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Israel/Palestine

stopdiggin

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4. I'll leave the answer to that

Reply to Beastly Boy (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 12, 2024, 07:08 PM

Feb 2024

to people that have actually served in those conditions.
And - the "hear no, see no" might not have been the most apt analogy I could have reached for here. Rather, what I have heard described is a tacit acknowledgement (among aid workers) that unsavory things do take place - and that serving the area means 'making peace' to some degree at least, with those hard facts.

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A UN agency said it had no idea a Hamas nerve center was directly below its Gaza HQ [View all] Eugene Feb 2024 OP

as other agencies and officials have pointed out stopdiggin Feb 2024 #1

How often is often? Beastly Boy Feb 2024 #2

I'll leave the answer to that stopdiggin Feb 2024 #4

What other officials and agencies have pointed this out? Do you have a link? N/T lapucelle Feb 2024 #3

The ear plugs and the sleep masks worked! Turbineguy Feb 2024 #5

Yeah, right. The Mouth Feb 2024 #6