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The United States is warning Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in “extremist” settlers in the West Bank in the wake of reports of violence against Palestinians. “We…

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[–] LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yea most Israelis agree it's fucked too.

Cops are bastards and let it happen, local troops help.

One silver lining is the Israeli Left is having a resurgence and there might be a government trying to roll it back and clean up it's act after this.

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Isrealis have repeatedly voted for governments that openly state they want settlement construction to kill any viable Palestinian state (Netanyahu and his far-right pals).

If the whole of Gaza can be held responsible for voting for Hamas in 2006 (and not once after since Hamas did away with elections), the whole of Isreal can be held accountable.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah except the person you're responding to probably doesn't hold all of Gaza responsible for what Hamas has done since being voted into power.

Also, the Israeli left actually now has their own egotistically altruistic motive to shut down the settler shit, that being that shutting off the valve of right of return and no longer counting the votes of settlers in the west bank gives them an electoral edge.

And after the shit Bibi's pulled, you could bet good money that the courts would look the other way on them doing it too since the judges will for a long time see right wing governments as a threat to their judicial autonomy.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't think either population is morally responsible for what their so-called leaders do. Subsets of them, sure, but Israelis or Palestinians as a whole? Not a chance. People are not responsible for actions they had no hand in, or which they actively opposed.

[–] LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Really funny how people down vote you because they believe in collective punishment as long as it's the side they don't like.

Which is the status quo for the region.

Still doesn't change the Geneva Conventions definition of a military target.

Meanwhile over in Pakistan there's massive protests for Palestine nominally. As they are genociding 1.4 million Afghan refugees. https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-afghanistan-deportations-migrant-crackdown/32658618.html the stated reason is that the refugee population keeps suicide bombing stuff amongst other militant actions. Sound familiar?

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I totally agree.

I'm just following the logic of those who claim the carpet bombing of Gaza is acceptable because the Palestinians once voted for Hamas.

[–] LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A. It's not carpet bombing. Less than one casualty per bomb dropped even if you round up.

B. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-nazi-case-for-hamas/

[–] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any before and after photos of entire demolished Gaza neighbourhoods makes it clear what a farce your claim is.

[–] LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

May you never experience a true carpet bombing.

The death toll would be in the 100k+

In Dresden in the B link 60k died in one night.

Didn't work for his defense then doesn't now. It's the basis of the laws of war and Geneva Conventions.

As it turns out a place the size of jersey city with 500km of tunnels is entrenched

It's not a claim it's a fact that Gaza isn't being carpet bombed. Overlay the maps of damage from satellite imagery with where tunnels were known to be previously in public knowledge.

[–] S_204@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So one of the most common forms of social media deception is posting screen shots but not the links themselves.

I'm curious about your screen shots, can you send the links?

[–] LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sure.

https://x.com/GLNoronha/status/1718988399057551639?s=20

https://x.com/IsraelinUSA/status/1718021899056210213?s=20

E: here's also a UN submitted report on the fact Hamas uses child soldiers and indoctrinated them. https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AHRC46NGO42_050321.pdf

https://youtu.be/dtErUuBvcRc?si=f7DeVBj8ahJMiybY and here's a video published by a preschool where they teach the kids to do some fucked up things.

Also here's another interview with the former heir of one of Hamas' co-founders and leaders in the West Bank. I have others in my comment history from this guy who is actually pretty famous.

(I don't like the interviewer but he mostly shuts up and let's the Palestinian who was in and out of Israeli prisons for years since he was 10 talk. Yousef touches on a lot of the same points across the different interviews he's done but this one has a bit more nuance.)

https://youtu.be/B8YYmrgAeqw?si=r-ZNTEdfUrLjc9yE

[–] S_204@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Happy to help anyone who wants to know more about the regional context.

There's just so fucking much of it too.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In Dresden in the B link 60k died in one night.

It's not every day that you hear propaganda from the 40's. The total death toll of the Dresden carpet bombings was 25k.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

The United States regularly votes for warmongers and theocrats, it doesn't mean there aren't a lot of Americans who think they're wrong.