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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago
[-] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 30 points 11 months ago

Considering the end goal is obviously genocide, the ocean?

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

That’s not the end goal. The end goal is security for the Israeli people. If Palestinians choose peace, they’d have it. They have not chosen that path yet.

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 29 points 11 months ago

The end goal is security for the Israeli people.

This is nearly a certain white supremacist dogwhistle. Don't trust people who want to murder an entire people for the sake of "security" of other people. That's how ethnic cleanses and genocides are justified.

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

You connected two unrelated ideas.

Israel wants security for the people of Israel. Ideally, this is peace with their neighbors. Hamas has chosen war. Israel has no choice but the take action.

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And this action must be extermination of the people of Palestine. If you're going to say it, say all of it. Stop dancing around what you're advocating.

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Don’t put words in my mouth. I’m absolutely not saying that. Let me be clear: Palestinians should have a state and live peacefully as neighbors of Israel.

However, as of now, the Palestinian leadership is fracture and (in the case of Hamas) undeniably barbaric. The Palestinians need to choose better leaders and take themselves to freedom and peace they deserve.

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 19 points 11 months ago

When do they choose their leaders? They've not had an election in over a decade.

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Agreed! Neither in the West Bank where Fatah rules, not in Gaza where Hamas rules, have they had elections in more than a decade.

The Palestinians should demand an election.

[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

The Palestinians should demand an election.

may i ask why is it your presumption they haven't been doing this?

[-] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah Hamas def made those Israeli settlers steal Palestinian homes /s

[-] java@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago

From the authors of "Why don't Russians/Iranians/North Koreans/etc. overthrow their regimes? It's a simple choice."

[-] muse@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

Is that before or after the constant genocide?

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Genocide has a definition and it clearly doesn’t apply here. Please stop spreading misinformation.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

Ok. They are trying to eliminate all people of a certain belief system in a certain area after stealing their land and killing innocents and children... Oh shit that sounds a lot like genocide to me.

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Israel is not trying to eliminate people of a belief system. Their objective is to eliminate Hamas, whose charter is to destroy Israel, and in Saturday’s attack demonstrated they’ll do it without remorse in the most cruel ways.

[-] Stormyfemme@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago
[-] saplyng@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

God, just remembering the scene in spec ops makes me want to cry. It's wholly inhuman to use white phosphorus

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

Thing is, even if the people want peace there's no one to deliver it. Their leadership has no interest in negotiating with the state of Israel that they see as illegitimate.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

And Israel is the same way so that is a double edged sword.

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

That’s simply not correct and easily verifiable. Don’t spread misinformation.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

So for decades Israel has been pushing people out of their homes and killing their children, they have killed journalists.

Now, they told everyone to get out of gaza then bombed the crossing, they shut off power, water, sanitation, food, medicines, and shutdown god only knows how many machines that were keeping people alive because they do not run without electricity...

What part of what I said is untrue?

[-] edm00se@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

Per the linked article "toward the southern part of the besieged territory", which seems awfully vague for a major displacement of people.

[-] blewit@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

The Palestinians and the UN were given clear instructions as to where they should go that they would be safe.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago
[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 10 points 11 months ago

Remember the partition of India? Remember the Nakba?

Telling 1 million people that they no longer have a home never ends well.

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