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Israel/Palestine Thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,690 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Zionists and Israel supporters were clearly racist and bigoted long before October 7th. It's not as if the October 7th attacks somehow radicalised them : they loved Zionism and had a pathological hatred of Palestinians and Muslims long before the events of that day.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Well said.

    The drop off in support for Israel here is noticeable. Anyone supporting what Israel is doing, and it gets much worse as each day passes, needs a good long hard look in the mirror and seriously consider what it is that resulted in the disappearance of any shred of humanity they once had.

    Assuming they had any in the first place of course.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    To acknowledge Israeli actions (for decades) in the illegally Occupied territories would give credence to the fact that Palestinians have a genuine grievance, and we can't have that. No, they have to be portrayed as irrational actors who just hate western freedom and like strapping bombs to themselves.

    When what they actually hate is the freedom with which Western powers bomb the **** out of their country and slaughter their people at will. Hard to argue they don't have a point but some here are well capable of the gymnastics.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,690 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    There is a large amount of dehumanising of the Palestinians going on among the Israeli fanboys - and this is often a common theme when genocides are being carried out. The Palestinians are just subhuman savages intent on destroying Israel, therefore it would be no big deal if they were all ethnically cleansed or even killed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,681 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    He doesn't care about any kind of criticism. None. What he wants to do is push on and seize Gaza and populate it with settlers. Her doesn't give a jot about criticism as long as gets rid of the Palestinians and populates what was theirs.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,681 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Wearing a blindfold and sticking your fingers in your ears gets tiresome for them. I heard that some of them went mad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Lawlesz


    I wonder is there any reason that the pro genocide posters have disappeared over the last few days? I could be mistaken but I don’t remember seeing any posts from them in the last 2 or 3 days. Have they realised at last that it’s simply impossible to continue to run and hide from condemning this?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭Odhinn




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    I think others realise they have nothing left to make a cogent robust argument in support of Israel. Or at least nothing that could be robustly dismantled with corroborated evidence.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,681 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    They may have realised the predicament they are in.

    How could you tell or explain to your children / grandchildren that you supported genocide and the mass murder and starvation of thousands of children?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Alleged War Criminal #1 (at large): "There's no starvation in Gaza. Israel provides more than sufficient food".

    Really?

    Liar.


    An average of 420 children were admitted to hospitals in Gaza per day in July due to acute malnutrition, compared to a daily average of 112 from the beginning of the year until mid-June, according to a report published Thursday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    No surprise at all that this odious man is an alleged war criminal.

    That he mentions Dresden but not The Holocaust is very telling.

    And just like the Nazis who perpetrated their atrocities 80 years ago, Israel doesn't carpet bomb in a single night - just create concentration camps and starve the occupants to death.

    But sure, he can dwell on his words for the rest of his miserable existence as he rots in a cell in The Hague and his country is labelled a Genocide State by the ICJ. And he'll die roaring.

    Speaking on the Mark Levin Radio Show, PM Netanyahu said

    "If we wanted to commit genocide, we could have finished and leveled Gaza in one afternoon. We could have done the Dresden bombing on them, but we don't because that's not the way we conduct war."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    Does anyone remember how the 'auld "river to the sea" was the constant mantra rolled out in this thread along with the monotonous drone of "existential threat"?

    Where are all those posters now?

    It would be interesting to hear their thoughts on their two bezzy ministers being called out as "extremists" by the World Jewish Congress.

    World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder condemned Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich after Smotrich said that Israel's goal was to "bury the idea of a Palestinian state," after unveiling a settlement expansion plan, calling the far-right minister and his partner National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir "extremists."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    UN Human Rights calls Israel's settlement plan a war crime.

    I wonder how many war crimes Israel has been accused of now? Must be into the double if not treble numbers now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,694 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Israel have committed war crimes since they were created in 1948



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,690 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Israelis and Zionists on social media say that the UN is deeply corrupt, lies all the time and should be disbanded. Therefore they are not even listening ; the narrative appears to be that Israel is incapable of doing any wrong and anyone who accuses it must be lying.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,367 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Let's hope that they all see their time in court in The Hague someday.

    They dont deserve to get away with this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,694 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    That is what happens when the world mollycoddles their bizarre view that they are the 'chosen people'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,610 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    They were chosen, though. And shipped off to Israel as a well meaning yet utterly failed experiment



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,694 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Shipped off to Palestine to cosplay as the chosen people and commit despicable acts since the 1940s



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,610 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    We all need some purpose. It's just fucked up when you use you granda's struggle to justify hurting others



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭sock.rocker*


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas

    Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report

    Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff

    A special unit in Israel’s military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers, the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Magazine reports.

    The “legitimisation cell” was set up after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack to gather information that could bolster Israel’s image and shore up diplomatic and military support from key allies, the report said, citing three intelligence sources.

    Unsurprising that Israel deliberately created this narrative to justify murdering journalists.

    I wonder how the people here, who gobbled up this propaganda, feel now knowing that they are simply useful clowns being manipulated by the IDF.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,823 ✭✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    The useful clowns were willingly gullible too. The penny has finally dropped for some.

    Notice how Israel planned the murder of the Al Jazeera journalists knowing that the Trump-Putin summit would dominate the news by the end of the week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,095 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    He actually fears the likes of Barghouti, because he is the one figure that unites Palestinians and could negotiate a peace deal. Abbas fears him too because if elections were held in the West Bank, and he was free to run, he would win. So it suits the Israelis and Abbas for him to remain in prison

    Post edited by nacho libre on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,681 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Straight from the Nazi playbook -

    https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    One would be hard put to find a more useless article than Abbas.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,367 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Still no thread title change?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,819 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    The on-going land grabs in the West Bank -

    "Since October 2023, military attacks and violence by settlers and the military in the West Bank have led to the displacement of Palestinians on a scale not seen since Israel’s occupation of the West Bank in 1967. During this period, dozens of Palestinian communities – home to more than 2,000 people – have been forcibly displaced from their homes in Area C as a result of the violence. As of June 2025, thousands more residents of dozens of other Palestinian communities remain at real risk of expulsion due to daily settler attacks."

    https://www.btselem.org/settler_violence_updates_list?f%5B0%5D=importance%3A1

    These numbers don't include the 40,000 displaced by the IOF

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159971



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    This is normal - nothing to see here, move along

    Note how he said "Palestinians" - not Hamas terrorists and he stated what everyone knew over a year ago - "the high number of Palestinians killed in Gaza is "necessary for future generations"

    This mentality shows why International justice must be swift and hard. Israel is a Genocidal terrorist State and a World Pariah.

    In recordings broadcast Friday on Israel's Channel 12, the former head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. (res.) Aharon Haliva is heard saying that "50 Palestinians should die" for every victim of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

    "There's no choice, they need a Nakba every now and then to feel the consequences," Haliva added, referring to the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from Israel during the 1948 War of Independence, saying that the high number of Palestinians killed in Gaza is "necessary for future generations."



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,889 ✭✭✭dmcdona


    The E1 plan will seal Israel's fate though even without it, they will still be regarded as a Pariah.

    "While the vast majority of the world's countries – a number that has grown even further in recent weeks – believe in the two-state solution and recognize a Palestinian state, along comes Israel's government and spits in their faces. If the world were lacking reasons to turn Israel into a pariah state, hated and untouchable, along comes the E1 plan to give it another convincing reason." – Haaretz Editorial



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