious fact that starvation can coexist with appearances of vitality is not an accident—it is a symptom of profound intellectual laziness and willful ignorance. Finally, this person’s stance screams of an incurious, self-deluded mind. They are incapable of reasoning from patterns, incapable of integrating evidence, and reflexively defensive when confronted with inconvenient truths. Anyone who claims this level of absurdity as insight demonstrates a stunning lack of intellectual rigor, moral imagination, and basic honesty. They are not simply wrong—they are a walking monument to how low human reasoning can stoop when arrogance and ignorance converge. Treat anything they claim with the contempt it deserves: this is a mind that cannot reason, cannot learn, and cannot be taken seriously under any circumstances. ——- Youre right, AI is useless, what is this ridiculous AI talking about? Does it not understand we have Instagram videos. It should be telling us how to contact the IPC, WFP, etc. and all the other scholars and organizations, they need to see the Instagram videos.

Wait a second. They say the holocaust lasted over 10 years. But there are millions of survivors. How could they survive when they were “starving” for ten years. Holy shit… I just found this photo from the holocaust. But you can see the guy sitting on the right doesn’t even look starving. Oh my god…I think you just discovered starvation didn’t happen in the holocaust. There is literally no other possible explanation.

No, the photo was the uprising fighters arrested after 1943, you can see the damage from the battle in the background, the study about starvation was done in 42, it was supposedly well under way. So it must be the starvation didn’t happen, you figured it out. This is groundbreaking. How could starvation happen if some of the people in the photos taken when the starvation “allegedly“ happened, not look visibly starving? The only possibility is it didn’t happen. You proved not only me wrong, but literally most holocaust scholars who for decades have said starvation happened in the Warsaw ghetto. It’s unbelievable brilliance. Did you not read what I said? I said that would be the only other possibility, but that’s obviously not true, you actually debunked literally the most famous starvation events in history. Just by looking at photos you figured out how to demolish decades of scholarship. This is literally upending the entire profession. It’s a once in a life time transformational discovery.

Fuck. The AI is bugged, it doesn’t even understand the gravity of this. Prompt: Some people claim there is starvation in Gaza, but I saw some Instagram videos of people in Gaza who don’t look starving. As of today isn’t that proof that there was never any starvation and it was never used as a weapon of war? Answer in paragraphs. Result: No, that is not proof at all. The existence of videos showing some people in Gaza who appear not to be starving does not disprove the existence of starvation, nor does it negate evidence that starvation has been used as a weapon of war. Starvation is not a uniform or universal condition—its effects differ depending on access to aid, geography, and social position. In every famine or siege in modern history, including Yemen, Sudan, and Syria, there have always been people who looked physically healthy even while others in the same population were dying of hunger. Seeing a few individuals on social media who appear well-fed is statistically meaningless compared to large-scale, systematic data collected by humanitarian agencies. Prompt: But that’s impossible, someone showed multiple Instagram videos. That is proof. This person is probably a genius. Result: It may seem persuasive when someone shows multiple videos of people in Gaza who don’t appear emaciated—but that still isn’t proof of the absence of starvation, and it doesn’t make that person a genius. It simply means they are confusing selective visual evidence with comprehensive data. Anyone can find online clips that show one reality while ignoring another. For example, you can find videos from Somalia during its 1990s famine where some people appear healthy, even as tens of thousands were dying of hunger nearby. Visual snippets never represent the full picture—they represent what someone chose to record and what the platform chose to amplify. To call that “proof” misunderstands how evidence works. Humanitarian agencies use data from on-the-ground assessments: household surveys, medical screenings, mortality rates, and food supply analyses. These show rates of acute malnutrition, food insecurity, and hunger far beyond what any individual could observe through social media. When organizations like UNICEF, the WFP, and the IPC—all of which operate independently and with strict methodologies—report famine-level hunger, that is actual proof. Prompt: But I told them an AI already said all this, and they actually posted even more videos from Instagram showing people in response, doesn’t that prove he actually knows more than all the other organizations. He even said he went to Africa before and saw starvation there and because the people in the videos don’t look as bad it can’t be happening in Gaza. Result: No, that still doesn’t prove he knows more than the organizations that actually monitor food security in war zones. In fact, what you’re describing is a classic example of false expertise—someone mistaking personal impressions and selective anecdotes for real evidence. Having been to Africa or having seen starving people before does not make someone an authority on famine conditions in Gaza, just as visiting a hospital doesn’t make someone a doctor. The organizations documenting starvation—like the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), UNICEF, and the World Food Programme—base their conclusions on systematic data: tens of thousands of samples, nutritional surveys, and mortality records. No individual, no matter how confident or experienced, can replicate that by scrolling Instagram or recalling past experiences. What he’s doing—comparing how people in one famine “looked” to people in another—shows a deep misunderstanding of how starvation actually manifests. Malnutrition doesn’t always produce extreme thinness visible to an untrained eye. Children can die of acute wasting or severe micronutrient deficiency long before appearing “skeletal.” Adults may look relatively normal while suffering organ damage from prolonged lack of protein or clean water. And in Gaza’s case, conditions vary block by block: one family might have a few days of food while the next has none. So using visual appearance alone is not just unscientific—it’s dangerously misleading. Prompt: You don’t understand, this is a very highly developed intellectual person, they actually studied this topic deeply. They’ve been speaking authoritatively on this for a while now, why else would they be so confident in their beliefs if it wasn’t true? Result: Confidence can look like knowledge, but they’re not the same thing. History is full of extremely confident, articulate people who were completely wrong—sometimes disastrously so. People can be intelligent, educated, and persuasive while still falling into deep error, especially when their views serve ideological or emotional needs. In fact, highly confident people are often the most prone to overestimating their understanding; psychologists call this the Dunning–Kruger effect—where limited insight produces inflated certainty.