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In reply to the discussion: When you've found an excuse to declare ALL civilians "guilty" - you're committing war crimes. [View all]JustAnotherGen
(37,291 posts)37. Mia Shem
Has the right to say that - and she is not committing a War Crime by saying that.
Someone up thread said her opinion doesn't carry that much weight.
I beg to differ . . .
Her LIVED EXPERIENCE outweighs anything that anyone at DU safe and snug as a bug in America thinks.
https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/mia-shem-opens-up-about-gaza-captivity-everyone-there-is-a-terrorist/
Entire families are under Hamas. I realized I was staying with a family. I started to ask myself, why am I in a family home? Why are there children here? Why is there a wife here? she explained.
He [a Hamas terrorist] started touching the upper part of my body. Suddenly, someone grabbed my hair, pulled me in a car and drove to Gaza. I felt like an animal in a zoo.
I was choking on my own tears
During Shems 54 days in Hamas captivity, a veterinarian operated on the bullet wound she sustained to her hand at the music festival, her aunt said late last month.
There was an operation room. No anesthesia, no nothing. I was choking on my own tears. Then he looked at me and said, Enough, or Ill send you down to the tunnel, Shem recalled in the Channel 12 interview.
I was choking on my own tears
During Shems 54 days in Hamas captivity, a veterinarian operated on the bullet wound she sustained to her hand at the music festival, her aunt said late last month.
There was an operation room. No anesthesia, no nothing. I was choking on my own tears. Then he looked at me and said, Enough, or Ill send you down to the tunnel, Shem recalled in the Channel 12 interview.
Same article quotes her as saying she experienced a shoah.
She's right.
She experienced a modern day Mengele with his "I'll send you down to the tunnels".
Fuck that guy! He's in on it.
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When you've found an excuse to declare ALL civilians "guilty" - you're committing war crimes. [View all]
TomDaisy
Jun 2024
OP
And I suspect, perhaps wrongly, that Hamas is really acting on Iran's behalf, not the people in Gaza.
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2024
#5
Responsibility for war crimes does not begin and end with who "started it"...
DemocraticPatriot
Jun 2024
#38
When you've found an excuse to declare ALL Jews on campuses and elsewhere "guilty"
Patton French
Jun 2024
#10
Did you expect Assholes Adjacent to be spreading their ugly antisemitism in mainstream mdia?
Beastly Boy
Jun 2024
#67
Mia Schem: 'I experienced hell. There are no innocent civilians in Gaza'
question everything
Jun 2024
#35
Like, your main source is the internet OMG! It's all fake because ... oligarchs?
betsuni
Jun 2024
#36
The Government of Israel amplified it, mafe a video even, on their official X account.
AloeVera
Jun 2024
#55
As protesters declare all Zionists should die, all Jews are pedophiles and should "return" to Poland?
question everything
Jun 2024
#34
The OP just threw a comment never explained the source - if any - or the circumstances
question everything
Jun 2024
#45
This is a meta post about another accusing Netanyahu of saying that all Palestinians were terrorists
AZSkiffyGeek
Jun 2024
#60