It's Clear to Everyone Gazans Must Be Destroyed, Israeli Lawmaker Says
It's Clear to Everyone Gazans Must Be Destroyed, Israeli Lawmaker Says
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The lawmaker in question is Moshe Saada, number 28 out of 32 MKs from Likud (Israeli elections fix an order for each party, and legislative seats are awarded by that order).
He gave an interview on Channel 14, which is generally regarded as extremely right wing in Israel. Ahmad Tibi, number 1 on the Ta'al list, was the one who called him out for the statement:
Moshe Saada said this in response to the article:
The full interview is here on youtube (In Hebrew, no translation available).
He only said it once in a 13 minute interview and every other instance he's talking explicitly about Hamas (L'hashmid Ha'Hamas). I'm guessing it was him searching for a word to include both Hamas and PIJ, but that might be too generous. But anyone thinking this is an official policy of Israel and that's the way forward is delusional - almost every country on Earth has extremist members of their legislature.
Funny how when it comes to Israeli extremists we all discuss nuance and how complicated and messy politics and language is but when it comes to extremists in resistance organizations it's immediately assumed that what they say colours the entire resistance.
Which extremists in resistance orgs are you referencing?
Cough-Hamas-cough
Lol it's always so fun that they'll speak in code but never acknowledge the actual abhorrence of the things they support.
Who is "they"?
Everyone who supports Hamas, like the poster above is doing by referring to them as a "resistance group" with "a few radicals."
So... You didn't understand the point that was made. Aight
SCB is a professional at missing the point. You don't respond to them to have a discussion, just to pop the balloon for people coming in after.
I definitely understood, yes. Hamas is not a "resistance org", and they don't have a "few extremists". Every member of Hamas is an extremist who is willing to torture and murder Palestinians who challenge them.
That is not a resistance group. They are all extremists, by definition, because Hamas is a Jihadist Islamist group, even if you take Israel completely off the table.
In their own words:
“Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes,” Hamas said in its first statement in the late 1980s.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas
Support for the Palestinian people neither requires, nor implies, support for Hamas, and support for Hamas is, definitionally, not support for the Palestinian people.
I would imagine any group of people who are experiencing a genocide, to consider any group of people who are fighting against their oppressors, to be resistance movements. Likewise for any proponent of the interests of those committing the genocide, to consider any opposing group as terrorists, regardless of whose goals are advanced by the group existing.
It's Israel committing a genocide. Hamas attacking Israel. And Palestinians being genocided.
Focusing on the second part, and making a big deal of whether or not the subjective and pretty much meaningless "terrorist" label applies to Hamas, is what's gotten quite tiresome. It smells so much like the "🙉.... but do you condemn Hamas?"-rhetoric.
I would imagine any group of people who are experiencing a genocide
Hamas took over the country in 2007, after Israel had left Gaza. They then promptly canceled elections forever, declared Jihad, and began torturing dissidents to death.
They have not only actively fought a 2-state solution and secularization, but have opposed Israel normalizing relations with neighbors, because their goal is the eradication of Israel.
Moreover, Hamas has stolen aid money, impeded and corrupted aid groups, and restricted access to medical supplies and food to solidify their own power.
There is no defense for Hamas, and referring to them as a "resistance group" is both inherently dishonest and empowering to the terror organization.
This discussion is not and has never been about Gazan's - this discussion is about OP calling them a "resistance group with some radical elements" which they are not.
Just out of curiosity what did they say in 2005? or 2018? Or did you want to perpetuate the idea that once someone is radicalized there can never be peace? It sure does make the world simpler, but the bloodshed never ends that way. And that's abhorrent in and of itself. Hamas absolutely became more moderate and had Israel assassinate their leadership and blockade Gaza in response. Since then Israel has assassinated several doctors and teachers under your idea that anyone associating with Hamas is a horrible no good person. This along with the blockade has made it impossible for Hamas to govern responsibly, and they are in fact acts of war.
I firmly believe everyone even emotionally aligning with Hamas has some very serious issues. I never condoned the killing of any civilian, and never will.
Disgust with Hamas's atrocities does not imply that I support the deaths of civilians in any way.
Hamas has no interest in governing responsibly.
Hamas was literally formed as a reaction to the continued illegal occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel and the corruption of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority. That's literally a resistance group. Nobody said they weren't also culpable in some heinous shit but Israel has several politicians in ministerial positions calling for genocide, just with different words like, "Clear them out" or "significantly reduce the population of Gazans". And of the two Israel is the one with the power to do it. So yeah that's who I'm going to worry about.
Hamas was literally formed as a reaction to the continued illegal occupation of Palestinian territories
Hamas was literally formed because the Palestinian government was becoming too secular and was too interested in peace with Israel.
Here is an interview, with quotes, and details, with a literal expert on th subject who is also Pro-Palestinian.
How Hamas got elected:
KEAR: The key Fatah people - most of Fatah are living in the diaspora. They're the ones living in the four-story houses, driving around in their gold Mercedes. They're not experiencing the day-to-day privations of the occupation, whereas Hamas - they're a product of the occupation. You can see them walking in the streets. You can see them at the market. People may not necessarily agree with their narrative, with the - as an Islamist movement. They get a lot of respect for the fact that they live amongst the community.
ARABLOUEI: As the first intifada went on, many Palestinians became more and more frustrated not only with the occupation but with the PLO/Fatah as it attempted to negotiate a two-state solution with Israel.
ELGINDY: The reality was that Fatah and some of the smaller parties were interested in joining a peace process that would result in a compromise situation of a West Bank and Gaza state.
KEAR: And certainly by this stage, 1987, 20 years of occupation - what have the PLO done? When I say PLO, what has Fatah done? Nothing, virtually. We've been fighting for 20 years, resisting for 20 years. Nothing has changed. In fact, it's actually gotten worse, where we are further away from an independent state than we've ever been before.
Israel did not become aggressive to Hamas until after they began terrorist activities.
BACONI: "Hamas Contained: The Rise And Pacification Of Palestinian Resistance." When Hamas was established out of that structure and it began to engage in resistance activities...
ARABLOUEI: Like attacks on military posts and abducting Israeli soldiers.
BACONI: ...Immediately, Israel's approach to dealing with Hamas changed, and it stopped being one of approval. It started being an antagonistic relationship because obviously now it's a resistance party.
HACHAM: In retrospective, I think this was - I call it the original sin of the Israeli authorities - Israeli security authorities that did not understand that period of time what can be developed of this innocent organization movement, al-Mujama al-Islamiya.
This frustration and aggression is also detailed in the original Hamas charter
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
You don't have to agree with Israel's government, response, or how this war is being prosecuted, to understand that
1: Hamas is an islamic terror organization that usurped a government and denies democracy to millions
2: Hamas cannot and will not back down, because Jihad is their sole purpose for existing
3: A two state solution was one-track, and is always infinitely more possible with any other Palestinian leadership.
Support for Hamas is always wrong. Gazans who support Hamas today are wrong, but they do not deserve to be killed or to suffer as they have been.
Lmao, you're still trying to tie Hamas of 2023 to Hamas of 1987. Even the article you cite has the expert calling it a resistance organization. Then you add in that Jihad is their only purpose for existing. That's you. Not them. This isn't AQ/ISIS. They have one, very clear, reasonable demand that we are bending over backwards to avoid. If Israel ended their occupation and submitted to a UN mission for peacekeeping and elections Hamas would lose all of it's reason for existence. Believe it or not, people don't like to commit suicide or murder. They have to be driven to it. Militaries do it by training and indoctrination, resistance groups just hoover up broken people who were Indoctrinated by oppression.
Which is why the number one way of ending political violence always has been and always will be bringing the group into the decision making process if it's at all reasonable. That's why you see a peace process in Colombia, but cult deprogramming and military action with ISIS. As long as conservatives can count on sheep like you running around shouting, "they just hate us for no reason!" They will have cover to continue the cycle of oppression.
We are specifically talking about the formation of Hamas in this conversation. I was rebutting your points.
Funny you try to skim past that.
Nah son. This was the conversation at the start-
Funny how when it comes to Israeli extremists we all discuss nuance and how complicated and messy politics and language is but when it comes to extremists in resistance organizations it's immediately assumed that what they say colours the entire resistance.
Which is in response to someone breaking their back to to defend the likuud party. You don't get to move those goalposts.
That's because they're politicians in a political structure where different views exist and matter.
As opposed to a group of insurgents where their level of extremism is irrelevant. If you're a part of the group willing to resort to mass murder and kidnapping you're in the "too extreme" group already.
Asking for a nuanced view of "resistance fighters" is like asking for a nuanced view of serial killers, they're all a problem. Trying to identify which serial killer did it for the correct reasons or doesn't really want to kill people but does anyways is a ridiculous concept.
So mass arrests of protestors and holding them without charge is what?
And they're literally committing genocide in front of your eyes.
At what point do you figure it out?
Fuck Hamas. Talk to me about Fatah and Hezbollah.
I support palestine but this kind of reporting definitely seems dishonest. There absolutely is an argument to be made about it being a slip up and a showing of true colors, but saying this is clear evidence for the intent of a genocide is dishonest and only hurting the movement to free palestine. Thanks for pointing out that it was the only time in the interview where he says gazans, not hamas.
No, it is as clear as yet another GOP representative saying we should ban abortion. That is obviously their party's position. This is not the first Likuud member to outright call for a genocide. It is obviously the position of the Likuud party. Who happens to control the military and police in both Palestine and Israel.
Dishonest? The lawmaker literally said these words.
There's a translated video in the article that doesn't leave much room for creative interpretation like steventheIDF is suggesting https://twitter.com/i/status/1742415488519393502
And keep in mind that the dishonesty extends to the OP, of which there are many in this sub with the motive to disseminate inaccurate rage bait articles.
Good thing you're always out there on every article to defend israel against the dishonest OP's.
This, but unironically.
anyone thinking this is an official policy of Israel
...need only look at their actions to confirm that
Pretty sure if Israel really wanted to kill every Gazan things would look dramatically different right now.
Are you aware of the irony of using Holocaust denial tactics to defend Israel?
it wouldn't look "dramatically" different, maybe slightly. I think its more they want gazans gone and don't care about how many people they kill.
Not really. The next step would be a systematic approach that could not be politically defended. They're doing as much as they think they can get away with. And if, as several influential and high ranking Israelis have said, they're clearing land for more settlements then it's the ethnic cleansing form of genocide.
That is a possibility but we will have to remember this conversation in a year or two and see if they have placed settlements in Gaza or not.
No. You don't just wait for the genocide to be complete. You act now.
Ok what do you want to do right now?
UN peacekeeping mission in the short term. Within the year remove Israeli police and military from all settlements. At that point Hamas can accept a peace and elections or lose any goodwill from Gazans and the UN can conduct a standard counter insurgency.
That would be best case scenario no doubt... but WE can't do it so we just have to wait.
Not alone no. But we can protest and write our conversations representatives.
Imagine if everyone in the world assumed that everything that came out of Marjorie Taylor Greene's mouth was official US policy
Context matters. If she says abortion is bad, it deserves to be reported, and is, while abortion policy is actively being dismantled - because she is a lawmaker in the party actively working towards that (and in power for one of the legislatures).
Just like this guy's words matter while it's being supported by other people like Ben-Givir and while they're actively in the process of doing genocide stuff.
In context of everything else that's happening, other remarks by his party, and the availability of "It's clear to everyone that militants in Gaza must be destroyed." There is no excuse. It's just another layer of evidence.
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Sure there are some extremists in almost every political faction, but were his comments denounced by others in his party?
Ok, so post reported.
On the one hand it's a factual article about events that are clearly true. On the other it's sensationalized and making a mountain out of a molehill.
The quality of the discussion on this article is bottom of the barrel "I hate Israel and you should too".
I hate genocide regardless of who is committing it