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.
Like a… Pogrom?
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.
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.
The US doesn’t need to “get it’s house in order”.
It also needs to (and seems on the path to) be destroyed in its current form.
With global trade inevitably shifting away from the unstable US, Military embarrassments against small impoverished organizations like the houthis, and diplomacy entirely built around leveraging those 2 things…it seems much more likely the US turns into a nuclear armed former superpower than that it maintains it’s global status and changes to actually use said status for good.
And go where, jackass?
Israel is the modern day Nazi regime and we need to stop mincing words about it.
Thats why our nazi president is making sure it’s illegal to say bad things about the Israeli government, like knows like
Oh? Is Israel finally letting Palestinians have free travel so that they actually can leave or is “leave in great numbers” a euphemism for the ongoing genocide?
There is a word in ancient Greek which has the precise meaning “to entirely destroy” by fire. Maybe we need to start calling this what it is: a holocaust of Gaza.
I would say genocide. It’s Israel. Come on now.
~~As would I, hence I did. But the quote was from an Israeli official. ~~
I think I might have read the comment I replied to wrong. It seems to me now they were choosing the second option of my original comment.
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.
Only one flaw with your logic… Most of the neighboring countries hate Palestine almost as much as the Israeli’s do. That’s why they haven’t been accepting any refugees and haven’t been putting a lot of pressure on Israel for their actions, Yemen being one of the few exceptions.
They don’t hate Palestinians.
Palestine is a unifying call amongst Arabs. The rulers of countries like Egypt and Jordan who have made peace with Israel are essentially Western backed puppets who receive money from the US to stay pliable. They don’t reflect the will of the “Street”. The only notable exception to this is the UAE.
Neighboring countries have also received huge numbers of refugees from Palestine. They don’t want to receive ethnically cleansed Palestinians for the same reason that European countries don’t want to either. It is immoral, not to mention hugely destabilising.
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.
The last part seems pretty unlikely. The population is entirely brainwashed they will not change course on their own
I saw a study of israeli children’s books and something like half of them contain racist and dehumanising depictions of Palestinians. They are brainwashed from birth to hate.
Ironic given that’s what they accuse the Palestinians of. Every accusation is a confession.
You know that Israel MAKES munitions right? They have a pretty sizable weapons industry. Not to mention with Trump in office, there is little slowing down how much they can purchase from the US.
I would take any report of Israel running out of arms with a massive, heaping spoonful of salt.
This is fucking evil manifest.
Yeah, it’s Israel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Genocide is the ultimate crime huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izium_mass_graves
Or the genocide starting in America of people with skin the same color as I have.
It’s Trump, no matter who the dems put up you weren’t voting for them, you were voting against a rapist, pedophile traitor.
Genocide is the ultimate crime huh?
Fucking yes. I cannot believe we’re even having this argument. Nothing comes close.
Or the genocide starting in America of people with skin the same color as I have
I am absolutely not trying to downplay the barbarity and wanton cruelty of the Trump administration’s policies, but what we’ve seen so far doesn’t match the definition. Extrajudicial disappearances and zero due process for perceived or actual migrants is not the same thing as genocide. There’s no forced sterilization, rote murder, mass displacement, or deliberate attempt to destroy a collective people. CECOT is an overseas concentration camp, not a death camp - yet.
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Dodged right around the mass graves?
The kidnapped children?
The destruction of culture through russification?
Dude. I can name from memory the list of war crimes and genocidal acts that Russia has done, they’re on a speed run in their aggressive war of conquest. Bucha, Mariupol, perferdy, executing PoWs, torture, the kidnapped children being raised as Russian, deliberate bombing of civilians, Russification of the Donbas, chemical weapons use, the list goes on.
But the severity is not the same. Gazans can’t seek safety in western Ukraine, they have no missile defenses, they’re being deliberately starved to death as collective punishment, and are being kept inside a war zone by complete military encirclement and occupation.
I don’t quite understand your argument here, all of those crimes fall under the umbrella term of genocide as well.
Yet the only ‘genocide’ lemmy will talk about is palestine.
? I’ve seen plenty of talk about the situation in Ukraine, Sudan and Kenia. Maybe your instance doesn’t federate with the instances where those discussions happen?
Palestine is a notable one because it’s perpetrated by our “ally” and it’s also very high in civilian casualties. And I really don’t say that to minimise any of the other atrocities going on.
^ This is what forum sliding looks like disguised as progressive concern. Block and move on
edit: I’m pointing out right wing propaganda and I get downvoted? Fuck every one of you and I’m not putting in any more effort to keep the shit out of lemmy
I literally cannot find anything about “forum sliding” that isn’t re-re-re-reposts of the same text - and they’re almost universally tinfoil hat or ‘freethinker’ faux intellectual dross. If you’re that paranoid go read my comment history, it’s all public lol
If you want to live in a hugboxed information bubble where your ideas never get challenged, you can do that. But reality will come crashing through eventually.
you’re just mad that trump is carrying out your only policy for you.
I’m mad Trump isn’t on fire and I can’t piss around him.
Biden supported Israel and did nothing to stop this.
Kamala as VP and nominee, supported Israel and did nothing to stop this.
Now Trump supports Israel and is doing nothing to stop this.
OMG, they’re perspectives are so different on this topic!!1! 😱 😱
jsyk, the majority of ‘genocide joe’ social media posts were right wing propaganda
I mean sure there were some that chose not to vote because of Gaza, but the number doesn’t really make a difference in the final count.
More people abstained due to sexism honestly
Honestly, who the hell cares.
Americans of every race made their choice in 2024 and there’s no point in speculating what the losing party would have done.
The reality is what it is and we’re under Trump now.
As long as those Americans understand what their vote was for and can live with it, that’s what matters and I’m 100% okay with my vote and I can live with it.
I care.
More importantly, as a non-white American watching a genocide start at home, it very much matters who and what people voted (or didn’t vote) for.
What really pisses me off is people saying democrats would have been just as bad, while we watch people drug off by thugs in black body armor to El Salvador to die without due process.
I think it’s safe to speculate that that wouldn’t have happened under the alternative.
I’m trying to understand where you are coming from. In the general elections, I voted for Harris and Clinton after voting against them in primaries. The thing about voting and elections is that there are hundreds of variables involved, and focusing on one to pin blame on a sliver of the electorate doesn’t seem like thoughtful analysis or productive to an oppositional cause.
You can point to turnouts and results from specific counties until your finger dries up and falls off, but that only highlights a neglect regarding myriad other factors that contribute to results. My opinion is that the Harris campaign ran the race the way they thought best and they lost. They lost. Sure, in sense we all lost, but they were the ones driving the bus.
We aren’t children without agency, they aren’t singers on American idol.
They had policy manifestos, they were explicit about them.
And the voices screaming to ignore everything else and focus only on Palestine as the only variable that mattered, in unison, with almost perfect resonance with Russian troll farms (curious given Russia’s close ties with both Iran and hamas in the lead up to october 7, and their use of Gaza to distract the west from support for Ukraine).
We’re being played like puppets, and nobody is willing to admit there are malicious actors at work who benefit.
To all those who stood with Genocide Joe & Kamala Cheney:
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Know that your support for genocide helped usher in Trump & has made a lasting difference in the world, and the JIDF thanks you for your service.
The ‘no u’ defense doesn’t really work here
So true. Democrats don’t have anyone to blame but themselves. Maybe they’ll learn or maybe they won’t.
We won’t even have real elections by then. your moral high ground is fucking worthless, when it garuntees minorities are just going to die. The “I’m gonna stand here and make sure you don’t win in protest” only works when the other answer isn’t straight up facism. Sure Democrats aren’t and won’t ever be progressive, but that’s because this country lacks a progressive party. And the time to create one was many years ago.
The reason people like you can unironically think this fine is because the fascists won’t come for you. You can fucking sit there with your goofy ass smirk while I’m sure I’ll be right after immigrants on my way to some camp.
You honestly act like what’s happening in Gaza would be worse with her. And as a result you really feel like just letting as many atrocities as possible happen is for the benefit of everyone globally. I can’t take yall seriously
United States of Aipac will approve, does not matter reps or dems.
European sanctions also apparently never.
Watch as they spin this and sanction Jordan or Egypt.
I couldn’t finish the article because of how horrific the descriptions of kids suffering were.
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.
If they are the minority, why does Netanyahu keep getting reelected?
It’s what I’m asking myself.
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
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.
I know it’s framed that way deliberately to western audiences as a way to minimize Israels current actions as fringe instead of mainstream, but yeah, definitely taken that way from the audience. American exceptionalism still has a stronghold in the mentality of the people here unfortunately.
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There is no excuse for the systematic extermination of innocent civilians in response to the criminal actions of Hamas.
Imagine being Zionist in 2025
