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

LOL no. That is not what they mean.

"From the river to the sea" is a genocidal statement when Netanyahu says it, it's equally genocidal when the Palestinians say it.

Eliminating the state doesn't revert the land to the people, only the elimination of all the people living there does that.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The difference is Palestinians want a land for both, which is what from the river to the sea means, while Israel wants just the land.

Again you're ignorance is astounding

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

Palestinians do not want the land for both, they want their land back and that means eliminating the Israelis who will not give it up willingly.

See the quote from Efraim Karsh quoted from "Arafat's War: The Man and His Battle for Israeli Conquest". 2004 Grove Press. here:

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calls_for_the_destruction_of_Israel

"The new "free and democratic society" was perceived not as a true partnership between equal groups sharing sovereignty over a specific territory, but rather as an Arab-Muslim state in which Jews would be reduced to a permanent minority status, a modern-day version of the ahl al-dhimma" system of "protected non-Muslim minorities" that had existed since Islam's early days [...] The PLO's pretence that those Jewish citizens of the defunct state of Israel who would like to become citizens new Arab Palestine would be allowed to do so was patently false [...] the Palestinian National Covenant, revised in July 1968 [...] states explicitly that only those Jews "who were normally resident in Palestine up to the beginning of the Zionist invasion are Palestinians." Since most of Israel's citizens are an integral part of this "Zionist invasion," the practical meaning of this declaration is that the prospective Palestinian state would be virtually Judenrein[b]."

Bolding mine. The Judenrein link goes to this definition:

"A Nazi word to designate an area that has been "cleansed" of Jews during the Holocaust."

The plan is to cleanse Israel of Jews, full stop. Just as much as Israel wants to cleanse Israel of Palestinians. Neither side can be allowed to proceed with genocide, and yet nobody wants to stop them either.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago) (1 children)

Did you read your source or the references.

1 it's not even Palestinians but just a list of Arabs upset at the situation since the 40s, and 2 even has such references as Iran saying we do not wish to eliminate the people simply the Israeli government

https://www.france24.com/en/20191115-khamenei-says-iran-wants-removal-of-israel-state-not-people

You're entire argument is simply the same as what Israel is currently doing to the Palestinians expressed by 1 historian.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Again, eliminating the government will not, ever, reclaim the land.

Same with the "Land Back" idiots in the US. If the US government stopped existing today, that would not return a single square inch of land back to native peoples.

The only way to get the land back is to take it, and the only way to take it is to get rid of the people currently living there.