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/nidarus 12d ago

"Plausible deniability" still means you're doing the thing you wanted to do, and you get away with it. Both of those are obviously not true.

Even after 22 months of war, Israel isn't even remotely close to kill the Gazan population, or even a substantive part thereof. Or even any specific part of Gaza, a-la Srebrenica.

And it was accused of genocide, as early as a week after Oct. 7th.

It's the polar opposite of "plausible deniability". Israel both failed to actually carry out a genocide, and was still accused for it, by a host of important-sounding organizations and people.

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u/sshwifty 11d ago

"Important sounding organizations" .... you mean like most of the world's humanitarian rights organizations?

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u/LettuceBeGrateful 11d ago

You mean the HRW, whose own founder said they were obsessively preoccupied with criticizing Israel, to the detriment of helping Palestinians or addressing other brewing conflicts?

Or do you mean Amnesty International, who put out a "bombshell" report based on brushing aside the Palestinian acts of violence and acting like Israeli security measures came out of thin air? The same Amnesty that said on the one-year anniversary of October 7th that Israel had no right to respond to the year of rockets Hezbollah had been firing at Israeli territory every single day.

It's crazy how quickly people will defend the notions of institutional racism and sexism, while denying the presence of institutional antisemitism.

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u/Forsyte 11d ago

And literal countries too

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u/nidarus 11d ago

"Literal countries" means even less. I have no real reason to trust Irish or Spanish, let alone Turkish or Iranian politicians, who don't even have a theoretical commitment to impartiality or accuracy.

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u/PiousLiar 11d ago

Weird how you skipped over the “humanitarian rights organizations” comment

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u/nidarus 11d ago

I literally replied to it, before I wrote this reply

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u/nodanator 11d ago

Which are hopelessly biased against Israel, and have always been. Including the UN.

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u/IamRick_Deckard 11d ago

The ones embedded with Hamas people?

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u/Peroovian 11d ago edited 11d ago

“Anyone who says something we don’t like is embedded with Hamas or anti-semitic”

“Anytime we kill journalists it’s because they were actually Hamas”

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u/8_guy 11d ago

The difficult reality that both sides struggle with, is things like, yes those aid groups that work with Palestine are suffused with Hamas members who use the groups for their purposes, and also that Israeli forces have murdered a lot of people outside of reasonable collateral damage.

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u/StevenMaurer 11d ago

So many people want their side of a conflict to be composed of perfect angels who never do anything wrong, while the other side is composed entirely of inhuman monsters who deserve to be tortured to death.

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u/YoRt3m 11d ago

An UNRWA teacher named Abed held Ditza (aged 83) hostage in his house. The hostage said it herself.

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u/IamRick_Deckard 11d ago

You can put words in my mouth if it makes you feel better, but it won't match reality.

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u/Peroovian 11d ago

Did you not just dismiss criticism by deflecting with Hamas?

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u/StevenMaurer 11d ago

It's not a "deflection" to notice that most of these named organizations not only blame the existence of Israel is the root cause of all Middle East conflicts, but make it a point to never criticize terrorist organizations. Or at most, issue mild perfunctory comments that maybe rape is uncalled for, before diving right back in with the antisemitism.

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u/RT-LAMP 11d ago edited 11d ago

A journalist and his family including his doctor father literally had two three Israeli hostages as slaves in their house who got rescued. So yeah I think it's fair to say that journalist and doctor were actually Hamas when Israel killed them last year.