Israel to World: "Suck It."

a forever story

It was covered over here fwiw.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/22/israel-plans-name-golan-heights-settlement-occupied-land-trump

ffs

can the golan heights trump hotel, resort and casino be far behind

This is even worse than it seems.

A national suicide of the Palestinians’ current political and cultural ethos is precisely what is needed for peace, writes Israel's ambassador to the United Nations https://t.co/cDS6DwOTBt

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) June 24, 2019

new york times op ed page is a sewer

jfc

OMFG

"accepting the olive branch"

lol is this now a euphemism

I’m happy for any newspaper to give the Israeli government a megaphone to broadcast how horrific it is tbh.

Top-notch ambassadorial skills.

He always seemed like such a nice guy previously.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9287715/Israeli-anti-immigration-riots-hit-African-neighbourhood-of-Tel-Aviv.html

The predominately black neighbourhood of Hatikva was ransacked by groups of nationalist protesters who had attended a demonstration on Wednesday night against illegal African migrants.

The protesters claim the Africans are responsible for a rise in crime, bearing signs saying "This is not Africa" and "Stop talking, start expelling".

"Blacks out!" shouted demonstrators in the crowd....

Peace Now, an Israeli human rights organisation, is calling for an investigation into whether the speakers at Wednesday night's rally, including Knesset ministers Miri Regev, Danny Danon, Yari Levin and Michael Ben-Ari, are guilty of incitement.

During her address, Ms Regev described illegal immigrants as a "cancer in our society".

Danny Danon, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, wrote in a Facebook status later the same evening: "Israel is at war. An enemy state of infiltrators was established in Israel, and its capital is south Tel Aviv."

ethnostates gonna ethnostate

yeah, see, that's *exactly* the sort of thing that only happens in israel!

who could imagine such scenes in western europe or even america

Why, yes, of course. We all know if you can find racism in other countries, it excuses it in your own.

well wait he said it was an ethnostate though

is that different from ordinary racism?

Late Great is otm. Remember, the Swedish ambassador to the UN killed Oluf Palme.

tbf our conservative pols in government in the uk are a bit more circumspect in their being racist and evil. no fomenting racial pogroms, more deporting british residents because they're black

Late Great is otm. Remember, the Swedish ambassador to the UN killed Oluf Palme.

― Frederik B, Monday, June 24, 2019 12:44 PM (twenty seconds ago) Bookmark

eh?

When you specifically call yourself "a Jewish homeland", then you may as well accept that people might identify you as an ethnostate.

lost me w the scandinavian politics inside baseball

oh that’s a different argument to the riots thing though

unclear how it relates to danon’s argument though?

but jewish isn’t an ethnicity?

i am curious about what is so bad and wrong about danon’s op ed in particular? leaving aside the question of whether israel is literally worse than nazi germany or whatever

fuck me

whatever man here’s your chance to speak truth to power as it were

You have got to be kidding me

jewish isn’t an ethnicity?

there seems to be a lot of confusion around that question, even among jews

don’t forget, i am a literal white supremacist

it’s natural i wouldn’t understand these subtleties

just someone explain it to me already, i swear i’ll restrict myself to just asking faux-naif questions

Saying the Palestinians need to 'surrender' and that they need a 'national suicide of the Palestinians’ current political and cultural ethos' is not something someone says who is willing to actually compromise. It's the words of, well, imperialists. The comparisons he makes are 1) to Germany and Japan after WWII, which are obviously offensive and idiotic, and 2) to Egypt, which is not an example to emulate.

hm. ok, i can’t see how you’d draw those conclusions. why is egypt not an example to emulate?

"A national suicide", that's quite a turn of phrase. But it's coming from a racist, so maybe we're expecting too much.

well y’all were pretty hot on the palestinians committing literal suicide by charging the gaza fence, what changed?

Who is y'all?

like he’s just using their own language anyway

the fence killed the Palestinians?

forget it

no, then it would have been murder by fence, not suicide

come on guys, he’s not calling for literal suicide

Oh man, not wasting any more time on you, you're like the anti-palestinian version of comrade alphabet.

i’m pro palestinian though

don’t waste time thinking through or articulating your positions and statements, to the barricades instead! lol

Is this the first time you've encountered Frederik B?

i think it would be quite good for the palestinians to take some of the steps suggested in the op-ed

but i’ll concede it’s a provocative and possibly ill-advised choice of words on danon’s part

c'mon, late great, "literal suicide" requires that one's death be entirely self-administered