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Although personally in favor of Palestinian independence and critical of war crimes committed by Israel in its siege of Gaza, I attempted to explain in a back-and-forth discussion with a user (only afterwards learning was one of the community's two moderators) why protest voting in the 2024 election to "punish" the democrats in favor of the republicans harmed the ultimate interest of reigning in Israeli violence in Palestine.

To further emphasize the damage caused by such a protest vote, I argued that not only is Palestine worse off with Trump elected instead of Harris, but as are a myriad of other social issues. The other user disagreed, arguing that Trump's return to office facilitated the ceasefire, rather than my argument that Netanyahu deliberately delayed it to help Trump get elected.

After my fourth reply post in a reply chain that stemmed from my initial reply to the moderator's comment, I was banned from !palestine@lemm.ee. Having at no point advocated in favor of the violence perpetuated by Israel in Gaza, I think the ban was unjustified, and demonstrates a bad precedent for maintaining echo chambers of moderator opinions, rather than communities that foster discussion.

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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Israel had intel of the October 7 attack at least 3 days before it from Egypt and internal sources and allowed it to happen.

Fuck Israel. A genocidal colonial settler state deserves the violence it receives.

You’ve had awful takes on this, constantly defending Israel’s genocidal actions, and I’m sick of reading them. Armed resistance is warranted in the face of genocide. Blocking your dumbass.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Israel had intel of the October 7 attack at least 3 days before it from Egypt and internal sources and allowed it to happen.

Correct. They've also been arranging for funding for Hamas, going to bat for them against their domestic opponents, because having a more violent organization representing Palestine gives them excuses for what they wanted to do anyway. They've been pretty explicit about this. They love having Hamas around killing Israelis, because it makes it look a lot more justified when they feel like killing Palestinians, which is always.

You’ve had awful takes on this, constantly defending Israel’s genocidal actions, and I’m sick of reading them.

Ah yes, who could forget all the times I defended Israel's genocidal actions. Which ones though? Which messages defending Israel's actions were your favorites?

Edit: Typo

[–] asymmetric@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Israel had intel of the October 7 attack at least 3 days before it from Egypt and internal sources and allowed it to happen.

Do you have source(s) on this? Would be interested in learning more.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s hard to find this shit on my phone because they’re intentionally memory holing stuff but here’s the times of Israel article about egypts warning, which was actually 10 days in advance.

https://archive.is/2025.01.06-061316/https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/

I’ll see if I can find the article about internal reports being ignored but that one’s gonna be harder to find because I can’t remember which paper it was, might of been haaretz.

Edit: that was easier than I thought it would be. Considering all the hits to my head I can’t believe I remembered the paper right!

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-18/ty-article/report-new-evidence-reveals-idf-had-detailed-prior-knowledge-of-hamas-plan-to-raid-israel/00000190-2afb-d2de-af9e-6ffbdf700000

This was Israel’s 9/11. Intentional. Netanyahu needed this genocide to stay in power. As a Jew I fucking hate my kind. Zionazis disgust me. An insult to the memory of all our ancestors who died in the Holocaust.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Somebody else posted the source, but to go further, Mossad is supposedly the best spy agency in the world, even according to quite a few Americans in the intelligence community. Do you think it's likely they didn't know the attack was coming when Hamas was posting their practice runs for assaulting the wall dividing Gaza from occupied Palestine to social media?