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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.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not wrong. Both the Palestinians and the Israelis want to wipe the other out. Stated and quoted multiple times. “From the river to the sea.” Both peoples are attempting to claim one land and that gets you generations of bloodshed.

    The only real difference is the Israelis have the capacity to do it and the Palestinians do not. You aren’t going to take over Israel throwing rocks and shooting what may as well be bottle rockets.

    The only solution is for a 3rd party to separate them and make them behave, which nobody has the will to do, certainly not the US which is in the tank for Israel. Definitely not the U.N. which is blocked from acting by the U.S. Europe can’t be bothered.

    Absent that this will all just continue until one of them is killed to the last man. At this point, that’s looking like the Palestinians.

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      One wants to eliminate the people living in the area and the other the government.

      Either way that still ignores you eagerly jumping into a thread then yelling to stop as soon as it doesn’t go your way

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        LOL no. That is not what they mean.

        “From the river to the sea” is a genocidal statement when Netanyahu says it, it’s equally genocidal when the Palestinians say it.

        Eliminating the state doesn’t revert the land to the people, only the elimination of all the people living there does that.

        • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          The difference is Palestinians want a land for both, which is what from the river to the sea means, while Israel wants just the land.

          Again you’re ignorance is astounding

          • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            12·
            20 hours ago

            Palestinians do not want the land for both, they want their land back and that means eliminating the Israelis who will not give it up willingly.

            See the quote from Efraim Karsh quoted from “Arafat’s War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest”. 2004 Grove Press. here:

            https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calls_for_the_destruction_of_Israel

            “The new “free and democratic society” was perceived not as a true partnership between equal groups sharing sovereignty over a specific territory, but rather as an Arab-Muslim state in which Jews would be reduced to a permanent minority status, a modern-day version of the ahl al-dhimma” system of “protected non-Muslim minorities” that had existed since Islam’s early days […] The PLO’s pretence that those Jewish citizens of the defunct state of Israel who would like to become citizens new Arab Palestine would be allowed to do so was patently false […] the Palestinian National Covenant, revised in July 1968 […] states explicitly that only those Jews “who were normally resident in Palestine up to the beginning of the Zionist invasion are Palestinians.” Since most of Israel’s citizens are an integral part of this “Zionist invasion,” the practical meaning of this declaration is that the prospective Palestinian state would be virtually Judenrein[b]."

            Bolding mine. The Judenrein link goes to this definition:

            “A Nazi word to designate an area that has been “cleansed” of Jews during the Holocaust.”

            The plan is to cleanse Israel of Jews, full stop. Just as much as Israel wants to cleanse Israel of Palestinians. Neither side can be allowed to proceed with genocide, and yet nobody wants to stop them either.