Israel-Gaza war

[redjohn]

https://twitter.com/barakravid/status/1713547533601956014?s=46

Seems the emerging U.S. position is that Israel's right to defend itself has limits. Airstrikes against civilian centers can be shrugged aside, but undeniable human rights abuses like removing safe access to water are unacceptable.

Regardless of your position, Israel does have a right to defend itself against terrorist activities, which is made difficult because of how Hamas operates. It does not, however, have carte blanche to ruin what's left of Gaza, and I'd argue that as the superior economic/militaristic/political force between the two states, Israel has a duty to build up Palestine as a partner if Israel has any long-term interest in regional peace and justice. What we're being shown now is that Israel does not have that interest, and is instead sprinting towards eliminating Palestine for good. So deeply devastating for people on both ends, while the ultimate victim still remains Palestine.

[redjohn]

At this point, Biden needs to use any and all leverage the U.S. has to prevent Israel from this disastrous full-scale invasion, which will ensure many tens of thousands of civilian deaths and decades of guerrilla warfare. Netanyahu is clearly aiming to fully occupy Gaza and to completely destroy what infrastructure/society remains in Palestine. This is worth threatening to withhold U.S. militaristic support from Israel.

Mark my words, in ten years from now, the political consensus will be that the U.S. should have done absolutely everything within our power to prevent this massive mistake from taking place.

[redjohn]

This is deeply embarrasing, to say the least. I see the abyss opening in front of my feet

https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1719120471109587065?t=qbEVyu8wOoR7nWeZK...

Absolutely disgusting. Israel is completely inciting anti-semitism with the goal of polarizing naive groups in western nations into supporting their invasion. Jewish leaders need to speak against this madness - it is not anti-semitic to support the Palestinian people or oppose the Israeli genocide, and they're needlessly endangering millions with these performative stunts.

[redjohn]

we need a german style denazification process for gaza and numberburg trials for october 7th

For the sake of consistency, I hope you support China's re-education camps in Xinjiang and the cultural imperialism in Tibet. You'll need to use them as a model for the genocide Israel so desperately wants to finish in Gaza.

[redjohn]

Again, any of these countries will be informed in no uncertain terms that they are to release their Israeli captives or face massive retaliation. So it's likely that they'll simply choose not to host them.

Who are you expecting massive retaliation from if Netanyahu were arrested in, say, Norway? (Agreed that he just won't visit the countries abiding by the laws they abide to by participating in the ICC)