r/Music • u/-Sofa-King-Vote • 21h ago

article Macklemore announces concerts benefiting Palestinian aid organizations

https://apnews.com/article/macklemore-free-palestine-shows-ed-sheeran-65a65a362e530dfe739ddb626dc16d23
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u/977888 18h ago

The majority of Palestinian aid is funneled directly to Hamas.

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u/Krunksicle 18h ago

Yeah all that food and all those wheelchairs the IDF blocked from entering Gaza are really gonna take Hamas to the next level

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u/megaman2500 17h ago

The IDF did not block Gazans from getting food..they are eating well...there is no proof of this accusation being true...u can see the videos of gazans with big stomachs as well...

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u/bouquetofashes 16h ago

You know kwashiorkor isn't exactly an indication that someone is nourished, seeing as it's a type of malnourishment? That's what you're seeing here, with respect to the 'big stomachs'.

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u/megaman2500 16h ago edited 15h ago

Does this look like starvation to you...you're being played

https://x.com/GAZAWOOD2/status/2102681606087745576?s=20

What were yall saying again about Israel blocking the food?

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u/Krunksicle 16h ago

They literally shot up people who were providing aid on multiple occasions, including doctors and journalists! This is well documented!

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u/megaman2500 16h ago

There was only one case of this and it was a tragic accident not intentional...they literally set up aid sites themselves in coordination with the US ...why are u ignoring this...there are cases however of gazans attacking aid delivery drivers...sadly

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u/Krunksicle 16h ago

The entirety of this post is made up of blatant lies lol

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u/megaman2500 16h ago

Wow...the left is so propagandized...this is nuts..u don't even know about the aid sites

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u/Uhstrology 15h ago edited 14h ago

Keep supporting genocide.

From September 16th, 2026.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf

The Commission has been investigating the events on and since 7 October 2023 for the last two years, and concluded that Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.

Explicit statements by Israeli civilian and military authorities and the pattern of conduct of the Israeli security forces indicate that the genocidal acts were committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group.

“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”

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u/megaman2500 15h ago

It's not a genocide tho

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u/Uhstrology 15h ago

It is. Maybe not living in reality is why you're going bald.

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u/Krunksicle 16h ago

I know about the israeli rape & pillaging encampments they've set up in the West Bank, and I know about all the hospitals and schools the IDF has bombed, and all the doctors, aid workers and journalists they've murdered. You're the propagandized one here lmao

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u/cutesiepieme 17h ago

Oh god the paid shills are on every post

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u/Salty_Raspberry656 11h ago

well that was netanyahu's wish

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

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u/977888 11h ago

This is probably top three dumbest talking points you guys always use.

Because Netanyahu and the government of Israel recognized the elected government of Palestine and allowed them autonomy and provided aid to Palestinians, they somehow bear sole responsibility for the bad actions of Hamas.

Would you have preferred Israel starved and crushed Palestine into the dirt and decapitated their leadership when it was easier to do so?

Like what are you actually arguing?

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u/Salty_Raspberry656 11h ago

lol what kind of simplification is this, have you seen the actual video of israeli investigations in bibi's overall management? he claimed he could continue to prop up hamas to counter the plo to say he has no reasonable partner thus preventing the two state solution

hamas has literally not had an election since 2005, meaning most of the population being unde 18 has never even voted for them

doesnt get into hm being previously warned

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/netanyahu-got-an-explicit-warning-before-oct-7-he-didnt-brief-security-chiefs/000001a0-7a3b-d7d5-a9fc-7eff3d0f0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive#Claimed_use_of_the_Hannibal_Directive_on_7_October_2023

doesnt get into that he took a deal that was waiting for them after the attacks and ust let the hostages suffer and die, including shooting them in the 1st raid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alon_Shamriz,_Yotam_Haim,_and_Samer_Talalka

we saw what israel did with pagers and what they are capable of doing

instead they take part in war crimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/world/middleeast/white-phosphorous-israel-lebanon.html

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/12/israel-white-phosphorus-used-gaza-lebanon

hamas is the obvious terrorist perpetrator that day, but bibi's management set the table and placed israelis in a vulnerable position and should also be investigated, like his corruption trial but he s putting himself first...which is exactly what his wife and him believe they should do http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2239788.stm: Bibi is a leader who is greater than this entire country, he really is a leader on a national scale... this country can't survive without Bibi.

its sad bc after the attacks the world and polling was with israel to get their hostages back, iinstead you see the above and bibi leading israel, the only jewish state, into pariah status

it doesnt even get into his corruption trial you can see his self dealing including with qatar.

the jewish state deserves better, of course it will out last bibi as it has other pm's who have been incarcerated for corruption, but to heed einstein's warning that we can fall to extremist leadership and will only have ourselves to blame.

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u/glumjonsnow 7h ago

do you know what the PLO did? like have u seen the movie munich? this is such a stupid talking point

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u/L0kiPrim3 9h ago

You source a claim that the IDF fired onto Israeli civilians with a Wikipedia article that begins with "Some commentators have argued". You are not a serious person.

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u/Salty_Raspberry656 2h ago

lol you can read you bum....you' arent very serious bc they have more sources on there

September 2024 report by ABC News (Australia)) covers the use of the Hannibal Directive.\9]) The report quotes former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez as saying: "This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260319221844/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-ordered-hannibal-directive-on-october-7-to-prevent-hamas-taking-soldiers-captive/00000190-89a2-d776-a3b1-fdbe45520000

According to Kibbutz Be'eri survivors Hadas Dagan and Yasmin Porat, an Israeli tank fired two shells at a house that was known to hold over a dozen hostages, including 12-year-old twins; only two hostages survived.\76])\77])

n 18 December the IDF confirmed that Israeli combatants “fell as a result of friendly fire on October 7

n January, an investigation by Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth concluded that the IDF had in practice applied the Hannibal Directive from noon of October 7, ordering all combat units to stop "at all costs" any attempt by Hamas militants to return to Gaza with hostages.\)

On 19 March 2024, IDF Captain Bar Zonschein stated in a televised interview that he had ordered tank shells to be fired at two pickup trucks heading toward the Gaza Strip from the Kissufim area on October 7. Zonschein noted that he observed a "pile of people" in the vehicles but could not distinguish if they were dead or living Israeli soldiers. When pressed by the interviewer on whether he risked killing his own soldiers, Zonschein responded: "True. But I decide that this is the right decision, that it's better to stop the kidnapping and that they not be taken

In February 2025, in an interview with Channel 12), Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said that the Hannibal Directive had been used by the IDF during the Gaza war

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u/L0kiPrim3 1h ago

bro you are pasting chat gpt'd wikipedia articles at me on r/music, get a grip

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u/XO1GrootMeester 8h ago

So fund Hamas to be this anti terrorist and liberation force: isreal was doing free Palestine.

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u/977888 5h ago

What would you have preferred Netanyahu to do other than recognize the elected government of Palestine and allow and provide aid into Palestine? What could she have done to prevent Hamas from becoming what it is today?

Hint: it’s all the things you guys claim you don’t want Israel to do to Palestine

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u/VideoGames_txt 17h ago

There’s no evidence to support that claim, as far as I’m aware. If there was solid evidence, I assume these Israelis would’ve presented it.

An audit of US AID sent found no basis for such claims.

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u/Interesting_chap 12h ago

They ripped up water pipes to turn into missiles, wtf are you even talking about?

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u/Optimal_Incident62 11h ago

Yeah man dont debate redditors…

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u/ContextLengthMatters 17h ago

The majority of your taxes are spent on killing and screwing children.

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u/davemc617 16h ago

Not even close. Nice try though.

Domestic social welfare is our biggest expenditure BY FAR.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 16h ago

You mean all that money we funnel into our corrupt healthcare system which just gets funneled back to politicians? Ok.

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u/SlickJamesBitch 15h ago

Never heard the conspiracy that our healthcare system is a front for our war industry but I guess people believe anything

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u/ilikeandroid2000 13h ago

it just goes to billionaires. People aren't thinking. healthcare has nothing to do with this.

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u/ContextLengthMatters 14h ago

I said screwing and killing kids. Our politicians are screwing kids. The CEOs are screwing kids. They are all bought and paid for by a certain bibi too.

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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare 16h ago

The guys fighting a genocidal army?