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The commander of the IDF's 98th Division said he would work on evacuation plans "if and when" he is told to launch an invasion.

A Hamas police vehicle was struck in Gaza's southern city of Rafah on Wednesday evening in what Palestinian media reported as a targeted assassination by the IDF.

According to the reports, Hamas police's special forces head, Majdi Abd al-Aal, was killed in the suspected attack.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Let me ask all you Hamas apologists a simple question, why won't the arab brothers next door to the Palestinians allow them refuge in Egypt?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow IDF goes hard on lemmy lately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Really? IMHO neither IDF or MOSSAD are doing their jobs. There can be some 11d chess they are playing but the fact is, HAMAS or Stormfront doesn't need their own social media while here exists,

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The dude I replied to is openly calling for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and receiving 11 upvotes. The amount of IDF troll accounts have increased over the last two weeks. This looks like a targeted campaign. I hope the moderators can get a grip and ban these people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In the last month there's been a deluge of new accounts that are relay posts for right wing/Ruzzian disinformation.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can I assume you are saying - since other countries refuse to accept them, it must be acceptable to commit genocide? How do you feel about the voyage of the damned (1939), where 937 mostly Jewish refugees were turned away in the Americas? All had to return to Europe, 255 died in the war, many in the death camps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am asking specifically about one country and that is one with a shared border. The rest of your assumption is in your imagination.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks for the clarification. So it needs to be a neighbouring country which refuses entry. I wasn't able to find any evidence of neighbours of Nazi Germany preventing entry to Jewish refugees but it seems odd all these desperate Jews would travel across the Atlantic to Cuba in the hopes of getting into USA. Couldn't they go to Western Europe, be safe then continue to USA? Unless they were officially/unofficially not welcomed. All in my head and the Holocaust didn't happen in 1939 so nothing to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are a special type, aren't you? The Nazis had the Jews captive, but Hamas supposedly doesn't. Two different things. nice try though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That ship left from Hamburg Germany. And why would Hamas need to keep Gazans captive in the largest open air prison in the world, maintained by Israel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And why would Hamas need to keep Gazans captive in the largest open air prison in the world, maintained by Israel.

let's see if I understand this. The Gaza Strip is bordered by Israel on two sides, Egypt on one side, and the Mediterranean on the last side. Yet almighty Israel is the prison keeper? Surely you jest.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An occupation does not equal a prison. Nice try though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The only way to replace apartheid is with a democratic system.

The West Bank is like an open-air prison where you send petty criminals who are allowed more time to go outside and work outside. And there's no harsh regime inside but it's still a prison. Even the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if he moves from Area B to C, he needs the Israelis to open the gate for him. And that's for me very symbolic, the fact that the president cannot move without the Israeli jailer opening the cage.

There is, of course, a Palestinian response all the time to this. Palestinians are not passive and they don't accept it. We saw the first Intifada and the second Intifada, and perhaps we will see a third Intifada. The Israelis say to the Palestinians, in a prison management mentality, that if you resist we will take away all your privileges, like we do in prison. You won't be able to work outside. You won't be able to move freely, and you will be punished collectively. This is the kind of the punitive side of it, collective punishment as retaliation.

INTERVIEW: Ilan Pappé: How Israel turned Palestine into the biggest prison on earth

Israel controls all aspects of movement, Water, Air space, Sea access, borders, Imports (food and building supplies), Labor exploitation, and maintain the apartheid through violence

A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people are confined against their will and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes. Authorities most commonly use prisons within a criminal-justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those who have pled or been found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment.

It is absolutely an open air prison, except you get in just by being born inside the OPTs with the only court you'll ever see being a military court where even children can be taken from their families indefinitely with administrative detention

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can they travel freely? Didn't Israel bomb their only civilian airport years ago? Doesn't Israel block their sea access too?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol that these Hamas apologists can't make a single argument for their position based on it's own merits. Have to resort to facetious Nazi comparisons which will never convince anyone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Why should Palestinians leave the land they've been living on for centuries and become displaced refugees in another country?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Seems that most Arab countries aim for two things

  1. Keep as much natives of Palestine in Palestine
  2. Not get nuked by a country that never faces actual repercussions (like how Russia and China get repercussions).
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Because Egypt is a dictatorship that doesn’t care about Egyptians or Palestinians. The general sisi accepted billions of dollars in bribes and therefore does what the US and Saudi want. (Saudi doesn’t like Hamas because they view it as related to Muslim Brotherhood and thus a threat to their monarchy)

But nice try trying to engage in Whataboutism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you realise that the Nazis used the same wording for jewish people ? Asking other countries to take jewish people as refugees to get them out of Nazi controlled territories. Are you seriously using the same tactic as the Nazis right now to kick Palestinians out of their homes ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I was either in Gaza or in Israel you might have a point but I'm here on Lemmy asking a question and you are using your imagination on overdrive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah because the way you asked your question wasnt indicative at all. " Let me ask you hamas apologists" etc... you're just asking a question right ?

Asking that in that manner and using the same questions the Nazis used to get rid of jewish people from the lands they occupied, the same way israeli politicians are asking to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians should give you pause at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I to shut my mouth while these guys freely defend Hamas? Isn't that what you are accusing Israel of doing to the Palestinians?

[–] naughtyguy17 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Criticizing Israel's actions does not automatically equal defending Hamas. This is not a zero sum game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are actual defenders of Hamas here. Open your eyes and you will see. Or keep them closed if you prefer.

[–] naughtyguy17 4 points 1 year ago

My eyes are open. Are yours?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a question to ask in the context of a genocide.

I'm sure you've got some interesting notions - why don't they?

I'm guessing it's the Palestinians' fault they're being genocided and can't be displaced into Egypt?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Because they don't want to deal with a refuge crisis.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You haven't seen any posts here defending Hamas?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm trying my best to be objective, and while I do admit I am not without fault, I have not seen what you are referring to. Are you sure you're not misattributing anything? Sympathy for Palestine does not equal defending Hamas' actions. I have yet to see a single post defending Hamas or their actions on Lemmy. I have, however, seen a lot of condemnation of Israel's actions. Maybe I am mistaken, but I believe you are conflating the two.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if there were Hamas apologists here (there aren't), what does that have to do with Gazan civilians?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This dude goes around, and picks fights to feel something.

Don't bother trying cause everyone else is emotional but him and he gets giddy to point it out. Basic abuser who likes the thrill of the fight and feeling superior.