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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hope people understand that no one has beef with Tel Aviv left-wingers who hate Netanyahu and have been voting against him and protesting for years. Israel isn’t the right wing assholes who formed an elaborate coalition. The right wing assholes in your country don’t represent you.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen Israeli protests about not getting the hostages back. I haven't seen any about the genocide.

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Only Israeli I know that actually spoke out against apartheid and the oppression of Palestinian is Yuval Abraham. Are there others? I hope there are, and they are just afraid to speak up.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

To be fair israel is a fascist dictatorship and anyone protesting the Genocide gets arrested.

[–] Fester@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no one has beef

I’m guessing you have two certain large instances blocked

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The number of communities and users and instances I block grows fast when I browse through "all."

(I'm on dbezer bc they won't federate with Threads. Any suggestions for instances with no Threads and folks who can at least spell "nuance" would be appreciated.)

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

I doubt threads will federate with my instance, but I have no clue about the nuance thing.

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

I would like to think that if 70% of my country started killing 30% of my country then I'd do more than just protest, but I suppose it's not much different than standing back and watching the USA or EU sell them weapons. We're not all Aaron Bushnell, willing to throw our bodies into the gears of the machine.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True enough but let's not forget that there's a reason Netanyahu is called the king of Israeli politics. His policies represent a majority of Israel's voting popuation.

[–] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

he's called that way because he can create a coalition with anyone, even with a non-zionist ultra-orthodox party like the utj.
and even when it seems like he has no chance of getting enough mandates / forming a coalition.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And because he's been Israel's PM for about half the past 30 years. What I want to say is: Enough people like him that he keeps getting reelected, and even now people aren't objecting to his policies but rather because he wants to sidestep democracy. I mean good thing they're trying to defend "democracy" (it's debatable how much an Apartheid state where 5 million people don't have voting rights can call itself a democracy but that aside) but the fact that words like "war crime" or "genocide" don't appear even once in this article (except when talking about October 7th) is very damning.

[–] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in the last election 70% of eligible voters voted, 23% voted for the likud (bibi).

and people have been objecting to his policies for years, but didn't believe protesting would help. especially after the 2011 protests changed nothing.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

in the last election 70% of eligible voters voted, 23% voted for the likud (bibi).

I'm not talking about Likud alone; I'm talking about the right wing in general since they all seem to agree that they should steal Palestinian land for Lebensraum. Also I was specifically talking about his policies relating to Palestine, not as a whole.

Anyway I haven't seen any evidence that there's significant Israeli opposition against the genocide in Palestine, especially given that the Israeli right wing is actually growing.

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, if it's Israel every official's offhand comment is a direct thoughts of all citizens of Israel. /s