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The dismantling of Medicaid, in the face of growing popular opposition to Trump’s program of dictatorship, war, mass deportations and social cuts, marks a new stage in the social counterrevolution.
‘These cuts will literally cost lives’ Meteorologists say federal plan to eliminate weather research labs will mean less-accurate forecasts—for everyone kfor.com/news/local/these-cuts…
The number of Palestinians killed while seeking food in Gaza is now more than 600 in just five weeks.They're dying at US and Israeli-backed distribution poin...
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 30 (ACN) Cuban Meteorological Institute (INSMET) reported today that Tropical Storm Barry, the second of the current North Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated early Monday morning, moving toward Mexico.
I woke up today and SOME TOASTY TRISCUIT was SCREAMING ON TELEVISION ABOUT ALLIGATORS EATING MEN for legal reasons so I picked up a mallet and beat the shit out of a motherboard screaming THIS IS AN XBOX THIS IS AN XBOX THIS IS AN XBOX
I AM BLEEDING
THIS IS AN XBOX
GOD IS DEAD
I disowned my dad because he suggested "windows" as a solution for the home and I DONT FUCKING CARE IF HE MEANT REAL WINDOWS ON A HOUSE I'M DONE
Make no mistake it was the libs abandonment of all journalistic principles that led to this. Mr. Potato head is here is a champion of this anti American bullshit “journalism”
As much as you think you hate the press you don’t hate them near enough.
The #Trump admin has *declined* to release nearly $7 billion in federal #funding for #schools that helps pay for after-school & summer programs, support for #students learning English, #teacher training & other services.
The money, which was already allocated by #Congress, was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Trump *#Education* Department notified #state education agencies that the money would not be available.
The #Trump admin offered little explanation, saying only that the funds were *under review*. It gave no timeline for when, or if, the money would be released, saying instead that it was “committed to ensuring taxpayer resources are spent in accordance with the president’s priorities.” The frozen funds are unrelated to the millions of dollars in cuts included in the domestic policy bill that squeaked through the #Senate on Tuesday.
“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for #students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school & summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20% of all students in after-school programs nationally.
A small group of women have succeeded in putting a state law promoted by Betsy DeVos and billionaire donors which they see as an attack on public education on the ballot in November
@Karen D 🇨🇦 @Melissa BearTrix Nobody is actually afraid of other people who cut their sex bits off, we all know they are eliminating themselves from the gene pool and thus doing us all a favor.
@Melissa BearTrix @Karen D 🇨🇦 You can't add functional bits, you can add implants, blobs of flash that are vaguely phallic but have no function, but you're giving up your reproductive functionality.
Those attending the DPAC rally against the government’s cuts to welfare for the disabled braved both weather and disgraceful aggression from right-wing activists, reports Jon Harding
Disabled People Against the Cuts held a rally at the far end of …
Turkiye sees an opportunity to turbocharge its rise as a Eurasian Great Power along Russia’s entire southern periphery in ways that autonomously align with American grand strategic interests.
Join us at Jura Books for “Sydney Skill Sharing” a series of workshops on diverse topics. Grab some friends, collectivise our skills!
Workshops are held fortnightly on Saturdays, 5PM-6PM.
Our next upcoming workshop will be run by a talented guest visiting from the UK. They've offered bunch of exciting workshops that they could run on the 12th of July.
Which one do you want to see? Let us know in the comments 😀
> making an 8 page mini zine
> doing creative coding from the browser using p5.js
> hands-on data scraping (available in two versions: for those that know basic programming and those that don't)
Hungary: Antifa Prisoner Maja Hospitalized Following Hunger Strike
For almost a month, the non-binary antifa activist Maja has been on hunger strike to denounce the conditions of their imprisonment in Hungary and to ask to be sent back to Germany. On Tuesday, July 1, their health deteriorated so much that hospitalization was necessary. Maja was moved 260 km from Budapest to a hospital near the Romanian border.
Solidarity actions continue (banks have been stoned in Shwelm and Leipzig – see here and here), but in the face of this alarming situation, their supporters are calling for an intensification of mobilization.
Depuis près d’un mois, la militante antifa non-binaire Maja a entamé une grève de la faim pour dénoncer les conditions de son emprisonnement en Hongrie et demander à être renvoyée en Allemagne (voir notre article).
#2002 Tell me just what you want me to be One kiss and boom, you're the only one for me So please tell me why don't you come around no more 'Cause right know I'm crying outside the door of your candy store Michelle Branch is 42 Catholic church south of the US border is not Christian.. youtu.be/HKLnmMacEB4?si=Q7wWYL…
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#1978 I don't know how this whole business started Of you thinkin' that I have been untrue But if you think that we'd be better parted It's gonna hurt me, but I'll break away from you Joe Puerta, American rock bassist (Ambrosia) is 74 youtu.be/Ewg1LTLBGkE?si=e7Wnb0…
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He told the Factorio dev he is wrong for wanting a feature to designate a primary monitor and let other applications know about that in Wayland gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland…
Belarus and Botswana will intensify cooperation in many areas of mutual
interest. Such an arrangement was reached at the meeting between
Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maksim Ryzhenkov and Botswana’s
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Na klar will Frau #Klöckner nicht, dass im Bundestag #Lügen auch klar als soche bezeichnet werden. Sie hat doch schon oft genug selbst Lügen verbreitet und will sich diese Option offensichtlich weiter offen halten.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
Hebrew media warned settlers around the Gaza Strip as far as Beersheba that tonight you will hear the terrible sounds of explosions from Gaza, and that the intensity of the attacks and explosions tonight will be much greater and stronger than the previous nights.
Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 30, 2025 Our weekend drive placed Curiosity exactly where we had hoped: on lighter-toned, resistant bedrock we have been eyeing for close study. Curiosity’s workspace tosol did not contain any targets suitable for DRT. After a detailed discussion […]
#GazaGenocide / A cafe in the Gaza Strip was bombed from the sea, killing 34 of its residents, including a journalist
At least 20 people were killed and many more injured in intensive bombing by Israeli forces across Gaza, according to medical reports. The bombing began at dawn, hitting multiple locations and causing severe damage to buildings and civilian infrastructure. Seven of the dead were reportedly shot while waiting for humanitarian aid. A cafe in the Gaza City port, which also provided internet services, was struck, killing journalist Ismail Abu Hatab and injuring journalist Biyan Abu Saltan. The situation in Shifa Hospital is catastrophic, with many wounded arriving with burn injuries and a lack of resources. Since the start of the offensive on October 7, 56,531 civilians have been killed and 133,642 injured.
[…] Shifa Hospital reported last night that 34 people were killed in an Israeli military strike in the Gaza City port area, including women and children. Palestinian media reported that the navy carried out the strike, targeting an area where civilians were not asked to evacuate. It was also reported that the target of the strike was a cafe in the port that provided internet services to dozens of people. The Israeli military stated that several "Hamas terrorists" were attacked and that the incident is under investigation. According to the French news agency, the cafe where the strike occurred was a cafe that provided internet services, and among the dead was journalist Ismail Abu Hatab, and among the wounded was journalist Biyan Abu Saltan.
The 2002 is the beater Daily Driver. The 2014 is the Sunday Best vehicle.
I actually like the engine on the 2002 better. But they are both pre Gasoline Direct Injection ie traditional Fuel Injector engines. 4sp Aisin automatic on the 2002 and 6sp Aisin automatic on the 2014. Bulletproof.
NEW: The President of the United States just threatened to arrest Zohran Mamdani, strip his citizenship, and dump him in a detention camp — not for any crime, but for standing up to ICE raids in NYC.
The message is clear: if you speak up, they’ll come for you. We have to defend our democracy. #press
As Europe bakes in the summer heat, parts of Italy and France are on red alert, with Spain and Portugal seeing record temperatures. Schools and tourist attractions have closed, and conditions have turned deadly.
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I’m getting so fed up with this horseshit… Do you know what female teachers looked like back when I was in school? They looked like fat old men in drag. Every time one of these broads gets arrested for fucking one of her teenage students, I should be entitled to a $1000 check from the government as compensation for having been born into the wrong era and thus denied the red, white and goddamn blue American right to be statutorily raped by a hot teacher when you’re a teenaged high school student.
So far, I'm not very impressed with AI and I dont think its ready to be an improvement over people with normal intelligence. I do think its ready to replace most IRS agents and would certainly be an improvement.
I still dont believe Linus tech tips isnt gay. The Asian wife is just a facade. He's a flaming faggot. There's no way he's not a queerbait faggot. Look at him.
Weird Science (1985) 94min | Comedy Fantasy Romance | Aug 1985
Two nerdish boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.
Director: John Hughes
Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton, Suzanne Snyder, Judie Aronson, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Rusler, Vernon Wells, Britt Leach, Barbara Lang, Michael Berryman, Ivor Barry, Ann Coyle, Suzy J. Kellems
IBM made a bold move by laying off thousands, only to bring back just as many. A surprising shift in strategy is changing the way tech companies use AI. Routine tasks were automated, but something unexpected followed.
How Hollywood taught us to abandon the struggle against decline and death.If you would like to support my work, you can do so here.https://ko-fi.com/wyattsta...
got the black ceiling tiles in place as well as black walls to place behind the outer walls. the level is basically in a black box and the skybox is pure black so it works really well.
so it turns out this only mostly works. the player can still clip the camera inside of the walls if they want to and see things they shouldn't. so there are two solutions:
1) heavily restrict player camera or use fixed camera angles 2) paint black on the opposite side of the walls
i'm going with number 2 for now and it seems to mostly work. there are a couple seams i have to add additional black walls to at odd corners here and there but that's not a huge issue.
the engine's camera doesn't respect collision, but i haven't messed around with camera settings too much so maybe there is a way to force that i'm not seeing yet.
for my actual game instead of this test project, i'm thinking of three different camera modes. first person, fixed cameras, or a top-down camera you can simply rotate/zoom. that way the player won't be able to move the camera in ways that appear glitchy.
first person is the last thing i want to go with because i just kind of wanted to make it third person like classic survival horror games. if i go with the top down perspective, it'll likely be something like what you see in the photo in the previous post. from that angle and distance, but with the ability to rotate the camera around freely. in fact, maybe i'll just do that for this test project too. i love the idea of having a super dynamic camera but it does come with its own share of issues.
Cameras don't usually respect collision, that's usually a separate component. Unreal has that built-in, I think it's called a camera boom, but no other engine's I've looked into.
Border czar Tom Homan lashed out at CNN after the network reported on an app that allows users to tag the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
UN experts condemn attempts by the UK to proscribe Palestine Action.
“According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.”
Great infographic of companies involved in the genocide of Palestinians. Taken from this article, which also has more information on each: aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un…
Gaza Resistance Targets Soldiers and Settlements, Yemen Targets Ben Gurion Airport
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Tuesday that it launched a salvo of Q20 rockets targeting the Zionist settlements of Nir Yitzhak and Mivtahim.
The rockets were fired from an area close to where military vehicles were operating north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Al-Qassam targets engineering equipment, armored units
On Saturday, June 28, al-Qassam announced its fighters had targeted four Zionist engineering excavators with al-Yassin 105 shells in the town of Aabasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, setting the equipment ablaze.
The group confirmed that its fighters observed casualties among occupation soldiers at the site and noted that Zionist helicopters landed in the area to evacuate the wounded.
In a separate operation, the al-Qassam fighters also targeted a Merkava tank and a D9 military bulldozer with powerful roadside explosive devices in the same area.
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, announced two operations on Tuesday against Zionist gatherings and vehicles in Khan Younis.
In a joint operation with al-Qassam, the al-Quds fighters shelled a Zionist military gathering east of Khuza’a, north of Khan Younis, using multiple mortar shells.
In another operation, the group reported detonating a shock-activated explosive device successfully targeting a military vehicle near Street 5, north of Khan Younis.
These operations come as the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza continues to repel Zionist incursions, engaging in confrontations and ambushes that have resulted in casualties among occupation forces and damaged their equipment.
The Resistance activity unfolds amid the occupations ongoing genocidal war on Gaza, which includes systematic killing, starvation, siege, and forced displacement, in blatant disregard for international appeals.
Yemen targets occupation
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced on Tuesday evening a series of military operations against Zionist targets in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree said that the YAF’s Rocket Force launched a top-tier operation targeting al-Lydd Airport, also known as Ben Gurion Airport, in occupied Yafa using a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.
The operation successfully hit its target, resulting in the fleeing of millions of Zionist settlers to shelters and the complete halt of airport operations, Saree confirmed.
Drone strikes against sensitive targets
Simultaneously, Saree mentioned that the YAF’s UAV unit executed three military operations targeting sensitive Zionist sites in Yafa, Askalan, and Umm al-Rashrash, using three drones.
The spokesperson reiterated that the latest operations come in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and their Resistance fighters and in retaliation for the ongoing genocidal crimes committed by the Zionist occupation against the Gaza Strip.
He added that these strikes come as part of Yemen’s sustained support for Gaza and its categorical rejection of the genocidal war being waged against its people.
The Yemeni Armed Forces reaffirm that this Ummah will not abandon its responsibilities toward the oppressed Palestinian people, Saree affirmed, underscoring that the YAF will continue their operations until the war on Gaza ceases and the siege imposed on the enclave is lifted.
53 Yemeni missiles launced since resumption of war on Gaza
According to a correspondent from the Zionist Army Radio, Yemen has launched approximately 53 ballistic missiles toward the occupation since the resumption of the war on Gaza nearly three and a half months ago.
"The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced on Tuesday that it launched a salvo of Q20 rockets targeting the Zionist settlements of Nir Yitzhak and Mivtahim. The rockets…"
Trump's tax bill defunds the police who target Wall Street criminals (CFPB) and uses the savings to boost funding for the police who target immigrants (ICE).
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro explains what Republicans don’t want you to know about their legislation — and how it “screws over the people who voted for this president.”
When I arrived home today, I was greeted by a cacophony of screaming blue jays, scattering birds, and two or three Redtailed Hawks. I had no time at all to get my camera get back outside and get it dialed in for the best exposure but I did okay. #Red-TailedHawk.
@GluedToTheScreen Thank you. If you zoom in on the upper right photo, the Sun from above is shining through its right wing and you can make out the bone structure.
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@Tfmonkey Were you a Ninja Turtles fan back in the day? You were pretty young when this came out, I'm guessing, but turtle mania lasted a good while so maybe it got you too.
There are a few higher-end theaters here that do Fathom Events and I take my nephew, brother, and son to watch Castle in the Sky and things like that.
I just thought I'd throw this your way in case this is a special movie for you that you could enjoy in a nice theater with a beer and some food.
Four baby turtles come in contact with a mysterious substance called ooze and then are transformed into human sized crime fighters. The leader of the turtles...
PARIS — More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them children, could die because of the US administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, according to a study.
How Hollywood taught us to facilitate our racial death and replacement.https://ko-fi.com/wyattstagghttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/wyattstagg1https://www.patreo...
One of the major problems I see with the younger generations is that even though many of them will place blame on the boomers for many of their financial issues (correctly), many of them will still somehow think that going to college was worth it in spite of the crippling debt and wasted years on a degree that gets them no job.
It's okay, you can admit it was the wrong decision. The boomers led you astray there, so you don't have to defend that choice. You were lied to about that too.
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al.
It's not. If you look over a long enough time period, it's been much hotter in the past with CO2 levels much lower. And we've also had CO2 levels 10x what they are today without the so called runaway-greenhouse happening. This is a scam for transferring wealth and power and nothing more. The people who promote this scam consider you a worthless eater not worthy of existence. They put out this propaganda while flying their private jets to meet their co-conspirators in Davos to plan the next round.
Nonook is an idiot. He says "look in the past", yet if you actually do, it has not been warmer than this in at least 2000 years. Also, and this is the critical point, it is not merely the temperature itself, but the rate of change which is important.
@Tom Grzybow Yes if we look at only modern history while we're still coming out of an ice age that is true, but the planet has been MUCH warmer in the past. And people who have to resort to ad hominem attacks obviously have little real faith in their own arguments or beliefs.
@Tom Grzybow You are revealing your lack of knowledge. 3,000 to 9,000 ppm during the Ordovician period approximately 500 million years ago, and yet today we're not Venus.
Again, most notably, this event took place over the course of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years - while CO2 in our time is racing upwards in the course of decades. The ability of plants and animals to adapt (in dispersal or genetically) will be foreshortened and more limited yet.
@Tom Grzybow I will agree that CO2 is rising faster than it has historically, but because so much carbon is now buried in the Earth's crust, if we burned every fossil fuel we can get at we would not double it's level. Let alone approach historical levels. Tell Klaus hi for me.
See also this not-so-new article summarizing a meta-study (which is directly linked and freely available) that should have put to rest all the silly ignorant flailing by sticks-in-the-mud denialists:
Even with the obviously necessary massive error bars, the correspondence between CO₂ levels and average temperatures is stunningly obvious in the primary take-away graph.
@Greg A. Woods Go back even to 100 or 500 million and it offers plenty. 65 million years ago we were recovering from a large asteroid impact, today we are recovering from an ice age, you need all history not just selective parts of it for honest perspective. Of course Klaus and your other friends aren't interested in honesty, they are interested in wealth and power.
An very bright automotive engineer working for GM told me about the probability of climate change, back in 1979. I kind of dismissed it, telling him that the plants and trees would soak it up. He replied that we just don't know enough (at the time). So, I dismissed the idea for years...
Yes but it is still between 10% and 20% of what it was 500 million years ago and yet here we are. It is NOT an existential threat, but not having enough energy, not being able to produce enough food, that is, save for the ultra-wealthy that you represent.
@Tom Grzybow If you win Tom, and we tax carbon to death, rely on unreliable power sources, then what will happen is the economic overhead needed for progress will not exist. We will not develop hydrogen fusion, we will not develop molten salt reactors, and we will die out as a species. This is perhaps your desire, I know Klaus and Gates both desire it, but it's not mine. I would rather see a robust economy in which humans aren't freezing to death, and let's be clear here at present 10x as many people die of cold as they do of heat, which everyone can have adequate nutrition and in which everyone is free to live as they wish. I do not want North Korea for the world.
_65 million years ago we were recovering from a large asteroid impact, _
another excellent point. This impact shows how devastating rapid changes are to the ecology of the world. The asteroid impact only directly destroyed a limited area, but the shading of sunlight and global cooling it touched-off destroyed many, many species. It's all about the _rate of change.
@Tom Grzybow The impact at 65 million years ago was about as an extreme of a change as you can get. Cutting off the worlds food supply to the dinosaurs and now you want to repeat this artificially for humans?
Interesting about the Ordovician, but it's not certain that the CO2 levels were that high. It's also speculated that the heating then generated a deep and thick layer of clouds, which then led to a cooling... But again we are talking about processes over millions of years. You refuse to consider that it is the rate of change which is most important.
How come a big ice age happened when carbon dioxide levels were high? It's a question climate sceptics often ask. But sometimes the right answer is the simplest: it turns out CO 2 levels were not that high after all.
I would rather see a robust economy in which humans aren’t freezing to death, and let’s be clear here at present 10x as many people die of cold as they do of heat
The future will change that. And many more will die of hunger. And we cannot simply move our agriculture north - the soils of the taiga are remarkably poor. But it will be the rate of change which does us in - massive change in the span of less than 10 decades. Already people are losing their homes along the seacoast...
... but the solution is simple, and direct - lessen the amount of CO2 we are putting into the atmosphere. The problem, which is not simple, is that the rich and powerful have immense amounts of money invested in "business as usual" - or even burning more fossil fuel! Some of the largest and richest corporations on earth are dedicated to this, in fact.
No, you are the one who is wrong, and most certainly so. You take things for facts that are not, and refuse to understand the measurements being taken now. And then this is exactly what you accuse me of! That's enough BS from you.
@Nanook I see you're continuing to ignore even the facts I put in front of you. Your story about pre-history does not seem to match those facts.
As for even further back, i.e. "500 million years ago", well you've clearly not kept up with the current science, as per Tom's demonstration.
Meanwhile it is becoming clearer and clearer that rapid changes in CO₂ levels will change the climate too fast for plants and animals to migrate and evolve and survive, even when "fast" is considered on geological timescales, never mind the abrupt changes we humans are causing. We simply don't know where the tipping points are for these problems within the current conditions on Earth, so even threatening to continue as-is is a risk beyond insane.
Your apparent claim that the continuing use of fossil fuels will somehow cause us to succeed faster on fusion and better fission reactors is so blindingly backwards I can't even begin to figure out where to start. In fact it is clearly stated by all of those working on such technology that one of their primary motivations for doing so is to be able to replace fossil fuel use! Indeed Bill Gates is one of the large investors supporting nuclear reactor technology development.
Conflating deaths from the cold with having any part of the problem is gas-lighting.
BTW, who is this Klaus? I assume by "Gates" you mean Bill Gates?
DALIAN - A group of international journalists kicked off a five-day tour of northeast China’s Liaoning Province on Tuesday, with their journey beginning in the dynamic port city of Dalian—a coastal metropolis that has become a powerful symbol of Chin…
This article critically examines the disturbing testimonies of Israeli soldiers involved in the #Gaza offensive, many of whom have drawn explicit parallels between their own actions and those of Nazi soldiers during World War II. Through verified first-hand accounts, credible human rights reports, and international legal standards, this analysis reveals how #Israel's military campaign in Gaza has crossed into the territory of systemic war crimes, carried out with impunity under the guise of security. The moral and legal implications of these acts challenge the international community’s tolerance of sustained and brutal violations of human rights.
Introduction
The Israeli military's ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip has reached a tipping point—not just in terms of human suffering and infrastructural devastation, but also in moral clarity. In a shocking turn, several Israeli soldiers have publicly likened their conduct in Gaza to that of Nazi forces during the Holocaust, a parallel long considered taboo within Israeli discourse. These admissions, reported by Haaretz, illuminate the horrifying extent to which violence has been normalized and rationalized within the ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), even as the civilian population of Gaza is subjected to what many experts deem deliberate and criminal acts of warfare.
Testimonies of Atrocity: The Nazi Analogy
In interviews published by Haaretz, multiple IDF soldiers confessed to feelings of deep unease and moral disintegration during operations in Gaza. One soldier, in particular, stated, “I felt like a Nazi in Gaza. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.”1 Such a statement is not merely self-indicting—it exposes a grotesque inversion of historical memory. Soldiers describe firing indiscriminately, targeting unarmed civilians, and obliterating entire neighborhoods without strategic justification. Civilians were shot while trying to retrieve food at aid stations, and the command structure often issued vague or open-ended fire orders with little concern for civilian life12.
The Dehumanization of Palestinians
These testimonies underscore the systemic dehumanization of Palestinians within the Israeli military apparatus. The logic of occupation and collective punishment has replaced any semblance of proportional response or adherence to international humanitarian law. Palestinians in Gaza are not seen as civilians, but as potential threats to be neutralized en masse. This ideological framework mirrors the totalizing worldviews of other regimes historically condemned for ethnic violence—hence the disturbing Nazi comparison by Israeli soldiers themselves.
War Crimes and Humanitarian Catastrophe
According to data compiled by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and corroborated by Al Jazeera and Human Rights Watch, more than 500 Palestinians were killed in May 2025 alone while waiting for humanitarian aid, not as casualties of crossfire, but as targets in supposedly secure zones34. The Israeli government has repeatedly bombed aid distribution centers, refugee camps, and UN schools, while enforcing a siege that has led to famine-like conditions. UN officials have warned that Gaza is facing a man-made famine, the result of deliberate obstruction of food, fuel, and medicine5.
These actions—targeting civilians, destroying civilian infrastructure, and using starvation as a method of warfare—constitute grave breaches under the Geneva Conventions, and are classified as war crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)67.
Legal and Ethical Implications
The repeated and systematic nature of these crimes places Israel in violation of multiple international laws. Yet the continued political and military support from Western powers, especially the United States, has shielded Israeli leaders and military officials from accountability. This impunity emboldens further atrocities and undermines the international legal order. Calls by organizations such as Amnesty International, UNRWA, and B’Tselem for investigations into these abuses have largely been met with diplomatic deflection or outright denial by Israeli authorities89.
Conclusion
When Israeli soldiers themselves begin to draw parallels to the Nazi regime, it is a dire alarm—not just for Israeli society, but for the international community. These testimonies are not anomalies but reflections of a system that devalues Palestinian life. The world must reckon with the dual reality: that a state born from the trauma of #genocide is now inflicting mass suffering on a besieged population. Moral clarity demands more than condemnation—it requires accountability
References
Harel, Amos. “Testimonies from IDF Soldiers in Gaza: ‘I Felt Like a Nazi’.” Haaretz, June 2025. haaretz.com↩︎↩︎
Alsaafin, Linah. “Israeli Troops Ordered to Shoot Anyone Approaching Aid Trucks in Gaza.” Al Jazeera, May 2025. aljazeera.com↩︎
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. “500+ Palestinians Killed at Aid Centers Since May.” May 2025. euromedmonitor.org↩︎
Human Rights Watch. “Israel’s Attacks on Humanitarian Infrastructure in Gaza.” May 2025. hrw.org↩︎
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “Gaza Emergency Situation Report,” May–June 2025. unocha.org↩︎
Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949), Articles 32–33. ↩︎
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998), Articles 7 and 8 – War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. ↩︎
Amnesty International. “Gaza: Patterns of War Crimes and Civilian Targeting.” June 2025. amnesty.org↩︎
B’Tselem. “Erasure of Accountability: Gaza Under Fire Again.” May 2025. btselem.org↩︎
@Gargron You understand not what unspeakable cruelties I have visited upon the Creature nor how many terrible horrors I have brought it back from.
What I have done to your Mastodon stuffed toy violates both man and nature. I only pray that, if there is a god out there, they are more forgiving than the Creature.
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