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I find this a strange take, and I hear it a lot from inhabitants of both the USA and Israel about their leadership. For better or worse, Netanyahu represents t
by hyperman1 1y ago
I find this a strange take, and I hear it a lot from inhabitants of both the USA and Israel about their leadership.
For better or worse, Netanyahu represents the Israeli governement, which represents Israel. Similar with Trump and the USA, or Putin and Russia. Sorry for the people who don't agree with them, but that's an internal power struggle, and as an outsider it is normal to abstract that away. For all of us: Your country is doing what it does.
As a Belgian, I spit on my idiotic, nasty governements. Insert tiny violin, whatever Belgium does on the international forum, I'll still be tarred with it. Similarly, we talk about Germany's role in world war 2, even if only about 10% of them were associated with the NSDAP.
Every power struggle is always represented overly simplistic. Sorry for both the jews and Israëli's who don't agree with it, you're probably good people. This time I am lucky to sit at a very comfortable sideline, criticising your country. But the point stands: Israel is correctly described as officially committing a genocide, and hence it can't be described as the good side.
- dotancohen 1y ago[flagged]
- VerminOctopus1 1y agoThe evidence of Israel’s genocide is plain to see. Israel is directly responsible for the systematic murder of countless civilians, a disgusting portion of which are children. What you are doing with this comment is attempting to shift the blame and responsibility in a transparent and gross manner. The journalists are not the problem, the people dropping the bombs every day are.
- dotancohen 1y ago[flagged]
- lupusreal 1y agoYou are denying the most well documented genocide in human history. Bad look my dude.
- dotancohen 1y agoYou keep posting this, so I'll just copy and paste my previous reply as well. No, I'm speaking about the most oft repeated lie about genocide. Go look at who authored this report. It is not "Top Legal Investigators" as the title states. And just read the report itself.
- lupusreal 1y agoI'll repeat what I told you then, if you continue to deny this ongoing genocide despite the mountains of evidence, then you are complicit.
- dotancohen 1y ago[flagged]
- lupusreal 1y agoYou've got your head buried so deep its a wonder the magma hasn't cooked you.
- ratelimitsteve 1y agowait journalists are responsible for dead children because they mention the dead children which encourages people to put children in a position where people have to shoot them but the people shooting the children aren't?
- dotancohen 1y agoYes. That is exactly what happens. Hamas, and many journalists, have specifically said this. It is incredulous to you and I because our culture would never support such a thing. I implore you to look at the Arabic channels that Hamas and the other Islamic bodies publish.
- ratelimitsteve 1y agobut, and I'm only asking this a second time for confirmation, the people who point the guns at the children and pull the trigger did not kill the children? they bear no responsibility?
- dotancohen 1y agoLet's be clear, Israel is not pointing guns at children and pulling the trigger. After October 2023, Israel has pretty much stopped protecting human shields. Before October 2023, Israel would hold fire when Hamas were hiding behind their populations' children. This is extremely well documented and I encourage you to research it. After October 2023, we have stopped protecting the human shields. This is because our own children, our babies, and our brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers, are being held in Gaza. How long can we be expected to continue protecting their children at the expense of our own? It should be also noted, and this is extremely well documented, that between 1/3 and 1/5 of all Hamas rockets fall back into the Gaza strip. That is an extraordinarily dense urban area, and all those injuries are blamed on Israel. Culturally, it makes sense for Arab media to report them as "killed in a war with Israel". But Western media then translates and reports that as "killed by Israel". This is not some conspiracy theory the Arabs status very clearly. I highly suggest that you go through the Arabic Telegram channels. I personally speak Arabic, but if you don't then Telegram has a built-in translation feature anyway. Or go through any other Arab media, it's all over the place. If you don't want to see children getting hurt, then stop protecting and encouraging Hamas.