The UN report:
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The House is poised to expand the use of a secretive mechanism for funneling weapons to Israel.
Hidden deep in a must-pass State Department funding bill is a provision that would allow for unlimited transfers of U.S. weapons to a special Israel-based stockpile in the next fiscal year, strengthening a pathway for giving American weapons to Israel with reduced public scrutiny.
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For anyone who believes the UN, Bridges on Sale!
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The Captain
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Can you elaborate on your reason for disbelief or is it simply because it is from the UN?
Meanwhile, your own country of residence appears to be in support.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/portuguese-president-notes-shift-in-countrys-position-on-palestine/
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Not quite simply. Watching the UN’s Israel voting record.
There is more but not a good subject to bring up at TMF.
I can’t help that.
One of the features or failures of progress is that as the world gets richer the divide between rich and poor widens in two opposing directions.
- The rich get richer
- The poor get more votes
We are seeing the results in the ballots. First the votes drifted left and recently they have been drifting back to the right.
The Captain
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This is a hypocritical double standard.
Besides it is not genocide. It does not meet any definition of genocide.
The kill ratio is 1 civilian to 1 militant. In every other war in history, the ratio is 9:1
Note: about the social media warriors, the people posting on SM do not know anything and are posting for likes.
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Hypocritical double standard
Determining a precise, daily death toll for the Yemen civil war is impossible due to the nature of the conflict and lack of comprehensive reporting. However, estimates from 2024 and 2025 shed light on the recent casualties.
Key figures from 2024 and 2025
- Civilian casualties in 2024: The Civilian Impact Monitoring Project (CIMP) reported that 1,201 civilians were killed or injured by armed violence in Yemen in 2024, the lowest number since the group began its records.
- Civilian fatalities in 2024: Of the 1,201 civilian casualties, 337 were fatalities. This averages to less than one civilian death per day from armed violence alone.
- Attacks in early 2025: In the first months of 2025, foreign military actions intensified:
- US and UK airstrikes: Airstrikes launched in response to Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping killed nearly 300 people by March 2025.
- Israeli airstrikes: In May 2025, Israel began its own airstrikes in Yemen. As of September 2025, these have reportedly killed over 53 people.
- Red Sea shipping incidents: Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea resumed in July 2025, sinking two vessels and capturing crew members.
Challenges in determining the daily toll
- Non-military casualties: The overall death count is much higher when factoring in indirect deaths from starvation, disease, and lack of healthcare. In its last major report in late 2021, the UN estimated that indirect deaths accounted for nearly 60% of all conflict-related deaths.
- Shift in fighting: The main frontlines in Yemen saw reduced fighting in 2024 and early 2025, but violence flared up again due to naval attacks in the Red Sea and retaliatory airstrikes. This shift makes it hard to calculate a consistent daily rate.
- Fluctuating violence: While an average civilian death rate of less than one per day was calculated for direct armed violence in 2024, intense periods of violence and foreign intervention in 2025 caused significant spikes in fatalities over a short time.
Disclaimer: These figures focus mainly on civilian casualties from armed violence and do not include military deaths or indirect deaths. Exact figures are impossible to confirm, as comprehensive reporting is not feasible during the conflict.
Yep. The discontentment is spreading. See France, Germany & USA.
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It is certainly a double standard as the US also funds Saudi Arabia genocide in Yemen.
The Yemen civil war has a religious element. The rebel Houtis are Shiite. Saudis are Sunnis.
Now remember Iran is Shia. So Shiite=Bad within US government environs.
As in Gaza & Yemen; genocide spans the US political party divide. Both parties support the murder.
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How long before an angry phone call from the “Orange” happens.
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Based on past experience it will be a classic craps game shot — random as to when and as to whom.
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The Far-Left EU Ministers would propose that.
The Captain
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You are completely missing the mark.
There is an element in Muslim society that believes Islam only. That is the sole problem.
Note I am not calling anyone radical this or that. It is not new for religious people to think only their way or no way.
Right now Islam only is at war around the world. It is not the majority of Muslims, but the entire religion and the politics feel offended with some defending something they otherwise would not.
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this can go on for hundreds of years, why not? But blaming the US or Israel or anyone else is missing the mark. It is not colonialism or the cold war. People want these wars for an Islam only world.
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I am sorry but I don’t see the connection you are trying to make as to whether or not there is genocide.
I also don’t agree that the poor are getting more votes (simply isn’t factual). One could certainly argue that the increase in the concentration of wealth is making more of the middle class and lower vote in a similar manner as the poor - but worldwide the percentage of poor has been shrinking for decades (though it has stopped getting any better since Covid).
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Thirty Years War
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This comment is not about genocide. There is no genocide in Gaza. Israel is putting in practice what Jews swore to in the Warsaw Ghetto, “Never Again.”
If the top 10% have half the wealth the bottom 90% can out vote them by 9 to 1.
The Captain
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Bingo
There are plenty of wars over religion.
Do you want no Jews or no xyz, only Muslims? That’s the underlying issue.
Thank you.
What would have to be happening for you to believe it was genocide?
Honestly, I don’t know, but you seems quiet convinced and definitive that it isn’t happening so I am interested if what conditions would be required for you to think otherwise.
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Israel targets Hamas. Hamas daily puts out the body count. Hamas never says how many were militants on a daily basis. This war would be over if they did.
1:1 ratio of killed civilians is not genocide.
Ethnic cleansing later on with Palestinians leaving? Very possibly. There needs to be an effort by Muslims to have flourishing democracies and pluralism. For now Islam only can take a hike.
Yes the Warsaw Ghetto & Masada demonstrated that the Jews would rather die than surrender.
And whatever is the number of Hama fighters killed. It seems they would rather fight than surrender also.
Thus Israel will have to kill all of Hamas & maybe most of the Palestinians.
Genocide definition: An act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religion
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