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"I want Israel to continue until [Gaza is] all flattened." (lite.cnn.com)

submitted 1 day ago by yonderbarn@lazysoci.al to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Dubbed the “Sderot cinema” by Israelis online, watching Israel’s bombardment has become a popular pastime; people take turns looking through tower viewers. Some bring popcorn and snacks, and some snap selfies as the thud of airstrikes echo in the distance.

“When I look at Gaza from here and see buildings still standing, it makes me upset. … I want Israel to continue until it’s all flattened,” Rafael Hemo, an onlooker told CNN.

Hemo said he doesn’t want any Arabs living next to Israel any longer, and laments the world’s sympathy for Gaza after what happened on October 7.

“After what we’ve gone through, they need to be gone. No more Gaza.”

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[–] yonderbarn@lazysoci.al 20 points 1 day ago

A poll conducted by Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) in July, before the IPC’s famine declaration but when aid agencies had already been warning for weeks about starvation in Gaza, asked Israelis: “To what extent are you personally troubled or not troubled by the reports of famine and suffering among the Palestinian population in Gaza?”

Of the Jewish respondents, 79% reported that they were not so troubled or not at all troubled.