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Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse (www.democracynow.org)

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As the official death toll in Gaza passes more than 42,400, the true number may be impossible to know until Israel’s war is over. But medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza’s hospitals are speaking out. We speak with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his op-ed in The New York Times that features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest.

The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. “I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs,” says Sidhwa. “I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”

We also speak with Palestinian nurse Rajaa Musleh, who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department.

This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life,” says Musleh. “My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza.”

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think you mean Cronyism, which unlike Nepotism isn't limited to family.

Looking at my own country, which has a massive culture of Cronyism, some years ago I concluded that Corruption is really just Cronyism in exchange for money hence why it's so easy for it to develop in countries with a culture of friends using the power and money entrusted to them by others to help their friends.

It seems to me this also applies to the US were "campaign contributions" facilitate the buying of active politicians in a way which is not legally treated as Corruption, just things like the "speech circuit", non-executive board memberships, funding of foundations and gold-plated "consultancy" are used to reward "friendly" policians after they retire from Politics in ways that completely obscure any Qui Pro Quo involved hence do get treated as Corruption even when they most definitelly are that (i.e. when a politician has explicitly agreed to use their power in a specific way when given a overt promise of such a reward at a later stage).

Want to see who politicians benefit, start by looking at whose parties they go to and which people do they socialize with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Neoptism isn't limited to family. Nepotism is defined as: the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them jobs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You're right.

I checked the dictionary definitions and the words have indeed a somewhat different meaning than I thought, including in the detail that Nepotism is familiy and friends whilst Cronyism is only friends.

So thanks for that correction!