Israel’s rebuttal against charges of genocide was as weak in offering documented facts as South Africa’s case was powerful.
  • @Haagel@lemmings.worldEnglish
    76•1 year ago

    I spoke with an American Rabbi the other day who flatly denied that al Nakba, the expulsion of the Palestinians during the formation of Israel in 1948, ever happened. I was shocked. It was like a holocaust denier but in reverse.

    As the conversation went on he slyly admitted that “maybe there were only a small number of people living there”. He’s convinced that the land grab is justified because it’s only a few people who were displaced. I asked him if the “small number” of Israelis murdered on October 7th is justified…

    It’s amazing how our brains are so biased towards selective information and selective history. He was obviously an intelligent man, but he simply couldn’t admit the well known history.

    I realize now that all of us have this potential to be bewildered if our bodily identities are threatened. It’s not unique to Israelis or Palestinians or anyone else. It’s a universally human tendency. That’s my belief.

    Anyway, I love all of my brothers and sisters no matter their ethnicity or religion.

    • @Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32•1 year ago

      You see how american media coverage of the current genocide and imagine if there is no internet where press in gaza can send images and live footages. It is super easy to skew reality with the same news over and over again.

      Just notice how every speach in the media start with “October 7” to justify the genocide. Ignoring the fact that 2million people has been inside a wall with no right to travel or access to water for many years now…

    • @indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16•1 year ago

      “I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.”

      I saved this quote years ago, I don’t remember the source, but your post reminded me of it.

  • @Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43•1 year ago

    It really felt that way. Like they were talking about a completely different situation. The Zionists are absolute masters of deception, mischaracterization and self pity.

    • @lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      25•1 year ago

      They’re full of chutzpah, “that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.”

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24•1 year ago

    They have to base their defense in an alternate reality, as in this reality facts clearly speak against them.

  • @gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    Becker called October 7 “the largest calculated mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust” … to respond “to the slaughter of October 7 which Hamas has vowed to repeat.”

    …is the author implying that it wasn’t the largest calculated mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust?

    Hamas has vowed to repeat the Oct 7 attacks. Publicly, clearly, and multiple times on international TV.

    • @filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35•1 year ago

      That’s why Israel decided to beat them? What an apologist logic you have! Does this give them the right to bomb civilians to smitten, or starve them or displace them? Not to mention preventing humanitarian aid, damaging civilian infrastructure, hospitals, etc.?

      And all of this coming from a country pretending to be democratic and lawful? What about the settler attacks, the myriad of checkpoints built by Israel? They even revoked the work permits of Palestinians living in the West Bank just out of spite. So don’t tell me that Israel is the good guy here.

    • @windie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16•1 year ago

      The author isn’t implying anything. They are just using citation to explicitly refer to what Becker said.

      Example: gedaliyah affirms “Hamas has vowed to repeat Oct 7 attacks. Publicly, clearly, and multiple times on international TV.”

      • @gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Given the title of the piece, it could seem to be an assertion that these statements are not based in reality.

  • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe
    6•1 year ago

    The most worrying part of this to me is that they can’t see the cascade this will set off.

    Imagine if the protocols of the elders of Zion were true? It got millions of people killed as a complete fabrication. But the next one won’t be.

  • @samokosik@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    This is basically the result of Israel’s super stupid actions.

    Suppose you are Israel and want to ideally get rid of Gaza. What would you do? Would you start saying stuff like some Israel’s officials did? EDIT: Would you use the same munition?

    Now they pretty much got what they deserved: they have to defend indefensible. Good luck.