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Israel’s foreign minister has said that an arms embargo on his country would lead to the elimination of the Israeli state and “a second Holocaust”.

Gideon Saar was speaking on Tuesday at an international conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

"If you dont fund my genocide I'll definitely be killed, because theres no way I'd stop my ethnic cleansing or give Palestinians their land and homes back."

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“If we end apartheid then it’s the end of South Africa!”

“If we don’t exterminate the Jews then it’s the end of Germany!”

We’ve heard this before.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But Trump said there is white genocide in South Africa now so ending the Apartheid was a bad idea!

[–] GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Trump never said ending Apartheid was a bad idea. You insult our intelligence by thinking we'll believe your lies.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tired of the israeli government using jews as a meat shield.

[–] GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

it certainly hurts Jews all over the world - many of whom are also against what is being done to Palestinians.

[–] thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone 12 points 3 days ago

Not having an arms embargo is allowing the 2nd Holocaust right now.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Fuck you, israel is a state based on genocide of everyone living around. So don't bring back the Holocaust card. It was terrible, but has nothing to do with wiping out whole country of Palestine, so they can implant more religious jewish fanatics instead.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf 26 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Maybe, just maybe, if you wanted to exist peacefully with your neighbors you'd stop indiscriminately bombing civilians and violating their civil rights.

Those people deserve to live in peace just as much as you. Stop being the aggressor. It's not fucking hard.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Go educate yourself on how Israel came into being in the first place.

It wasn't through peacefully asking Palestinians to share the land but by three groups, who gleefully wore the title of "terrorists" that bombed & killed their way into terrifying the populace.

It wasn't the Palestinians that planted a bomb in the King David Hotel that killed 96 in 1947. It wasn't Palestinians that carried out atrocities such as throwing babies into ovens in Deir Yassin and Tantura.

Israel was born out of collaboration with colonisers & imperialists, through selling out other Jews who opposed zionism, through a thousand acts of indiscriminate terrorism against the indigenous population and through an apartheid system since.

Bbbbbut what about October 7th?!!!

It's history equivalence is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising but Israel ain't the oppressed fighting back.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Palestinians deserve peace a lot more than their colonizers.

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

breaking into someone's home and stealing it doesn't make you their neighbor

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Second holocaust?

Dude, you are committing the second holocaust, so that technically would be the third.

Having said that, aren't you kind of the reason why that would happen in the first place? Israel has had more than enough opportunities to make peace with everyone around it a hundred times over and so far all it has done is investing in making sure that shit got worse, like actually funding Hamas so that they could fight Hamas harder.

You dug your own grave here, I won't push you in it, but I also won't cry for you if you decide to jump in it

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 42 points 4 days ago (27 children)

"Does israel have a right to exist?"

The answer to this is: did nazi Germany have a right to exist?

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 57 points 5 days ago (22 children)

The eliminiation of the Israeli state doesnt have to cause a second holocaust. Just go back to where you, your parents and your grandparents lived before you invaded other peoples homes.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But it's way easier to kill some people in the Middle East and give their land away than taking actual responsibilty for the Holocaust.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

I'm willing to compromise.

The people born there can stay, but they have to become Palestinian.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 35 points 5 days ago

Oh but it's okay when Israel does it? Fucking hypocrites.

[–] gothiccwaifu@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago

That’s some expert-level DARVO right there.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 days ago
[–] land@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 days ago
[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 14 points 4 days ago

Well not to split hairs, but seeing as they are currently perpetrating Second Holocaust, it would have to be more like Third Holocaust. But the problem with the Israeli comments is that unarmed civilians aren’t very effective at holocausts.

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