cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/41590
The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.
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The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.
“Rhetorical device?”
This is what you’re justifying right now.
If that’s a photo of what your implying, I sincerely hope the family allowed for it to be used like this.
My guess is that you have no idea and the thought didn’t cross your mind.
Go fuck yourself. “I hope the family allowed for it to be used like this.” You allowed it to be used like this by creating it.
That’s from the school in Iran that was bombed. But it’s fine, I guess! Iran said mean things about Israel, after all! Also, Iran may have been trying to get a deterrent, so obviously we had to kill their schoolchildren over it!
What the fuck is wrong with you? Your war is literally proving that the things they say about Israel are correct and that they were justified in seeking a deterrent.
The school in Iran was bombed by the US, and while I don’t deny the IDF has done similar things (and I’m honestly not condoning them for it), blaming this specific bombing on Israel it very close to a blood libel.
Assuming you’re from the US, this is more on you for electing Trump.
“Um, actually it’s kind of antisemitic for you to be upset about murdered children.” Do you Zionazis not have another line? That rhetoric has been abused so opportunistically that it’s done. I don’t give a single solitary shit if you call me an antisemite for not wanting murdered children.
Follow your leader, Nazi scum.
I have plenty of them, like, as I said earlier, the fact that Israel didn’t bomb that school. It’s just that you chose to comment only on that one.
Israel and the US are birds of a feather. Whenever I criticize the US role in this shit, people blame Israel. Now I’m criticizing Israel’s role and you’re trying to blame the US. It’s a completely meaningless distinction, they’re in bed together and they do all this shit together. You’re just playing debatebro and latching onto whatever bullshit you can find to try to label me as antisemitic like you Zionazis fucks always do.
You treat this like some kind of fucking game with your smuglord shit. Fuck off back to Reddit, asshole, no one wants you here.
Oh, I must have missed all the comments calling every America a nation comprised entirely of Nazis and war junkies, let me double check… no, still can’t find them. Weird.
No, what you’re now doing is throwing insults at me. There’s no actual criticism, you just decided Israelis are demons from hell, and are enraged someone is trying to show they’re human beings.
I’m disagreeing with the conclusion of the opinion piece this post is about and trying to have a normal talk about it in order to understand how you view things.
You’ve shown a picture of a bombing made by the US and are blaming it on Israel. It’s not some small minor detail.
I really wasn’t, I was giving you a chance to correct yourself. All you had to say was “OK, that was the fault of the US, my bad for mislabeling the image. Of course I wasn’t trying to say Israel is controlling the US”. Maybe throw in a “That said, Israel has also bombed schools and hospitals”. Granted, that takes a bit more effort than calling me a Nazi for the 14th time and would require you to have just a smidge of self criticism.
Right, God forbid you might encounter a different opinion. Don’t forget to make fun of Republicans for being willfully stuck in an echo chamber.
I didn’t say Israel didn’t do anything wrong or that it’s all the Palestinians fault. I just said the reason Israelis want to destroy Iran’s missile and nuclear programs is mainly because they are genuinely afraid Iran is developing said programs to be used against them, and that fear isn’t unreasonable. You’re acting like even considering this possibility is the same as being pro-genocide.
America has plenty of Nazis and war junkies, but at least in this particular case, most people are opposing the war.
It’s very rare for that to happen. When the US invaded Afghanistan, Bush was sitting at around a 90% approval rating. A strong majority of Americans supported invading Vietnam. US military spending is higher than the next nine countries combined, a fact which I harp on constantly. Even so, it’s simply factual that Israelis are much more supportive of the Iranian War and the genocide in Gaza than Americans are. So you’re wrong on two counts, first that Israelis are more bloodthirsty than Americans (facts are not antisemetic, btw no matter how much you don’t like them), and second that I do frequently criticize Americans for being bloodthirsty.
It is a minor detail. An incredibly minor, insignificant detail. The US and Israel are in this war together, it’s a joint operation. Both commit frequent atrocities. You even acknowledge the fact that Israel has bombed schools and hospitals, which means there’s zero actual point to the distinction you’re making.
It’s pure bad faith, hasbara tactics. You’re latching on to whatever insignificant detail allows you to defend Israel and denounce it’s critics as antisemitic. You’re completely full of shit.
What about Iran? Do Iranians get to be afraid of Israel’s nukes? Why does the “reasonable” fear only go one way? Israel is an extremely beligerant, genocidal, expansionist, nuclear armed country. Iran is none of those things.
But people like you don’t consider Iranians to be human beings. White people get to have “reasonable” fears. Brown people get their faces shoved into the dirt, their children slaughtered, and anything short of “thank you sir, may I have another?” is labelled as antisemitism by you fucks. You lost every ounce of credibility the moment you dropped that “blood libel” accusation. Fuck off.