Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28662179

Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people.

  • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    612·
    7 days ago

    That’s exactly what they announced the day they started the invasion. Bibi said they will put an Israeli flag on top of Gaza rubbles.

    I’m always amazed how all the democratic world never believes autocrats when they say what they just about to do.

    • Oyu_Fka@lemm.eeEnglish
      335·
      7 days ago

      The ‘democratic’ world actually support this genocide, not fail to believe israel will carry it out…just so the west keep a toe hold in the Middle East. It’s despicable. All our governments are totally complicit in this horrendous crime.

      • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        6 days ago

        Our governments are bought and paid. We’re fighting to get them back, but it’s not going to be easy.

        This is happening in all developed nations.

        It’s an international crisis.

          • quetzaldilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            It’s wasn’t my generation that sold them.

            My generation is working hard at getting them back.

            I believe in a better world, with less selfishness and cruelty, and I’m working hard to make that happen.

    • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
      181·
      6 days ago

      The so-called “democratic world” just acts like it doesn’t believe fascists. They actually quite love them and don’t give a shit at all. Like seriously, do you even believe that some of the richest states on the planet with administrations filled with consultants and experts on all of these issues to the brim don’t know what’s happening? They do. They just don’t give a shit. Because there are no morals in this so-called “democratic world”.

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    353·
    7 days ago

    Disgusting. The whole world watches this genocide being carried out in full view by the depraved, shameless, Zionists.

    The West has no morality. Gaza is a damning indictment of its rotten hypocritical core.

    • Firipu@startrek.websiteEnglish
      243·
      7 days ago

      It’s not a genocide anymore. We should start calling it what it is, a holocaust. The entire systematic destruction/eradication of a people, not just the murder of them, but the entire structural destruction of one.

      • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1025·
        7 days ago

        This is nothing close to the Holocaust.

        Many Gazans died, more than 50 thousand, but millions are still alive. The number of dead has only been slowly increasing for many months now. Killing as many people as possible is not the goal or there would have been half a million dead already more than a year ago.

        Even the article you write this comment under is about the destruction of houses, not people. According to the article the destruction of houses has a clear goal, enabling tighter control and permanent occupation of the area. Clearing corridors and building infrastructure for control would not be necessary, if they didn’t expect a (hostile) population in the area for years to come.

        • harmsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          232·
          6 days ago

          Instead of arguing and hair-splitting over exactly how evil this is, how about we just agree on the simple answer of “Yep, that’s some evil shit” and focus the discussion more on what to do about it?

          • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            34·
            6 days ago

            Trump is the one with the biggest influence, but he won’t do anything. Resistance against Trump in the is weak.

            Israelis might be able to replace Netanyahu. The protests in the streets and the rifts in government, see head of Shin Bet, are getting stronger. So supporting those Israelis opposed to him is sensible.

            Supporting Palestinians opposed to Hamas makes sense as well. If Hamas let the hostages go and lay down their arms, the war would end. That’s what PA President Abbas demands for example. There are protests in Gaza as well.

            Cheering on the armed resistance only gets more Palestinians killed.

            • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              51·
              6 days ago

              The problem is zionism, not netanyahoo or H4mAs!!!.

              The zionists will never replace their genocidal ideology. It’s their identity. No zionism, no “israel”.

              • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                4 days ago

                Zionism is simply nationalism of the Jewish people, self determination in their homeland.

                Palestinian nationalism is also nationalism for self determination in their homeland.

                The solution is not the obliteration of the other, but to divide or share the land.

                • Oyu_Fka@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  4 days ago

                  *The solution is not the obliteration of the other, but to divide or share the land. *

                  Umm…I believe dividing the land that’s already been attempted, by walling in the Gazans, inspired no doubt by the Warsaw ghetto…and look at the result.

                  Share the land? Do you honestly believe israelis would be prepared to do that…all with equal rights?

                  There is no way you, or any other nazionist, could possibly convince me that these are options…🤔 except by lying, perhaps - it is standard hasbara practice after all.

                  The truth is that israel are intent on wiping all Palestinians off the face of the earth.

                  Israel us the fucking problem here.

                  Get back under your stone, zio.

          • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            4 days ago

            Antisemitism is always hate against Jews. That’s what this term was introduced for originally and all it ever meant.

            Israel‘s existence is legal. It’s based on international law backed by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Israel is recognized by 85% of countries worldwide, a number which only goes up.

            Calling for the ethnic cleansing of half of the world’s Jews from their ancestral homeland is of course blatant antisemitism.

            10% of Israelis have a second passport.

            The majority of Israeli Jews have ancestry from the Middle East. They fled from the whole of the Middle East to the only place safe for them. These people can’t go „back“.

            The Jews are going nowhere, because they have nowhere to go. This isn’t French Algeria.

            You want people whose parents were born and raised in Israel to be replaced by people whose parents were born and raised outside Palestine.

            Your statement proves exactly why Israel needs to exist and why there’s no partner for peace.

            Your attitude has only lead to decades of violence and suffering for Palestinians. It ensures nothing will get better for them. Clinging to the delusion of Israel just vanishing some day is what has kept this conflict fueled to this day.

            For you any number of dead Palestinians are acceptable as long as Israel is somewhat inconvenienced. The more Palestinians die, the more your hate is justified. That’s why you advocate for the course of action that will lead to their deaths.

            There’s nothing pro Palestinian in your message, only hate against Israel. Sadly that’s what a large part of the so-called pro Palestine movement has come to today. Improving their living conditions and building a future for them in peace, coexistence, and prosperity is of no interest to you. It’s snd ideology of hate and death.

          • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            That choice of word was no accident. It’s Holocaust (Shoa) relativism at the very least, bordering on denial. It’s antisemitic plain and simple. No other reason to use this word here.

    • Oyu_Fka@lemm.eeEnglish
      222·
      7 days ago

      Absolutely! I live in the UK, and I’m ashamed tbh. The UK government is awash with israeli hasbara cash - here’s their reward for ridding the labour party of anti zionists with the accusation of anti semitism:

      https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/

      That money is to facilitate israel’s lobbying of individual ministers and garner support for the zionist killers…to ‘explain’, which is the closest english translation to ‘hasbara’.

      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        British imperialism literally created the zio regime so it’s always been like that. We’re talking about 100+ years of propaganda, indoctrination, disinfo, etc.

  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    191·
    6 days ago

    Rafah survived Genghis Khan, but Benjamin Netanyahu destroyed it.

  • jsomae@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    I’d like to see more sources about the complete destruction of Rafah. I haven’t seen e.g. Al Jazeera report on it. Or satellite imagery. Does anyone have links?