Middle East Conflict

[bluethrunthru]

 

[west didsblue]

I’d say there is something seriously wrong with right wing settler activist Arieh King.

It just demonstrates that there are highly unpleasant extremists on both sides, and sometimes unpleasant people can get into positions of authority. Who knew?

If we’re agreeing that Hamas don’t represent the majority of the Palestinian people I think it’s fair to also agree that a settler activist doesn’t represent the majority of Israelis.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

There is something very wrong with that statement and that picture is extremely worrying.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I used to think the term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was excessive. I don’t any longer.

I used to think that Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s term “Judeo-Nazis” was too strong to describe Israel. But today, I feel differently.

mondoweiss.net

 

[samuelyeboah]

Arieh King is, and take it from an israeli jew, a Nazi. there is no other way to describe his ideology.

 

[arbabarshad]

I'd guess it's because 'decent nations' have suffered thousands of deaths and injuries after Islamist terrorist acts on 9/11, 7/7 and the Arena bombing.

Of course you can't wipe out an ideology but you can wipe out the infrastructure that supports the ideology.

Hamas have cynically hidden behind the people they're supposed to be representing and their hope is that the more of those innocents die, the better it will be for them, as the more the pressure will grow for a ceasefire that protects them. If they really cared about Gaza, they'd negotiate to give up their weapons and leave the area, allowing someone who does care more about the poor innocents to come to a political solution that stops the slaughter.

And Muslims have suffered millions of deaths and injuries at the hands of so called 'decent nations' in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine and so on.

 

[Scottyboi]

And Muslims have suffered millions of deaths and injuries at the hands of so called 'decent nations' in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine and so on.

Millions of deaths really? What is the source on that?

 

[metalblue]

And there isn't a UN peace keeping force to stand by and watch, because the Western world already decided to do that collectively long ago.

Judeo-Nazis.

In a 1968 essay titled "The Territories", Yeshayahu Leibowitz postulated a hellish future:



He's describing the Israel that exists in 2023.

He’s describing a technocracy divided along blood lines rather than intellect.

Any nation that considers a genetic trait to make the person less worthy of equality is in trouble. It’s not just in Israel you see these prejudices either, but perhaps only might we think Israel are acting on them given how cheap an Arab life is seemingly deemed.

At the start of this when I read that Israelis were stopping their cars and kicking the corpses of the terrorists and how their bodies had been left but the bodies of Jews removed did I think they don’t see the Arabs as human and whilst that thought had traction this will never end.

For balance it’s also reasonable to conclude Hamas do not value Jewish life either but two wrongs don’t make a right.

 

[Zuriblue]

Nothing like someone speaking for a silent majority. How on earth do you know what a silent majority is thinking? They're silent.

In my experience the “silent majority “ never shut the fuck up.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Millions of deaths really? What is the source on that?

Over half a million alone in the Syrian civil war according to the UN.

 

[blueinsa]

Over half a million alone in the Syrian civil war according to the UN.

Who has killed those poor people?

 

[west didsblue]

Over half a million alone in the Syrian civil war according to the UN.

Mostly killed by supporters of Hamas i.e. Hezbollah, Turkey, Russia, the Assad regime and also the Syrian opposition.

 

[SWP's back]

Over half a million alone in the Syrian civil war according to the UN.

The vast vast majority having been killed by other Muslims with a hefty minority killed by Russians.

 

[Scottyboi]

Over half a million alone in the Syrian civil war according to the UN.

 

[jaiguruKun]

I was just answering his question.

 

[blueinsa]

I was just answering his question.

Incredibly badly.

 

[The blue phantom]

I wonder how many deaths the British/Americans are responsible for post 9/11. Going into Iraq and Afghanistan. Tens of millions displaced and then we just left them to it once we pulled out. All these terriost groups.had a free run once we'd had enough.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

And Muslims have suffered millions of deaths and injuries at the hands of so called 'decent nations' in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine and so on.

And at the hands of their fellow Muslims.

 

[Vic]

I’d say there is something seriously wrong with right wing settler activist Arieh King.

It just demonstrates that there are highly unpleasant extremists on both sides, and sometimes unpleasant people can get into positions of authority. Who knew?

If we’re agreeing that Hamas don’t represent the majority of the Palestinian people I think it’s fair to also agree that a settler activist doesn’t represent the majority of Israelis.

Is it right to bomb Jerusalem to bits to arrest him?

 

[Vic]

Widespread destruction in Gaza puts concept of ‘domicide’ in focus

Concept is increasingly accepted in academia but is not a distinct crime against humanity under international law

www.theguardian.com

The silence is deafening from western governments.

France and Switzerland on the Security Council voted for a ceasefire, with plenty of support from Western governments (and Eastern).