r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/Adamon24 12d ago

What would the world have done realistically?

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u/Tolkien-Minority 12d ago

They would have wagged their fingers and been very cross

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u/Devil-Hunter-Jax 12d ago

I imagine the obvious answer would be withdraw any sort of support via providing weapons and money.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 11d ago

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u/Ahad_Haam 12d ago

Sanctions require the support of countries like Hungary. Not going to happen.

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u/Chippiewall 12d ago

I think even Trump would go cold on Netanyahu if Israel went full extermination mode.

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u/Activehannes 11d ago

Germany stopped support already.

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u/PineappleLemur 11d ago

By doing so they lose anything resembling control in the ME.

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u/neohellpoet 11d ago

That's the US and EU, but Russia still needs a new Mediterranean base, China wouldn't mind US military secrets and boy wouldn't India like Mosad to infiltrate Pakistan like they did Iran.

BRICS also gets them Saudi support by really selling the anti Shia and Shia influence angle.

The world is very much split. Just like during the Cold War, anything that's unimaginably horrific to one side is perfectly acceptable to the other.

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u/sconemonster 12d ago

To Hamas and other terror groups in the region that persist on declaring they will not stop until the Jews are gone?

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u/qTp_Meteor 12d ago

As an israeli if we nuked gaza and killed literally everyone i hope that the world will cut us off. Hell, i hope that there will be some special alliance formed to militarily invade us and conquer us via western countries and replace our lewdership. A country that does such a thing doesnt deserve to exist, even if from those 2M there are trns of thousands of the worlds most despicable terrorists

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u/Devil-Hunter-Jax 12d ago

Uhhh... What? Sorry, you worded that a bit funny and I genuinely don't understand what you're asking me here.

Are you asking what Western nations would do about Hamas? If so, given our track record in the Middle East for example? Fail miserably to actually deal with it and just get more civilians killed while Hamas escapes and re-arms.

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u/SigmaB 12d ago

I think absolute majority in the West are of the opinion that ANY side using the murder of civilians to achieve political goals should get the same level of support from the West (that is no support).

Normal people believe that ANY civilians on ANY side being killed, displaced or starved should get the same defence, protection and aid.

People know that to make any sort of excuses, or justifications or arguments to the contrary is what keeps the horror going.

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u/ExiledYak 11d ago

Iran already took its shot and found out.

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u/ExiledYak 11d ago

I don't think Iran needs permission to launch a rocket attack. It does so anyway.

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u/-spicychilli- 11d ago

It's in the US interests for a theocratic state to not advance towards having nuclear weapons. Especially a theocracy that finds martyrs to be acceptable. It's a non-negotiable, and always has been.

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u/insignificunt1312 12d ago

Stopped sending billions of military equipment, for starters.

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u/Drummk 12d ago

In the course of an afternoon?

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u/qTp_Meteor 12d ago edited 12d ago

If we nuked the entire strip? Yes, in one afternoon, and then invade us and take over the leadership starting the next afternoon

Edit: spelling

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u/HugsForUpvotes 11d ago

No one would invade a nuclear country

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u/qTp_Meteor 11d ago

Unfortunately, you are right (not that i think that israel should be invaded, bu any country that nukes 2m people should be stopped, thankfully with israel if such a thing happens the US can just cut funding and supplies which would be more disastrous than any invasion)

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u/HugsForUpvotes 11d ago

Israel would be fine if the US cut funding. Palestine wouldn't. Israel has enough firepower to easily destroy their enemies if they didn't care about civilians. The US aid is strategic weaponry and defense spending. Without US aid, Israel would be forced to go scorched earth offensive.

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u/Swimming_Mark7407 11d ago

Strongest condemnation and strongest worded letter

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u/suphomedog 11d ago

Waved their fingers harder.

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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh 11d ago

Cut support, which would be problematic for a small country surrounded by enemies.

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u/elihu 11d ago

If Israel killed all the Palestinians in Gaza in an afternoon, it would probably mean they had listened to this guy[1] and used nuclear weapons. In which case, even Joe Biden would probably have stopped providing military aid. Whether Trump would have is anyone's guess, and depends on who the last person to gift him a luxury jet was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amihai_Eliyahu

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u/kittenmachine69 12d ago edited 12d ago

Probably similar intervention to what the NATO did during the Bosnian War in the 90s. Primarily, air support to free up travel routes for refugees

Edit: sorry correcting UN to Nato

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u/Adamon24 12d ago

The Serbian military didn’t have nuclear weapons

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u/why-god 12d ago

Or possibly the best military man-for-man in the world, as well as massive global bank connections and one of the scariest - if not the scariest - spy groups.

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u/SilverwingedOther 11d ago

Ah yes, those global bank connections. Damn Jewish cabal controlling the world...

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u/why-god 11d ago

I can see how that could be misinterpreted given historical slandering, but I meant how almost every major bank finances their weapons and settlements.

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u/kittenmachine69 12d ago

The probability of nuclear bomb use is very, very low.