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Israel’s criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel’s last and best chance at bringing the hostages home

“Hysteria for political reasons,” Minister Benny Gantz termed the statement issued over the weekend by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (also known as “the diplomatic official”), in which he reiterated that with or without a temporary pause in the fighting for the release of our hostages, “We will enter Rafah and eliminate the remaining Hamas battalions.”

Later, before the end of Shabbat, Netanyahu sent another announcement, in which he denied reports saying Israel had agreed to a cease-fire as part of a deal.

Netanyahu had hoped that the Egyptian proposal, which was more far-reaching than anything he had been willing to accept in the past, would be rejected by Hamas. Over the weekend, when the negotiations took a positive turn, Netanyahu found himself in distress, as was expressed by his flurry of statements. Given our familiarity with his family environment, including his pampered son on the front in Miami, his fright is indeed understandable.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Last part as in ‘‘Israel claims they are the ‘‘only democracy in the Middle East’’?

    I refer to this not only because they shutdown Al Jazeera but also their entire regime. They call themselves an democratic country in the Middle East but we all know:

    • They have an Apartheid regime (Two different laws. One for Israeli and one for Palestinian).
    • They sent Palestinian people unfair to prison.
    • Palestinian people have unfair judgement.
    • They shutdown Al Jazeera (I’m not even sure if they gave an actual reason but if they did; can we trust it? They have been known for lying to the world).
    • Netanyahu has been Prime Minister for so long while majority do not even want him as a Prime Minister.
    • People who humiliate Palestinian often do not get punished by law.

    How can you call such an state ‘‘democratic’’?

    EDIT 1: If you want, I can get news-sources for each claim.

    EDIT 2: Checking upon your comment history, you’ve been spamming that particular sentence. So I’m curious why you are defending an state that is on paper “democratic” but in reality is not.

    • Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 months ago

      last part as in ‘They also shut down AlJezeera news and Israel claims they are the ‘‘only democracy in the Middle East’’’

      they have the same laws for all citizens. jews, muslims, druze, etc.
      palestinians living in the west bank are citizens of the pa (or jordan), not of israel.
      the situation in area c of the west bank is a result of the failed oslo accords and bibi’s policy of “status quo”.
      article by prof mohammed wattad, who is an israeli-arab (his own words)
      israel’s declaration of independence
      basic laws of israel

      shutting down a state backed media group that has ties to the muslim brotherhood (hamas is a branch of theirs), from a hostile state that hosts the billionaire leaders of hamas, is similar to the shutting down of rt in europe - which is a state backed media group of a hostile state.

      in israel you don’t vote for the prime minister, you vote for a party. as part of the coalition creating process, the pm is chosen as part of the agreements between parties.
      one of the pm’s parties in 2022, naftali bennet, had much less votes than the likud ever had.
      basic law: the government
      knesset

      posting something twice and then replying to someone with a similar link isn’t “spamming”.
      pointing out the reality of this specific action / situation isn’t “defending” anything. that’s a very black and white view of things.
      same as when i criticize a state it doesn’t instantly mean i’m against it or hate it.