"Treat Palestinians like human beings? Are you crazy?"
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I grow more convinced every day that I've somehow been stranded among a bizarre race of insane savages.
That's really the only feasible explanation I can come up with. There's no way that a race of even reasonably intelligent and rational beings could fail to recognize that Netanyahu, for example, is profoundly and dangerously mentally ill - a clear psychopath - and shouldn't even be allowed out in public unaccompanied, much less granted power over others. So it can only be the case that human beings by and large - at least the not inconsiderable portion of them that support Netanyahu (or Trump or Putin or any of the other vividly insane people in power) - are both stupid and insane.
And somehow, I, with a working brain and an actual set of functioning moral principles, have ended up trapped among them.
I have very little time to care about the opinions of someone who says they are strong on security but can’t stop an attack they had warning for.
He is incompetent.
Incompetent? No.
From Wikipedia:
In July 1995, Netanyahu led a mock funeral procession featuring a coffin and hangman's noose at an anti-Rabin rally where protesters chanted, "Death to Rabin". The chief of internal security, Carmi Gillon, then alerted Netanyahu of a plot on Rabin's life and asked him to moderate the protests' rhetoric, which Netanyahu declined to do. Netanyahu denied any intention to incite violence.
Rabin was leading the Oslo peace process. Four months later in November of 1995, he was assassinated. Netanyahu's corruption, power grabs, and violence are intentional and planned.
Why would they have wanted to stop it. 150 martyrs is a small price to pay for carte blanche to exterminate a people.
Israel had snipers around the festival. We’ve all seen the videos of Israeli forces killing their own citizens during the attack.
Even if he is incompetent, he's still Prime Minister of Israel. It's dangerous to disregard people's opinions just because you think that person is an idiot, especially if they're in a position of power.
That's the nature of power. People have to pay attention to you even if your opinions are bad.
My hope is that Israelis boot him out of office so he has no power. Then I can truly disregard anything he has to say.
I hope he goes to jail. Netanyahu is single-handedly dismantling the so-called "only democracy in the Middle East".
It's not so called it is actually the only democracy in the middleeast. Thank you for participating.
Countries that are democracies are a subset of countries that are called democracies.
According to the unanimous field of political science Israel is a "flawed democracy."
You are arguing with nobody. That statement isn't incongruous with what I said.
During Thursday's news conference, he said Israel must have security control over all land west of the River Jordan, which would include the territory of any future Palestinian state.
So… from the river to the sea? I thought that was anti-semitic Bibi. You using it means it’s not, right?
Here we go then: From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.
Why does this have upvotes? That's not...? Huh? He's saying Israel needs control of the exact area of "the river to the sea"? How is that them using the phrase? It's exactly not the case.
Is anything Pro-Palestine just free upvotes for the hell of it or so any of you value reading comprehension. If anyone thinks I'm being pedantic, yes, but Lemmy fuckin loves that too. Where's the it's/it's guy to prove it?
So how is what Netanyahu says not “from the river to the sea”?
He's just waiting and hoping for Trump in November.
And the more war crimes he does while Biden blindly supports him, the more likely he is to get Trump. Since Biden seems to be pathologically incapable of actual pushback there are no downsides to Bibi for just being as bad as possible. He gets to pursue his lebensraum while also helping elect the US fascist he prefers.
No he isn't lmao. He's already openly committing genocide while Biden is in power.
And Biden isn't doing anything about this except trying to give Netanyahu 15 Billion taxpayer dollars as fast as possible.
Democrats coping hard.
Democrats coping hard.
Yeah, things would certainly improve a lot with Trump and the Republicans at the helm...lol but not lol.
Vote third party then. If everyone stopped crawling into a hole and actually jumped ship this entire dilemma could've solved.
And if everyone stopped consuming, capitalism would be no more.
Such a great solution, why hasn't anyone come up with it prior?
Our system is not setup to have viable third parties. We would need to have all states implement something other than first past the post for presidential elections. Currently only Alaska and Maine do ranked choice for their presidential elections. Feel free to advocate that in your state but until that changes on a significant scale (more than for 7 electoral votes), a third party presidential candidate is not an option.
He's under no obligation to care about or implement the wishes of the United States, but at least don't be so dishonorable as to take their money and weapons.
Netanyahu is first & foremost looking out for himself, I honestly don't believe that he has the best interests o Israel at heart. His actions consistently prove that he's self-serving & his policy choices are myopic. But, I think if you look at the Israeli polls on this one, you'll see that Isreal mostly agrees with him.
It's like when two acquaintences are killing brown people screwing and the US one starts to realize how many brown people they've killed over decades develop feelings. That country person starts doing nice things and giving Bibi the bouncer from Jersey the other missiles, bombs gifts all the time.
The person with feelings starts dropping hints that they want more, like "hey this band we both like is playing in a few weeks and I got you tickets. You should take someone you've been seeing a lot" or "hey I know you've been struggling with money to get reliable death machines transportation so you can use my bombers a beater car. You can use it to blow up military targets come over now so I don't have to get you anymore and to get us to the concert".
Sure it's a little more direct, but Biden the person with feelings isn't putting pressure to stop killing brown people on Bibi the bouncer from Jersey the other nor stopping with the killing machines gifts, why ruin a good thing?
Concert comes around and the other person levels populated cities killing numerous women and children takes someone else. Person with feelings is upset but not emotionally strong enough to stop killing women and children and make peace say no. They can only tell Israel those offensive war machines are for defense make constraints on the usage of the vehicle. It does nothing to change behavior and Bibi the Jersey bouncer the other person just blatantly destroys more civilian homes defies Biden's their wishes.
Religious disagreements over land Affairs of the heart really complicate feelings.
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