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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 135 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hamas and Netanyahus rhetoric; name a more iconic due.

These fuckers fit hand and fucking glove.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netanyahu: Hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to eliminate the Jewish nation

Hamas: yeah he’s right

[–] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why Nethanyahu funded them.

All his investments paid off in this neat little casus belli.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

He allowed Hamas to be funded but it's still horrific the hand he had in making this monster. He allowed Hamas to grow so it would fight those looking to negotiate toward a two-state solution.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Five@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think this is what @SlikPikker@lemmy.ca is talking about:

For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.

The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.

Hamas was also included in discussions about increasing the number of work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, which kept money flowing into Gaza, meaning food for families and the ability to purchase basic products.

Israeli officials said these permits, which allow Gazan laborers to earn higher salaries than they would in the enclave, were a powerful tool to help preserve calm.

Toward the end of Netanyahu’s fifth government in 2021, approximately 2,000-3,000 work permits were issued to Gazans. This number climbed to 5,000 and, during the Bennett-Lapid government, rose sharply to 10,000.

Since Netanyahu returned to power in January 2023, the number of work permits has soared to nearly 20,000.

Additionally, since 2014, Netanyahu-led governments have practically turned a blind eye to the incendiary balloons and rocket fire from Gaza.

Meanwhile, Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip.

Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset. Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015.

Excerpt from For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces by Tal Schneider and published by The Times of Israel.

[–] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Syntha@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

Nowhere does this say that Netanyahu funded Hamas.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Both of them have caused so much harm.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Like a well oiled meat grinder.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Netanyahu does not state that killing of civilians is his goal, nor does IDF purposely do that. Imagine the amount of civilian deaths if it were actually IDF’s goal, as it is for Hamas.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your argument might have more weight if the head of national security wasn't a former member of the Kach party, a group Israel designated a terrorist group in 1994.

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"When he came of age for conscription into the Israel Defense Forces at 18, he was exempted from service by the IDF due to his extreme-right political background."

What a guy. I thought militaries (and police) love those people.

[–] DanL4@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Israeli military is not for volunteers, it's for everyone. The top ranking generals and chiefs of staff were prominent against Netanyahu and this extremist incompetent government. They are also said that human rights activists that give a voice to solders that saw atrocious acts of the idf itself. This is not the norm, contrary to what the media would have you think. This, according to the top ranking Israeli ex officers, is how the idf should fix its wrongs.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they kill plenty anyway.

Oops?

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right human shields don't exist

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They bombed a refugee camp. Twice.

If I were a military commander in WW2 with the same technology we have today, and Hitler was out in the open at an elementary school graduation next to a preschool, I would not make that order. Instead, I'd mobilize intelligence agents to get there immediately and tail him, while moving my forces nearby.

I find it hard to believe that Israeli military and intelligence agencies could not track him and wait. The IDF just cares more about their own skin than they do of Palestinian children.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago

It took the US 10 years to track down Bin Laden, all the while he was still communicating with cells. In your example that is a LOT of quality holocaust time for Hitler.

There is no easy way out of the trolley problem of slippery genocidal targets popping up with a limited time window to execute.

Both can exist. Don't get binary.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is an important distinction in my opinion. Does the IDF care if they kill palestinian civilians? No. But they aren't actively trying to murder as many palestinian civilians as they can either.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Being so incredibly nonchalant about killing civilians as the IDF is it's almost an insignificant difference imo.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They aren't? So why did they bomb Jabalia twice?

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Quick update, they bombed it a third time today

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How should I know. What I do know however is that if the IDF wanted, they could kill many more Gazans.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Seriously look at their actions and decide for yourself whether or not they are going out of their way to kill civilians or whether they are so careless they kill anyone on their way

The idea that the IDF would have to beat Gaza into a pulp so we can finally admit to ourselves that they don't care about civilians is weak, not to mention a logical fallacy. This isn't the indication to look for when war crimes happen. It's the actions of the IDF themselves.

Just look at all the times Israel told civilians to move to one place them bombed the shit out of the place.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe they just want plausible deniability more than they want immediate genocide. It sure looks to me like that's what they're doing, and that it's working.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Hamas has used it as a base for decades…

Just like every other piece of civilian infrastructure.

You say Jabalia like it hasn’t been a city since the 40s. It’s not some tent city. It’s a legitimate city that has been around for decades, which Hamas only took control of after 2007.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes totally, that is enough excuse to shoot dead over a hundred people and wound hundreds more.

Tents or not, you're basically saying Israel bombed a crowded area and I'm afraid they are losing this one in the media. 😊

It's a refugee camp because people who live there are more victims of Israeli displacement.

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hurricane of shit meeting tornado of blood

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