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Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza.

Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich said this week that Israel should “encourage emigration” from the coastal enclave, home to an estimated 2.3 million Palestinians.

“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after [the war ends] will be totally different,” Smotrich said on Sunday, calling for the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians.

A day later, Ben-Gvir, who oversees national security, made a similar appeal, saying it was “a correct, just, moral and humane solution”, Israeli media outlets reported.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Turns out the restrictions only applied because Hamas wants genocide

So 6.8 million people have to suffer and die for it? You call that justice? Also, Hamas may want genocide, but they don't have the power to carry it out. Israel's government HAS the power and IS committing genocide.

They are at war with the government of Gaza, correct.

The majority of Gazans weren't alive the last time Hamas allowed a vote, let alone old enough to vote.

Hamas is not a legitimate government and their atrocities are neither the fault nor the responsibility of the civilian population.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Hamas is not a legitimate government and their atrocities are neither the fault nor the responsibility of the civilian population.

They are the government, and they have been consistently attacking Israel for 16 years, culminating in "Israel's 9/11"

Also, Hamas may want genocide, but they don’t have the power to carry it out.

Imagine Israel without the Iron Dome you don't want to give them money for.

So 6.8 million people have to suffer and die for it?

Suffering happens in war. That's why war is bad. 6.8 million people won't die though. There will be 6.77 million Palestinians in Gaza after this war, ideally closer to a 2 state solution than if Hamas was still around.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You know what? Fuck it.

Keep using an imagined genocide to excuse an actual genocide.

Keep simping for a fascist government.

Keep defending an apartheid ethnostate system.

Keep excusing war crimes.

Keep victim blaming.

It's not like your awful perspective actually matters to anyone who matters anyway, thank fuck.

Have the day you deserve, genocide cheerleader.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've had a pretty fucking amazing couple weeks and that seems unlikely to change.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Then stop doing that and start having the days you deserve.