nostr:npub1ffeh63h9kke3sjcn3f7kuzh80xdtmey52axtpjjjdfd4cwhum4tq682lmq sure, words matter. But, in all honesty, how would you label a State whose goal is to completely wipe out a piece of land on an ethnic basis and doesn't seem to care of any of the civilians who live there - and its representatives are also very clear about their intentions?

Forcefully removing people out of their homes to replace them with people of a different ethnic group is called ethnic cleansing.

Confining people in geographical cages with little possibility of movement or integrating into the larger society is called apartheid.

The indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population on an ethnic basis, and the cutting off their supplies of food, water and electricity, is called a genocide.

And preaching the formation of a State with a single homogenous ethnic and religious group is called theocratic fascism.

Words matter, so we should probably start using the right ones.

nostr:npub105ve72qqmjxz08skum2lkds9qkj67689djwwr2a0qkrxts3hqydqm9hk8p nostr:npub1ffeh63h9kke3sjcn3f7kuzh80xdtmey52axtpjjjdfd4cwhum4tq682lmq Dror Eydar holds no office since 2022, and his entire political career was a 3-year assignment as Ambassador to Italy. Suggesting he’s communicating the goals of the Israeli government is a stretch to fit a narrative.

I’m no fan, but Netanyahu held a press conference yesterday where he was very clear about Israel’s goals of the war: Return the hostages and eliminate Hamas.

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nostr:npub1tj8q5m28jhnf6xucd9up274p3rmdzg3cm0cp9c6fa8f0s57d95qshjwalv nostr:npub1ffeh63h9kke3sjcn3f7kuzh80xdtmey52axtpjjjdfd4cwhum4tq682lmq I simply can't trust Netanyahu. While his official position is to eliminate Hamas and liberate the hostages, I simply can't trust someone who has openly promised to do anything in his power to delay the implementation of the Oslo accords - and has managed to do so for two decades so far.

And he's in a coalition with Shas (Ovadia Yosef repeatedly cursed the Palestinians and call for the wrath of god against them), Tkuma (which opposes any territorial concessions to the Palestinians), and Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose has made it a political mission to harass anybody who isn't Jew - from provoking Muslims praying in mosques, to defending spitting at Christians as an "ancient Jewish tradition".

I mean, I don't have to see a Roman salute to recognize a fascist. I know that positions like those of Dror Eydar's aren't uncommon among those who currently hold power in Israel. I know that Netanyahu has to walk a thin line - on one side he has Western partners that can be easily alienated if he causes a humanitarian crisis on the doorstep of Europe, and on the other side he has internal pressures from his partners to cause exactly that type of crisis.

Of course he'll say that he only wants to liberate the hostages and neutralize Hamas. But it's not hard to imagine what he says when he talks to his partner - his off-the-record comments on the Oslo accords are a good example of that.

Do you have a source with his original comments?

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