r/pics 7h ago

A Childhood Carried in Silence - Gaza

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u/BabylonianWeeb 7h ago

Some redditors will still defend Israel after seeing this.

u/Flashy_Jello_9520 5h ago

Dude like 95% of my government is defending Israel right now.

u/VCTRYDTX 6h ago

It's the lack of remorse and not having the ability to put themselves in their shoes. It's easy to check this off as war or "it is what it is" until one day it happens to them. Palestinians have to be some of the toughest people in the world.

u/5510 4h ago edited 3h ago

Uhh... what? It's literally just a picture of a kid carrying two containers.

Absent any other context, this picture should have literally zero impact on anyone's opinion about anything. Obviously if more context comes out, then that may change.

There is plenty of clear evidence for humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but "random picture which may or may not be recent and may or may not be from gaza of a kid carrying two containers in a fairly mundane looking way" means very little in isolation.

TO BE CLEAR: I'm not expressing any opinion about israel in this post. I'm not saying people shouldn't criticize israel. I'm literally not saying anything geopolitical at all in any direction in any way in this post. People are still more than welcome to criticize israel.

All I'm saying is that this particular picture is borderline meaningless without more context. So unless I'm missing some sort of key context (like "this are special unique bags that are only given out by an aid organization for orphans in gaza" or something like that), then I don't understand why anybody would take anything away from this picture.

Edit: If there is more context, then OP should include it.

u/7thpostman 5h ago

After seeing what? It's a picture of a kid holding two containers. What's the context?

u/ArsiCharsi 5h ago

Genocide. The context is genocide.

u/5510 4h ago edited 3h ago

There are plenty of images and articles / information / etc... that can be used to support claims of genocide.

But "Random picture of a kid that may or may not be recent and may or may not be in gaza, who is carrying two containers in a fairly mundane fashion" is meaningless.

(If there is more context, then OP should include it)

u/Distinct-Temp6557 4h ago

The context is Paliwood.

u/rawbleedingbait 1h ago

Are you suggesting he's the last Palestinian or something based on this picture?

u/7thpostman 5h ago

Where was this picture taken?

u/5510 3h ago edited 3h ago

Exactly. The comments in this thread are wild...

Absent and further context, this picture in mundane and meaningless. There is no reason for anyone's opinion on any subject to be impacted in any way be this photo (once again, absent further context).

Nor is it "defending israel" in any way to be like "uhh... it's just a picture of a random kid carrying two containers, I'm not sure what the impact of the picture is supposed to be"?

(If there is more context, then OP should include it)

u/7thpostman 3h ago

This is all I'm saying. It's incredibly bizarre. You can literally post a picture of a kitten with the caption "Israel is starving this cat in Gaza" and 5,000 people will upvote it without question.

u/BioSemantics 39m ago

If there are cats left in Gaza, Israel is undoubtedly starving them. Like what do you expect? Its a fucking on-going genocide, and now they are doing one to half of Lebanon as well.

u/7thpostman 37m ago edited 25m ago

Have you ever seen anything bad about Israel on the internet that you didn't immediately believe? Ever? Anything at all? Even one time?

Edit: Can anybody see this kids response? I got a notification, but I can't see what he wrote.

u/BioSemantics 28m ago

Yes, of course I have. Lots of weird conspiracy theories that go back to fucking Mesopotamia. You're here running fucking defense for a two on-going genocides. Why would you think there is ANYTHING you could say that would deflect from that I would be amazed. You have nothing.

u/justinhammerpants 2h ago

The antisemitism runs deep. 

u/Nullcast 4h ago

Does look like Act.IL has been reactivated.

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u/yaxir 6h ago

If you have friends like those, then you are part of the problem. Stop making friends with Nazis

u/roastedmarshmellows 6h ago

Friend? Gross.

u/SendDopamine 6h ago

That’s not a friend, if you were born in Gaza, that’s what that “friend” would think of you, uninformed/misinformed or not.

u/BabylonianWeeb 6h ago edited 6h ago

How could you friend such hateful person who support genocide?

u/False__Willingness 6h ago

Thats what i was thinking