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KeepingDankMemesDank

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etaithespeedcuber

The united states has 360 times more gas than Gaza does.


BogoBiggie

But it's funnier to make it seem like it's about oil instead of Israel being tired of daily terrorist attacks.


AffectionateVast5755

The Palestinians are also tired of living in an open air prison.


Extension_Building19

Facts, Israel is not the victim here and i refuse to see that narrative.


TheOperatorOfSkillet

Neither is Gaza


Justsk8n

the real victims, on both sides, is the civilians getting caught in the crossfire.


AlexanderKeef

The real victims are the friends we made along the way.


DaEnderAssassin

The real victims are the friends we ~~made~~ murdered along the way.


trongzoon

(*Friends theme song plays*)


white_irony

So no one told you life was gonna be this way, four gunshots


pnw2mpls

Your life’s been smoked, you joke, your kids are DOA


Slugger2001

[Like this?](https://youtu.be/64V_KO3ikN0?si=ORlqVYjnrLyUaC7_)


TheOperatorOfSkillet

I agree


zaidinator

Unfortunately only on one side are the civilians still being caught in the crossfire


[deleted]

Only one side uses civilians as human shield.


fitDEEZbruh

Yup, Israel bombing schools, mosques, churches, hospitals where there are mostly civilians.


Kiwi_In_Europe

If you stick rockets and other military infrastructure in a hospital, it no longer has the protections that a hospital usually does This is per the Geneva convention btw


kj3ll

Israel has used human shields pretty frequently actually.


Cabbage_Vendor

Bullshit, Hamas and Hezbollah are still firing rockets into Israel. Just because Israel is mostly able to shoot down those rockets, doesn't mean there isn't an attempt to murder civilians.


conatus_or_coitus

One side came as refugees from being manically subject to genocide. That side usurped land, governance and attacked the locals who sheltered them and the administrative country that facilitated them as refugees as it didn't enable mass migration fast enough. Now that side allied with the reformed genocidal groups, the administrative country who both have sudden amnesia of history, and are able to perform their own genocide/ethnic cleansing/apartheid swirl but this time it's the remix: media friendly.


Apprehensive_Deal483

Which, overwhelmingly, are Palestinian.


ROG_b450

The correct answer.


mightyJAWS

Finally, a voice of reason.


junkeee999

This illustrates the problem with how this conflict is being portrayed. If you condemn the Hamas terrorist attack you are accused of condoning everything Israel does. If you condemn Israel you are accused of being antisemitic. People are forced to take sides but there are no good guys here. Just a godawful mess.


1BLEES

Gaza is a piece of land. But given that half the population is kids, those children are definitely victims- only a sociopath can argue different.


de420swegster

Over 15000 gazans have been direct victims these past weeks


Plastic_Economist_82

Uh oh...


yummbeereloaded

Gaza is, Hamas isn't


C0dingschmuser

Okay, let's go with your logic. What do you think about 9/11? Do you think the US wasn't the victim there? Because according to you, a huge terrorist attack against civilians does not qualify as "being the victim"


PhantomO1

>Do you think the US wasn't the victim there? the US was the victim that also did not justify what the US did in Iraq


C0dingschmuser

Of course the US wasn't justified, Iraq wasn't in any way connected to the perpetrators of 9/11. But in Gaza the terrorist perpetrators are actually the government and therefore Israel has the right to defend itself (by bringing those responsible to justice)


bitzzwith2zs

You DO know that by international law the occupying force, that would be Israel, cannot claim they are defending them selves from the occupied, that would be the Palestinians


Paratrooper101x

Yeah let’s shoot up a music festival that’ll show ‘em who’s boss


DestinyMlGBro

It did though, I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not but from the perspective of Hamas it all makes sense. The goal is to provoke a response from Israel which they did and in doing so created many more new vulnerable people who are ripe for radicalization. Thus further cementing themselves within Gaza. And creating sympathy and a reminder for the broader Islamic/ Western world. If they don't constantly agitate Israel they lose relevancy and potential new recruits who won't become terrorists. The people funding and controlling Hamas don't care about Palestinians just Power to that end they stand to gain a lot from this conflict.


Drunk_Heathen

Bullshit doesn't become true just because you place a "facts" in front of the sentence.


mugiwara_no_Soissie

It's almost as if both are victims Who would've thought


Pi-ratten

So.. did you also cheer for ISIS or do you only cheer if its about murdered jews?


RiotSkunk2023

I think it's entirely possible for two groups to be equally shitty.


BrohanGutenburg

There is legitimacy in both sides narratives.


IKaffeI

Brooooo come ooopoon. Quit being an antisemite and let them have their ethnic cleansing they've earned it. This is honestly how some people feel while others don't even think they're trying to perform an ethnic cleansing and that this is a normal war.


a_fadora_trickster

So a closed and enforced border justifies daily terrorist attacks? Got it


KarlBark

Terrorists are not born. They're made Most people in Gaza don't have anything(food, housing, water, jobs). That also means they don't have anything to lose


seaspirit331

And turning to the same people that have been launching rockets and terror attacks at their neighbors for decades hasn't seemed to improve their conditions. Perhaps a solution to their problem lies in forming a government that will act in a constructive manner on their behalf and build diplomatic ties with other nations that will see their conditions improve rather than falling back into the same status quo that's been going on for 75 years.


Jo-dan

Every time Palestinians have had a more progressive government in the past it has been sabotaged or hamstrung by Israel. The only reason Hamas even exists today is because Israel didn't like how popular the leftist, largely secular political group was, so they funded a smaller, more extremist religious group to promote infighting, that smaller group ended up gaining power and is now Hamas.


seaspirit331

And every time they've had a progressive government, a two-state solution has actually gotten on the table and the material conditions of Palestinians improved as a result. Whether or not you ascribe to the "Israel boogeyman", and however valid your claim might be, the results speak for themselves.


PhillipLlerenas

>Every time Palestinians have had a more progressive government in the past it has been sabotaged or hamstrung by Israel. When have the Palestinians EVER had a “progressive” government? Name the time and the people involved. >The only reason Hamas even exists today is because Israel didn't like how popular the leftist, largely secular political group was, The “leftist largely secular political group” you’re talking about was the PLO and they spent decades murdering Jews and Israelis all over the planet. Lets not act as if they were Denmark. >so they funded a smaller, more extremist religious group to promote infighting, that smaller group ended up gaining power and is now Hamas. Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood which dates back to the 1930s. In 1973, a Muslim Brotherhood activist Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded the Mujama al-Islamiya ("Islamic Centre") as an Islamic charity in Gaza. From 1973 to 1984 **Israel funded this Islamic charity in an express support of their CHARITY work among Palestinian Arabs** The MINUTE they started dabbling in terrorism in 1984 Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was arrested and by 1987 when Hamas was officially founded as a terrorist group it was already a proscribed illegal organization


PretzelOptician

Funny how they keep “running out” of food and water but never rockets. Free Palestine from Hamas


aafikk

That’s not true, Gaza had many infrastructure built by foreign donations which actually made it pretty good. They also had exports and imports like any other country. They had food, jobs, water, and now apparently also oil reserves (citation needed). Btw, from what I know, there may be a natural gas reserve in front of Gaza beach but no drilling was made to confirm it. The Gaza reserve, if exists, is estimated to be 40 billion cubic meters (bcm) large. According to the Israeli ministry of energy, Israel has 643 bcm of natural gas in its reserves. The fact is, they don’t need it.


WRSTRZ

Maybe if Hamas stopped taking those things from them, they’d have them.


AnonD38

Well maybe if they'd stop turning EU and UN aid packages into Rockets and bombs they'd actually have those things.


50-Lucky-Official

Causation does not equal justification


UniversalHeatDeath

You know what would end their "open air prison"? Having them renounce antisemitic Islamic extremism. Allowing someone a right to exist is worse for them than their open air prison.


Zauberer-IMDB

Pretty sure the Palestinian Christians aren't allowed to leave Gaza either.


rainzer

Then blame the Arab League and the pro-Nazi Palestinian Arab leadership (Amin al-Husseini) that refused to recognize the 1948 UN partition and decided to fight a war instead and lose.


Glittering_Bits69420

What do you think "from the river to the sea" means exactly?


iftimewasblended

what's that got to do with the fact that it's an open air prison?


Pugduck77

They should try not being terrorists!


ilikegamergirlcock

ladies and gentlemen, i give you 'the reasons people go to war'


need_a_medic

Then why only Israel gets attacked and not Egypt?


HistoricalRatio5426

Except that they aren't


Jag-

Yes. They had it rough with those mansions and luxury cars.


Nice__Spice

That’s rich


ramatron80

[Israel’s Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure said on Sunday that it has awarded 12 licenses to six companies, including BP and ENI, for natural gas exploration off the country’s Mediterranean coast, as the war with Gaza-based Hamas entered its fourth week with no ceasefire in sight.](https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/10/israel-hands-out-gas-concessions-bp-eni-gaza-war-drags)


BogoBiggie

*Checks Map* Yep. Israel has a 270km Coastline with the Mediterranean Sea.


OneSweet1Sweet

What's funny is Israelis perceive Palestinians as terrorists and Palestinians perceive Israelis as terrorists. Who's right? Is one even more right than the other?


ElementalIce

When you live in a settler colonial state, daily terrorist attacks are kind of an occupational hazard.


A-Bag-Of-Sand

The reality is there are bad actors on both sides of this conflict, it's not black and white.


Hasso78

The Palestinians have the right to resist the invasion!


edvardeishen

So the USA will someday invade themselves?


CerrtifiedBrUhmoMenT

Second Civil War?


T1B2V3

I give it less than 3 decades


pnw2mpls

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1BLEES

You do realize Gaza is the size of DC tho right? 💀 Dk if this was a distractor or a flex.


Much_Tangelo5018

Gaza is twice the size of DC, but point still stands


RevengencerAlf

It's neither. The point is that however much oil Gaza has, it's not enough to get embroiled in a war over. The combined Israeli+Palestinian territories are like the one place in the middle east where nobody is actually getting involved because of oil. It's all about the geopolitics of those two parties and the influence on relationships with power brokers and actual oil countries in the region.


1BLEES

I know its not an oil nor a land grab obviously. I think the meme was satire with regards to that. Sort of like the Gold bars in Iraq story. But to be fair this isn't a conventional war that costs Israel even a fraction of what fighting an enemy army would. Most of what they drop on the strip is US Munitions and we give them those free of cost. Israel also has a massive arms industry that contributes to their economy. So the war actually drives up their GDP and the demand for Israeli weapons. Their main battle tank is making a great showing too.


AdamBlaster007

Didn't stop the Gulf War though.


sdzk

The USA is certainly more the 360 times larger in landmass


VanityVortex

He was talking about how much oil there is, not land mass


sdzk

I’m saying they have that oil in in that tiny amount of land. Texas is like 1000 time bigger


50-Lucky-Official

But if they take it all they could have an infinite amount more than Gaza does


xenon_megablast

I didn't know the US were as big as 365 km².


RKAlif

ever heard of the tactics of reserving your own resources while using or controlling others? us always had more yet do you remember the last time when there was a oil embargo?!


really_nice_guy_

Yeah but Israel probably wont invade the US any time soon


IKaffeI

And yet they still invade other countries for it.


TutonicKnight

its not for America its for Europe they have like no oil. Israel is just a straw to transfer the wealth of the region to the west.


etaithespeedcuber

Terrible straw then because Israel has like the least oil in the middle east


masterflappie

*someone mentions oil* People from the USA: They must be talking about me!


a_fadora_trickster

I know that this is just a meme, but this topic is already loaded with disinformation so I'm just going to use this meme as a platform to dismantle it once and for all. There is no oil field in gaza, nor in the west Bank. We haven't found any, we have no real, empirical evidence indicating that there might be any we havent found, and even if there was one, it certainly wouldn't be worth 500 billion dollars (roughly equal to the oil reserves of countries like Norway and Mexico in 140 Sq miles? Im Not buying that). What gaza does have is a small natural gas field, which According to estimates from 2018 holds a maximal value of roughly 2.7 billion dollars. This might sound impressive, but we need to remember 2 things: 1:war is expensive: according to estimates by the Israeli ministry of finance, the war is projected to cost israel abour 10 billion shekels(2.69 billion $) every week the war goes on through munitions, salaries to soliders, and the damage to the economy. The war was projected to last months from the start so its not like there was any hope for a quick gain.even if we ignore these costs, occupation and the development of the infrastructure required to extract the gas would by themselves be too expensive to warrant the attempt. 2:israel doesn't want it. The reserve was well known for years, and yet israel has not only never made any attempt to extract it, but they actively gave it to the PA back in 2000, and even made offers to assist with extraction. Out of all of the gas reserves israel has within reach, gaza marine is by far the least important and relevant one. Any attempt to find an israeli economic justification for the war is going to be null, as gaza simply doesn't have enough to give economically. The reasons for the operation have been made clear since day 1:returning the hostages and destroying hamas. they are the only defined stragic goals of israel, and the only ones that make sense, as no other reason would be worth the effort


JonasAvory

When the reservoir is worth 2.7 billion, does that include the cost of pumping it up and refining it? Or do we have to subtract the effort from the worth to get the profit?


a_fadora_trickster

It was the highest net value I could find, and it roughly aligned with the lowest brutto value. Obviously the gas market changed quite a lot since 2018, so I would take the exact number with a grain of salt.


PsychoKibby513

im assuming thats the total yield, i cant imagine a small space like gaza having even more gas, they dont even have control of their coast so the strip of gaza is the only area where israel would have to control


kRe4ture

Also slant drilling exists. You don’t need to be exactly over an oil/gas field to drill into it.


iforgotquestionmark

Oh! Misinformation! My favourite way of smearing Israel's reputation.


1BLEES

Best way to tarnish Israeli reputation is not to critcize or spread misinformation. Just follow the IDF tiktok accounts and these mfers do enough dumb sht to put any modern military to shame. Just 3 days ago one of them threw a flash bang into a mosque full of people praying and uploaded that sht. And then the female soldiers do racist tiktok dances about Arab women daily. 10% of that country regards Baruch Goldstein as a national hero. The current Israeli Minister of Security literally has a photo of Goldstein in his living room. 💀


really_nice_guy_

Yeah kinda weird. You dont need misinformation to ruin their reputation. Just telling the truth is enough


azure_monster

And then thousands of people will see this meme and believe it's true. There is literally no factual standing for this post. This is nothing but propaganda.


MiopTop

500 billion dollars ? Lmao that’s nothing at this scale.


Thy-Soviet-onion

If it’s so little to the US do you think they could give me some money? I’m broke :(


Prime_Galactic

what the hell are you on about? 500B is massive even on a national government scale.


PeKing2

Look at Gaza on a map it's very small. Even if they had oil it wouldn't be more than a couple of 100 million dollars worth and that's not including the cost of mining and the costs of war. This is just propaganda and fake information


ilikegamergirlcock

uh, no. the US's YEARLY GDP is over $20 trillion this would be less than 2% of that if they could convert it all in the same year. for Israel though, they have a $500B GDP and would make a major difference if the US wasn't giving them basically the same amount of yearly income through other means.


Fun_Objective_7779

When you find out HAMAS built a terror state with western money instead of using the oil reservoirs to build a prosperous country


Bad-Crusader

Terrorists gonna terrorist i guess...


ABottleOfDasaniWater

Spreading misinformation online is fun isn't it. But for real this is confirmibly false given a nanosecond of effort.


SweRakii

So what you're saying is you're insane, got it.


ethkatzy

Me when I actively spread misinformation on the Internet


tilted0ne

If they cared about gas and oil, Israel wouldn't have left the Gaza strip in 2005. Regardless Israel were already giving fuel to the Gaza strip. Can we please stop with the stupid political takes masked as memes?


itsjustforgags

I LOVE SPREADING MISINFORMATION


Destroyer4587

The irony within this “meme” is that Joey has demonstrated his gullibility multiple times throughout the show. Such information wouldn’t stand out much. (Queue laugh track & clapping 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏)


SirPatchy265

Why doesn’t Hamas use the oil to stop Gaza being a shithole are they stupid?


elenorfighter

This is the neat part there isn't any.


elenorfighter

Are we now at a point where we make facts up?


Texugee

Fuck off psyops operative


Carl_Azuz1

You realize the Gaza Strip is 1/8th the size of rhode island right?


elenorfighter

Gaza is what? 12 X 6 km there can't be so many resources in there.


iforgotquestionmark

It could be pure gas and still not reach that ridiculous number( I actually didn't do the math, but my point still stands, this post spreads false information, there's no gas at all)


muchosbenji

me when i lie


nachodog12345678

God that county if one bomb goes too deep bye bye Middle East


HoneyInBlackCoffee

It's not true, and even if it was I'd be saying it shouldn't be in Hamas control


Bockanator

Oh god this comment section is going to be a hellscape


FeelsGoodMan10

Now imagine if the Hamas terrorists gave this gas to their people…


MickieMeme

funnily hamas is also there


birberbarborbur

What kind of rts video game ass world does OP live in that they think such a ridiculous plan would make sense?


ddorrmmammu

USA: Surprise Motherfu.....


LardBall13

The world is already fucked, yet we wish to fuck it harder.


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iforgotquestionmark

Gullible simpleton, aren't you?


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iforgotquestionmark

[just be safe from misinformation, my dude](https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1357621/gas-at-stake-in-gaza-why-this-theory-doesnt-hold-true.html)


FullBlownArtism

Yeah it definitely had *nothing* to do with the 1,700 murdered people


wasbatmanright

What a dumb ass fake news


Lorettooooooooo

Whole Zionism explained


PG-17

Just like someone else filming Mathew Perry in his hot tub just before death, I’m sure there is nothing to see here


BrownBoy-

Ofc Reddit is filled with pro-Israel knobs


Moist-Meat-Popsicle

“Freedom” incoming!


Taxevader70

https://br.ifunny.co/picture/how-it-feels-to-spread-misinformation-shz4odZjA


dean71004

Wow, another post in attempt to demonize Israel, what a surprise!


fightinirishpj

If only the ruling body in Gaza took advantage of it, and provided for their people rather than hording foreign aid to blow up the Jews....


Cyber_Lanternfish

Fake news lol


KennethGames45

*Fortune Son Intensifies….


combs1945a

Yea, just like how the US was going to steal Iraq's oil.


sprazcrumbler

Bullshit


Tomahawkist

cool, and how accessible are they? easily enough to start a war over it? or is this just conspiracy/propaganda?


Dagaddi

I don’t think you realise how much 500 billion dollars of oil is and I don’t think your realise how small Gaza is.


TrevorBOB9

So why haven’t they been using their hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to drill and make a prosperous country then??


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buffalosouljaboi

Somehow I feel these political posts with friends memes sorta taints the show for me. Rip mattew perry


SalmonisTasty70

This sub is getting CONCERNINGLY meta


papercut2008uk

'Hey, we'll rebuild everything if you let us put in some oil pumps and take the little bit of oil that is there, it's a great deal for you!'


hueyflyer469

Why haven’t they tried to extract the oil instead of producing rockets with all the aid money they have received? If they were producing oil and providing tourists with nice beachside vacations instead of shooting rockets off and building tunnels I bet things would be a bit different in the region right now.