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Israelis are finally revolting against Netanyahu — for agreeing to the U.S. ceasefire with Iran (mondoweiss.net)

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The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 100 points 4 days ago (4 children)

A whole nation of genocidal maniacs. Just as racist and murderous as the Nazis.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 101 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are a handful of decent humans there who oppose it all. They have protested and been beaten up.

Mostly young people. Not very many of them. But I think that's pretty courageous considering they are literally surrounded by wolves.

What must it be like to live in a country surrounded by insane fascist. ?

Oh... Nevermind I guess I know.

Well.

But at least most of my fellow U.S citizens aren't in support of it.

I think Israel must feel like literally everyone is maga except like 2 people you know.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It's a good time to recommend the Discworld book Jingo, which remains just as relevant as when it was written.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. *No one* ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

And another quote from Feet of Clay:

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk

(And then there's The Fifth Elephant that's so painfully spot-on that I'd rather not spoil a single moment of it. Terry Pratchett was amazing and I wish he was still around to share his humor and wisdom. We could use a few laughs right now.)

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

Seems like a lifetime since he died, I hope his books are still popular in a hundred years. Gnu pterry.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 39 points 3 days ago

Even the Nazis weren't "a whole nation of genocidal maniacs." In both Israel and Nazi Germany there is/was opposition to the atrocities committed by their leadership, just not enough. In Israel in particular "do you support comically evil thing" polls tend to get 60-80% support, except the Iran war which at its outset had 93% support. That's not a whole nation of genocidal maniacs; that's a nation of mostly genocidal maniacs.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

It's not all of them, but the lack of people speaking up over there is chilling. I hope it's just media suppression, and the numbers aren't as bad as it seems.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Sad how abuse begets abuse, innit?