Kobi Shabtai says there will be ‘zero tolerance’ for protests in support of Gaza in Israel.
  • dumdum666@kbin.social
    618·
    9 months ago

    So where has the hospital story gone? Need another story to get enraged about so you have at least a little bit of purpose in life?

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
    1226·
    9 months ago

    I’ve been generally supportive of Israel’s actions, but I can also openly state that there is a wing of the Israeli government that has no real desire for actual peace and that needs to be thoroughly excised once the war is over if there’s to be any hope of making some progress towards peace.

    That said, reading the article, this seems like an asshole attempting to make a crude joke more than an actual legal threat. What he actually said wasn’t “If you protest the war, I will forcibly send you to Gaza”, it was “If you like Gaza so much, I’ll gladly help you get there by offering a bus”.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      334·
      9 months ago

      That “wing” has been running the show for 80 years.

      There will never be peace until Israel abandons its apartheid policies.

      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
        187·
        9 months ago

        That is patently false. There was a major turning point in 1977 when Likud gained power for the first time. There are major Israeli parties that oppose any future expansion of Israel or further settlements, Labour being the most prominent. It was under Labour PM Ehud Barak that Israel voluntarily withdrew from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. Ariel Sharon left Likud after withdrawing from Gaza in 2005. His successor, Ehud Olmert, intended to unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank until the 2006 Lebanon War dramatically re-aligned the domestic politics, with the Israeli right pushing a narrative that each withdrawal Israel did just led to more attacks.

        Israeli politics is much much messier than what you think.

        • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          101·
          9 months ago

          There are voices in opposition, but it hasn’t turned into justice for Palestinians.

    • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      9 months ago

      You dont get to be a senior police officer and “joke” about rounding up political disenters and shipping them off to be bombed by the military. That is mask off facsism.

      • ChiwaWithMujicanoHat@mujico.orgEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        For anyone else that is curious:

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          • Hyperreality@kbin.social
            33·
            9 months ago

            For one, the Palestinian(Fatah/PLO) government in the West Bank:

            [In 2008] Officials of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party … accused Al-Jazeera of bias toward Hamas (with which it is at political loggerheads), and Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan sued the broadcaster. … On 15 July of that year [2009], the Palestinian National Authority (PA) closed down Al Jazeera’s offices in the West Bank in an apparent response to claims made on the channel by Farouk Kaddoumi that PA president Mahmoud Abbas had been involved in the death of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian Information Ministry called the organization’s coverage “unbalanced” and accused it of incitement against the PLO and the PA. Four days later, Abbas rescinded the ban and allowed Al Jazeera to resume operations

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

            It’s a long article, but well worth a read. Criticism of Al Jazeera doesn’t just come from the west and Israel. It also comes from the Arab and Muslim world.