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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reiterates call for 'hundreds of thousands' of Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from Gaza

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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 86 points 3 days ago (3 children)

why stop there?

I think Israel will not stop the war until its forced to do so.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they’re still working on their final solution to this.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Probably provoke every neighbor until it's a big active conflict in the entire region and then say they're the only one capable of "maintaining peace" aka kill everybody so better start sending weapons.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution

I believe their comment was in reference to this.

So basically, yes. Kill everyone they can.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That’s a bingo.

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[–] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 22 points 3 days ago

Rome conquered the world in a war of 'self defense'.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They intend to expand a lot and be as globally independent as possible so they cant be punished for their crimes with trade sanctions.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cant wait to see the response of the "its just against the terrorists" crowd

[–] Md27@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Israeliz are the terrorists with nukes in the area, it's uncanny how they keep flinging accusations and throwing American weaponry at everyone that doesn't like their land grabs

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Smotrich is a horrible person. He and Ben Gvir want ethnic cleansing.

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[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Where is the “I won’t support Genocide Joe” crowd now?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Eating popcorn. Where are the dems who will fight for their constituents now? Looks like they just nearly unanimously passed a law that will let the administration take down any web content the want, not just revenge porn or deepfakes like they claimed.

So thats the end of free speech. Trump said outright he'd use it to censor his oponents. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws Did the dems just not have time for ammendments?

So was all this trumpery worth it all so the DNC could continue to take AIPAC money?

Or the Laken Riley act passed with dem support.
https://rollcall.com/2025/01/20/democrats-senate-laken-riley-act/ We're deporting anyone now, with democratic party support. They are even trying to use it on citizens. Heck of a job, DNC.

Or when the dems voted to advance trumps budget-- about the only card they had in their hand right now, and they just didnt use it. https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-democrats-voted-trump-gop-spending-bill-2045209

And now you want to what, fingerwag like you have a leg to stand on here? I mean come on man. Show me proof beyond Booker sitting on the steps in theatrical protest that the dems are working some angle thats not just secret support of anything the republicans want?

I guess at least Schumer, who says his whole job is to keep the dems supporting Israel, sent a "very strong letter" to trump. So we have that going for us. https://www.yahoo.com/news/pathetic-critics-cringe-leading-dem-191116497.html

Yay Schumer, way to go.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

This is it. Why the fuck is the blame on the people who didn’t vote for a terrible candidate supporting a genocide and not the fucking people supporting the genocide?! Why did the dems all support that censorship bill, when they were initially speaking up about it? Why does it seem like the more exhausted he populace got with trump and his shit, he more democrats seemed to use that as an excuse to start supporting the republicans? Where is all the “stop trump” and “stop fascism” dems now? Why does it seem like they’re done grandstanding about standing up to trump and seem to have rolled over to keep their jobs or whatever it is? Why does this seem all okay, and why is the blame for all of that on people who couldn’t stomach supporting a candidate that was not standing up to a genocide and was parading around the fucking worst of the neocons? Why is it always on the people who didn’t sacrifice their values to once again stomach a candidate that goes against their basic human morals, and not on the politicians continually moving to the right? Why blame the people who see the rightward march of the Democratic Party as a death knell for the country, and not on the people who are fucking marching right as fast as the fascists continue to radicalize? Why the fuck can these assholes not see that we don’t give a shit that you think you’re morally superior to us because you “voted against fascism,” when the party you voted for seems to be actively ushering fascism in through the door?

Where is the fucking class solidarity? These people are selling you out, and you turn to your neighbor to say, “well, you should’ve just voted differently.” We are well beyond this being on us. This is on the people driving the ship, not the ones stuck in the cargo hold screaming that we’re fucking sinking.

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I voted for Harris, and voted for Biden before that, and Clinton before that. With shame as I should. Harm reduction, methadone instead of heroin.

It's nothing to brag about. You guys try to make them sound like a good choice, when neoliberals are for the same status quo, only minus the scapegoating. They're just a lesser degree of bad. They're for mass homelessness, they're for entire murder for profit economic sectors including American "Healthcare," they're for ever worsening income inequity, because on economic policy (that informs and often dictates social Ills) they're on the same take as Republicans. Just because they don't cheer and pour the blood they're drenched in over their heads in celebration like Gatorade, doesn't mean their hands are any cleaner.

That scapegoating makes Republicans worth voting against, but you're praising Jack the Ripper in the face of Adolf Hitler. No American should feel anything but shame about only having a extreme right wing party and a fascist party as our only two options. No one should have left an American polling place with a smile or pride for the last half century, it's been a rocketship to avarice diseased oblivion, that Trumpism is just a newer symptom of, not the cause.

Reagan toppled this empire, it just takes an empire a while to hit the ground. We have arrived at a while. Trump is more of a vulture come to feast on the corpse.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I voted for Harris.

But can you explain exactly how things would have gone differently in Gaza other than the rhetoric if Harris had won? She was all in on the genocide just like Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, etc.

Just because Harris was clearly the better choice overall doesn't mean she (and Biden) wasn't and isn't dead wrong about their fealty to Netanyahu.

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[–] Krono@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Probably discussing the latest news about how Biden never pressured Israel for ceasefire

It was just another lie to give political cover as he aided and abetted an ongoing genocide.

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[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (11 children)

If you can’t stand up against actively supporting an open genocide, you aren’t going to stand up for democracy.

America has been cooked. And yes, Biden is/was complacent

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Surely thrilled that they were able to punish Democrats

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[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago (17 children)

So, the Nazi’s sent Jewish people to concentration camps, did horrible things to their children (especially twins), gassed their relatives, displaced them… But they are now doing the same thing to Palestinians? I really don’t have a side politically. I just don’t understand.

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

I'm Jewish and I don't get it either, every Jew I see falling for this fascist rhetoric horrifies and disgusts me

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I really don’t have a side politically. I just don’t understand.

you should really have a side by now.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago

"Greater Israel" is not just about murdering palestinians, but more generally stealing all of the middle east.

https://mepei.com/greater-israel-an-ongoing-expansion-plan-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 20 points 2 days ago

It wil not stop war at all, because Bibi needs wartome mandate to stay out of jail

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Fascists gonna fash.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sounds familiar. No wonder the Americans love Israel, they're basically carbon copies of eachother. What America did to the Native Americans, the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians. Push 'em out, keep pushing until they get violent, use the violence as an excuse to keep pushing, rinse and repeat until they're all dead.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

I was thinking the other day, and this is a bit off topic but:

Can you imagine what the colonists and “America” would have done to the indigenous people if they had the same tools as the Nazis?

America, Hitler’s little poster child.

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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Time to nuke Israel.

[–] WasteWizard@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What's their beef with Syria still?

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

Well, see, Syria has land they want and people they don’t.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago

They don't own it yet

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Until some military rolls up on the border and demands at gunpoint that Israel stop starving, murdering and stealing from people they dont like, the Israelis will keep doing it. They want Syria, Lebanan, Jordan, and Egypt after they finish off the west bank and Gaza.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago
[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

“We didn’t bomb these people out of their homes only to have them return.”

—Israel

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Genocide will continue until morale improves.

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