The mayor of Japanese city Nagasaki excluded Israel from the annual peace memorial ceremony.
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Jackie (aka Queen Antifa) 🌹:debian_logo:​:linux:replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by
@laxla @przemelek @davidculley netanyahu's commitment to civilian lives is kinda shakey too.
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@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley Netanjahu's commitment to anything but himself is shakey.
This is why I don't call it a genocide (not anymore, at least): civilian death is a tool, not a goal. Which may be even worse.
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@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley even genociders, in their own fucked up way, are trying to make society better. But Netanjahu's only trying to make his own life better.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by [email protected]
@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley Ben Gvir has the good of his voterbase before his eyes, and he believes the way to fulfill that is genocide (like any other dictator).
Netanjahu, on the other hand...
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Jackie (aka Queen Antifa) 🌹:debian_logo:​:linux:replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by
@laxla @przemelek @davidculley I'm of the viewpoint that bibi is essentially morally bankrupt. He's put himself into a political hostage situation where he has to appease actual fascists in his coalition in order to stay out of prison for his corruption.
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@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley ayup.
He fears being assassinated by Palestinians while imprisoned, and by Israel if he were to escape.
He's compromising the legacy of an immigrant country, of people escaping genocide, turning it into a colonial genocider legacy; he's compromising Israel's own security by funding, and elongating a war with, terrorist organizations; he's blaming mass civilian death he ordered or did not prevent on the military (Gaza, Oct. 7th, Meron Catastrophe...).
We've reached the point where unless a foreign power intervenes, Israel is doomed. Jordan's government cannot help, as its population would oppose that; Egypt has no interest in doing such a thing; the Palestinian Authority does not control its own police; and Israel is surrounded by Gaza to the west, the Houtis to the South, Lebanon to the north, the West Bank to the east, and Syria to the northeast. Israel has no ammunition, military leadership is a bunch of uncreative bureaucratic orderpassers, and enemies everywhere.
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@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley the guy's doomed, too. He's a criminal everywhere but Russia.
If Israel survives this - the far right would make him a scapegoat; and the left would pursue him for his actual crimes. He's done for.
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@laxla @przemelek @davidculley
American intervention is the only reason that the Israeli state still exists.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to Jackie (aka Queen Antifa) 🌹:debian_logo:​:linux: last edited by
@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley no, it's the reason Israel is in the state it is in. Netanjahu's sponsors are American, and not a lawyer, but not sure those sponsors are sponsoring him legally.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by [email protected]
@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley if not for American intervention, Rabbin wouldn't die, and the conflict'd end. Kahana was American, from New York, and he, and after his death, his movement, had friends there.
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Jackie (aka Queen Antifa) 🌹:debian_logo:​:linux:replied to Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) last edited by
@laxla @przemelek @davidculley I was meaning more American weapons, not American immigrants.
Also, why did your country's worst fascist come from America? Curious
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@burnoutqueen @przemelek @davidculley I was meaning American funding.
And why? Because he was convicted for terrorism, as his district defense gang regularly blew up the black district defense gangs' headquarters - so he was given a choice, go to Israel, or life in prison.
He was convicted here for terrorism too, like, thrice.
And as for weapons ---- Israel would've survived without that too, as netanjahu wouldn't dare stretching the war more than a week.
The Ukraine war was a huge hit on Israel in this sense - the ammunition the US gave it was actually previously given to Israel, and stored here. I don't know if the Israeli government was a part of this agreement, though it likely was -- that way, Israel has earned Ukraine as an ally, and remained neutral (to avoid pissing off Syrian rebels) at the same time - it kept the cake and ate it too.