“South Africa, which is functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization […]”
– https://twitter.com/LiorHaiat/status/1745427037039280207 (https://archive.md/L7AwX)
Isreal deserve an Olympic gold medal for mental gymnastics
I just can’t fathom how monstrous and dumb people are who support what Israel is doing
I’ve known plenty of “dumb” people who weren’t genocidal. It’s less an indication of intelligence and more an indication of an evil soul.
Can you understand Israel’s position without supporting it? I do.
Whats their position? We want your land so we are going to kill you for it?
That plus “we’re God’s chosen people” so killing civilians is A-OK.
Wasn’t Israel attacked in October 7th?
Hasn’t Israel taken land without permission for decades?
So Israel deserves terrorist attacks because of trespassing?
Well, if people can’t get justice, they will take matters into their own hand.
You don’t shit in your water supply and wonder why disease runs rampant.
It might not be right, but it’s definitely predictable.
Okay well that cannot be changed now. What’s the way forward? You’re saying a two state solution.
Hamas will not agree. Palestinian people might. But most of them support Hamas, especially in Gaza where Hamas has like 90% support, whose goal is to eradicate Israel.
In furtherance of that goal they’ve launched tens of thousands of rockets at Israel from inside Gaza, a tiny little area not much bigger than a medium sized American city, until October 7th. I have zero sympathy for Hamas.
I have a little sympathy for Gazans who support Hamas out of necessity.
In this war so far Israel has killed 1% of the population of Gaza and 0.004% of Palestinians overall. That’s not a genocide.
I think they went too far and don’t support their current tact, but I think Israel has every right to bomb the Gazan tunnels out of existence and to capture *or kill anyone giving aid to Hamas.
I want the bombing and death to stop. Hamas won’t do that, though. So it continues.
E: or not and
And why do you think that Hamas has the support ot does?
If a government consistently took land from my people the way that it has happened in Palestine, I probably would be radicalised as well.
If Israel wants to stop shit they are going to have to eat crow, and the same goes for Hamas.
Neither side is trustworthy.
When you start talking about deaths with full percentage points of a population you kind of lose the moral high ground. Why do you think they’re killing those people? How many Israelis have died due to those rockets?
Hamas are terrorists, but the Israeli gov. is conducting a genocide with “police action” as a shoddy cover.
You’re a fucking monster
Ah yes, a few civilians dying gives you permission to commit a FUCKING GENOCIDE.
Grow the fuck up and realize that the side which kills more innocents by the end of it IS NOT the good guys. Israel has killed many times more civilians.
Just because it’s a conflict the US is involved in does not mean EITHER side is good. They’re both despicable and neither deserves a dime of US (offensive) aid.
I agree they are both despicable, might even agree Israel doesn’t deserve the aid, but they do need the aid and they should get it, as an American, that’s my view. It’s complicated but I’ve been taking at stab here in the comments at explaining it. Willing to be convinced I’m wrong.
I find that October 7 is good cassus belli to kill every member of Hamas and to completely destroy the extensive tunnel warfare infrastructure underneath Gaza City…
My math says that, in proportion to the population, there are 150 times fewer Palestinian civilian casualties than in the US war in Iraq, that the dead so far represents 1% of Gaza and 0.004% of Palestinians overall.
My understanding is that there is no military operations going on in the West Bank similar to what is happening in Gaza and that the vast majority of Palestinians live in the West Bank, not Gaza.
I also think Israel, flawed as it is, is the only meaningful chance for lasting human rights in the middle east anywhere on the horizon.
For your convenience:
https://imeu.org/article/plan-dalet
https://forward.com/news/470923/israel-land-conquest-1967-occupation-six-day-war-plans/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law#Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2019_Gaza_border_protests
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/06/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispossession/
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
https://www.btselem.org/apartheid
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/israel-palestine-one-state-solution
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/01/examining-myths-israel/
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/28/israel-palestine-history-peace
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/why-israel-allies-explainer
Stop listening to propaganda and open your eyes. There IS the military on the west bank… they just ran over a teenager. You are basing your opinion on ignorance.
They also get attacked by terrorists so frequently they have given a catchy name to their anti missile defense infrastructure.
The prime minister has an axe to grind with Palestine because his own brother was killed in an operation ~50 years ago. He’s stated many times that he has no intention of any kind of peace and he’s only using a tragedy to take revenge. It’s no different than the u.s. going into Afghanistan after 9/11 and then using that as a foothold when they invaded Iraq under dubious circumstances. It’s completely indefensible.
Ah - wonderful!
I’ve not heard a remotely defensible explanation for the ongoing genocidal land grab, but I do wonder what could conceivably justify it.
“They started it.” “We are the real victims here.” “Antisemitic terrorists”
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That’s hilarious… and the blue-pills are even more hilarious. Actually, it’s quite sad.
Israel has gone full Scrappy-Doo.
Never go full Scrappy-Doo.
When the actual apartheid country is calling you on your shit, you’ve gone beyond apartheid and into apartheid with power windows, steering, wood trim, the entertainment package, and heated seats.
It’s a legal argument because South Africa is raising the case. Painting it as a silly conspiracy theory by saying that Israel identifies any criticism as Hamas is reductive - a common trend here. You may not agree with Lior but he is doing his job in defending Israel to the UN.
I think the argument goes:
- Israel is innocent of genocide (of course this is the standpoint of a lawyer defending Israel against accusations of genocide).
- If the court decides against Israel, it will make provisions which will make it more difficult for Israel to freely execute its military strategies against Hamas (because the argument is that all of the military operations so far have had the sole objective of wiping out Hamas)
- South Africa is therefore attempting to make it harder for Israel to pursue Hamas
- South Africa is assisting Hamas, indirectly.
I think that’s right?
So there are a few problems here, firstly the claim that South Africa is the legal arm of Hamas is clearly propagandising. It attempts to paint South Africa and Hamas as collaborators without evidence and it is a stretch to say this from the logic above.
Secondly, there is a fallacy present, it seems to me, in the assumption that if Israel were to be found guilty of genocide, then that would be aiding Hamas, which is unacceptable. This is a fundamentally flawed assumption: censuring Israel for genocide is a goal in itself regardless the consequences; crimes cannot be allowed even if they are perpetrated in pursuit of the goal of stopping other crime; Israel should be able to pursue Hamas without committing genocide.
It’s also an unsound tactic because it does fit so well with the narrative that Israel blames Hamas for everything. When interrogated about questionable Israeli military actions, on many occasions, their representatives have publicly blamed Hamas, often to the point of absurdity. This argument therefore seems like an extension of that tactic.That this is his chosen, and presumably best available strategy belies the shakiness of the ground he is on, and does not bode well for Israel’s defence. The consensus among impartial academics is hat Israel is guilty of this crime, or is imperceptibly close to it.
It’ll be interesting to see how things unfold, and I stand ready to have my mind changed from my current interpretation of the facts on the ground and the legal definition of genocide which are pointing to Israel’s being guilty.
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I’ll overlook what appears to be a baseless insult about me fundamentally misunderstanding language for the moment.
It is irrelevant that South Africa might have tried a different case, it’s irrelevant that they may care about some war crimes and not others, irrelevant where the funding might be coming from, what their motivation may be for trying this case and it’s irrelevant that may be experiencing political woe. None of these have any bearing on the credibility of the legal arguments being made. Discrediting the character of the source of an argument does not change the veracity of the argument; it stands or falls on its own merits. While you’ve raised a lot of interesting questions, they are separate and distinct from the question “is Israel committing/has Israel recently committed war crimes”, which is what the court is hearing.
P.s. his confident, yet flawed rhetoric belies the shaky legal ground he stands upon. I thought that would be implicit.
It’s not irrelevant. This isn’t a court, this is meme discussion sub. Are you confused where you are?
Hang on, were you misunderstanding my reference to “the court”? Had you forgotten that we’re discussing a court case? You did mention it in your reply.
Yet you thought I was referring to this forum as a court, is that what you were saying here?
Have another read of it, and take your time by all means.Just go back to being weird. Can’t be arsed.
Oh I’ve hit a nerve. That wasn’t my intention. I’ll leave you to it, mate.
What a weird response.
I’m a weird guy I suppose. Laters!