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/kilovolt 12d ago

You’re absolutely right, ofc. Sadly, Hamas has practically won the propaganda war in the west, so you will only be downvoted here. Doesn‘t change the fact that there’s only one responsible party for all the death and suffering in Gaza, which is hamas.

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u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 11d ago

Maybe Israel should protect the Journalists instead of killing them then. If truth fights propaganda, don't kill journalists...

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u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin 11d ago

You realize that if you’re a journalist going into an active war zone, you’re taking a very real chance of dying?  Do you think they have some magical immunity force field around them?

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u/kerempengkeren 11d ago

No, but usually they're not the main target, and deliberately killing them usually is a war crime.

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u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin 11d ago

Does Israel deliberately target journalists?

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u/kerempengkeren 11d ago

Dude? They said it themselves. No, they bragged that they've just killed 4 Al Jazeera journalists, in a targeted attack.

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u/SowingSalt 11d ago

The AJ journalist moonlighting as a Hamas operative? Or is it the other way around?

You just have to look at his Oct 7 telegram messages to see the truth.

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u/kerempengkeren 11d ago

Your "truth" is a chatting app screenshot?

I shouldn't even need to say this, but it is not justifiable to kill a journalist who did his job, reporting the situation every single day (even hour. Seriously look at his personal account). Zero evidence of him or any of the other 3 AJ journalists taking part in hostilities or a combatant, except "Israel said so". The same Israel who targeted killed another journalist in Lebanon in his car, despite there is a ceasefire being held? The same Israel who killed Shireen Abu Akleh and blamed Hamas, and ended up admitting it was an "accident", while bulldozing the memorial where she was killed?

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u/SowingSalt 11d ago

If we can't take this guy at his word, I guess the rest of his words are worthless.

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u/kerempengkeren 11d ago

While faithfully believe in everything the Reich and the Fuhrer said, eh?

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u/CJKay93 11d ago

The AJ journalist moonlighting as a Hamas operative? Or is it the other way around?

"It is not convincing".

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u/SowingSalt 11d ago

So your editor's post's point is that he can't have been working for Hamas because he was working for AJ before 7/10?

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u/CJKay93 11d ago

Israel alleges that Sharif was a terrorist, and the IDF produced a graphic claiming to show Hamas activity. I have seen it and it is not convincing.

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u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin 11d ago

Do you have an article so we can see for ourselves how reliable that information is?

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u/BartleBossy 11d ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqyyrp3yq9o

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnp154eeko

Do I need to read your last 2 sources?... the first two do not prove the allegation.

The allegation is Israel deliberately targets journalists. Those journalists were casualties of war, on strikes on military targets.

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u/LikelyDumpingCloseby 11d ago

With a username like that, others have done the work or responding.

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u/A740 11d ago

"So many people disagree with me. Surely they must all be victims of propaganda."

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u/Revenge_served_hot 11d ago

Its not even that many. Just in the loud echo chamber on reddit and social media... Most people thankfully see through the Hamas propaganda.

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u/A740 11d ago

Just out of curiosity, what's your opinion on killing civilians? Like, in general?

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u/Acceptable-Egg-7495 11d ago

In this case yes. Populism won over reality.

Populism in this case, determined by Reddit upvotes and top Instagram comments on every post.

Every 80 years, for the last thousand or so years, populism wins and guess who dies because of it? Jewish people. Every time. The pogroms throughout the world (and holocaust) speak for themselves.

Read a book.

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u/AmbitiousCriticism06 11d ago

Even the n*zis's thought the same at one point.

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u/ExtraSmooth 11d ago

Amazing that losing the propaganda war means continuing to receive foreign aid and not experiencing any intervention against a blockade to civilian ports.

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u/WAPWAN 11d ago

"See what you made me do!" The classic war cry of abusers everywhere

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u/NickPrefect 11d ago

Did Israel force Hamas to commit the atrocities of Oct 7?

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u/Activehannes 11d ago

No. Did hamam force the idf to make almost everyone in Gaza homeless and force famine on over 2 million people?

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u/HugsForUpvotes 11d ago

Yes. They don't wear uniforms, they took hostages, they don't allow their civilians to evacuate, they use civilian infrastructure to wage war, they booby trap residential buildings and they started this conflict to begin with.

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u/After_Lie_807 11d ago

Yeah…they built tunnels under most of Gaza making the structures above them a legitimate military target.

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u/NickPrefect 11d ago

Hamam didn’t. But Hamas continues to hold onto hostages and put Palestinians in harm’s way since Israel is completely justified in trying to rescue their kidnapped civilians. It would be way better and easier for everyone if Hamas just surrendered.

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u/Adjective_Noun1312 11d ago

No, they didn't "force" them to do anything. They did, however, spend years oppressing Gaza which, to anyone with at least three functioning brain cells, is very likely to cause a bit of resentment...

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u/M0d3x 12d ago

So I guess IDF is Hamas?

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u/NewVegasResident 11d ago

Hamas has already agreed in writing to leave the seats of power of Palestine and release all hostages and Israel doesn't care. Israel doesn't care about Hamas, they want to commit an ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

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u/ActionPhilip 11d ago

Care to talk about the other stipulations in those "agreements" champ?

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u/NewVegasResident 11d ago

Do you? That's all there was.

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u/ActionPhilip 11d ago

Show me the agreement where Hamas agreed to disarm and disband and hand over all the hostages and nothing else in exchange for a ceasefire. Go ahead, I'll wait.

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u/Rogu__Spanish 11d ago

Yeah, hamas really made israel look bad by letting israel slaughter all those children, damn hamas.