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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Easier to report when Israel is not ethnic cleansing.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Of course, the fucking apartheid lunatics think southern Lebanon is part of their lost kingdom.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We have greater fear of the word 'antisemetism' being used inappropriately against us than we are to appropriately speak out or take action to prevent the eradication of semetic people In Palestine and Lebanon. Here in the UK it was unlawful with many arrested for protesting in public or online. We cannot be the hand over evil by staying silent.

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[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Israel is the USA's military arm in the middle east, it is doing exactly what it was created to do.

Also, a lot of these borders they're fighting over were arbitrarily created by the USA and UK after WW1&2 (including Israel of course). These borders have nothing to do with the reality on the ground, enemies were mashed together with their mortal enemies and called a country.

This keeps prices of their labor low, for maximum profits. Only the royal families make bank

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You got it all wrong. The US doesn't want to do this, Israel wants to do this and have bought enough US politicians to pull it off. The US created a monster and it's in control now. The US also needs a base in the middle east and wants access to Israel's intelligence apparatus. Any time the US tries to flex, Bibi just threatens to make friends with Russia instead, and if the president is a giant pussy like Biden or especially Trump, they fold rather than call the bluff.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

The US doesn’t want to do this

They are doing it right now and always had do it. War is a profitable businesses and a tool to get power.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The usa never stopped being an evil empire

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think at this point the US is Isreals military arm.

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The constant indiscriminate killing is insane.

What is even crazier is coming to realize with modern technology it isn't indiscriminate and they may very well know with good accuracy who is dying before they do.

The implications of this type of warfare is beyond chilling.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Israel commiting genocide/ethnic cleansing while the media utterly ignores it?

Thats utterly preposterous! How could such a thing happen again!? /s

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[–] Martyy@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

"Whaaaaat?? An imperialist ethnostate us ethnicaly cleasing another country??? Imposiblee! /s

[–] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Calling out Israel’s actions as a country have been declared “anti-Semitic”, and thus a hate-crime.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 82 points 4 days ago (28 children)

They're covering it here in Europe it's on the news regularly. The problem is that nobody cares in Europe to do anything.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To clarify, they cover the facts of the matter in a very abstract, passive way - they'll say that Lebanon is being struck by Israeli missiles and that IDF forces are telling people to leave their homes, but no one will even come close to suggesting that what's happening is ethnic cleansing.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think Israel senses that the writing is on the wall. For decades they've preferred to gradually expand their borders, slowly antagonizing their neighbors and then using the resulting retaliations to justify land theft.

But this shtick is wearing thin. Slowly the tide is turning against Israel, even in the US. And Trump is likely to be the high water mark for US support of Israel. Trump's given them a blank check, so they're treating this as their last chance to grab as much land as possible while facing minimal international resistance. This is the fire sale of the US/Israel alliance.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 11 points 3 days ago

Climate change will not be kind to the region. Israel knows that it is in deep shit and is acting out. Ironically, its military aggression is only hastening this.

Nature bats last

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[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

"Aren't allowed"

[–] TheFeatureCreature 117 points 4 days ago (61 children)

We're going to have a world war against the USA and Israel. It might not be today, tomorrow or even in a few years... but I feel like it's inevitable. They are rogue terrorist states and are responsible some of the most heinous war crimes in recorded history. They need to be stopped.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 41 points 4 days ago (7 children)

No way Europe meaningfully stands up to Uncle Sam, and heinous Israeli-American war crimes are nothing new. Trump still hasn't actually outdone the Iraq war, for example.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lebanon's government and military were actually helping Israel combat Hezbollah. It was the only path towards stability.

You see the thanks this got them...

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 32 points 4 days ago (18 children)

Yeah, it's a perfect example of why you should never comply with fascists. The only path towards stability is the complete dissolution of Israel and the denazification of Zionists.

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[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

They are. Just depends on where you live

[–] Helloooo@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Since criticism of israel is antisemitic !!!

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 21 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Israel and Zionists constantly conflating the state of Israel with the Jewish people is responsible for much of the rise of anti-semitism, and it’s all on purpose, too. Israel wants Jews living in other nations to feel more and more in danger so that they move to Israel so they can be used as settlers to push more native people out of their homes. It’s all part of the Zionist plan and has been since the formation of the state of Israel.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

"Netanyahu announces plan to build gas chambers and to execute three million criminal anti-Semites."

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only a matter of time before they call it something else and the world's media just pretends it's always been part of Israel.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)

its because its controlled by the same people who has ties to israel.

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 20 points 4 days ago

They didn't cover the cleansing of a primarily Muslim territory, why should it differ from cleansing primarily Christian territory?

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