Thousands took to the streets across Israel Saturday night to call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster and new elections, in demonstrations spanning from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Haifa and Caesarea in the north and Be’er Sheva in the south.

At a demonstration in front of the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, Yosef Angel, bereaved father and grandfather of 17-year-old Ofir Angel, who was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza, said “You stand at the head, and are responsible for the October 7 holocaust. You are trying to escape responsibility and look for someone else to blame, shame on you.”

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  • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    You’re going to call 2000 dead a holocaust, but not the 25000 dead by your own hands. Terrorists.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Remember when Obama called Bibi the biggest liar in the world? Of course that was before Trump rode that escalator.

  • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    One state solution. No country gets to dress up in a liberal democracy wig while sporting ethno state raybands. Apartheid states don’t get to exist in a functioning democracy.

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      10 months ago

      Apartheid states don’t get to exist in a functioning democracy.

      They shouldn’t get to exist. And yet, here we are.

    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Yes, because by doing so you fail to see the big picture. No, it’s not “they started it” like a lot of Israeli’s like to say, but it’s the fact that Israel itself is being taken over by fascists, fundumentalists, billionaires and Netanyahu family. The Israeli people were fighting them the last year trying to prevent the country from becoming a dictatorship.

      Oh, and finish with a childish remark… Your comment just copy past a random article, throws a “what about” unrelated to the topic and paint all the Israelis in the same color.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        The Israeli people were fighting them the last year trying to prevent the country from becoming a dictatorship.

        The bulk of the Israeli public was perfectly happy with the treatment of their Palestinian neighbors up until this point. Settlers on the border shooting into Palestinian lands, attacking Palestinian farmers, bulldozing homes, and setting fire to groves is nothing new. It goes straight back to the Nakba of '48.

        What has the Ashkenazi branch of the population in a lather is the threat of Sephardics and Mizrahis increasingly dominating the Parliament and the various state agencies. The country has always been a military dictatorship from the perspective of the Arabs. Only recently have the more Western and secularized Jewish settlers found themselves exposed to the iron fist of Israeli rule.

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          10 months ago

          That’s a completly different argument than the one you started with. Noted. Just to not let your new argument hang there: In almost all polls made before the 7th vast majority of Israelis agreed to the separation to two states solution, and definatly disagreed to the terror acts made by the extreme settlers. It’s unfortunate that because tons of propaganda made by the same people now run our government and institutions funded by American billionairs, they were not aware of all of it.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            That’s a completly different argument than the one you started with.

            It is not.

            In almost all polls made before the 7th vast majority of Israelis agreed to the separation to two states solution

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowing_the_grass

            This is a policy supported by multiple prior Israeli governments that amounted to the extrajudicial assassination of any Palestinian or Lebanese resident suspected of being a militant. This is the “two state solution” that Israelis supported. One in which the Israelis can launch rockets and fire bullets out of Israel uncontested and Palestinians are expected to accept that anyone an Israel kills must have deserved it.