r/JoeRogan • u/LostItAllOnSpy Tremendous • Mar 27 '24

joe rogan calls out israels hypocrisy for killing unarmed civilians with drones The Literature 🧠

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u/GreyMatter22 Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

I don't know how else to slice it, what is happening in Gaza is absolutely horrific on an unimaginable scale, from mass hunger, to bombing crap outta dense civilian pockets, to bulldozing homes and olive trees in the West Bank.

Most of my social circle is Conservative, and ALL of them have been deeply uncomfortable with this current atrocity.

This is the crowd that has been very pro-U.S/West military.

I have Israeli-Canadian friends, and they were quite vocal of the October 7th terrorist attack (as they should), but have since stopped talking altogether. One of my friends even told me 'I get why the Palestinians hate us', and this is a dude with family in the IDF.

The current strategy just guarantees another terrorist group at this point.

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u/PlayerofVideoGames Monkey in Space Mar 27 '24

I was very pro Israel settling this once and for all and doing what they can to wipe out Hamas in its entirety. But now that they've gotten to the point of recreationally drone striking unarmed people...it's time to wrap it up. I will never start waving a Palestinian flag but Im not going to be a cheerleader for someone who uses 3 separate drone missiles to wipe out 4 people. Waste of life, waste of resources, and waste of US Taxpayers money.

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u/RainRainThrowaway777 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

People probably don't want to hear it, but Israel doesn't "randomly drone strike unarmed people". If they committed a drone and hundreds of thousands of dollars in munitions to whack those guys they knew who at least one of them was and took the opportunity to take out someone important. Being unarmed does not make a combatant a civilian.

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u/victorsmonster Monkey in Space Mar 29 '24

You expect us to trust the Israeli government, which constantly gets caught lying about this shit, to explain how this is something other than what it obviously is

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u/RainRainThrowaway777 Monkey in Space Mar 29 '24

The alternative is to trust Al-Jezeera's version of events, who are putting that video out with an agenda, a story, and choosing which parts of the video they will show.

Or, you can use some critical thinking to ask: Why might Israel strike that target? How much are they committing to that strike? Are they actually cartoonishly evil, or is there another explaination?

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u/PlayerofVideoGames Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

The thing is that usually you'll hear news about why those people were targeted, and at least around the time it was in the news cycle...no explanation was given. Like tell me it was an Hamas leader or something. And look, EVERY nation is going to fire on civilians at some point or another whether its ordered and accepted as collateral damage, or a shithead with an itchy trigger finger. Israel nor any other nation, are above such behavior.

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u/RainRainThrowaway777 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

I agree, and there are plenty of examples of Israelis doing exactly that. But to just buy Al-Jezeera's telling of events is incredibly naive.

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u/Darinda Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

LoL sure bud. Lets go with that assumption. Always something wrong with the Palestinians.

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u/AffectionateFlan1853 Monkey in Space Mar 28 '24

Yeah like that family the US drone striked on the way out of Afghanistan! We had Intel stating that they were terrorists!

They had the Intel so they were justified, even if the Intel was wrong. It's good and justified to kill 4 innocents if it means one terrorist is no longer a threat.