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[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 111 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Israel is the modern day Nazi regime and we need to stop mincing words about it.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The worst one, but not the only one

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago
[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago

This is fucking evil manifest.

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] ashar@infosec.pub 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A big genocidal pogrom. The biggest pogrom.

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I hope I live to see Israel, in its current form, entirely destroyed. I want to believe that there are consequences to being this evil.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Its a noble dream. But for Israel to ever face justice their largest and fiercest backer - the nation that is often the only one that votes to protect them in UN votes, and the one that has almost singlehandedly turned them into a military superpower in the middle east - the USA - must get its house in order first.

There is zero chance of much changing on Israel while Republicans or the conservative wing of the Democrats are in power, and especially while Trump is president. That's not to say it can't change, but there are multiple hurdles: so, I hope you live a long time and see a lot of positive changes throughout your life.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 7 points 3 days ago

Climate change has entered the chat

[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

If Gaza will be entirely destroyed, there is a considerable risk that Israel will meet the same fate later.

If a country spans only 22 000 square kilometers and is inhabited by 10 million people, it's not very smart to make enemies among every group who can relate to Palestinians - for example Muslims (about 1.9 billion people) or perhaps Arabs (around 400 million people).

Put simply - Israel has withstood various pressures because of US backing.

The US currently runs a high risk of getting somewhat indisposed due to a president they elected acting very foolishly. If the US should break down, Israel will find itself very isolated.

If Israel makes a record amount of determined enemies now, it may have a record amount of people seeking its downfall later. Even if the Israeli government doesn't care the slightest amount about Palestinians, it should consider its own future before acting in the described way.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's been shown that alone they cannot keep up the current rate of genocide, there was a report that they're already running out of munitions in couple of weeks.

Their economy is also in shambles and the zionist government will face a civil movement because they ran out of money.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The last part seems pretty unlikely. The population is entirely brainwashed they will not change course on their own

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[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (48 children)

To all those who stood up against "Genocide Joe":

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!

Know that your internet slacktivism has made a lasting difference in the world, and the JIDF thanks you for your service.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago (21 children)

You and everyone who repeats the “I hope you’re happy now” really are not helping. You’re mad, I’m mad, but please please get your fill of catharsis/smug self righteousness elsewhere please, blaming non/voters isn’t going to rebuild the Obama coalition that delivered a supermajority in Congress. The Democrats lost the youth turnout, Palestine (Russian/astroturf bots or no) were not the sole factor but a sharp tipping point that laid out reality bare.

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Im not at all surprised that young voters who became politically aware during the Obama era or later were gradually disenchanted and sat this round out; when you look at it from their timeline they did all the right democracy things and got shit on over and over

  • Organic enthusiasm for Bernie in the primary, sabotaged by superdelegates - your vote doesn’t matter, we pick not you plebs and in their mind that action brought Trump 2016
  • George Floyd’s livestreamed murder and BLM protests - no structural change or even federal police reform passed
  • The kids yet again come out and do the right thing by voting Biden in 2020, and watch more politicking and focus-tested soft liberalism rule the day. Rail strike busted. East Palestine spill without serious investigation or reform. Debt ceiling negotiations and kowtowing - everything will stay the same
  • Oct 7 happens, then the Israeli bombing campaign begins and Biden openly castigates activists and doubles down on supplying the IDF - how dare you plebs question your leader
  • Protests persist, organize and clearly make their demands known, even send a warning shot in the primary… receiving only empty words from leadership - they are not going to do what you want
  • The DNC platforms two Jewish parents of a Hamas hostage at the convention, but refuses to allow a Dem Rep to speak with pre-vetted remarks - we don’t even want to hear from you

And nothing substantial happened that might change their mind. Kamala rode that same trajectory through her campaign, even as VP she had a harder stance on Israel that suddenly evaporated once she was appointed the nominee.

Its genocide - the crime of all crimes - and the Democratic Party refused to seriously discuss the topic in public. I cannot seriously blame them for giving up on a party that refused to listen to them in good faith, and disappointed them time after time. That’s on the DNC for throwing that demographic away, and we need to recognize that. They’re not voting for Republicans ffs but they’ve received the message that they and their vote, isn’t important to the Democrats.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Absolutely this.

Anyone denying the clear signals of despair from young voters is coping. Idk why anyone is getting mad at people demanding progress from dems at a time when there's no risk of electoral losses - makes me think those people are actually just carrying water for ani-reform neoliberal fascists.

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[–] piefood@feddit.online 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Maybe people wouldn't call him "Genocide Joe" if he hadn't backed a genocide. I always find it amazing that people blame the voters, instead of blaming the people with the power, the platform, and the money, who chose genocide over winning the election.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What a joke. At the start of this genocide in late 2023 Blinken was floating the idea of "evacuating" the population of Gaza into Sinai. He distanced himself when it was clear Mahmoud Abbas would not agree to it.

There was a recent report that In 15 months Biden did precisely nothing to pressure Israel into a ceasefire to the extent that the Israelis "thanked god" for having such an obsequious President.

https://israelpalestinenews.org/biden-officials-admit-they-never-pressured-israel-for-ceasefire/

He did however give them everything they needed for the extermination campaign and blocked every Security Council resolution.

He also set the stage for demonising students. 4 university heads were removed for tolerating Palestine protestors.

The only difference between Trump and Biden with respect to the genocide is that Trump isnt hiding behind crocodile tears.

Stop trying to memory hole Biden. We haven't forgotten.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't finish the article because of how horrific the descriptions of kids suffering were.

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[–] tostos@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

United States of Aipac will approve, does not matter reps or dems.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was told many times that the extremists who hold this agenda in Israel are a small minority and do not represent Israel or have much power over its policy.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If they are the minority, why does Netanyahu keep getting reelected?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

It's what I'm asking myself.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Netanyahu isn't seen as an extremist within Israeli politics. Zionism has always been fascist and always had the agenda of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably the same kind of ignorance of other countries' perspective that makes Americans think the political center is somewhere between the US Republicans and the US Democrats.

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[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He should have been more eloquent. I'm pretty sure there's an ancient word that means "to entirely destroy by fire"... If he had used that instead, it would be more clear what he means.

It's not even news anymore to see these shitty blood-glutted war criminals' gloating, completely conveniently forgetting the hypocrisy. Perhaps we need to simply call this what it is, by this man's very definition here: it is a holocaust of Gaza.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Israel is an evil country. Israel is the country with the most war criminals per capita. If the Israeli people do not do something significant in the coming months, they will be complicit in the atrocities committed by the IDF.

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like blocking the vent on a pressure cooker, this is no doubt going to blow up in their face.

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[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They need to be taught the same hard lesson Germany, Italy, and Japan had to be taught 80 years ago. Genocidal fascism has no place on Earth.

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