Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas
Netanyahu says Israel will retain open-ended control of security in Gaza long after war with Hamas
Under U.S. pressure to prevent further mass casualties, Israel says it is being more precise as it widens its offensive into southern Gaza.
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Ethnic cleansing.
Not at all. Read the definition of ethnic cleansing.
Maybe you read it.
I have.
Do it again.
I have and it still does not relate to Israel. Death of 15k whilst the number of Palestinians is 5 million is not genocide. Surely, it’s terrible but it’s not a genocide especially considering how many of them died due to lack of bunkers in Gaza.
Oh sweet summer child you gave away the game.
"Death of 15k whilst the number of Palestinians is 5 million is not genocide. Surely, it’s terrible but it’s not a genocide..."
Please tell the class what words we were looking to define that you so confidently assured us you had read multiple times??
No one else wants it (being peacekeepers) - or do you know anyone?
Doubt it, 15% of Israel are Muslim. They would become Israeli citizens like the rest did.
If Israel actually gave all Palestinians Israeli citizenship, you'd be right. But, that's not going to happen. Why do you think the Nakba happened and Israel keeps rejecting Palestinian right of return? They want Israel to have a Jewish majority and they're willing to commit Apartheid and ethnic cleansing to get it.
They should let the people literally trying to murder them for the last 70 years elect their leaders? Brilliant plan.
Not doing this is apartheid/ethnic cleansing? Please. Gaza was given the chance to elect their leaders, they chose Hamas and intifada.
I bet they could negotiate for a right of return provided they are willing to pacify themselves and sue for a viable peace.
The Nakba happened because Palestinians declared war on Israel and lost.
You're a disgusting and pathetic human being.
Edit: BTW how do I report people to the instance admins?
You're a disgusting and pathetic human being.
Edit: BTW how do I report people to the instance admins?Pretty sure disagreeing with you isn't against the rules. You just violated rule 5, however.
For justifying genocide/ethnic cleansing (take your pick).
I'm suggesting that those terms do not accurately describe what's happening.
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"WE CAN'T LET THEM VOTE OR THEY MIGHT VOTE FOR THE WRONG PEOPLE!"
Put the mask back up, your authoritarian and bigoted cheeks are showing.
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What a load of shit.
Justify your bigotry however you want, you are still acting in a way that would make Hitler proud of you.
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There is this weird thing called comment history. I took a peek and you are hands down one of the more bigoted assholes here.
Take a peek at mine and you will see how much I know, I'll wait dipshit.
That you can't see how you are acting like a modern day Nazi is an amazing skill you have. Take off your blinders and look at what you have said if you just switch out the names of countries and peoples for say "whites" and "blacks". I know you won't honestly do it because you are steeped in propaganda and the cognitive dissonance would cook your brain.
Oh and just to make sure I'm clear I don't show courtesy to racist's. With that in mind... Fuck off bigot.
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You are resorting to name calling rather than having a substantive conversation. You invoked Godwin's law. I looked at their comment history and didn't see any racism at least in the first page or so. Yours, however is full of outrage trolling and insults hurled, accusing those who disagree of being chatbots or arguing in bad faith. I feel bad for your 8-year-old If you behave like this in real life.
Nah I just got tired of attempting to deprogram zionist bigots with essays explaining the reasons they were wrong. Go back further in my comment history and you will see me explaining apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, history of the conflict, etc from the non-propaganda side of history (ie : not just instantly siding with Israel in ALL situations). For example (and I'm not sure if I have mentioned it here on Lemmy or elsewhere) UN resolution A/RES/77/25. Go read it : https://www.un.org/unispal/document/peaceful-settlement-of-the-question-of-palestine-ga-resolution-a-res-77-25/
Wanna guess what 9 members voted against it while 153 voted in favor??
The PLO and Hamas both tried peaceful civil disobedience and were brutally gunned down.
Repeatedly.
What options are really left for an occupied people? And before you answer, tell me how many slave revolts happened in the US and if they should not have done it instead trying to peacefully negotiate with their oppressors.
As to my attitude towards the jackoff that you felt the need to white knight for... I have lost much of my desire to try to turn those bigots around. They are a lost cause and too deep in accepting the propaganda fed to them uncritically. So I just call them what they are and tell them to fuck off like I would to any other bigot or nazi.
Good enough Mr. white knight sir?
Second-class citizens. Almost all palestinians do not even have the right to vote, and even those who do have fewer rights.
Gazans were given the right to vote and they voted for Hamas, who did a coup and made sure that no other elections would be held again.
Are you talking about Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, or Arab Israeli citizens with a Palestinian background? Because those are two very different legal categories. Arab Israelis have full legal rights. Palestinians don't, because they're not Israelis, which I'm pretty sure is something we all agree on. Israel doesn't claim them, and you'd be screaming ethnic cleansing if it did.
Props to the graphic designer.
Now what's the exact issue you have? People who are not Israeli citizens and do not live in Israel cannot vote in Israeli elections. People who are citizens and who do live in Israel can vote. The housing discrimination that mentions is gross, I'll admit, but that's the main objectionable thing I see.
Do you want Israel to annex the West Bank or something?
I don't want it, but even in the case of gaza and the west bank they are de facto under israeli control or even under permanent military occupation, with no expectation of diminishing but the opposite, isn't this essentially an annexation but denying their rights?
gaza and the west bank they are de facto under israeli control or even under permanent military occupation,
Probably because they remain at war with Israel and have yet to stop attacking them or make a viable peace, choosing endless intifada and it's predictable consequences instead.
The exact issue is that Israel is repeating both the holocaust and apartheid all at the same time.
Since fucking when is it NOT an issue that people don't have the same rights? Wtf
Repeating those words like a mantra only serves to dilute them because you're using them inappropriately.
Both Holocaust and apartheid generally refer to denying people rights or killing them because of their genetics and that's clearly not what's happening here. Israel is at war with Palestine because Palestine keeps trying to murder Israelis, not because of Palestinian genetics.
Isrsel is indiscriminately bombing a whole ethnic group. How can you deny this?
If you think anything happening is remotely comparable to the Holocaust, you don't know anything about the Holocaust. If Israel was trying to exterminate Palestinians the way the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews, Gaza would be a sheet of right now.
I also don't have the right to vote in Israel, which makes sense, seeing as I don't live there and I'm not a citizen. I weirdly don't have the right to vote in Germany or Russian either.
I know that one time a holocaust survivor spoke of the thirst she felt during that time and how it was indescribable, and I think of all the missing Palestinians that had their bones crushed to rubble as they waited for hours to be rescued, and all those that didn't survive. I think of how Israel dehumanized them and ethnically cleansed them, how they held back fuel and medical supplies that could save innocent lives, and I can't help but draw comparison. The message of holocaust survivors was clear: Never again. Never again doesn't mean denying it when it happens again. Never again means Palestinians too.
And that comparison is flawed, because there is a fundamental difference between a systematic effort to murder a population and a careless disregard for collateral damage during military operations.
Both are shameful; only one is a genocide. If you broaden the meaning of genocide to refer to any war operation that fails to sufficiently protect civilians, you've suddenly labeled most of military history as genocidal.
The bombing of Dresden was horrific, but it was not comparable to the literal Holocaust happening at the same time.
You are being intellectually dishonest. We are not taking about a German with voting rights in Russia. We are talking about a population being colonized by Israel, being tortured by Israel, being denied their land, their basic human rights, and their right to self determination. Gaza is not France, Israel is not Russia. This is more like Americans wiping out the native population, or apartheid south Africa. Gazans had their citizenhood stolen from them by Israel. And on top of that they treat Palestinian Israelis like shit...
The only democracy in the middle east my fucking ass...
And did you ask yourself why they don't have the right to vote? It was decision made by Hamas and PLO not to organize another election.
So outright annexation.
In multiple steps, yes.
