Israel’s Knesset passed a resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state on Thursday.

The bill, co-sponsored by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition along with right-wing parties in the opposition, was passed by an overwhelming majority of 68 votes, with only nine MKs voting against it.

Benny Gantz, seen by many leaders in the West as a more moderate figure than Netanyahu, voted in favour of the bill, along with his party.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    China: land grab by claiming the sea and Taiwan is theirs = bad guy

    Russia: land grab by invade Ukraine claiming Ukraine is theirs = bad guy

    Israel: land grab by invade West Bank and Gaza, saying Palestine shouldn’t exists and claiming both land is theirs

    Guys, i might risk getting called antisemite but…i think Israel is the bad guy here?

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      Don’t let israel guilt trip you into thinking their white ethnostate is part of Judaism. You are not responsible for anything they do.

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      I’m part jewish myself. Israel doesn’t represent me and never has, nor has it represented my ancestors. I see a clear difference between Judaism and Israel.

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      No one blames you. I certainly don’t.

      Thank you for speaking up and your words do matter. I learned the horrors of what’s going on years ago from Jewish and Israeli authors such as Ilan Pappe.

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          I’m an atheist but find religions fascinating as a concept. From what I understand about Judaism,

          It’s just kind of proper fucked being Jewish.

          Is the essential Jewish experience that has been passed down to you by your ancestors for millenia, so at least you have that going for you?

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          From what you say, it sounds like the main reason antisemitism still exists is zionism :/

          PS: nice username, captain Morad :D

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    Guys why don’t those Palestinians just do a two state solution? Those israelis really want it right?

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      Nope, one state solution would have to be forced by whichever US president is brave enough.

      All of them seem to be puppets of the owner class, so I am not that hopeful on that front.

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    Who the actual fuck thinks Gantz is a moderate? The dude is more extreme than Ben-Gvir.

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      Anyone can seem like a moderate when they’re standing next to someone whose a bigger extremist than themselves.

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          I don’t think I implied they weren’t? Just that extremist vs moderate is a somewhat fluid concept based on your yardstick. Someone we consider an extremist can be seen as a moderate if the alternative is so much worse.

          Using the US as an example, people see people like Romney or Ryan as a moderate now a days just because the modern republican party has gone absolutely bugfuck.

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            Then I probably misunderstood you, apologies. I’m struggling to understand how Gantz could appear moderate compared to Gvir

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              No worries, I don’t know enough about the politics of either past finding them repugnant and inhumane so I probably came off weird.

              They’re both piles of shit, I’ve just never bothered to figure out which one is bigger than the other.

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      Israel was pretending that it was the Palestinians that refused to compromise for a 2 state solution. With all the heaps of carefully crafted Hasbara and liberals selling people on israeli white nationalism, nobody took the time to figure out the real story.

      Now that everyone knows that israel is the aggressor they have no valid defense left to not recognize a Palestinian state. Especially in the West Bank.

      So israel now goes mask off and reveals their very obvious initial position: they want to expand their Lebensraum and exterminate all Palestinians. And israel hopes that if they scream “self defense” hard enough while bribing politicians everyone will keep supporting their Genocide.