So you blame Palestina for existing and being constantly under attack by terrorists… “how dare you fight back!” man cant make this shit up
That argument works both ways
(Even if you oppose the classification of Israel as “terrorists” - although fair given the definition - replace terrorist in that sentence with “Israel” and the sentiment is exactly the same)
Always fun how Israel apologists fall back to “you’re an antisemite” once they know they have no valid argument left.
You’re devaluating “anti-Semitism” by misusing it, and as a result you are hurting Jewish people. Furthermore, by equating Israel to Judaism, you’re propagating that any misbehaviour by the Israeli government reflects the will of the Jewish people, further damaging the Jewish people worldwide.
The Palestinian state is recognised by the majority of countries in the world (currently 145 out of 193, and growing, like recently by Spain, Norway, Slovenia and Ireland).
I suggest you look up UN resolution 181 and see what parts of “The British Mandate for Palestina” (interesting last word in that name) were actually given to Israel, and which parts were left to the “Palestinian arab population”. You’ll find that Israel is occupying large areas of land that the British did not actually give to them.
Just because Israels propaganda does not want a Palestinian state to exist, does not make it so.
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
This is the working definition of antisemitism as per the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Criticising the Israeli government for behaviour they exhibit does not fall under this definition, and therefore we can’t be “antisemitic as hell. By definition”.
Stop equating Israel to the Jewish people, they are not the same.
The Israeli military had US support in rescuing four captives from Gaza in a “complex daytime operation” in Nuseirat that killed over 200 Palestinians....
How deranged do you have to be to think that it’s okay to murder more than 200 innocent people to save 4? Imagine that there’s a hostage situation somewhere near you, and the outcome is “we saved the 4 hostages, unfortunately 200 bystanders died”. I can not comprehend how you can be so mentally disturbed that you can be okay with that.
Okay, let’s assume only half are innocent (that’s generous given the statistics of the invasion so far). That’s still more than 100 innocent human beings murdered. Families torn apart, children orphaned, parents that have to bury their children, or families that simply stopped existing. How anyone can celebrate that outcome as a success I will never understand.
Lol what? I’m clearly not saying that, I’m arguing Israeli lives are not worth more than Palestinian. My whole point is that a life is a life, I don’t give a rats ass what side of an imaginary line on a map that person was born.
Major hospitals in London have declared a critical incident after a cyber attack led to operations being cancelled and emergency patients being diverted elsewhere....
Israel has urged what it called “nations of the civilised world” to refuse to implement any international criminal court arrest warrants issued against its leaders....
Curious to see what the Dutch government will do. They have been one of the most loyal lapdogs of the US and Israel, but with the ICC being in The Hague, going against it is not a pretty look either.
We also have a court that has ordered we can’t deliver F-35 parts because it’s likely they will be used to commit war crimes, and the government is fighting that order. I imagine the ICC saying the same will not help their case.
It’s so fucking wild to me that we need to resort to completely ineffective shit like floating docks when the reason we can’t send trucks by land is that our own ally doesn’t allow it, and our governments refuse to hold them accountable. Such a fucking dystopian situation.
At this point, I’m not even sure they won’t bomb US troops if they were in Gaza, and I am pretty sure the US government wouldn’t hold them responsible if they did.
That’s not what I am denying, read my comment again. What I am saying is that the warnings are just for show, because if they follow the warnings and flee, the IDF kills them while they are on the run
Israel’s military said on Monday it had begun encouraging residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city as part of a ‘limited scope’ operation, but did not immediately confirm media reports this was part of preparation for a ground assault....
Annoying huh, international law against ethnic cleansing. You’re not even allowed to give civilians the choice between being forcibly removed or slaughtered. It’s antisemitic I tell you, what are the poor Israelis to do?
You know they don’t have to invade Rafah, right? It’s not like ethnic cleansing is Israel’s only choice.
Ah yes, because telling Netanyahu “please don’t bomb children, that is not really nice” has worked out splendidly so far. Diplomacy without being able to put pressure on is nothing more than kindly asking.
Y’know what is the primary method to apply pressure in diplomacy? Sanctions.
Leave Curious did a great video about this. It’s not just Thames Water, it’s many more water companies in the UK. 72 billion pounds has been paid out in dividends since the water companies were privatised in the 80s, meanwhile the companies say they don’t have money to do the necessary investments in the infrastructure. Privatisation of public infrastructure is the biggest scam in history. youtu.be/wDO81MUWWEY?si=adnbxPvHX3aq9FRZ
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a date has been set to invade Rafah in southern Gaza as truce talks with Hamas in Cairo are ongoing but do not appear close to the finish line....
I know and I always thought that is bullshit, but making it (for all intends and purposes) illegal to boycot companies from another country is next level. That’s giving away freedoms of your own citizens purely to the advantage of another country. That is insane.
An Israeli court has refused to release a female Palestinian journalist whose prematurely born baby is solely reliant on her mother’s breast milk for nutrition, her family told Middle East Eye....
Declaring literally half the population “fools” or “dumb” is a bit extreme, don’t you think? If it was 10% sure, if it’s 50% something else is going on. Dismissing it as “it’s just fools” will do nothing to improve it for the next election or referendum (as you can see with Trump in the US now).
We live in a time where it’s all too easy for a small group with malicious motives and money (be it corrupt politicians, foreign governments or rich olicharchs businessmen) to sway the public opinion. That is the problem that needs fixing, by limiting the echo chamber effects of social media, the power of media conglomerates, and better education in general.
This is why I’m not for referenda generally. Decisions like this are way too complicated and have way too many difficult to foresee implications for anyone to make a well-informed decision on, unless you take the time to really study it. It’s the whole reason we have the governmental system we have: you elect people you think will represent your opinion best, who then have the dedicated time to do the research required.
The Biden administration is close to approving the sale of as many as 50 American-made F-15 fighter jets to Israel, in a deal expected to be worth more than $18 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter....
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said Monday that several of the group’s employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Andrés, a celebrity chef, called those who died his “sisters and brothers” and “angels” in a statement on social media....
The sanctions have infuriated Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who characterized them as a draconian obstruction of Israeli sovereignty. In response, the far-right lawmaker threatened to take steps in his capacity as head of the treasury that would significantly impede the Palestinian economy, the Israeli official added,...
In response, the far-right lawmaker threatened to take steps in his capacity as head of the treasury that would significantly impede the Palestinian economy
This is just fucking evil. The US sanctioning Israel? Just take it out on the Palestinians.
Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month....
So taking a weapon off a dying person (presumably to help the dying person, which medics tend to do) and giving it to someone nearby for safe keeping makes you a fighter now? Hell the medic might have given the weapon to the hamas fighter to protect him doing his (geneva-convention protected) job while the oh-so-moral IDF was firing at them.
But of course, this one video totally warrants the destruction of several hospitals and the torture and murder of doctors and patients. What a bullshit argument.
“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and increasing humanitarian aid, that would pave the way for a (truce) agreement within the next 24 to 48 hours,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, as negotiations were...
The only thing a ceasefire is getting Israel off scott free after killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, and letting Israel regroup and launch another October - March.
If they would stop delivering bombs to Israel, they wouldn’t even have to drop this many meals in the first place, saving literally everyone in the process so much pain and effort.
“The settlers aren’t wrong. The right is correct: That is the way to seize and hold land, and their claim that, any place we Israelis leave, the Arabs will come in our place, is correct. The right is also correct in its path: It’s by settlement and only by settlement that sovereignty can be imposed. The debate is whether...
Imagine coming out of the holocaust, where unimaginable horrors were done to the Jewish people, to then just straight go in to doing the exact same thing to the Palestinians. Imagine being that hypocritical and still think you are in the right. I can’t even begin to to think how one could be so stuck up their own arse.
Israel needs to be called out for every warcrime they commit. It’s the only thing we as regulars can still do while our governments are fully in the pockets of the Israeli propaganda machine.
Satellite imagery and video footage have emerged suggesting that Egypt is building what appears to be a large, concrete-walled enclosure which observers believe will be used to manage a major influx of Palestinian refugees flooding out of Gaza via the Rafah crossng on its eastern border....
BRUSSELS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday warned Israel against launching an offensive in Rafah that ministers said would create a disaster for the roughly 1.5 million refugees crammed into the city on the southern edge of Gaza. “An attack on Rafah would be absolutely catastrophic … it would be...
Stop warning and have some actual consequences. At the very least halt all military aid, every bit of weaponry sent to Israel will be used for war crimes. Ideally halt all support to Israel. “Warning” does fuck all.
“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have been another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
Netanyahu says he won’t agree to a deal that ends the war in Gaza, testing the latest truce proposal (apnews.com)
US involved in Israeli operation in Nuseirat that killed over 200 Palestinians (www.middleeasteye.net)
The Israeli military had US support in rescuing four captives from Gaza in a “complex daytime operation” in Nuseirat that killed over 200 Palestinians....
Cyber attack on London hospitals declared critical incident (www.bbc.com)
Major hospitals in London have declared a critical incident after a cyber attack led to operations being cancelled and emergency patients being diverted elsewhere....
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713638...
Israel calls on ‘civilised nations’ to boycott ICC arrest warrants against its leaders (www.theguardian.com)
Israel has urged what it called “nations of the civilised world” to refuse to implement any international criminal court arrest warrants issued against its leaders....
First aid flows into Gaza over massive U.S. pier (www.nbcnews.com)
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid (apnews.com)
Israel military calls on Palestinian civilians to evacuate Rafah (www.reuters.com)
Israel’s military said on Monday it had begun encouraging residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city as part of a ‘limited scope’ operation, but did not immediately confirm media reports this was part of preparation for a ground assault....
Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel (www.axios.com)
Israel: ‘Investigate what?’ A response to mass graves being found in Gaza. (www.politico.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14741297...
‘Privileged access’: pro-plastic lobbyists at UN pollution talks increase by a third (www.theguardian.com)
Fossil fuel and petrochemical campaigners at Ottawa summit outnumber scientists, EU and Indigenous delegates...
Israeli forces kill three Palestinian boys during military incursion into Nour Shams refugee camp (www.dci-palestine.org)
Israeli forces killed three Palestinian children during a military incursion into Nour Shams refugee camp that lasted more than two days....
Israeli MK says secret plans underway for Gaza resettlement (www.newarab.com)
A filthy river Seine could force Paris to cancel an triathlon Olympics event (www.nbcnews.com)
Israel says ‘date set’ for Rafah invasion amid ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a date has been set to invade Rafah in southern Gaza as truce talks with Hamas in Cairo are ongoing but do not appear close to the finish line....
McDonald's to buy back Israeli restaurants after boycotts - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Israel won't release journalist whose sick baby is solely reliant on breast milk (www.middleeasteye.net)
An Israeli court has refused to release a female Palestinian journalist whose prematurely born baby is solely reliant on her mother’s breast milk for nutrition, her family told Middle East Eye....
Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed (www.bbc.com)
The government has revealed how much companies will have to pay to import foods from the EU due to Brexit....
Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel (edition.cnn.com)
The Biden administration is close to approving the sale of as many as 50 American-made F-15 fighter jets to Israel, in a deal expected to be worth more than $18 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter....
World Central Kitchen workers killed by Israeli strike in Gaza, José Andrés says (www.washingtonpost.com)
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said Monday that several of the group’s employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Andrés, a celebrity chef, called those who died his “sisters and brothers” and “angels” in a statement on social media....
US says Israeli banks don’t have to close accounts of sanctioned settlers (www.timesofisrael.com)
The sanctions have infuriated Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who characterized them as a draconian obstruction of Israeli sovereignty. In response, the far-right lawmaker threatened to take steps in his capacity as head of the treasury that would significantly impede the Palestinian economy, the Israeli official added,...
Famine is now probably present in Gaza, US says (www.theguardian.com)
Gaza medics tell BBC that Israeli troops beat and humiliated them after hospital raid (www.bbc.com)
Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month....
Hamas Says Gaza Truce Possible 'Within 24 To 48 Hours' If Israel Accepts Terms (www.barrons.com)
“If Israel agrees to Hamas demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza and increasing humanitarian aid, that would pave the way for a (truce) agreement within the next 24 to 48 hours,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue, as negotiations were...
US military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation (apnews.com)
'Settlers are right': The kibbutz movement should break away from the left, leader says (www.haaretz.com)
“The settlers aren’t wrong. The right is correct: That is the way to seize and hold land, and their claim that, any place we Israelis leave, the Arabs will come in our place, is correct. The right is also correct in its path: It’s by settlement and only by settlement that sovereignty can be imposed. The debate is whether...
IDF says it fired on Gazans who endangered troops in stampede; Hamas claims 70 dead (www.timesofisrael.com)
Live Updates: In Chaotic Gaza Scene, Many Are Killed and Wounded as Israelis Open Fire (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16428678...
As Israel’s assault on Rafah approaches, Egypt prepares for a flood of Palestinian refugees (theconversation.com)
Satellite imagery and video footage have emerged suggesting that Egypt is building what appears to be a large, concrete-walled enclosure which observers believe will be used to manage a major influx of Palestinian refugees flooding out of Gaza via the Rafah crossng on its eastern border....
US again vetoes UN action in Israel-Hamas war, blocks ceasefire call (www.reuters.com)
EU warns Israel against "catastrophic" Rafah offensive (www.reuters.com)
BRUSSELS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday warned Israel against launching an offensive in Rafah that ministers said would create a disaster for the roughly 1.5 million refugees crammed into the city on the southern edge of Gaza. “An attack on Rafah would be absolutely catastrophic … it would be...
Yulia Navalnaya will continue lifework of Alexey Navalny (youtu.be)
“I didn’t have to be in this place, I didn’t have to record this video. In my place should have been another person. But this person was killed by Putin.”
Israel appears to be in breach of ICJ orders on Gaza, senior UN official says. (amp.theguardian.com)