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Ancient_Fondant_9359

***Letters: May 22, 2025***

[***Winnipeg Sun***](https://winnipegsun.com/author/winnipeg-sun/)

***Devaluing lives through distance***

***All lives and needless suffering should matter. But that’s much easier for a conscience to dismiss when one considers another an innately much lower lifeform.***

***On a mindbogglingly massive scale, human beings are being seen and treated as though they are disposable and, by extension, their suffering and death are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations.***

***A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions.***

***In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news. It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life.’ And it’s even easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.***

***With each news report of the daily civilian death toll from unrelenting bombardment, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.***

*Frank Sterle Jr.*

[*https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/letters/letters-may-22-2025*](https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/letters/letters-may-22-2025)

Professional_Mud_316

as far as im concerned the whole pro isreal argument is over. either you support the side of evil or you don't.

this is why israel hate is at an all time high worldwide. all their dumb propoganda has long been debunked and all their evil has been exposed for the world to see

ElectricalMastodon99

Arabs chant death to America, death to Israel all day long. Iranian leaders say they're going to wipe Israel off the map. Why can't people see what is so obvious. They hate us and want to kill us all. Why do you think that we can kiss and make up with them? They will never respond to people being nice. Only force works with Islamist terrorists.

TripleJ_77

Why are only Israeli politicians constantly criticized? I often hear anti-Semitic statements from politicians from all countries and I have never seen it come up in the international media as a tool to delegitimize a country.

Ok-Parsnip2134

Trump said he was going to annex Greenland also. 

Words ~~equal~~ Actions

FACT: No matter what happens to Gazans, the Pro-Pali's will complain and blame Israel. Hamas won't get the credit it deserves for 60K martyrs. 

There is no good outcome for a society that promotes hate and violence. 

Don't tell me all Gazans aren't Hamas. I know that. There are many innocent civilians that are victims and martyrs for this god forsaken Jihad. Remember, Hamas is 1 in every 20 people in Gaza. Hamas is brothers, sons and fathers of these people. These people have been ok with their brothers and sons participating in a terrorist death squad because their society has taught hate and promoted violence. 

If all of the people in Gaza were peaceful and had no desire to annihilate Jews, Hamas could not exist. 

Hamas suppresses opposition. That's only because the opposition is a very small minority and is easy to suppress. If just 20% of Gaza actually opposed Hamas, Hamas could not exist. Full Stop.

thedudeLA

It doesn’t matter what he says. People say all sorts of things. Trump said a lot of things like that he doesn’t want Muslims into the U.S. now, he got a 400 million jet plane from Qatar and decided to remove Tahrir al Sham from the sanctions list. 

Grow up.

BizzareRep

GoRangers5

It is not "Israel" but "one Israeli, who happens to be a member of the cabinet" speaking in a private capacity about issues not concerning his portfolio.

JustResearchReasons

The biggest mistake hamas made was the vids, send to all the contacts in the phones of the victims; the rape, burning alive and murderspree.
Oh, and the go pro live feeds.

The second mistake of whole of Gaza;
After we all, ALL, saw the Gaza 7oct23 celebration party’s, dancing with the mutilated corpses.

Israeli saw this too.
They also saw, the candy, enjoyed by all in Gaza.
The happiness, the proudness, full glee!!!

The last mistake hamas made, the Bibas children.

If one thinks there is a future for Palestinians next of Israel, that one really lives on a different planet.

It’s over.
One is a high tech spacefaring nuclear state.
The other is.. rubble.

If one can understand and explains Pallie- anger?
Here is Israeli anger, very understandable especially with their history trough, the ages.
Is it not? 

Sjalom.

crooked_cat

This is not a far-right issue. This is the position supported by most Israelis. A recent poll showed around 53% support blocking aid. Unfortunately, they didn't separate between Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis. Typically, you see divergence on the Palestinian issue between Jewish and Arab Israelis, with the later overwhelmingly sympathetic to the Palestinians and the former overwhelmingly hostile. So, if they only considered the views of Jewish Israelis, it is likely to be much higher.

You have to understand the extreme position on the Palestinian issue is not a far-right issue. The far-rights are very open about it and some Jewish Israelis don't like this, not because they necessarily disagree with the substance of their views but they dislike the way they express it and how they say it openly as this can damage Israeli image and make it harder for them to defend Israel. In other words, it is more about disagreement about style rather than substance.

And before someone mentions the inevitable Oct. 07 and claims this extreme position towards Palestinians is due to Oct. 07, this has been the case way before Oct. 07. Hamas was formed in the late 80s while Likud, an extremist rightwing party formed by the former head of a terrorist organisation, came into power a decade before. And before that, the settlements, the massacres etc. all happened under leftist Israeli government.

MayJare

Did the US have a naval blockade preventing aid going into Japan BEFORE they surrendered in WW2? 

YES.

Did the US provide aid once Japan surrendered?

YES.

Attacking supplies lines / preventing the enemy from getting resources is war 101. 

Don't like it? Do what Palestinians have been protesting for: Get Hamas to surrender. Or as they say "HAMAS OUT"

DragonBunny23

It's not just the far right, if you look at every poll of Israelis on whether Gaza should receive aid or not, the majority of them say no and sometimes it's the vast majority.

jamesmilner1999666

Every piece of propaganda they publish is now appended with "says Hamas-run health ministry" and they think it's ok. 

Here's the latest one I've seen as an example: [https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c628n68zpj6t](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c628n68zpj6t)

PeppermintHoHo

1) Hamas fabricates a massacre. 

2) Mainstream media outlets immediately run with Hamas’ fake narrative and publishes a report blaming Israel, garnering millions of views.

3) Evidence emerges showing that Hamas lied.

4) The news outlets quietly amend their articles, which the majority of readers either won’t see or will ignore.


This has happened numerous times at this point. It’s insanely irresponsible for outlets to keep taking fucking Hamas’ word and credulously running with it.

ManBearJewLion

Hamas lied and the mainstream media helped them spread their lies around the world.  The mainstream media has lost all credibility.

_Machine_Gun

As Hamas loses more power, expect an increase in fake massacre reports

thatshirtman

&gt;The Qatari-based Al Jazeera Network quoted sources in Gaza who said 30 people were killed and over 100 wounded in a strike near the distribution center operated by the American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The Reuters news agency also said dozens were killed, basing their report on the Palestinian news agency WAFA and Hamas-affiliated media.

&gt;Other major news outlets, including the BBC, CNN, Sky News,The Washington Post, to name but a few, were quick to repeat the claim.  

When will Western media stop believing terrorists? Never, I guess.

Hamas want to scare Gazans from going to aid distribution centers. This is why they claim daily that the IDF shoots people there, it's not the first time, and yet every time the media fall for it.

Ahad_Haam

xthemoonx

The Palestinians were shocked that food aid was free after Hamas had been charging Palestinians for it.

Existing_Royal_3500

Another lie that many news agencies would just regurgitate. Shame.

It should be clear for all that some players in the International scene are afraid from aid being delivered to Gazans not through UNRWA...

Thebananabender

What happened to journalistic integrity?  It seems now like the status quo is to just blast blood libel as breaking news without any due diligence. Not a single article bothered to reach out for GHF.

Latrodectus702

Maybe at last people will stop swallowing the daily propaganda and start looking for verified sources.

ElCaminoInTheWest

"Hamas run health ministry" gets me every time 😂

Chemical-Highway-941

GHF is doing crucial work right now. It's already delivered over 4.7 million meals in Gaza in just six days and continues to scale up rapidly. They’ve opened multiple food distribution centres and plan to expand even further, including into northern Gaza. Their approach helps ensure that aid actually reaches civilians, even as other groups (UN) struggle with looting and disruptions. It’s a solid example of organised, secure humanitarian aid.

kezguyfour

Oops.

I wonder if all the news outlets who (again) got duped into parroting Hamas propaganda will issue a formal correction and apology lol.

BlobbyMcBlobber

I feel like we used to have relatively factual news that was not loaded with bias. It could be I was too young to understand the propaganda back then. Now as I read and listen, these words jump out and I see it for the jaded crap it is. I want actual, facts. I don’t want a spin. I want to hear the real story. Unfortunately none of these companies tell the truth because they get money from halve truths and distorted words.

Mz_Maitreya

There is a real crisis going on for the people of Palestine and real injustice being done, but the media participating with Hamas’ narratives has completely conflated the people’s cause with the terrorists’. 

I’m recently coming out of the American pro Israeli narrative, and finding the nuance in the issue has been so very difficult.

AnFearGohIontach

Funny, I work up to a news flash form the BBC that Isreal fired tanks into the aid centre. I wonder why my redaction news flash will come.

Surely people won’t  just read the first one and then clamw its  real moving forward despite being debunked

Northernlord1805

Its amazing how Hamas claims something without any evidence and the mainstream media just instantly believes them.

Even the the American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) which distributed the aid has gone out and said they are not aware of any incident happening.

TrenAutist

https://youtu.be/7PfYdDY4bjk?si=bXPRGF3F15Uowh7K

Only video I could find on this incident. It does not look like any Israeli soldiers firing in the crowd. No tanks spotted or helicopters. At 0:07, you can clearly see for nearly one frame a mortar landing on top of a building.

1ncest_is_wincest

Menvimacal

The fact that fellow leftists and progressives are duped through good nature and stupidity to supporting hamas and palastine breaks my soul. And our media is the fuel to the fire

Coby900

You know what worlds need to see, live streaming of humanitarian aid being given out. Multiple cameras and angles being recorded 24/7. That could disprove any claims that Ham🐷🐖ass-holes puts out there in the wild.

RayDonovanBoston

AP/BBC/NY Times, etc seem eager to accept Hamas's claims about anything.  I guess it fits the narrative.  I assume they don't do this with other terrorist groups -- ISIS and Al Qaeda, for example.  Or, the "Death to America" Houthis.

Ok-Writing336

Why the hell would anyone believe a word that comes out of the mouth of rapists and murderers hell bent on destroying Judaism. Fuck anyone who listens to them

No_Perspective_150

What a fucking shocker. And of course multiple media outlets still show Israel at fault in the headlines for this big fat nothing burger. Absolute scum.

Cookie-Tiger

Are you saying terrorists are lying???  Shocking

NegevThunderstorm

Don’t let that stop the droves of Hamas supporters spouting their usual nonsense about terrorism

CaptainRAVE2

How the hell does security footage of a crowd not being shot proves that a shooting didn't occur?

oshaboy

GFH is run by the Team Rubicon guy who is backed by Palantir…the same company who is putting together a master database of Americans’ data…

Katoswife

The same news networks who just a few years back peided themselves on fact checks are throwing away or their journalistic standards when it comes to this war and parrot whatever Hamas claims. Then, quietly retract it, if at all, after the damage was already done. 

When this war eventually ends, remember who these networks were the next time you trust any nees coming from them

SoulForTrade

So what's happened here, then?

 https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/british-doctor-gaza-hospital-israel/

warriorer

PMme_cat_on_Cleavage

Every news, every word that comes out of politicians mouths needs to be fact checked first before it’s released to the public. Propaganda is getting out of control.

1millionkarmagoal

Wow, a 4 minute video! What amazing proof you’ve got there!!! 4 minutes is certainly all the time in the world, right!?! Nothing EVER HAPPENS outside of 4 minutes, does it!?!??!??!?!!?

ynwahs

Context matters, who you are quoting and their political affiliation matters. The reliability and accuracy of the quote and the credibility and bias of the media source matters. You provided none of those things so impossible to answer your question.

  
The only conclusion I can draw from your post is you lack a nuanced understanding of this conflict and appear brainwashed towards the Pallywood side.

cl3537

Don't really blame them, although some are used to it, some still has bias since Israel gets attacked regularly by terrorists including attacks from gaza, the iron dome activates firing rockets, alarms and evacuating protocols going off and news reporting the latest attacks.

NodeTMan53

Why do you ignore the fact the hamas hasn’t helped their people? Why do you ignore the fact Israel is also in mourning? Of course any individual being killed is horrible, but hamas broke the seis fire (a international war crime btw) do you expect Israel to sit there and take it because they have more resources? It’s acceptable because there are still hostages. I don’t know where you get your information from but I can assume it is not unbiased. Watch this years Israelis Eurovision contestants story about October 2nd and let me know your thoughts

livelaughlovinlifee

Probably the same as in Gaza.  They see the hatred of the other-side and reflect it back.  More interesting question is why does the Hamas organization continue to hold hostages or their bodies and fight behind the population. They cant defend their people but refuse to surrender or even negotiate in good faith.  They want the international publicity and use the carnage of an unequal war as A prop for their tropes.

thebeorn

No, there are always bad players. Politicians on all sides all over the globe have good actors and bad actors. There are some extreme right wingers in the Israeli cabinet, that have said things most don’t agree with. Ans the same is true on the other side. “Jews are evil, kill the Yahud when you see one” …ok so ? There are extremes on all sides. This is hardly news. And none of them get a pass. The intelligent question is how did this come to be. Then you peel away layers and there are no innocent parties. You stand for the fundamentals of the war. Do both people deserve peace..yes. Well how do we get that. Doing an October 7th just screws Gazans over cause now there ain’t gonna be a two state solution for a long time after this. There is no trust. Yet weeks before 10/7 there were protests in Israel to oust this government. All 10/7 showed Israelis that yes, extreme security protocols against the Palestinians IS needed. So now it’s nuance,cause and effect and trajectory. 
If in 1948 or any of the 5 opportunities for a land / peace deal was accepted by the Palestinians (yes I know you will claim oh but no deal was ever good enough ..ok so keep the status quo ?! Smh)..the trajectory of peace and prosperity could have changed for them. Instead they continue to choose violence as a political aim. Which never pans out. So trajectory ..decades of the same shyte gets a more extreme right wing government elected because the public feels the need. The checkpoints get tighter, the control tighter, the barriers higher.  The Jews have already been persecuted from the dawn of time. Israel’s creation was a solution to that violence. And even though their numbers are much smaller than all the neighbouring countries always trying to attack and wanting them gone, they will do what they have to as their right to survive. You don’t like it. Then change the narrative on the other side. 
You can’t create a perfect victim and perfect villain.

Dazzling_Pizza_9742

From what I've seen on the internet at least is them being extremely defensive towards outsiders. They critisize these people a lot between themselves and in confidence, but getting them to critisize their own government or country in front of someone who is critisizing it is like pulling teeth.

namitynamenamey

Please don't generalize. Please don't demonize all Israelis. It's just as bad as saying all Gazans are Hamas. I think you are only reading sources that confirm your biases. Read some sources tracking the Israeli opposition and get a more accurate view. [https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-853440](https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-853440)

Icy-Floor-9599

OP, I appreciate your attempt at genuinely trying to understand "the other side" but there is nothing to understand. By asking help me to understand, you're effectively asking: "Help me to understand your genocidal mania towards a besieged, stateless and oppressed group of people." 

There is nothing to understand here. These people are freaking lunatics. I genuinely have no other way to describe them. They are advocating the mass murder of an entire group of people simply on account of them identifying as X (Palestinian).
Tell me, what does that make the person who holds such disgusting views if not a lunatic? 

And some of the responses you've received so far are indicative of this extreme level of dehumanization and Islamophobia. Like the commenter talking about 72 virgins after death if one dies as a martyr or how incestuous relationships are more prevalent in Islamic communities. 

There are of course real issues but were talking about advocating the extermination of a society. Nothing and I do mean absolutely nothing will ever justify this insanity.

Justice91

Actually personally I think that Gaza was radicalised by very harsh belives and came to acts such as Hamas 7.10 other terror attacks and more but in all my heart I believe that there should be peace i do not know if it’s possible anymore because of the miss trust since Israel came on to its feet but I hope it will come eventually the aid gladly is coming in about a week if I’m not mistaken into Gaza I think that in a war it’s very complex always was especially with the situation with Hamas some people think Israel is to extreme and some other say that they do what they need to do to remove Hamas from the control in Gaza I honestly in this situation I do not think there is a right and wrong both sides did mistakes but you can see in the hostages returns and videos of 7.10 that the people are a part of the problem some people in Israel do want peace but I didn’t see the same opinion from any Palestinians from Gaza (Israeli citizen)

Dull-Wheel-7929

It’s a defense mechanism. For years, Israel’s policies were overly permissive, ignoring clear risk factors — and that led to mass killings of innocent people on both sides.
The current rhetoric comes from deep frustration. People live in constant fear that their neighbors might one day try to kill them.
Soldiers are fed up — risking their lives to protect civilians, only to watch temporary deals fall apart and trigger yet another wave of terrorist attacks.

krivik_zomber

So now your going to complaining some Israeli think, why don’t you complain all Palestinians and Muslims are thought from childhood they can earn paradise and 72 virgins for killing infidels????

Accurate_Return_5521

Release the hostages now. Aid discussions will not save hamas

rayinho121212

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Racism towards Palestinians is incredibly mainstream in the west especially in America. When Israeli politicians say racist things towards Palestinians, they're not saying anything that the elite in America disagree with.

The media and political elite in America agrees that Palestinians are animals that need to be killed. Much of the opinion articles written in the likes of the NYT are by people who'd happily see the whole of Gaza dead.

Anonon_990

The term genocide is used to make sure Hamas has no blame for their murders on October 7 of 1200 Israelis, kidnapping 250 and murdering many of the hostages.  If Israel committed the fake genocide, Hamas’s murders are just resistance? Vocabulary is for irrelevant Hamas keyboard warriors to distort. Israel will never again ask permission for survival. Israel will finish the war Hamas started. If Palestinians want the war to end, they can refuse to be martyrs, release the hostages and help overthrow Hamas.

ajmampm99

I think what we’re ignoring is that you’re wrong. Not about the fact that some Israeli officials have made such statements, but that it’s *a lot* of Israeli officials. It’s a minority, a small minority at that, who speak this way. They just happen to be loud with their opinions, and then get quoted a million times by the anti-Israel crowd. That same crowd conveniently ignores the countless number of Israelis and Israeli officials that want security and peace *for* Palestinians. I keep my ears open for Palestinian officials considering the safety and security of Jews. I’ve never heard it in my life. When you’re willing to acknowledge that asymmetry, I will have a good faith discussion about Islamophobia in Israel. I.e. All my homies hate Smotrich and Ben Gvir, so stop sensationalizing.

Mister_Squishy

I am pro-Israel. I feel sorry for innocent Palestinians who have died in this horrible conflict. They are certainly not less than human, they are people and they deserve compassion...  
  
What is happening is a war. A war that could have prevented if Hamas hadn't attacked. Having said that, I still have compassion for innocent people who have suffered and even died in this terrible conflict...  
  
While I feel compassion towards again, the innocent people on both sides, the fact is that Israel is far more humane than any other government would be... Any Arab country faced with an October 7th attack would have just nuked Gaza on October 8th and expelled ALL Palestinians, in West Bank, Gaza, wherever on October 9th...

quicksilver2009

&gt; Why do pro-Israel people ignore ...

They don't. Just read a random headline here.

https://www.haaretz.com/

Mister-Psychology

I personally have no love for the Palestinians. I don’t support targeting uninvolved civilians. Nevertheless, I think the Gazans need to undergo a massive de radicalization program. 

Look at this video for a glimpse on the prevailing government discourse in the Gaza Strip 

https://www.memri.org/tv/road-to-october-seven-education-to-jihad-and-martrydom

This is extreme indoctrination. The Gazans who went through it need to be de-programmed

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