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The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.

In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.

The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”

Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”

The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”

Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

The genocidal language thrown by both sides has been going on for thousands of years.

No it hasn't. Name a single instance of Jews being genocided in those "thousands of years" which wasn't when the area was under European control.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Jordan is all over the place. He doesn't know that not every muslim is an arsb and not rvery arsb is a palestine so his 6000 years of violence is so ridiculous

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Again, "the genocidal LANGUAGE" has been thrown around for thousands of years.

The WILL to end Israel is there. The ABILITY, not so much.

See:

https://www.memri.org/reports/fatwa-international-union-muslim-scholars-iums-based-and-funded-qatar-declares-armed-jihad

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They call for armed struggle against the occupying entity committing Genocide.

What is genocidal about this?

I am talking about historical actions. Actual persecution of Jews in Palestine under Islamic rule because they could. Not random statements taken out of context.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Again, repeated calls for the elimination of Israel. It's just as genocidal as the repeated calls for the elimination of Palestine.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Genocide cannot be committed against a country. Israel calls for genocide against Palestinians.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

By claiming to want to "wipe Israel off the map", that's a desire to eliminate Israelis which is the definition of genocide.

https://iccforum.com/genocide-convention

✅ (a)Killing members of the group;

✅ (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

✅ (c)Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d)Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e)Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Damn that's crazy. I didn't know Nelson Mandela committed Genocide on Apartheid South Africa. Thanks explaining how genocide works.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's not me, that's the Article 2 of the Genocide Convention. You'd think someone named "Geneva Convenience" would already know that.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Which group is "the country of Israel" part of? Is there a difference between a country and people?

Or do you think they issue a fatwa for Jihad against this guy? https://youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

So you are saying that when Iran says "wipe Israel off the map" they aren't targeting the Jewish majority of Israel? Because that's EXACTLY what they are doing.

Same as when Netanyahu says Israel wants to control all the land from the river to the sea, he's talking about wiping out all the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza (although he has his eyes on Syria, and Lebanon too).

Both statements are affirmations of genocide.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Memri was created by Yigal Carmon a former Israeli intelligence officer who opposed oslo accords. Please do better. Thr both side want to destroy each other BS only help isrsel and it's backers

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe israel should end occupation to end the cycle of violence and you should support a one state eith equal rights and a truth snd reconciliation process. Or are you one of those guys who think jews and muslims has a natural urge to kill each others

Also stop conflating palestinians with all arabs and muslims that's a racist logic.

Palestinians want to live freely that's all. Only naive people would think after they are free from occupation palestinians will still attack. If you believe otherwise you are doing settler colonialism apologia without realizing it

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You will never have equal rights in one state because the two sides will never allow that. Each believes the other should not exist.

Both sides are saying "From the river to the sea." They want the full elimination of the other.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

That's anttisemetic. Both side are semite but you think it is in their nature to fight each other. Yes Any group of people can live in peace again like many periods before that you chose ignore. If germany who almost exterminate jews is not israel strongest ally, if countries that was enemy in the deadliest conflict ever can be become allies palestinians and israel can to.

You clearly don't believe in any solution neither a one or two state but you are in denial and don't realize it

Palestinians said you end occupation, we drop arms. Certain arabs offered a one state since the beginning, before the nekba. The plo also offered it

There was people like you who was tslking about how aparteith can't end in south africa because black South african would have took vengence for all the year of oppression

Did you ever ask any rrgular palestinian what they mean by from river to the sea palestine is free?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It has nothing to do with their nature, nobody is born hating anyone, that's learned behavior.

Both sides have stated, repeatedly, that they believe they are owed exclusive rights to the territory of Israel to the exclusion of all others.

That belief is inherently the source of the conflict. It's taught and learned and re-inforced by repeated violent acts.

It can't be stopped by anyone other than an external 3rd party stepping in and treating them like the misbehaving children they are. "I don't care who started it, both of you go to your rooms."

But nobody has the will to step up and tell them to knock this shit off.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If you don't believe that it is in their blood, why do you believe if israel end occupation , palestinians would still try to destroy israel? And why did you said a one state with equal rights will never happen when history is full of enemies turning to ally? Why are you ignoring one state proporsal by arabs?

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

"From the River to the Sea". Both the Palestinians and Israelis hold on to this. The only thing either will be satisfied with is the complete obliteration of the other.

There needs to be a forced separation. "You, go over here, you go over there, leave each other the fuck alone."

They won't do it themselves because they legitimately believe they have a right to ALL the territory.

This is why you get the numerous illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory over and over and over again.

https://www.crisisgroup.org/visual-explainers/israeli-settlements/

Israel isn't going to stop it, they don't want to stop it. They want full occupation.

Palestine physically can't stop it.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

You didn't answer a single question i asked in my last response. And from river to the sea palestinians means different thing from different person. The original use was by plo to refer to a one state and many other anti occupation believe the same. Just because some people hijacked the term doesn't mean we can't use it. Similar how conservstive hijacked the term woke from black people. You can disagree with the formulation i have no problem with that but please don't use it to talk about how all antioccupation people want to destroy israel. It is factually false

Israel isn't going to stop it, they don't want to stop it. They want full occupation. Palestine physically can't stop it.

Maybe yes maybe not. Other people when was occupied may have thought the same like indian. Indian still got their freedom after 200 years. The longest occupation i believe was 700 years.

You can't expect palestinians to do nothing , at some point people are not in mental state to think rationally and to not take revenge legimate or not. That is not an justification but an acknowledge of the context and the issue to try to solve it.

If you lived in a word where someone can kill your family and your neighborhood and oppress other people you know and the police and the government know about it and let it happen . Not that only but they are protecting the killer. Trust me you would take vengence and cause a massacre

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You misunderstand, I'm not here to answer your questions and have no obligation to answer them.

I'm explaining to you the situation on the ground over there with all the links necessary to understand it.

It's not that the Palestinians need to do more or have been doing the wrong things, it's that after being blockaded by Israel since the 90s they are physically incapable of doing anything effective. They don't have the resources.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

They can't do it themselves, Israel won't allow anything else, it's going to require an external 3rd party to stop it and the world powers don't have the will to do it.

So what we're going to see is the inevitable back and forth until one side or the other are annihilated. There is no "winning" here.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

You misunderstand, I’m not here to answer your questions and have no obligation to answer them. You don't answer my question because you don't have any answers. You can't say a single valid counter argument to prove that there is zero way for Palestinians to stop hating Israeli and claiming that ever if Israel end occupation they would still try to destroy israel. It is factually wrong

It’s not that the Palestinians need to do more or have been doing the wrong things, it’s that after being blockaded by Israel since the 90s they are physically incapable of doing anything effective. They don’t have the resources.

Whatever their a chance it happen or not is not the point. No matter how impossible something is people should do the right thing and not dropping arms

So what we’re going to see is the inevitable back and forth until one side or the other are annihilated. There is no “winning” here.

How Israel succeeded in their plan means that no one is winning? t It would mean the genocidal state won with the complicity of the major western countries and the Arab leaders traitors . You are even contracting yourself in the same post. You say that Palestinians can't do nothing about Israel finishing it's final solution and at the same time claim that Palestinians can destroy Israel

Instead of both siding the conflict and dropping your arms . You should acknowledge the core issue , you should support never giving up. You should support any action trying to change the situation no matter how futile it is.

You clearly lack critical thinking and is too naive . This is my last reply to this useless conversation where you ignore every single argument

[–] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, the will to end Israel is there. It's also here.

Remember when the German state was dismantled because it comitted a genocide?

It seems like you believe anti-zionism and anti-semitism is the same thing. One is an ethnic group (technically several, including palestinians, but we all know it usually means jewish people) and the other is a nationality.

Not all jews are zionists, and not all zionists are jews.

Let's dismantle the genocidal state, give displaced palestinians the right to return to their country, try every war criminal and genocidal maniac in an international court and let the Palestinian people decide how the want to run their own fucking country, for once.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

Oh, no, anti-semitism and anti-zionism are two very different things. Just how some people can't separate the difference between American patriotism and white supremacy. Related? Overlapping? Sure, but not the same.

Here's the problem... The Palestinian people HAVE decided, multiple times, how they want to run their own country and Israel has rejected it multiple times.

The first time, they elected the PLO, Israel declared them terrorists and began a war of aggression.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization

Down to even attempting to assassinate a US Ambassador who dared to recognize and communicate with the PLO:

https://www.wrmea.org/2004-may/israel-s-failed-assassination-attempt-on-u.s.-ambassador-documented.html

The second time they went "You know what? If you're going to call us terrorists and treat us like terrorists ANYWAY, fine, fuck it, here's Hamas. Good luck!" Hamas won 74 of the 132 seats in Parliament.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election

Israel now takes the position "there are no innocent Palestinians".

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-poll-62-of-israelis-say-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza

Yet another thing Bush can burn in hell for:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/was-hamas-elected-to-govern-gaza-george-w-bush-2006-palestinian-election.html

But would it have been any different if the 2006 election HAD been shut down the way Israel wanted? Unlikely, because like I say, Israel has been pulling this shit longer than that, Hamas is just their latest excuse.

Israel doesn't want Palestine to exist, full stop. The feeling is mutual. The only real solution is a forced co-existence which neither side really wants.