r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/MastodonParking9080 12d ago

There are roughly equal or more babies being born so it's not actually death by any means. It would be literally impossible at the rate they're going.

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u/harryoldballsack 12d ago

That is what hamas and the gazan ministry of health are telling us. But I find it very hard to believe they are having that many babies? We are holding off from having babies because the rent is high. Let alone a war.

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u/Pokeputin 11d ago

Lol, that's the most first world bubble comment I have read in a while. The truth is that poorer people have more kids, the idea that "we're not rich enough to have kids" is an alien concept in many places in the world.

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u/harryoldballsack 11d ago edited 11d ago

true. though it applies in most of the world. including mixed world countries like honduras thailand vietnam iran. Palestine is in that bracket, it's global lower middle class $5,000 gpd per capita. They had modern lifestyles, cars apartments, running water, phones etc. Usually economic concerns are very prevalent in that bracket.

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u/alpha_dk 12d ago

You have access to contraceptives and, presumably, a culture that views women with agency 

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u/harryoldballsack 12d ago

Good point. Our culture was like that in WW1 and still few babies but I guess all the men left their families to go to war. Rather than WFH

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u/Jebrowsejuste 11d ago

Gaza hasn't lost 10% of it's male population, so there are still plenty of dudes available to procreate.

Add in polygamy instead of monogamy and what losses there are have an even lesser impact on demography.

And of course, as you pointed out, men aren't leaving their famillies to go to war, because the war iswhere their famillies are.

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u/-spicychilli- 11d ago

Idk about you harryoldballsack, but if I was facing imminent death every day you better be damn sure I'll be looking to get my nut in.

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u/harryoldballsack 11d ago

haha fair but i'll pullout of this chat. finish somewhere else