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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   30377 thread views

Israel-Gaza Megathread #2

This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.

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The entire situation is heartbreaking.

...and a cynic might suspect intentional.

The cynic in me thinks that Hamas would do this to themselves, on purpose.

The consequentialist math might work. How many (Palestinian) lives are saved by avoiding an Israeli invasion? More than 500?

You are not wrong

Why is no one talking about it being a Christian-run hospital. That's at least an interesting wrinkle in my opinion. Christians have to be getting run roughshod in the crossfire.

Here is a Christian organization and its beneficiaries, the target of the most brazen escalation since the opening salvo, and we have Muslims and Jews pointing fingers at each other.

I think because it’s in no one’s interest to say it’s Christian. Muslims want to be sympathetic to Palestine and distancing themselves from the hospital by saying it’s Christian does nothing for them. Israel wants Europe and the US on its side, so saying it’s Christian does nothing for them.

Because to bleed is to live

It was built by Christians but was it still run by them?

Here's the wiki. I mean I understand the initial skepticism—literally no one is mentioning this. There was a brief edit battle to get the first sentence to say "aka Baptist Hospital," but a power user reverted it.

The hospital has been in operation since 1882 and was founded by the Church Mission Society of the Church of England. Later, the hospital was managed between 1954 and 1982 by the Medical Mission of the Southern Baptist Church, known then as the Baptist Hospital (Arabic: المستشفى المعمداني). Since 1980, the hospital has been run by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. It is supported by international charities such as Embrace the Middle East.

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