# Smapti is Pitted

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 21, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907 "2014-05-21T08:14:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1656

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/1656 "2024-05-09T03:30:27Z")

</div>

> [@Chisquirrel](#):
>
> “Arabs aren’t helping Gaza, why should we?”

I never said that we shouldn’t be helping Gaza. I said that the Arab states have an obligation to help Gaza that they aren’t living up to and people put words in my mouth to twist that into “you should only help your own race” despite my never once mentioning race as a factor.

The US is providing aid to Gazans caught in the crossfire, and that’s a good thing.

> [@Chisquirrel](#):
>
> Still not a thing that’s been said.

Ahem.

> [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/322):
>
> So Israel “accidentally” blew up more aid workers. Including U.S. citizens. World Central Kitchen was trying to feed the starving in the middle of a man made famine. This is shameful, disgusting, on and on.

> [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/324):
>
> Alright. I give. If this is what it looks like, then Israel has gone too far.

> [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/325):
>
> When it was deliberately sniping Palestinian grannies and 5 year-olds, that was “just what happens in war”
> 
> Foreign aid workers, and suddenly it’s “too far”.
> 
> What’s the difference, I wonder…?

> [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/326):
>
> Well, the people the IDF targeted weren’t, you know…those people.

> [@Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653/341):
>
> “They’re killing tens of thousands of Palestinian children!”  
> You: Tough shit, bombs happen. War crimes aren’t even a real thing, so it doesn’t matter.
> 
> “They killed seven white people!”  
> You: Israel has crossed a line!
> 
> And you wonder why people think you’re a racist.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907)._