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Incapable of irony and beyond shame, the ugliness of the Israeli government knows no bounds.

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Textbook genocide. South Africa's action in the ICJ can't proceed quick enough.

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Exactly as they called it 75 years ago.

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I disagree that "This obviously makes the argument for the “voluntary migration” of Gazans completely nonsensical..." It's far worse than that: It is what psychopaths say when committing genocide.

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This article nails it. The social media comments led by most media in our country disturbs me greatly. The biggest lie is that somehow the Palestinian people have a choice. Anyone who points out that 2 million people living in 360 square kilometres have run out of choices, are decried with the usual terms. Mr. Pape is right. The State of Israel has become the nightmare it wanted to avoid.

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Imagine if Putin urged voluntary migration of Ukrainians.

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As I listened to this, my stomach tightened and I felt physically sick. It is the most immoral, cruel inhumane kind of behaviour. It is destroying the Palestinian people and it is toxic for the whole world.

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I have to mention I saw an interview with Nikki Helly and she described the assault on Israel which she claims brought them to their knees, and as the worse thing that has happened since the holocaust. Her problem isn't math, but she is really playing up to the Jewish population in America and evangelicals as well. She is one of the candidates from hell.

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Why should other countries be forced to take more refugees when there was a home there for the Palestinians. Letting the Jewish population flood in there after the 2nd world war was a huge mistake.

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We need an angry icon in addition to the heart icon.

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Gaza is going to become a seaside resort town for Israelis and the POS people who will still visit it as tourists. May their own dead haunt them for eternity.

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It's a fucking new year and I still have to spend every morning writing to the white house, my senators, my representive and whoever else has power telling them to stop funding genocide. Fucking sick of this shit. Fuck It's Not Real.

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They lie. We know they lie. They know we know they're lying. We know they know we know they're lying. But, they remind us of the Samson mythology and they know that we know they have nuclear warheads.

«Samson said: “Let me die together with the Philistines!”. He bent over with all his strength and the house collapsed on the leaders and all the people who were inside. There were more deaths that he caused with his death than he had killed in life." Book of Judges XVI,30.

The phrase tells that Samson (the one who would have transformed things into precious metals ...) caused the house in which he was with all the Philistines to collapse, causing not only their death but also his own.

And the world accepts the blackmail. Someone necessarily has to intervene.

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. It’s just a matter of time...

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Let’s not forget this is about the oil and gas under Israeli-controlled and occupied Palestinian territories. Israel has already been drilling offshore in fields that belong to Palestine.

Any wonder the U.S. in concert with Israel is not just ‘mowing the lawn’ this time...they’re ripping it out even if they have bulldoze some people camped in the hospital grounds...

And they’re being very bold about it. Brash. As in a ‘watch me’ move.

Netanyahu just got a ruling today from his own Supreme Court, which shut down BN’s plan to overhaul judicial law. He was supposed to be on trial for corruption right now, just like Trump.

Meanwhile, we’re soon going to start hearing ‘the ends justify the means’ narrative from all sides.

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Look on the bright side. They've turned the gaslighting up to eleven, but it isn't working. They're yelling "Antisemitic!" so often that gambit doesn't work anymore. They're resorting to criminalizing dissent, firing people, in what looks like increasingly desperate McCarthyism. The whole world is seeing Israel as a cruel, racist state, supported by...white people. No, wait, not the PEOPLE...The Zionists can bribe the governments and media of English-speaking countries and the EU to support their project of ethnic cleansing--well, maybe not all of them, anymore--but the only PEOPLE, anywhere in the world, which supports it is the Israelis.

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