pointing out that Iranian leaders have called for Israel’s destruction and that Iran gives strong backing to Hamas and other Gaza terror groups that carried out the October 7 atrocities.
IMO, they think their defense case was damaged by all the comments senior Israelis have made calling for the genocide of the Palestinians, so now they're trying to defuse that argument.
About half are operating on partial capacity thanks to the incredibly brave medical professionals and volunteers opening it up again after every massacre.
Propaganda and cultural isolationism is a hell of a drug. I blame their leaders, and victimhood dialed all the way up. Everyday Israelis are victims themselves of manipulation.
At this point I can’t take it at face value unless I know who’s saying it. At least in this case I know it’s coming from a genocidal waste of human life.
It already has lost its meaning. Semites are anyone who speak or spoke a semetic language. Arabic and Hebrew are both semetic languages. Palestinians and Israelis are both semites.
You know, you’re right. It doesn’t matter how words are used, only the etymology matters.
That’s why it’s ok to refer to black people as negros. After all, “negro” is the Spanish word for “black”, so “negros” just means “blacks”. And the n-word is just an English version of negro after all.
The meaning of words is defined by how they’re used. Antisemitic has never been used to refer to anything but hating Jews akin to how the n-word has been used as an insult instead of a neutral descriptor.
You cannot use the n-word as a neutral descriptor, nor can you use the term antisemitism to describe hatred of non-Jewish ethnicities.
The most pro-government anti-Palestinian major newspaper in Israel quoting one of the most viscerally anti-Palestinian fascists in the Israeli government playing the antisemitism card against a neutral party telling the truth about the atrocities in Gaza isn’t news any more than Newsmax quoting Trump calling Biden senile.
It’s exactly as predictable and exactly as useful.
Ben Gvir is simply calling for Nationalist Socialism, to protect the Fatherland, dehumanizing Palestinians to justify people following orders and annexing neighbors. Well, that definitely not at all like Nazi Germany at all then (bitter sarcasm).
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