Israeli official says Gaza will be "entirely destroyed," Palestinians "will start to leave in great numbers"
Israeli official says Gaza will be "entirely destroyed," Palestinians "will start to leave in great numbers"
Leave where? The Mediterranean?
They need to be taught the same hard lesson Germany, Italy, and Japan had to be taught 80 years ago. Genocidal fascism has no place on Earth.
Pretty sure they are leaving already. But just in coffins like Israel wanted.
With widespread Kahanism, they did not learn everything from their past.
Israel is an evil country. Israel is the country with the most war criminals per capita. If the Israeli people do not do something significant in the coming months, they will be complicit in the atrocities committed by the IDF.
Like blocking the vent on a pressure cooker, this is no doubt going to blow up in their face.
They're perfectly fine with that; a permanent state of emergency and ever-looming existential enemy is what fascists need to justify their own police state and crackdowns on freedom.
He should have been more eloquent. I'm pretty sure there's an ancient word that means "to entirely destroy by fire"... If he had used that instead, it would be more clear what he means.
It's not even news anymore to see these shitty blood-glutted war criminals' gloating, completely conveniently forgetting the hypocrisy. Perhaps we need to simply call this what it is, by this man's very definition here: it is a holocaust of Gaza.
Like a... Pogrom?
A big genocidal pogrom. The biggest pogrom.
Wow it really is easy to make it sound like something Trump would say isn’t it?
Well except he has the vocabulary of a 4th grader and pogrom isn’t likely in it.
I hope I live to see Israel, in its current form, entirely destroyed. I want to believe that there are consequences to being this evil.
Its a noble dream. But for Israel to ever face justice their largest and fiercest backer - the nation that is often the only one that votes to protect them in UN votes, and the one that has almost singlehandedly turned them into a military superpower in the middle east - the USA - must get its house in order first.
There is zero chance of much changing on Israel while Republicans or the conservative wing of the Democrats are in power, and especially while Trump is president. That's not to say it can't change, but there are multiple hurdles: so, I hope you live a long time and see a lot of positive changes throughout your life.
This makes me think about Handmade’s Tale. I’ve been watching it a lot recently and it makes you wonder what happened to Israel in this timeline. I’d guess Israel’s support from Gilead would have dropped to zero. They were likely fucked given that the Jewish people here were deported and put on boats that never actually made it to Israel. Just a random thought brought about by your comment.
The US is witholding funds to the UN. Pretty soon, the world will just move on without them.
The US doesn't need to "get it's house in order".
It also needs to (and seems on the path to) be destroyed in its current form.
With global trade inevitably shifting away from the unstable US, Military embarrassments against small impoverished organizations like the houthis, and diplomacy entirely built around leveraging those 2 things....it seems much more likely the US turns into a nuclear armed former superpower than that it maintains it's global status and changes to actually use said status for good.
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Israel is the modern day Nazi regime and we need to stop mincing words about it.
Thats why our nazi president is making sure it's illegal to say bad things about the Israeli government, like knows like
The worst one, but not the only one
No doubt.
Oh? Is Israel finally letting Palestinians have free travel so that they actually can leave or is "leave in great numbers" a euphemism for the ongoing genocide?
There is a word in ancient Greek which has the precise meaning "to entirely destroy" by fire. Maybe we need to start calling this what it is: a holocaust of Gaza.
I would say genocide. It's Israel. Come on now.
As would I, hence I did. But the quote was from an Israeli official.
I think I might have read the comment I replied to wrong. It seems to me now they were choosing the second option of my original comment.
They can leave in bodybags...
If Gaza will be entirely destroyed, there is a considerable risk that Israel will meet the same fate later.
If a country spans only 22 000 square kilometers and is inhabited by 10 million people, it's not very smart to make enemies among every group who can relate to Palestinians - for example Muslims (about 1.9 billion people) or perhaps Arabs (around 400 million people).
Put simply - Israel has withstood various pressures because of US backing.
The US currently runs a high risk of getting somewhat indisposed due to a president they elected acting very foolishly. If the US should break down, Israel will find itself very isolated.
If Israel makes a record amount of determined enemies now, it may have a record amount of people seeking its downfall later. Even if the Israeli government doesn't care the slightest amount about Palestinians, it should consider its own future before acting in the described way.
It's been shown that alone they cannot keep up the current rate of genocide, there was a report that they're already running out of munitions in couple of weeks.
Their economy is also in shambles and the zionist government will face a civil movement because they ran out of money.
The last part seems pretty unlikely. The population is entirely brainwashed they will not change course on their own
You know that Israel MAKES munitions right? They have a pretty sizable weapons industry. Not to mention with Trump in office, there is little slowing down how much they can purchase from the US.
I would take any report of Israel running out of arms with a massive, heaping spoonful of salt.
Good. Israel can get a new exodus.
I would not use to the word "good" in any sentence describing such events - nothing like that is good.
However, risk of their state not lasting because they alienated most allies and made countless enemies, should make people (even politicians) think twice.
Only one flaw with your logic... Most of the neighboring countries hate Palestine almost as much as the Israeli's do. That's why they haven't been accepting any refugees and haven't been putting a lot of pressure on Israel for their actions, Yemen being one of the few exceptions.
They don't hate Palestinians.
Palestine is a unifying call amongst Arabs. The rulers of countries like Egypt and Jordan who have made peace with Israel are essentially Western backed puppets who receive money from the US to stay pliable. They don't reflect the will of the "Street". The only notable exception to this is the UAE.
Neighboring countries have also received huge numbers of refugees from Palestine. They don't want to receive ethnically cleansed Palestinians for the same reason that European countries don't want to either. It is immoral, not to mention hugely destabilising.
This is fucking evil manifest.
Yeah, it's Israel.
And go where, jackass?
Presumably either Egypt or the West Bank. Well... Until Israel decides they want that too and start bombing the shit out of that.
United States of Aipac will approve, does not matter reps or dems.
European sanctions also apparently never.
Watch as they spin this and sanction Jordan or Egypt.
Then Zion will not have victory.
I couldn't finish the article because of how horrific the descriptions of kids suffering were.
I'm not going to read the article because I've read enough already to be fucking sickened by it.
To all those who stood up against "Genocide Joe":
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Know that your internet slacktivism has made a lasting difference in the world, and the JIDF thanks you for your service.
What a joke. At the start of this genocide in late 2023 Blinken was floating the idea of "evacuating" the population of Gaza into Sinai. He distanced himself when it was clear Mahmoud Abbas would not agree to it.
There was a recent report that In 15 months Biden did precisely nothing to pressure Israel into a ceasefire to the extent that the Israelis "thanked god" for having such an obsequious President.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/biden-officials-admit-they-never-pressured-israel-for-ceasefire/
He did however give them everything they needed for the extermination campaign and blocked every Security Council resolution.
He also set the stage for demonising students. 4 university heads were removed for tolerating Palestine protestors.
The only difference between Trump and Biden with respect to the genocide is that Trump isnt hiding behind crocodile tears.
Stop trying to memory hole Biden. We haven't forgotten.
You and everyone who repeats the “I hope you’re happy now” really are not helping. You’re mad, I’m mad, but please please get your fill of catharsis/smug self righteousness elsewhere please, blaming non/voters isn’t going to rebuild the Obama coalition that delivered a supermajority in Congress. The Democrats lost the youth turnout, Palestine (Russian/astroturf bots or no) were not the sole factor but a sharp tipping point that laid out reality bare.
Im not at all surprised that young voters who became politically aware during the Obama era or later were gradually disenchanted and sat this round out; when you look at it from their timeline they did all the right democracy things and got shit on over and over
And nothing substantial happened that might change their mind. Kamala rode that same trajectory through her campaign, even as VP she had a harder stance on Israel that suddenly evaporated once she was appointed the nominee.
Its genocide - the crime of all crimes - and the Democratic Party refused to seriously discuss the topic in public. I cannot seriously blame them for giving up on a party that refused to listen to them in good faith, and disappointed them time after time. That’s on the DNC for throwing that demographic away, and we need to recognize that. They’re not voting for Republicans ffs but they’ve received the message that they and their vote, isn’t important to the Democrats.
Absolutely this.
Anyone denying the clear signals of despair from young voters is coping. Idk why anyone is getting mad at people demanding progress from dems at a time when there's no risk of electoral losses - makes me think those people are actually just carrying water for ani-reform neoliberal fascists.
Genocide is the ultimate crime huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izium_mass_graves
Or the genocide starting in America of people with skin the same color as I have.
It's Trump, no matter who the dems put up you weren't voting for them, you were voting against a rapist, pedophile traitor.
This is what forum sliding looks like disguised as progressive concern. Block and move on
edit: I'm pointing out right wing propaganda and I get downvoted? Fuck every one of you and I'm not putting in any more effort to keep the shit out of lemmy
you're just mad that trump is carrying out your only policy for you.
I'm mad Trump isn't on fire and I can't piss around him.
Biden supported Israel and did nothing to stop this.
Kamala as VP and nominee, supported Israel and did nothing to stop this.
Now Trump supports Israel and is doing nothing to stop this.
OMG, they're perspectives are so different on this topic!!1! 😱 😱
Maybe people wouldn't call him "Genocide Joe" if he hadn't backed a genocide. I always find it amazing that people blame the voters, instead of blaming the people with the power, the platform, and the money, who chose genocide over winning the election.
I always find it amazing that people blame the voters
I think people are blaming the people who didn't vote. They thought they were sending the message "I don't like genocide", but that was ignorant of them.
The message they sent was "Eh, either is fine. I'm fine with Trump or Harris. Whatever". And then they took the moral high ground for doing so.
jsyk, the majority of 'genocide joe' social media posts were right wing propaganda
I mean sure there were some that chose not to vote because of Gaza, but the number doesn't really make a difference in the final count.
More people abstained due to sexism honestly
I'm not sure thats true. Many people had legitimate concerns that Biden was backing a genocide. I've never seen any stats showing that they were right-wing posts. Plenty of left-wing people were mad about that as well.
Hillary won the popular vote when she ran. I think most people abstained because Harris was a terrible candidate, who ran on terrible policies that went against what the voter-base wanted.
Honestly, who the hell cares.
Americans of every race made their choice in 2024 and there's no point in speculating what the losing party would have done.
The reality is what it is and we're under Trump now.
As long as those Americans understand what their vote was for and can live with it, that's what matters and I'm 100% okay with my vote and I can live with it.
I care.
More importantly, as a non-white American watching a genocide start at home, it very much matters who and what people voted (or didn't vote) for.
What really pisses me off is people saying democrats would have been just as bad, while we watch people drug off by thugs in black body armor to El Salvador to die without due process.
I think it's safe to speculate that that wouldn't have happened under the alternative.
To all those who stood with Genocide Joe & Kamala Cheney:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Know that your support for genocide helped usher in Trump & has made a lasting difference in the world, and the JIDF thanks you for your service.
I was told many times that the extremists who hold this agenda in Israel are a small minority and do not represent Israel or have much power over its policy.
If they are the minority, why does Netanyahu keep getting reelected?
It's what I'm asking myself.
Netanyahu isn't seen as an extremist within Israeli politics. Zionism has always been fascist and always had the agenda of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
There is no excuse for the systematic extermination of innocent civilians in response to the criminal actions of Hamas.
Imagine being Zionist in 2025
I hope one day the same will happen to Israel and Israelians and I hope no one will care anymore.
Or here's a novel thought: how about we start hoping for bad shit to not happen? The cycle of revenge and "I deserve this land because X" is how we ended up in this situation in the first place.
No, we ended up in this situation because colonizers came and stole Palestinian land. It's an Israeli myth that Palestinians first stole the land from the Jews and expelled them.
The truth is, Palestinians are just descendents of ancient Israelis. They're not invaders. They're indigenous to the land.
Settler colonialism is how we ended up in this situation. There is no 'both sides' when one is engaging in supremacy and genocide while the other is resisting eradication and fighting for their human rights
Edit:
For the people who are downvoting. Equating the violence here is the same as equating the violence in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It's been over 76 years of violent apartheid, supremacy, and ethnic cleansing.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai, an Israeli, has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video
That's what I keep saying about adopting healing language/actions because it's not different when we do it, for "reasons." The Lemmy masses are almost entirely against it.
Zionism is the problem. While a small Minority in Israel, there are many anti-zionist Israelis who are playing a critical role in dismantling Zionism.
It's a one-state reality of supremacy and apartheid. The only way out is with ending Zionism and implementing right of return, equal rights, and massive reparations to all Palestinians
Unfortunately, from the outside it looks very much like the anti-Zionists are taking the position of "once the Zionists have done all the Zionism, we'll give them a very stern telling off."
This may not be how it actually is, but as long as Yahoo and people of his mindset are in charge, it won't look any better than that.