The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.

In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.

The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”

Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”

The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”

Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    Name one single instance of ‘Islamic militias’ genociding Jews in Palesine.

    Names targeted killing of Israelis outside o Palestine

    I didn’t say back and forth. I said name one.

    The only party continually massacaring Jews were Europeans. There wasn’t a genocide of Palestinian Jews in the Caliphate. In fact the Jews living in Palestine before colonialism detested their violent colonialist counterparts.

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      “Just because they haven’r been ABLE to doesn’t mean they don’t WANT to.”

      The genocidal language thrown by both sides has been going on for thousands of years.

      The thing is, you can’t engage in a genocide unless you’re in a position of power first and if you’re continually disenfranchised, you literally cannot engage in genocide.

      The will is there, the ability is not.

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        Let’s ignore the periods where arab/muslims and jews live peacefully and only focus on the periods where they was at war

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        The genocidal language thrown by both sides has been going on for thousands of years.

        No it hasn’t. Name a single instance of Jews being genocided in those “thousands of years” which wasn’t when the area was under European control.

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          Jordan is all over the place. He doesn’t know that not every muslim is an arsb and not rvery arsb is a palestine so his 6000 years of violence is so ridiculous

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            Memri was created by Yigal Carmon a former Israeli intelligence officer who opposed oslo accords. Please do better. Thr both side want to destroy each other BS only help isrsel and it’s backers

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            They call for armed struggle against the occupying entity committing Genocide.

            What is genocidal about this?

            I am talking about historical actions. Actual persecution of Jews in Palestine under Islamic rule because they could. Not random statements taken out of context.

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              Again, repeated calls for the elimination of Israel. It’s just as genocidal as the repeated calls for the elimination of Palestine.

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                  By claiming to want to “wipe Israel off the map”, that’s a desire to eliminate Israelis which is the definition of genocide.

                  https://iccforum.com/genocide-convention

                  ✅ (a)Killing members of the group;

                  ✅ (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

                  ✅ ©Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

                  (d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

                  (e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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                    Damn that’s crazy. I didn’t know Nelson Mandela committed Genocide on Apartheid South Africa. Thanks explaining how genocide works.

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            Yep, the will to end Israel is there. It’s also here.

            Remember when the German state was dismantled because it comitted a genocide?

            It seems like you believe anti-zionism and anti-semitism is the same thing. One is an ethnic group (technically several, including palestinians, but we all know it usually means jewish people) and the other is a nationality.

            Not all jews are zionists, and not all zionists are jews.

            Let’s dismantle the genocidal state, give displaced palestinians the right to return to their country, try every war criminal and genocidal maniac in an international court and let the Palestinian people decide how the want to run their own fucking country, for once.

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              Oh, no, anti-semitism and anti-zionism are two very different things. Just how some people can’t separate the difference between American patriotism and white supremacy. Related? Overlapping? Sure, but not the same.

              Here’s the problem… The Palestinian people HAVE decided, multiple times, how they want to run their own country and Israel has rejected it multiple times.

              The first time, they elected the PLO, Israel declared them terrorists and began a war of aggression.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization

              Down to even attempting to assassinate a US Ambassador who dared to recognize and communicate with the PLO:

              https://www.wrmea.org/2004-may/israel-s-failed-assassination-attempt-on-u.s.-ambassador-documented.html

              The second time they went “You know what? If you’re going to call us terrorists and treat us like terrorists ANYWAY, fine, fuck it, here’s Hamas. Good luck!” Hamas won 74 of the 132 seats in Parliament.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

              Israel now takes the position “there are no innocent Palestinians”.

              https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-poll-62-of-israelis-say-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza

              Yet another thing Bush can burn in hell for:

              https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/was-hamas-elected-to-govern-gaza-george-w-bush-2006-palestinian-election.html

              But would it have been any different if the 2006 election HAD been shut down the way Israel wanted? Unlikely, because like I say, Israel has been pulling this shit longer than that, Hamas is just their latest excuse.

              Israel doesn’t want Palestine to exist, full stop. The feeling is mutual. The only real solution is a forced co-existence which neither side really wants.

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                Don’t pretend like you understand people in Palestine. You know that you don’t.

                And don’t pretend that anyone can decide how the want to run their country while it is being occupied by a foreign power that kills children without remorse.

                It’s great that you want to show you have some understanding of history, but you weave back and forth and talk about mutuality, while you repeatedly recognize Israel sabotaging every attempt at peace.

                Israel is the problem. Palestine is being occupied and genocided.

                Don’t try to calm your conscience by rationalizing yourself into inaction.

                The solution is stopping the genocide, ending Israeli occupation and giving palestinians the right to return to their land.

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                  Well, I personally know people brutalized by the illegal Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon, so, yeah, I just might.

                  One of them was a doctor. Israeli troops would roll up on his house in the middle of the night, tell him if he resisted he would be shot, hauled him off to treat some prisoner, and then would dump him at the side of the road like so much garbage when they were done with him… until the next time…

                  But, yeah, what do I know…

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                    Let me answer that for you.

                    You don’t. Feeling empathy with someone does not mean you understand their living conditions.

                    Stop grasping at straws and admit to yourself you don’t know what you are talking about.