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[–] foo2@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is not Israel that wants to annihilate Gaza and the Palestinian people, it is Hamas (and their backer the Iranian government) that wants to annihilate Israel and the Jewish people.

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] foo2@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. But neither is it an official Israeli position, nor can I see how it would be justified to suppose statements like this would be endorsed by anything even close to a majority of the Israeli people. Talk of a planned genocide of the Palestinian people is pure propaganda.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

what do you call walling in 2 million people and cutting off food water and fuel then bombing the shit out of the walled enclosure? Israel is doing genocide right now it doesn't matter if its official or not

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Please walk into the sea.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Isreal is currently perpetrating a genocide against the Palestinian people. Kind of hard to argue they don't want to when it's exactly what they're doing.