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Israel drops leaflets threatening Gazans to 'leave or die' (www.newarab.com)

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Israel has sparked global outrage after dropping leaflets over the besieged Gaza Strip, warning Palestinians to either cooperate with its forces or face forced displacement or eradication. The messages, written in Arabic, carried explicit threats, including the chilling statement: "The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist."

The move, condemned as a psychological warfare tactic, has intensified concerns over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, with many seeing the leaflets as an open admission of ethnic cleansing.

The threats also reference a so-called "Trump plan", aligning with recent remarks by US President Donald Trump. who suggested the mass expulsion of Gaza's population to neighbouring countries. The posters featured images of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity and wanted by the IC

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

I didn't vote for Harris because Trump didn't do genocide

I wonder where all those people are now. Because they were REALLY active leading up to the election (and shortly after).

I wonder if they realize they were wrong.

EDIT: Oh, they're here, just had to scroll more.

At a glance, no, they don't seem to be taking responsibility, and even still seem to be taking the moral high ground.

Which suggests it wasn't even astroturfing...lol

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Don't you think they're still in their offices in Russia? I think they might be following the German election

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Harris and Biden prioritized continuing the genocide over beating Trump. They are to blame for this just as much as Trump

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

My stance was "Trump is going to make a lot of things worse, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You're either for Trump or against Trump, and if you're a single issue voter, you're either voting in favour of, or against, making the genocide worse".

Some people told me that the Democrats are definitely in favour of the genocide, but who knows what Trump would do! I told them everyone else knows. They told me it's impossible to know because there was no genocide during Trump's first term, but there was during Biden's first term. So Trump is a safer bet for single issue voters.

Regardless, single issue (non-)voters have succeeded in making life much worse for Americans and Palestinians.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

if you’re a single issue voter, you’re either voting in favour of, or against, making the genocide worse

By what measure is trump making it worse than it was under biden, biden supplied the weapons for a 15 month long genocidal carpet bombing campaign, has trump done something worse than that?

[–] kava@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

We would still be supporting Israel with Biden in place. The only difference is there would be a few "we are very concerned" statements from the White House press secretary instead of Trump's reality TV show statements. But in the background, the same number of MK84 2,000lb bombs are being transported by the same military vehicles and they blow up on top of the same people.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Democrats happily stated they would support this as well. If only they tried being different.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well good news! You don't have to deal with Democrats anymore!

Have fun dealing with the Republicans on this now!

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! Trump found out the same thing as Biden yesterday; Egypt and Jordan are not accepting the ethnic cleansing. Trump, like Biden, has walked back the plan.

Same shit. Different Nazi at the helm.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Yup no problem, glad you're happy with how things turn out! Hope future elections work out for you in the same way! Go team Ned Flanders parents!

[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Ned Flanders' parents are essentially the democratic party personified. You're trying to wash their hands of blame because "Have fun dealing with the Republicans on this now!" but democrats did absolutely nothing to court voters during the election. On the economy, the biggest issue of the election, they lectured people who were struggling to afford necessities with "well ackshully the stock market and GDP" which has nothing to do with the average American's finances. Even now democrats use "egg prices" as a shorthand to mock people who cannot afford groceries and who might've voted republican.

It's literally "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" as a platform. All they can do is point at republicans, like you are doing now, and shriek about how bad things are going to get while they allow it to happen. Remember how they shrieked about how bad trump was and how much we have to defeat trump during the 2020 election? They went on and on about how many illegal things trump did and then when they got into office, they put in the milquetoast merrick garland as attorney general who did NOTHING for four years. Now we have trump again.

You can't just dismiss this as "that's in the past" because democrats will continue being spineless losers until the end of time because that is their role in this puppet show that the rich put on for us to make us think we have a choice in the matter with this sham of a "democracy".