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Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu's comments prompt a fierce backlash; critics call his remarks immoral, dangerous, and damaging to Israel’s global standing

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

We do not allow editorialized headlines. The current headline does not include "zionist" as a descriptor.

"hoto: Moshe Mizrahi

'Gaza is being erased, all of it will be Jewish,' minister says"

Please revert to the original or we'll have to remove it.

[-] prole 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You choose the most interesting hills to die on...

And no, that's not a compliment.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is a deliberate tactic.

https://quokk.au/post/289699

I do feel like probably your strategy of just leaving the post alone instead of taking the bait and removing it is (in all seriousness) the right response to this.

(Which, of course, makes it hilarious that in the past you've been absolutely fanatical about applying the rules as they are supposedly written, but all of a sudden you are apparently using common sense and making exceptions now, when failing to apply common sense might result in a bad look for you.)

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it needs to get replaced, maybe one with the additional context already in the title can replace it:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-israel-pushing-to-wipe-out-gaza-will-make-it-jewish/

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412197

https://www.commondreams.org/news/amichai-eliyahu

https://jewishwebsite.com/featured/netanyahu-eliyahus-remarks-on-gaza-being-wiped-out-not-govt-policy/107101/

Not because I believe that that isn't what Netanyahu also wants, but just because it illustrates how enabled he has been getting due to neozionist far-right support.

[-] MonkeyBrawler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Times up and it's top of my feed.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Reported as "Altered headline" but it looks current as of right now? 🤔

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Does this post title show up with the word "zionist" halfway through on your end? It's not present in the source headline. Not sure if there's some kind of edit sync issue going on.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I did not see "Zionist" at the time I commented, but it definitely is there now. Time for a new top level comment.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 84 points 2 weeks ago

Whatever you think about Israel and Palestine, this is wrong. Erasing people in the name of your religion or ethnicity is wrong.

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 58 points 2 weeks ago

It’s not only wrong - it’s evil. The worst form of evil.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

It's another holocaust.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 21 points 2 weeks ago

Religion is easily one of the most horrendous and harmful inventions humans have ever created. It's devastating that children are indoctrinated into moronic religions before they develop any kind of critical thinking skills.

Child abuse tbh

[-] liuther9@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No, you are wrong. Nazis should be erased. You throw away rotten food to stop contamination of other fresh ones

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I agree that Zionism should be erased.

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

… in the name of your religion or ethnicity, …

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"the government is racing toward erasing Gaza. Thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Gaza will be Jewish."

Sounds similar to something in history but I can't quite place it.

"the Reich is racing toward erasing the Jewish vermin. Thank God we are erasing this evil. All of Germany will be Aryan."

It probably sounds better in the original German.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Funnily enough Germany is an ardent supporter of Israel.

[-] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The guilt runs deep. I wonder if Israel will be an ardent supporter of Palestinians in 50 years?

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago

At least the masks are off now and we can clearly see evil for what it is.

[-] banause@feddit.org 23 points 2 weeks ago

Centrists still be like: "It's not all black and white! Hamas duh. Antifa." screeching away

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Hostages hostages hostages

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

While never mentioning the Palestinian hostages, of which there's hundreds if not thousands of times as many.

dO YOu sUpPOrT haMAs????????

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 2 weeks ago

Eliyahu, who previously faced international backlash early in the war for suggesting a nuclear strike on Gaza was not off the table [...]

What a fucking idiot. Gaza has the area of a medium sized city. If you nuke Gaza its like nuking Israel.

[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Nuclear fallout is Anti-Semitic.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

If this wasnt so sad, i would say this is peak comedy.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Your addition to the headline isn't wrong but it doesn't match the source.

[-] Naevermix@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Israel is erasing its own raison d'être

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

As an absolute novice on the situation: what about a 2 state solution, but Israel and the Palestinians swap ownership of their current claims to land and infrastructure.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Why are you booing him, he's right!

Nobody seems willing to stop them. We can recognise Palestine all day long, but it just means they're genociding another country rather than their own.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

And then they'll start crying again when climate change comes rolling in.

Nature always gets the last laugh

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well, at least those anti-Kamala can contemplate the colonized ruins from their high horse. Or those geniuses in Michigan. Don't worry, at least there will be a trump hotel built on the smoleding craters...

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

Watching these events unfold with the Democrats in charge was like that scene in Saving Private Ryan where the one guy was slowing pushing the knife into the other. "Shhh!"

Biden had plenty of opportunity to do something about it and outright refused to. This includes all the vetoes and shit at the UN. The Democrats are complicit, and there is no other way to interpret it. His legacy will be as an accomplice to genocide.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

This is happening under trump.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Biden kick started this whole thing, including crushing campus protests and getting college deans fired for "anti Semitism"

You need to face facts that your politicians are all on a leash held by israel

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I'm on the other side of the ocean, those are not my politicians (not that mine are much better, but still). It was clear that trump would enable much worse behavior towards Gaza, and now it has been happening.

They went from building (symbolic and not that helpful) piers for humanitarian aid to brag about ethnic cleansing for gaudy hotels.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

then you really have no merit to your words. and as far as i can see the genocide runs unabated at the pace set by biden. tone may be different, outcomes are not. and the fact that Harris reaffirmed her support of israel during the campaign was probly one of the largest blows to her candidacy

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

It's amazing that we go from humanitarian aid to textbook ethnic cleansing and dummies go "it looks the same to me". It has to be trolling, right? Nobody can be so dumb... right? Right?

checks number of votes for the dozen bankruptcies pedo rapist convicted felon traitor that suggested injecting bleach and cat eating immigrants

Oh... Slashing education budgets does work...

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

did we start with humanitarian aid? at the time they were being blocked, we built a brand new pier so the emergency food could rot on the beach, remember?

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's the ineffective pier I mentioned, which is much better than ethnic cleansing.

[-] WraithGear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

actully the ethnic cleansing was already under way. there really is no arguing that biden handled it any better then trump is right now. the tone may be different where biden was feckless and weak and trump is giddy. same dead children. of course Biden only cared so far as it was good for his image, and that’s me considering that he is not as weak as he seemed, only more heartless.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

In other words: "We are committing genocide".

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

So my natural reaction to such statements like this when they aren't Jewish is the want to lash them to a cross and possibly decimate their family if I'm feeling spicy, so is it anti-semetic to still want to do it if they are a Jew? Cause I really want to crucify this piss weasel and commit decimation apon his kin.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Looks like they found a real estate solution.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Deut 20:16 But in the towns of these peoples, which YHWH your God is giving you as a heritage, you shall not let a soul remain alive. 20:17 No, you must proscribe them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as YHWH your God has commanded you.

[-] Angelusz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

How confident! We'll see how it plays out.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Israel the number one promoter of antisemitism

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