Not really. The vast majority of Jews live in Israel or America. American Jews are Americans in the sense that Irish Americans are American. Otherwise you have to accept close to 40 million Americans are Irish.
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For any American based posters with their head wedged firmly up their arse, hereâs what Israel says:
https://twitter.com/againstwarvoice/status/1735246580276506970
âAnnihilate Gaza now! NOW!â
"Gaza needs to turn into Dresden! Yes!!
âIt is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved, itâs absolutely not true.â
âWe are enacting a complete siege on the city of Gaza. There will be no food, no electricity, no water, no fuel. We are fighting against human animals and will act accordingly.â
âWe should drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza strip tomorrow, flatten it and eliminate everyone there?â âThis is one option.â
âDoomsday weapon!â
âInvest all this energy in one thing - erasing all of Gaza from the earth.â
âGaza should be erased.â
âBurn Gaza no no less!â
âI said burn Gaza. Why should I be ashamed?â
âWe are now actually rolling with a Nakba of Gaza.â
Netanyahu constantly refers to Amalek:
The Bible about Amalek: âDo not spare them, but put them to death - men, women, children and infants.â
Israel itself deliberately creates the confusion by embracing the anti-Semitic trope that Jews = Israel.
Netanyahu on his trip to Paris after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015:
âI went to Paris not just as the prime minister of Israel but as a representative of the entire Jewish people."
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Fascism and atrocity crime are linked, but they are not the same thing, no.
His own people will have to oust Bibi after the shooting of the three hostages. If they canât get rid of him now, they never will.
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The psychological and propaganda processes through which they occur are the same.
Netanyahu is very unlikely to go willingly and will likely be desperate to keep violence going for his own ends. It beggars belief he is still in his job.
Again, linked or similarities yes, the same no.
Itâs nuts. The danger of course is, that his replacement is even more susceptible to evil than he is. I just canât see a moderate faction being able to replace him. If anything, itâs those who are more extreme that he had to appease to return to power.
Israel is nuts
https://twitter.com/LaylaMoran/status/1736369336489574484
Israel wonât be happy until it has emulated this scene.
Frenzy
More more more
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How do you like it
Nice bit of cyber warfare
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1736661579574431860?t=kFqOGQr_rZ5V3-0FvjX1sA&s=19
Youâd imagine Israel being in such an arid part of the world, their water network relies heavily on dams. Wonder would the Iranian buckos look to gain control and flood them?
Gideon Levy in Haaretz yesterday.
Opinion |
In Israel, 20,000 Gazans Are Responsible for Their Own Deaths. Iâve Never Been So Ashamed
Dec 17, 2023 6:23 am IST
Journalist Ben Caspit epitomizes the Israeli center. He lives in Hod Hasharon and co-hosts a radio talk show with journalist Yinon Magal, who is on the extreme right. Caspit, supposedly, is not. He is a well-connected journalist, highly respected and successful.
Over the weekend, the executive director of the anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence wrote on X: âDonât look away. A CNN correspondent entered the southern Gaza Strip and opened a âwindow on the hellâ of Gaza.â
This is what Caspit, a moderate and decent person in his own eyes, had to say in response: âWhy should we look? They earned their hell honestly; I donât have an ounce of sympathy.â Caspit, as usual, is the mouthpiece of Israelâs mainstream.
Eight thousand children are to blame for their own deaths; 20,000 people are responsible for being killed; 2 million people caused their own uprooting. This is how a rich person always talks about the poor, the successful person about the less fortunate, the healthy person about the disabled, the strong about the weak, the Ashkenazi about Mizrahi Jews: They are to blame for their victimhood.
In post-October 7 Israel, one can blame 10,000 children and babies for their own deaths without Israel having even a hint of responsibility and culpability. In post-October 7 Israel, one can feel blameless only because Hamas started committing atrocities first.
A country lies in ruins and all its residents are in hell, and the generator of this hell bears no guilt, not even a tiny bit, not even together with Hamasâ guilt. The epitome of the Israeli center doesnât even have an ounce of sympathy for the amputee children shown in the courageous, horrific report of Clarissa Ward from a Rafah hospital.
Let their limbs be amputated, let the children die, let all Gazans expire, let them suffocate in hell, itâs not our business. They are responsible for their disaster, only them. Caspit is on to something here â the victim is responsible for his victimhood.
Putting aside the issue of guilt and responsibility â these are all on Hamas, not at all on Israel, whose soldiers and pilots are running wild and unbridled in Gaza â we have no hand in it, the main thing is that we feel no guilt for any of it.
Putting that aside for a moment, one needs an unbelievable degree of obtuseness, cruelty, and even barbarity to not feel at least some empathy for children dying on hospital floors, to a father crying over the body of his child, to an infant covered in the dust of his bombed house, looking in vain for someone in the world, for people living for two months in terror, in despair and with nothing left in their lives; for the hungry, the sick, the disabled and the dispossessed of the Gaza Strip.
Even empathy is prohibited in the eyes of Caspit and his ilk, lest a dangerous, forbidden thought creep in â that it is human beings who live in Gaza. This is something Israelis cannot cope with.
This is a crossing of a dangerous line which may be followed by thoughts that are alien to Israelis, regarding how far it is permissible to go for a just cause; what is permissible, and, mainly, what is prohibited under any circumstances.
There are things that are forbidden under any circumstances. The killing of 8,000 children in two months, for example. Caspit and his folks only want to cheer the heroic army without seeing its handiwork.
Humaneness is forbidden, we are Israeli. When an earthquake happens anywhere on the globe, weâll send aid and be proud of ourselves, but mass killing in Gaza is not our business. Thatâs the way Israelâs morality works. Itâs meant to allow Caspit, not just Magal, to feel good about themselves about Gaza.
At an international conference held last weekend in Istanbul, I said, among other things, that never have I been so ashamed to be Israeli as I have been in viewing pictures from Gaza. These words were posted on a popular Israeli entertainment website. Over the weekend, I received hundreds (perhaps thousands by now) of abusive calls and text messages. One can often learn about a society through its sewers. Together we will win, goes the current slogan.
However, the distance between the sewage flowing my way and the ostensibly respectable words of Caspit is smaller than one imagines. There is no difference between the hatred of Arabs and their dehumanization, as expressed in the vulgar, inarticulate language of my callers, and the well-formulated words of Caspit.
Both the lower and higher Israel have lost their human image. This is reason enough to be ashamed of being Israeli.