Belgian officials expressed outrage Thursday after Israeli forces reportedly bombed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in the Gaza Strip, an attack that came after Belgium declined to join the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries in cutting off funding to the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency.
The timing of the attack on the Belgian office building raised eyebrows, with observers pointing to the nation’s status as one of the handful of Western countries not suspending aid to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in response to Israel’s allegation that a dozen of the agency’s employees took part in the October 7 attacks.
Oh look, the bandwagon is here!
You know, the first news reported that Israel bombed an area and the Belgium empty office was a collateral casualty.
Yet here we are now at malicious intent.
Have you considered the idea that in their quest to level Gaza, which building belongs to whom never even crossed Israel’s mind?
Or that their military is full of incompetent buffoons?
I give the IDF zero benefit of the doubt after they straight up murdered the Reuters journalist with a fucking tank.
If I bombed your house a d destroyed it, would you be totally okay with it if I told you there was no malicious intent and I was just trying to murder your neighbour instead?
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Please don’t take the name of one the best characters in Sci fi literature just be a trolling loser.
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Depends on what’s destroyed and how much you’re paying as compensation.
You’re a liar.
And a cheat.
The compensation is telling you that we’ve worked out a deal to take you to Central Africa, and what was previously the ruins of your house has been bought by a home developer for the ensuing reconstruction, during which Israeli citizens will be offered to buy it. You get no money.
Ok, let’s see how Israel evicts Belgium to Central Africa.
All of it, nothing.
Then we go to court.
Stop dodging the question.
No
Bull-fucking-shit dude.
You think people in gaza have someone to go cry out to in order to get their dead children and destroyed home back?
Sound mentality.
The topic isn’t about the people in Gaza, it’s about Belgium’s building.
If this was a one off event sure.
These “concidences” just happen a little too frequently. Some might say you can notice a pattern…
Yeah maybe it’s an accident related to a complete lack of concern for which building they bomb, or maybe it’s not an accident and that’s why it’s timed so conveniently. Who cares, fuck Israel either way.
If they hadn’t built up so much bad will and distrust recently people probably wouldn’t rush to this conclusion. But they have. So they get to lie in the bed they made
Oh I agree. But if we start using unproven scenarios to further demonize them, then we do no better than what they did to Palestine. It’s hypocritical and follows the path they’re taking. So what’s the point then?
You want to wait for an investigation?
So do you also agree that we shouldn’t use unproven scenarios to demonize Palestinians or UNRWA just because a few of their workers ALLEGEDLY are members of hamas? And that we shouldn’t cut of funding to the humanitarian organization the same day the ICJ ruling ordered Israel provide humanitarian aid? Because otherwise it would be hypocrisy right?
Oh no, please don’t tell me that is totally different!
Nice loophole find after the post was deleted.
To answer your reply, I agree. It’s exactly the same and it’s a shame the bias exists so blatantly.
Yeah I see your point and agree to an extent. But if we don’t assume the obvious explanation because of Israel and it’s supporters generally casting doubt on basically any report of it’s crimes until an unspecified “investigation” is (possibly) concluded at some point in the future, then we allow them to escape blame for their actions.
You must know that they will never admit this is what happened, and there is no plausible way to settle the issue in the fog of war (e.g. the hospital car park explosion from early in the war, still debated and unclear).
So your approach basically lets them off the hook. Going with the obvious explanation is kind of better imo
It might be. I won’t say I know better.
Is arguing “they’re not malicious in their enthusiastic use of bombs, merely incompetent” not worse? It implies they don’t know how to do better, and thus are a very reckless uncontrolled threat, compared to just one that chooses to be evil.
It probably is worse. And consider this: they have nukes in their stockpile and are running out of regular bombs.
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If the incident was a one off I could see that as true, like the US boat during the six day war when everything was hectic as hell and all communications had seemingly been cutoff. This is unfortunately not an isolated incident, and the benefit if the doubt should not be given.
Took me a bit to realize this comment isn’t pro-Israel.