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Israel's Backers Are Now Advocating The Assassination Of Greta Thunberg (www.caitlinjohnst.one)

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US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”

Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla…”

There’s not a lot that can shock me about Israel and its supporters these days. But if you’d traveled back in time a few years ago it would be hard to explain to someone how we got to a timeline that includes Israel supporters openly advocating the assassination of Greta Thunberg.

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There is so much wrong with your comment I dont even know where to start.

What I will say; Israel has no right to exist, no ethnostate does because that always entails the ethnic cleansing of whoever doesnt fit.

Either way, israel lost that right when they started their state by ethnically cleansing 700k+ Palestinians, stealing their land, kill men, women and children and now enacting genocide live.

[+] jyoskykid@sh.itjust.works -11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The ethnostate is Israel, and Palestinians could just mind their business. And all other Middle-Eastern countries are ethnostates. In fact, they were going for pan-Arabism and pan-Islamism, and that's the dream they lost when Israel had to be founded. You're supporting one ethnostate over other.

Israel started their state when the Arabs declared war, and they lost it.

Besides, even being an ethnostate, it has no interest in expelling the population within in, much less "killing". You just want to pretend that Palestinians were somehow peaceful like the Armenians, but that's just not true.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

"Palestinians could just mind their business"

How so when they dont have rights, their land is being stolen, women raped and children killed?

You're either a sick person or severely misinformed.

"It has no interest in expelling population within it"

We literally just had a poll conducted by Penn state that showed that 82% of Israelis want to expel (aka ethnically cleanse) the Palestinians in Gaza.

Oh not to mention that 47% think we should enact the same actions that Joshua enacted upon the amalek which is complete eradication (aka genocide).

(Source: https://archive.is/nNzq4)

And let's not forget the countless statements by Israeli officials either saying we want the Palestinians in Gaza to leave or that we will eradicate them from Gaza.

Just wtf are you on about?