this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
159 points (82.4% liked)

World News

50399 readers
2614 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

This show of force, welcomed by some Palestinians after months of lawlessness, could now threaten the fragile ceasefire, especially as all living hostages from Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack have been released.

The Hamas-run police maintained a high degree of public security after the militants seized power in Gaza 18 years ago while also cracking down on dissent. They largely melted away in recent months as Israeli forces seized large areas of Gaza and targeted Hamas security forces with airstrikes.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 104 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Ignoring that the IDF killed 6 people yesterday during this "ceasefire" -_-

Jesus christ why can't Hamas and the Zionist party just trade for each others leaderships so they can be executed and we can move past these old fucking religious extremists who keep us busy killing each other?

FFS I hate what religion enables us to do to each other.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

it’s not religion. it’s class.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

religion is used as lubricant in the class machinery

[–] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It has nothing at all to do with religion, not even a little. Without religion, they find a different excuse to do exactly the same thing with no change.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago

It's the only lubricant, if you will

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago

It's the only lubricant, if you will

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Dude take a break from the Marxist revolution to recognize there is more than one dynamic in the world.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'm sorry, dude, but this is cope from the religiously indoctrinated.

Right-wing ideologies and religious participation are intrinsically linked.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago

There's entire factions like Randians who disagree with furious intensity

[–] flandish@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yes but it’s not “the religion” that’s the problem. “ain’t no war but class war” is not just a cool slogan, it’s practically newtonian fact.

Lemmy won’t hear it dude.

The overwhelming opinion here is that

rELiGiOn bAD!

For some reason lots of people here can’t seem to see that class war is the goal, and those in power using religion to achieve that goal.

Religion itself has nothing to do with it. It’s class war all the way using whatever means necessary to keep the poor in their place.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Religion is a control mechanism that was used to police communities before law enforcement was feasible.

Today, it is still a control mechanism that, instead of being ran by governments, is just unregulated cults available for any well-spoken con man to take advantage of.

Saying that we would still have genocide without religion is like saying quadruple amputees could technically still rape someone. But we both know it's way less likely.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Capitaism does genocides too…

More than one thing can be true at the same time lol.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's their religion that justifies the Zionists exterminting anyone who exists on "their land"

When has a government consciously made the decision to genocide a group of people because it was finantially a good idea?

There usually isn't a reasonable reason to do these things, which is why religion is used, because it lets people accept unreasonable explanations for what happens in the world around them.

Look, i get it. Religion is important to a lot of people. Mostly because they have been forced from childhood to internalize it, but it isn't healthy for society.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

when has a government

cough: the irish potato “famine.”

look. religion is bad. people are bad. capitalists are bad.

i just tend to think it all boils down to peoples castes/class that really drives this “bad.”

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The staunchly atheist government of the USSR killed off tens of millions of people, too.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Hamas said it would disarm once the occupation end. They accept the two state solution based on pre 67 borders. There is all kind of militant in Palestine there is not only muslims fighting the occupation. From thr palestinian side it was never about religion but liberation from settler colonialism

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you really, truly believe most Israelis don't want exactly this? The vast majority of Israelis identify as Zionists, and specifically the kinds of Zionists that would at best support expelling Palestinians.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the propaganda is pretty strong, and it seems they've insulted their people from reason.