This guy just walked into the capitol of the United States and criticized the American people for exercising their first amendment right. The audacity.
This guy just walked into the capitol of the United States and criticized the American people for exercising their first amendment right. The audacity.
Israel is not going to stop until all the territory of British Mandate Palestine is theirs, and all non Jews are removed from it, one way or another. As an American, it’s absolutely infuriating that my government is so committed to helping them do it.
He specifically said in this speech that Israel would not resettle Gaza. It’s maybe the first time we’ve seen him directly oppose the radical wing of his government that has advocated for it.
And you believed him?
I believe it was a politically risky statement for him to make explicitly.
If he alienates his Right Wing, they could dismantle the government and force elections at will. In the past he has used vague statements or diversions to avoid making public statements that could pose political risks to him. No one was demanding an answer on the issue (and he left out plenty of issues that US lawmakers HAVE demanded to know about).
The better question is: Why would he take the risk of saying it at all?
He was lying. That’s like breathing to fascists anywhere in the world, but especially the ones in Israel. If you like podcasts, I recommend you check out Bad Hasbara for hundreds of clear examples of this.
He IS part of that radical wing when it comes to Gaza. What the fuck do you think he means by “total victory”?
— OverSimplified, 202x
Well, Israel has proven that they are willing to build settlements in areas they are not supposed to, so forgive me if I don’t take him at his word. But, maybe Israel is willing to give up that narrow strip of land, if they can have the rest of Mandatory Palestine. I’d believe that.
Agreed! Israel is a settlement of homeless conservative assholes who have made it their priority to be as shitty as possible to their neighbors. None of what they call Israel was ever theirs. They’ve never had any legitimate claim on that region in all of human history.
About 100 years ago they were homeless and vulnerable, so the British allowed them to move from Europe into the Palestine region with the promise that they would be friendly and peaceful with the locals. But, they are arrogant conservatives, so they shat on absolutely everyone around them.
Israel deserves to be abandoned to deal with the horrific situations they have created with all of their neighbors. The Palestinians deserve our help in defending against these genocidal settlers.
You’re aware that over 20% of Israel’s population is Arab, right?
Yes, I’m aware there is an Arab, Muslim minority in Israel. They are the non Jews I was referring to.
“First, they came for the Palestinians, but I did not speak out, for I am not Palestinian…”
Yes and members of the Knesset have proposed stripping them all of citizenship and deporting them. There’s many Jim Crow style laws on the books that discriminate against them, so using them as a prop to show Israel being moral somehow is stupid.
Do you have a source for that? I’m not aware of it and don’t want to be unknowingly defending them if that’s the case.
Basic law:
Yes, that one I was aware of. The rest of the law is sensible enough — not much different than what we see in Quebec, for example — but that clause is unacceptable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-parliament-attackers-citizenship-rescinded-law-1.6749567
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201028-israel-bill-to-revoke-arab-prisoners-citizenship-if-they-receive-pa-aid/
Note that simply receiving aid is grounds for revoking citizenship in the second link, and in the first, the definition of “terror” is almost as vague as “afraid for my life” defenses in police shootings in the US.
Thanks for this, I wasn’t aware of that law. It definitely isn’t acceptable to have laws based on the ethnicity of a particular subset of the population. Yet another reason why I hope to see Likud leadership at the Hague one day.