Israel/Palestine Thread

Do you accept Sean that Israel has used booby trapped devices to kill and maim people, including children, or is that another anti semitic blood libel?

Is it your assertion that they have now stopped using booby trapped items to kill people?

Well that’s been well covered by lots of posters on here, can you not see that what you are calling for is exactly the same except you have a modern very well equipped army that is committing genocide on the Palestinians.

Why is it that 95% of all casualties are Palestinians?

Oh yeah, genocide.

Collaborators murder a journalist but this time they may face justice.

Renowned Palestinian journalist Saleh al-Jaafarawi was martyred on Sunday after being killed by Israeli collaborators in Gaza while preparing a news report. 

According to local sources, al-Jaafarawi was shot while working on Street 8, south of Gaza City, as he documented the situation in the area following recent developments on the ground. Witnesses said he had been preparing a report when armed members of a clan collaborating with the Israeli occupation opened fire, killing him instantly.  

For the past two years, al-Jaafarawi has been a prominent voice in the coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza, documenting atrocities and exposing war crimes to international audiences. His reporting became widely recognized for highlighting the human suffering, destruction, and resilience of the Palestinian people.

So if you are opposed to a chant that you interpret as calling for genocide then are you also opposed to what genocide scholars and UN experts declare as actual genocide?

This is what he says!

It is almost unanimous

But not unanimous.

And with the shifting goalpost of defining genocide as anything Israel do, it will never be. How can be a genocide when numbers doesn't matter? What kind of genocide is that where the number of victims is way smaller than usual for a conflict of this scope, and what kind of genocide is that where the population that's supposedly subjected to genocide increases?

I can explain: political and peer pressure, and antisemitism.

Genocide can include forced displacement of a people and deliberate destruction of their housing and infrastructure - this demonstrably has happened in Gaza.

Hard to know who to side with , the international association of genocide scholars or those arguing against it on boards.Difficult one, for sure.

I'm using my brain to go with the experts on this topic rather than some biased poster on boards. That you even appeal to my conscience on this matter like this shows you don't know what you are talking about.

Yes, that’s a chant that can be interpreted as threatening Israel but how much more serious, then, is action that obliterated the possibility of a Palestinian state? Let’s remember that Likud has been doing that since it put similar words into its original party platform in 1977:

The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel)

a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform-of-the-likud-party#google_vignette