Israeli Exceptionalism

TokTik

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013463#Comment_122013463

Oct 7th seems to have been the Zionists Kristalnacht, giving them full power to enact their Final Solution. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

tayto lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122011432#Comment_122011432

Exactly. It keeps the maniac in power. Lives mean absolutely nothing to him.

Shoog

Israels exceptionalism is based on having the largest military in the world at its back and a finger hovering over a huge Armageddon button pointed at the world. It has little to do with what is right or wrong.

Weepsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013463#Comment_122013463

It just sped it up

It was a slow destruction anyway

Airport already bombed. Ports all ready blockaded. Military patrol on the sea and border.

You can pretend that Gaza was going to be just fine if you want, but Israel was engaged in a slow strangulation of it anyway. Likud was aiding Hamas too through finding, so they're complicit on their side of things too as it was being destroyed from within too

volchitsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013494#Comment_122013494

Well that's just about right. Jews were murdered on Kristallnacht, and murdered again on October 7th. Both were anti Jewish pogroms. The difference being that in 2023, unlike 1938, the Jews had decided they were no longer prepared to be murdered without fighting back.

Longing

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013951#Comment_122013951

No Gaza was not fine especially when Hamas is running the show. Now when things are speed up as you say the destruction of Hamas is closer than ever only then can the first cornerstone be set for a road to peace.

Quote: Ports all ready blockaded. Military patrol on the sea and border.

If so how did thousands upon thousands of rockets enter Gaza from Iran. You don't have to answer that I know already my point is this hysteria that there was a iron curtain around Gaza before this all kicked off is utter nonsense.

tayto lover

Something I came across recently -

Israel committing Genocide and War Crimes against Palestinians did not start in 2023. There was violence against Palestinians every day. You can't be defending yourself while occupying a country.

1. Haifa Massacre 1937.
2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937.
3. Haifa Massacre 1938.
4. Balad el-Sheikh Massacre 1939.
5. Haifa Massacre 1939.
6. Haifa Massacre 1947.
7. Abbasiya Massacre 1947.
8. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947.
9. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947.
10. Jerusalem Massacre 1947.
11. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947.
12. Jaffa Massacre 1948.
13. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956.
14. Jerusalem Massacre 1967.
15. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982.
16. Al Aqsa Massacre 1990.
17. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994.
18. Jenin Refugee Camp 2002.
19. Gaza Massacre 2008/09.
20. Gaza Massacre 2012.
21. Gaza Massacre 2014.
22. Gaza Massacre 2018/19.
23. Gaza Massacrer 2021.
24. Present Gaza Massacre - ongoing.

But concentrate on an isolated incident by an Islamist in Europe. All murders are evil regardless of who commits them.

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013494#Comment_122013494

Horrendous, dramatic rubbish.

joe40

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013314#Comment_122013314

People are on the streets in western countries because the governments in western countries are either backing Israel or doing very little to try to mitigate their actions.

Our governments don't support ethnic cleansing in China so why protest on the streets.

Israel do have a right to defend themselves but their actions in Gaza over the years and especially now have always been to extreme. Civilian casualties have never been a major concern.

Overheal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122014579#Comment_122014579

Uh huh..

“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-cites-amalek-theory-to-justify-gaza-killings/amp_articleshow/104802548.cms

Shoog

The genocide of Palestinians started even before the foundation of the state of Israel. The state of Israel was created through acts of ethnic cleansing of the native population by European immigrants.

Wolf359f

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122014446#Comment_122014446

Most of Hamas rockets are homemade, powered by sugar and fertilizer with homemade or salvaged warheads. I haven't seen any reports of Iran supplying Hamas with thousands and thousands of rockets.

Kinda defeats your argument that there has no blockade. Even aid agencies have claimed the food Israel allowed into Gaza prior to Oct 7 was insufficient in terms of calories to feed the population.

Beasty

We already have a thread on Israel and what has been happening in Gaza

It seems this thread is an excuse for posters banned from that thread to discuss issues that are already covered in the other thread

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