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Israel's Eurovision 2025 song is so beautiful and artistic. I love that they added a bit of poetry from the Bible in Hebrew. מים רבים לא יוכלו לכבות את האהבה ונהרות לא ישטפוה Which means: many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. It adds such divinity.

Your brain may be naturally more schizotypal, which means that you are more creative and more prone to psychosis. This is something common in spiritual people, but you have to learn to ground yourself in reality and not get lost in your mind. There are practices such as mindfulness, being in nature, grounding, breathing exercises and physical activity which can help connect you to your body/present-immediate reality and to ground you.

And here it goes again. I will not participate in the same arguments over and over. Especially with your tone. What are gaining from spreading your hate across the politics forum with the same hostile arguments? Aren't you bored of yourself?

The same goes for a person who is not purely truthful and loving but achieves a certain level of success. People will often call someone successful a fraud. Just because many people call him a fraud doesn't mean that he is truthful and not a fraud.

For people who demonize Zionism, it is obvious because they need to build a solid story or ideology in order to know what they hate. But for Israelis, this is not as obvious.

I understand. I don't define myself with labels like Zionist because it is a vague and too general definition. I am an individual. I don't see the point in demonizing one side while ignoring the flaws of the other and seeing how their actions affect each other. If only demonizing Israel/Zionism is acceptable and any other criticism is not allowed, then there is no point in me even posting here because I would be interfering with this echo chamber. I have already did.

Not at all. This is just for a show.

Why UNRWA allow terrorists to hide their weapons in their hospitals and other facilities like schools? Don't they afraid that children will play with it or something? Why they turn a blind eye on it?

They are so "great" that they refuse to help to hostages in captivity because they happen to be from a certain country.

It has a Stage Green bias and sees the world through Stage Green lenses. It has a savior complex, much like many toxic Stage Green activists. People or entities with a savior complex secretly believe they are better than the victims they claim to help (I.e, they think that they are better because they are Western and white). They need the victim to feel superior and good about themselves and secretly wish for the victim to remain in a victimized state so they can continue being saviors forever. They loathe the victim and do everything to keep them in a state of victimhood. They don't really care about actually "saving". This all may happen unconsciously. UN is helping to so many poor continues for decades but nothing significant changes. This tells a lot.

OMG. So many dead and injured.

If you don't have something constructive to write then don't.

Yes, but if Israel’s existence today depended on the UN it would have never been allowed. What indicates that the UN is changing.......... like everything else in the world?

@Raze and @zazen I hope that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza will end soon. I truly mean it. I gain nothing from starved children or innocents, believe me. This is a tragedy and I hope that this was not the case. The IDF is made up of all sorts of people: conservative, liberal, religious, secular, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian. Their opinions vary, their ideologies vary, and they are all very different people. What they have in common is that they live in Israel. They know they want and need to defend it because their entire life is in Israel. Considering that Israel is surrounded by Islamic radicals, this is a valid and realistic goal. Are they sadists who want to sadistically starve Palestinians? Hell no. In fact, the majority of Israelis are conflicted. On one hand, they want to weaken Hamas and similar groups because they pose a direct threat to life. You need to understand that Israel is a small country, and a terror attack like the one on October 7 is a huge trauma that revives old fears of the Holocaust. People in Israel learn about the Holocaust from a very young age. The first long book I read as a child was about the Holocaust at the first or the second grade. This is deeply ingrained in Israel's consciousness we always thought that we should never allow such a thing to happen again. In the beginning, Holocaust survivors were criticized by local Jews when they immigrated to Israel for not resisting Hitler and allowing themselves to be killed. So when we said "never again," we truly meant it. And now that there is a country, and we are strong, this shouldn't happen. But when "never again" turns into "again," despite everything, it brings up all sorts of emotions, fear and the collective feeling that the ground has disappeared from under our feet. Thousands of people in such a small population is a lot. And behind every person who has been murdered, there is a family, friends, and colleagues who are deeply traumatized. If we count all the IDF combatants who have been killed in the fight, their families and friends, and all the people who have lost loved ones in terror attacks or have survived such attacks, it turns out that every Israeli is traumatized to some extent. So, it is natural to be angry and want to eliminate Hamas and similar entities. And it is also natural for extremists like Ben Gvir and radical right-wingers to become more dominant. On the other hand, the very vast majority of Israelis don’t want to harm innocent people. They are not sadists, and there is no celebration of death. There is a deep value placed on life. The vibe is that we all just want to be left alone and want all the best for Palestinians. I have heard it from all sorts of people in Israel so many times. Israel does what it believes is effective in pressuring Hamas to release the hostages. This is part of its war strategy. Whether this is moral or not, or whether there are alternative solutions, is arguable. Do I personally promote it? No. But am I expert in war strategies to tell what should be done or not? No. There is a moral dilemma. In an ideal world, every problem would have a solution. But in reality, people and countries must face moral dilemmas. Sometimes the only way to fight immorality is by immorality. For now, it seems to be working because Hamas is now interested in negotiation. The pressure seems to be effective. I have read that Hamas is considering the "Hudna," a well-known Muslim strategy pretending to surrender to gain momentum and then launching a surprise attack again. But this time, I hope Israel’s authorities will be smarter, will not fall for illusions, and will no longer believe Hamas’s deception. And that the voice of those who oppose Hamas, in Gaza, will get stronger and stronger and that he rest of the world will be there to support them. Including the Arab world.

It says that IDF "refraining from action due to concerns that harm to aid workers could provoke international criticism".

Of course. And not only against humanity. Wars have never been otherwise.

Based on my experience, this is a male biased and patriarchal system and it is less easy for women there.

There is a lot of humanitarian aid entering Gaza, but you have to acknowledge that it is immediately taken by Hamas for their use, and the rest is sold to civilians at high prices. According to the testimonies of released hostages, their captors had grand meals and celebrations with the humanitarian aid.

Why Hamas steals humanitarian aid from civilians?

No, I already talked about what I think of Bibi, Jewish terrorism and Ben Gvir alike folks.

Israel is a nation-state, so of course, it will be biased, it has its own survival agenda and doesn’t claim to be neutral. But the UN is not a nation state. It presents itself as neutral and as a source of integrity, while this is not the case.

Yes, there are more anti-Netanyahu channels and news sources than pro-Netanyahu ones. Netanyahu often mentions this to portray himself as a victim and an underdog in the eyes of his supporters. He markets himself as a scapegoat lol. He presents this as if people criticize him not because he is a corrupt and Machiavellian leader, as he is, but because those who criticize him are evil and corrupt themselves.

The UN has its biases and agenda as well. Even the UN is not developed enough to be a truly unbiased, uncorrupted, truthful, and wise source of information. Aside from some UN employees participated in the October 7 attacks, whether directly or indirectly, UN peacekeepers literally can't keep their dicks in their pants, especially around children from vulnerable places, but women as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers In my opinion, they are actually white supremacists and racists, but covert. disguised under the guise of progressivism and wokeness.

This is the nature of news and media, being biased and presenting reality in a way that confirms their bias and political agenda, often by omitting important details or avoiding necessary critique. Some people don't realize it. Yes absolutely, the same goes for the US. That's why people shouldn’t rely on just one news source. It seems that many here rely too heavily on Al Jazeera as the ultimate source of truth about this conflict because it confirms their bias. However.... if they are serious in their attempt for a better understanding of the situation, they should at least acknowledge the pro-Hamas bias present in their coverage. Al Jazeera is like Channel 14 in Israel, the most right-wing news channel here, and most people in Israel don’t even take it seriously. It would be absurd to base my perception of the conflict on this channel. I'd end up more ignorant, misinformed, and radical by relying heavily on it. Even if the most right-wing channel in Israel is seen as relatively liberal in other countries because of how they frame their ideologies and present them in a way that appeals to liberals (like Al Jazeera does), it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a highly biased source.

The opposition to Hamas is still weak, with only a few hundred openly opposing them in the largest protest since October 7... However, as the war continues, more voices will emerge, tired of the conflict and angry at Hamas for leading them into this tragedy. They call for Hamas's downfall, with the slogan "Bidna Na3eesh" meaning "We want to live" Pro-Palestinian supporters should back these voices, as should every conscious person. Sadly, many are blinded by Hamas's ideology, believing terrorism against Israel is the only way to "liberate Palestine," even though innocent Gazans will suffer as a result. They sacrifice Gazans' lives to advance their ideology and justify terror attacks on Israel. When Israel responds, they feign concern for the casualties, but in reality, they care more about the ideology than the actual lives of Palestinians. They ignore the fact that Hamas hides among civilians in places like hospitals and schools and don't criticize it, despite claiming to care for innocents. These individuals are happy when Gazans die in Israel’s response, as it allows them to blame Israel and America, reinforcing their ideology. But when innocents are killed by Hamas or other Arabs, they remain indifferent. Pro-Palestinians support violent resistance from the comfort of their homes, far from Gaza or the West Bank, willing to sacrifice Palestinians for their cause. .