My life brings me into contact with wonderful people. Like when I lost my phone in Spain, and a bunch of people were helping in touching, sweet ways. Or when people worked into the night completely for free editing out the mistakes in my Ukrainian book. Even people in HR – the last group you’d suspect of excessive humanity – broke rules and put themselves on the line out of kindness. Or the Canadian COVID enforcer who broke down and removed the draconian rules when I told her my father was dying.
I keep finding that people are generally good and caring. I travel quite a bit, and everywhere I come across human goodness.
This is why I can’t comprehend, I just can’t comprehend how somebody – a person, supposedly, a human being made in the likeness, etc – aims a rocket at a children’s cancer hospital, and then another human being aims a rocket at a maternity ward, and another at a daycare, and another, and another, and another, and another. Not crazed savages but civilized people like us. And not a faraway cancer hospital or maternity ward but that of their closest neighbors they visited a million times who look like them and speak like them, and as God is my witness, I can’t understand it.
A small reminder that trying to make this post about yourself is not a manifestation of that human kindness I’m talking about.
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There’s a strong irony in this post, but I can’t lay my finger on it.
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If you see irony in a bombed out cancer hospital for children, you need to have your head examined. How do you live with yourself is a mystery I don’t want to delve into.
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On the same day, people were literally just playing soccer when they were bombed by Israel. https://x.com/AlnaouqA/status/1810771612234568009?t=HiTZcT9z-ZVjrSiu7NtNnA&s=19
Empathy is a good thing, and those cancer children deserve better. Russia is a ghoulish place. But so is Israel. And limiting your empathy, when both victims have done absolutely nothing wrong, is the sad irony.
That you can’t see it is the farce.
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Go away already. Just go away.
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I sympathize with you but I also have to note that I once asked you about all the civilians, including children, killed by Israel and your answer struck me as rather cold. Something to the effect of “It sucks, but it’s war, what can you do” (I’m paraphrasing here of course).
I won’t call it a genocide but it’s hard to argue against the fact that a lot of children have been killed by Israel in its response to October 7.
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Hamas attacked first, committed an absolute atrocity. Ukraine attacked nobody. Palestinians are still keeping hostages. If Ukrainians did to Russians what Hamas did to Israelis on 10/7, I’d be cold about their consequences, too.
But they didn’t.
People who attack deserve their consequences, wouldn’t you agree. But who did Ukraine attack?
Peaceful, civilized people who love us vs crazed savages who hate us. I’m not seeing a workable analogy here.
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Read your response again. Stringer said “children/civilian were killed.” Your response was “Hamas did XYZ” The casual dismissal of the death of innocent children because of an action of a random entity marginally connected to them sounds very Putiny to everyone reading it.
One day you’ll see that and you’ll understand what empathy really means.
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And LONG before October 7th.
It’s the empathy disconnect that is so fascinating to observe.
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I feel deeply sorry for a person who believes that this is the right place and time to chirp excitedly about how it’s “so fascinating to observe.” Not a word of compassion, nothing.
Get help.
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Not excited in the least. Actually kinda sad for both victims. I’m not the one dismissing the death of children because “Hamas”.
Putin is a ghoul. So is Netanyahu. Both should share a cell at the Hague. Anyone who thinks differently need their heads examined.
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Every tweet by this Anonymous edge lord: A у вас негров вешают!!!
This should save everybody the trouble of engaging with this…. entity who doesn’t even have the common courtesy to come up with a nickname.
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From Telegram (original in Russian):
Bold is mine.
We in Israel explain usual UN behavior by invoking antisemitism (and I do believe it is alive there), but here the insanity plays out in another context.
On another hand, UN dare not mention Russian aggression, while every action by my country results in “The United Nations General Assembly passed more resolutions critical of Israel than against all other nations combined in 2022 … 15 anti-Israel resolutions last year, versus 13 resolutions criticizing other countries … Russia was the focus of six resolutions condemning its invasion of Ukraine. … Since 2015, the General Assembly has adopted 140 resolutions criticizing Israel [vs] 68 resolutions against all other countries”
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Which other country is appropriating other peoples’ land like IL just recently did at the West Bank? 🤔
Maybe it’s not the UN you should be worried about, but your genocidal regime in Tel Aviv.
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The UN is an absolute disgrace. I very much hope the US withdraws from funding it soon. It’s a ridiculous bureaucracy that does absolutely no good to anybody.
All of these UNs, Red Crosses, UNRWAs and NATOs need to go because they are a scam.
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