War against Hamas

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[Soukuw]

You have to be loving trolling at this point.

"These are the statistics the government has been using to inform their decisions"
"Ok"
"Why would they use these statistics if they are misleading"
"idk lol"

Do you think that the goverment is really that stupid that they would just trust misleading figures like this? OR is it more likely that by acknowledging these figures they are ackowledging the disproportionate response of Israel, which they do not want to do because t makes them complicit.

Do you acknowledge that the death statistics that come from the Gaza Health Ministry include combatants?

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[Soukuw]

You sure do like to attack me personally as much as you can huh?

Can you acknowledge using a number that includes both civilians and combatants doesn't make much sense when figuring out the amount of aid to provide to civilians?

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[Soukuw]

forum sucks this is a test post
Just because somethings been done one way for a long time doesn't mean it's the correct way.

If I'm understanding correctly the bill is for things like childhood cancer and female genital mutilation and you're mad they're not allowed to cite deaths inflated by Hamas terrorists?

Prohibits funds appropriated by this act to be made available for the State Department to cite statistics obtained from the Gaza Health Ministry

I don't even think this blocks them from citing the GHM in other context.

Honestly though digging into bills/acts is a bit over my head.

Edit: I'd source the above quote but for some reason the forums HATES the link and the very start of the quote, it's the first .gov link on google if you search it

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These posts were meant for entertainment purposes through trolling and I apologize for my mischaracterization of the situation in Israel.

[Soukuw]

I'm not disputing the numbers accuracy I'm disputing what it is deceptively pushed as, it sounds like civilians but also includes combatants. It is not relevant for the things this act funds from what I can tell.

Also sorry about the million edits on my loving post, forum sucks is wonderful and perfect and I love it very much.

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These posts were meant for entertainment purposes through trolling and I apologize for my mischaracterization of the situation in Israel.

[Soukuw]

Where, then, should congress get information on how many wounded Gazans need medical care, starving Gazans, need food, sick Gazans need medicine? Who else has the information that can help them make an decision besides the actual medical professionals currently doing their best to take care of this populace?

That is probably why we've used GHM's numbers for so long, there isn't really an alternative.

[edit]Sorry for the edit, but this thought just occured to me. This whole argument about death toll is loving irrelevant. You were right. The information that 23 thousand non-combatants out of 35 thousand people killed make no difference to the amount of aid provided. What this bill does do, is deprive us of our primary resource on how many people are still alive and need help, and what kind of help they need.

For the record pretty sure we're talking about an Amendment to the bill H.R. 8771, I do not believe this bill has been enacted nor does this amendment affect any other bills/acts if the bill is enacted.

The bill is 300 pages long and I would like to play video games so I CTRL+F'ed for Gaza and Palestine from what I skimmed over it doesn't seem like the GHM's death toll would be relevant in this bill.

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These posts were meant for entertainment purposes through trolling and I apologize for my mischaracterization of the situation in Israel.

[ultimamax]

he is probably going to jail for corruption as soon as the "war" ends, and he knows it, so i'm not expecting anything

[BubbaGum]

I can't believe we're having intelligent and thoughtful conversations about real life issues on this God forsaken hellhole of a forum, it almost warms my heart in a way.

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Considering that I am a whole legal adult older than I was when I joined the forums, I hope most of my posts these days aren't stuffpost fish spamming.

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These posts were meant for entertainment purposes through trolling and I apologize for my mischaracterization of the situation in Israel.