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.
Again, “the genocidal LANGUAGE” has been thrown around for thousands of years.
The WILL to end Israel is there. The ABILITY, not so much.
See:
https://www.memri.org/reports/fatwa-international-union-muslim-scholars-iums-based-and-funded-qatar-declares-armed-jihad
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
Then maybe, just maybe, both sides need to stop calling for the destruction of the other.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/10/world/meast/iran-annihilate-israel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/27/israel.iran
And before you go down the road of “they were misquoted” or “they didn’t really MEAN that”…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2006/2/20/iran-clarifies-remarks-on-israel
Yeah, that’s the stance people who want a genocide always say:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2024-09-05/ty-article/.highlight/netanyahus-map-shows-israel-from-the-river-to-the-sea-its-no-accident/00000191-c2a8-d09f-ab91-debc90e60000
“No, no, it was just an ‘incorrect translation’.” Horse shit.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-21/ty-article/israel-based-news-outlet-incorrectly-translates-pms-words-leading-to-media-firestorm/0000018d-2bfa-daf5-a1bf-affa764b0000
Maybe israel should end occupation to end the cycle of violence and you should support a one state eith equal rights and a truth snd reconciliation process. Or are you one of those guys who think jews and muslims has a natural urge to kill each others
Also stop conflating palestinians with all arabs and muslims that’s a racist logic.
Palestinians want to live freely that’s all. Only naive people would think after they are free from occupation palestinians will still attack. If you believe otherwise you are doing settler colonialism apologia without realizing it
You will never have equal rights in one state because the two sides will never allow that. Each believes the other should not exist.
Both sides are saying “From the river to the sea.” They want the full elimination of the other.
That’s anttisemetic. Both side are semite but you think it is in their nature to fight each other. Yes Any group of people can live in peace again like many periods before that you chose ignore. If germany who almost exterminate jews is not israel strongest ally, if countries that was enemy in the deadliest conflict ever can be become allies palestinians and israel can to.
You clearly don’t believe in any solution neither a one or two state but you are in denial and don’t realize it
Palestinians said you end occupation, we drop arms. Certain arabs offered a one state since the beginning, before the nekba. The plo also offered it
There was people like you who was tslking about how aparteith can’t end in south africa because black South african would have took vengence for all the year of oppression
Did you ever ask any rrgular palestinian what they mean by from river to the sea palestine is free?
It has nothing to do with their nature, nobody is born hating anyone, that’s learned behavior.
Both sides have stated, repeatedly, that they believe they are owed exclusive rights to the territory of Israel to the exclusion of all others.
That belief is inherently the source of the conflict. It’s taught and learned and re-inforced by repeated violent acts.
It can’t be stopped by anyone other than an external 3rd party stepping in and treating them like the misbehaving children they are. “I don’t care who started it, both of you go to your rooms.”
But nobody has the will to step up and tell them to knock this shit off.
If you don’t believe that it is in their blood, why do you believe if israel end occupation , palestinians would still try to destroy israel? And why did you said a one state with equal rights will never happen when history is full of enemies turning to ally? Why are you ignoring one state proporsal by arabs?
“From the River to the Sea”. Both the Palestinians and Israelis hold on to this. The only thing either will be satisfied with is the complete obliteration of the other.
There needs to be a forced separation. “You, go over here, you go over there, leave each other the fuck alone.”
They won’t do it themselves because they legitimately believe they have a right to ALL the territory.
This is why you get the numerous illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory over and over and over again.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/visual-explainers/israeli-settlements/
Israel isn’t going to stop it, they don’t want to stop it. They want full occupation.
Palestine physically can’t stop it.
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.
Again, repeated calls for the elimination of Israel. It’s just as genocidal as the repeated calls for the elimination of Palestine.
Genocide cannot be committed against a country. Israel calls for genocide against Palestinians.
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.
Damn that’s crazy. I didn’t know Nelson Mandela committed Genocide on Apartheid South Africa. Thanks explaining how genocide works.
That’s not me, that’s the Article 2 of the Genocide Convention. You’d think someone named “Geneva Convenience” would already know that.
Which group is “the country of Israel” part of? Is there a difference between a country and people?
Or do you think they issue a fatwa for Jihad against this guy? https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I
So you are saying that when Iran says “wipe Israel off the map” they aren’t targeting the Jewish majority of Israel? Because that’s EXACTLY what they are doing.
Same as when Netanyahu says Israel wants to control all the land from the river to the sea, he’s talking about wiping out all the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (although he has his eyes on Syria, and Lebanon too).
Both statements are affirmations of genocide.
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.
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.
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.
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…