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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Oh, look, Macron waving his finger even more energetically.

That's really going sway the Neue Nazi administration in Israel.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pull out the Sanctions or shut up already Macaroni.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Israel is the gun pointed at Egypt's head over the Suez Canal. For all the bullshit Netanyahu is pulling, too many Europeans learned all the wrong lessons from the Nasser coup and assume a "Greater Israel"

is necessary to maintain commerce between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Egypt is fully under American control already.

Sisi is a puppet that receives billions each year from both America and Europe to surpress his population and kneel for israel. Recently he got another 8 Billion IMF bribe.

I don't think there's any strategy involved in the support of israel other than israel fully owning the majority of politicians.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Egypt is fully under American control already.

I'd say its not, as evidenced by the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The US doesn't even have a military base in Egypt. The closest we've got are in Etrea and Tripoli, with our West African bases getting squeezed out by the recent wave of military coups. Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia are fundamental to our control of the region.

I don’t think there’s any strategy involved in the support of israel

Think harder.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can safely assume that IDF will not care the slightest. The more Palestinians die from being starved and displaced and getting sick, the less bullets they will need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It's a win-win then? I mean, bullets and bombs are expensive and you can't expect Americans to pay for every genocide!

[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What's the point of war crimes when there's no war consequences?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

There have never been consequences for Israeli crimes and ethnic cleansing.

Even now there is ethnic cleansing of the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem and Palestinian villages in the West Bank.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you keep doing the shit we've supported you doing for the last 7 months, that could in fact ruffle some metaphorical feathers.

"Not really though, fellow corporatocracy. Fuck the proles. Pay me and I'll help you genocide coz I'm a career sociopath. Whoop whoop!!"

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

pop it on the list

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

so no war crime until now?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

No, just another one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

France has quite a few W moments recently

[–] [email protected] 119 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Israel literally told Gazans to go to Rafah to be safe. They said it was a safe zone.

Now they're supposed to leave Rafah.

You might ask where Israel thinks Gazans are supposed to go. The answer is- nowhere. They're supposed to die.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I'm sure they wouldn't spare any iron dome missiles if the Palestinians went as high as the radars would pick.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago

And I’m sure they’ll be punished just as harshly for that war crime as all the others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


He used the discussion to restate his opposition to a Rafah offensive, shortly before Israel ordered an evacuation designed to move initially at least 100,000 refugees as part of a military effort to drive the remaining Hamas battalions out of Gaza.

In the call on Sunday, Macron urged Netanyahu to complete the negotiations with Hamas that could lead to the release of the abductees, the protection of civilians through a ceasefire, and the reduction of regional tensions.

The French government said Macron had “reiterated his firm opposition to an Israeli attack on Rafah and the urgent need to ensure a massive entry of humanitarian aid through all access points to the Gaza Strip”.

The EU foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said on Monday: “Israel’s evacuation orders to civilians in Rafah portend the worst: more war and famine”

Petra De Sutter, Belgium’s deputy prime minister, said: “The Israeli call for the evacuation of the citizens and refugees of Rafah, and the announced invasion, will lead to massacre.

A German foreign ministry spokesperson said: “The negotiations must not be jeopardised and all sides must make maximum efforts to ensure that the people in Gaza are supplied with humanitarian goods … and that the hostages are freed.”


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