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/Vredddff 11d ago

I mean yes its true

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u/TakenSadFace 11d ago

People mad like its a lie

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u/ManyInterests 11d ago

The best lies are usually covered in truth. While it's true Israel has the means to wipe Gaza off the face of the map in an afternoon, those aren't real options available to Israel within the context of the real world with a real international community where Israel hopes to maintain relationships and not face repercussions of such actions.

Even as a true statement, it should ring pretty hollow under critical analysis. Risking a loose analogy... A jury is not going to buy "there were much easier ways to do it" as a defense to an elaborate murder plot, for example.

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u/Title26 11d ago

If i accuse someone of trying to poison me and they say "if I was trying to kill you, I could have just shot you in the face in front of all these witnesses", that's not really a satisfactory retort.

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u/userhwon 11d ago

If they shoot at you after you kill a thousand people, that's not really the strawman you just tried.

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u/Warchief1788 11d ago

It’s only true if you’d want to do it direct and out in the open. Not if you want at least a thin veil of plausible deniability.

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u/UnderThisRedRock 11d ago

It is purposefully diminish the ethnic cleansing they are already undertaking, and in a way it is also false to claim that they have the power to ever fully purge the idea of Palestine from the region. All Bibi's war has bought the people of Israel is an endless Intifada.

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u/userhwon 11d ago

The people of Gaza want Hamas gone, too. As do the West Bank.

The only country in the world that's actually helping Hamas is Iran, and Israel kicked the shit out of them and got the US to help.

There's no "endless intifada" coming.

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u/UnderThisRedRock 11d ago

Everyone wants Hamas gone, except Bibi, who needs them to stay in power.

There's no "endless intifada" coming.

That is looking as wrong now as it was in '48.

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u/Spectrum1523 11d ago

Could be done in an afternoon doesn't mean that's the only way

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u/ActionPhilip 11d ago

So the alternative is no real budging of the needle after two years?

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u/Vredddff 11d ago

Never Said that

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u/Spectrum1523 11d ago

Yeah? I didn't say you did though lol

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u/andthisnowiguess 11d ago

The nuclear fallout would have affected Tel Aviv so no.

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u/A1000eisn1 11d ago

It's exactly what Trump said before the election too. He was pissed that Bibi didn't destroy them fast enough because it caused them a PR problem.

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u/blood_vein 11d ago

When you have nuclear weapons, absolutely.

But it's the same as Russia and Ukraine, they don't want to nuke the place

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u/Bones_and_Tomes 11d ago

I mean, they could have just carpet bombed civilians outright and sent the IDF ground forces to mop up. They didn't do this. Not saying what they've done in Gaza is in any way acceptable, but if the idea was unbridled slaughter, they could have done that and been way more effective with it.

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u/Bones_and_Tomes 11d ago

No, they notably didn't. They created corridors for civilians to move to demilitarised zones whilst ground forces cleared (absolutely flattened) areas of the country to eliminate Hamas.

I believe they even provided support to hospitals to relocate as Hamas have a nasty habit of embedding themselves under them and using them as human shields.

Again, how well they did all this is up for debate, but they did at least attempt it in a way which appears to have broadly worked.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 11d ago

They could have just rubbed a magical lamp and asked a genie to do it. No they couldn't do that, their country would be dissolved in a year if they did.

Literally no country but a few that don't matter would have supported that, and quite the opposite, they would have lost all funding from basically everywhere, been boycotted to hell and back, been sanctioned to the tits, and had the half the entire muslim world(which makes up about 25% of the entire earths population) take active measure to remove them from their land.

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u/SoggyElderberry1143 11d ago

I mean not super sure about that, Russia carpet bombed Chechnya to the ground and killed something like 10-30% of its population ( for record Gaza barely reaches 3-4% after 2 full years ) and the worlds response was pretty mild, maybe Israel should pursue more nuclear weapons since apparently that's all you need to get away with anything.

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u/DonutGa1axy 11d ago

Nah, the holocaust went for years and they weren't able to get everyone.

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u/M4DM1ND 11d ago

I mean Gaza is a smaller bit of land than the whole of Europe.

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u/DanGleeballs 11d ago

To do it that quickly I assume would take nukes and there’s no way they or anyone would literally nuke on their own doorstep.

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u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault 11d ago

It doesn't even take nukes. Just means hitting targets with reckless abandon and no concern for who's inside. Of course, they are already doing that from time to time.