Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's backers view his corruption trial as a witch hunt — but his detractors argue it is the system finally catching up to a ruthless political operative who is prepared to do anything to hold on to power.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backers view his corruption trial as a witch hunt — but his detractors argue it is the system finally catching up to a ruthless political operative who is prepared to do anything to hold on to power.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    29·
    4 months ago

    Israel is a passenger train hurtling off a cliff driven by an insane evil train conductor as many of the passengers attempt to scramble to the front and defeat the evil train conductor so they can speed the train’s hurtling trajectory off the cliff up, what a living nightmare.

        • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
          7·
          4 months ago

          Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal such as deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.[1][2][3][4][5] Both the definition and charge of ethnic cleansing is often disputed, with some researchers including and others excluding coercive assimilation or mass killings as a means of depopulating an area of a particular group,[6][7] or calling it a euphemism for genocide or cultural genocide.[8][9]

          I’m talking about every aspect of ethnic cleansing used by Zionism since the early 1900’s, that includes genocide. The books by Ilan Pappe, Nur Masalha, Rashid Khalidi, and even Sara M. Roy

          You’re thinking of genocide denial, such as when people say Israel ‘may have committed war crimes’ if even acknowledging it at all instead of calling each and every victim ‘Hamas’ as if that’s some ultimate justification

            • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
              6·
              4 months ago

              Stop being pedantic. I’m talking about every aspect of the settler colonialist project, from economic to eradication.

              Acting like Ilan Pappe was whitewashing history in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, when he details the Nakba, is fucking ridiculous.

              • cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                4 months ago

                I haven’t read it, know nothing about the author or their intent. Maybe they used a term they expected to get past censors; maybe they’re a shitlib at heart, maybe the publisher changed it and they were mad as fuck. Plenty of possibilities.

                My statement, I believe; stands.

                • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
                  3·
                  4 months ago

                  Do you often find yourself standing with your fingers in you ears saying ‘bla bla bla I can’t hear you’ when confronted with a slightly different view point?

                  • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
                    3·
                    4 months ago

                    It is a genocide, my point is that the Zionist project’s goal of forced expulsion is far more encompassing, both in methods and timeframe. Which historians have gone into much detail about within their decades of works.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
      7·
      4 months ago

      Israel isn’t at risk of destruction, and most of the people in Israel are fine with the direction they’re headed.

    • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
      2·
      4 months ago

      Are… Are the passengers that are trying to stop the train in the room with us right now? ?