[1] These days in Israel, in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians on a mass scale, and other dehumanizing language, have become common.
Here are a few examples of this discourse over the last few days.
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[2] “If all the captives are not returned immediately, then turn the Strip into a slaughterhouse. If a hair falls from their head - execute security prisoners. Violate all norms on the way to victory…”
David Mizrahy Verthaim -Editor & Journalist
[3] “Gaza has to be wiped off from the face of the earth”
Shimon Riklin - Journalist
[4] It's time for Nakba 2
Yinon Magal - Journalist and Politician.
[5] Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy!
Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK
[6] “Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!..”
Ariel Kallner - Likud MK
[7] Say, why exactly do we have an atomic bomb?
Shimon Riklin - Journalist
[8] “Gaza started a war with IL today…When you are at war with another state you don't feed them, you don't provide them with electricity or gas or water or anything else.”
Giora Eiland - was an IDF Major General & the former head of IL NSC
[9] “The world finally understands who the animals we are dealing with are... This allows the IDF to exact a much heavier price from Gaza. Not only from Hamas. Everyone who is celebrating now in Gaza - should cry. It's that simple.”
Ofer Hadad - Journalist & TV Anchor
[10] “this [picture of destroyed neighborhood] is how all of Gaza, all of Gaza”
Yinon Magal - Journalist & Anchor
[11] “Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. Before considering bringing forces [into Gaza]. Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion…” [According to foreign sources, Jericho Missiles can carry nuclear warheads.]
Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK
[12] "I want a big revenge" "I really hope that our revenge, that of the State of Israel, on the cruel enemy - will be a very big revenge. I don't call them human animals because that would be insulting to animals…"
Sara Netanyahu - PM’s Wife
[13] [The war] “needs to be finished with 2 important achievements: Territory: … taking control of all the open areas in [Gaza] … Population: thinning out the population in the [Gaza] Strip as much as possible by encouraging them to leave...”
Shimon Riklin - Journalist
[14] “it's an entire nation out there that is responsible. it's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware not involved, it’s absolutely not true…”
[15] “You are confused, we do not need to bring a significant achievement in Gaza - we need to eliminate Gaza. This means that the area needs to be cleaned."
Yinon Magal - Journalist & Anchor
[16] “I spoke about a million bodies not as a goal, I said that if, in order to finally eliminate the military capabilities of Hamas, including Sinwar and Deif, we need a million bodies, then let there be a million bodies”
Roy Sharon - Journalist
[17] "Erase Gaza, don't leave a single person there."
Eyal Golan - Popular Singer
[18] “if the goal of this operation is not destruction, occupation, deportation and settlement, we have done nothing. In the end, the whole country will be [Kibbutz] Be’eri"
Moshe Feiglin - former Likud MK
[19] “We must not show mercy to cruel people, there is no place for any humanitarian gestures – we must erase the memory of Amalek (biblical tribe hostile to the Israelites) ".
[20] “It is not Hamas that should be eliminated. Gaza should be razed and Israel’s rule should be restored to the place. This is our country."
Moshe Feiglin - former Likud MK
[21] “A leadership that has mercy on monsters who massacred us is not worthy of leadership. A ceasefire for several hours is surrender, it is weakness, humiliation … Without crushing Hamas and razing Gaza, we will not have the right to exist”
Revital Gottlieb - Likud MK
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[1] “In these early days when emotions are so understandably raw, many might be reluctant to remind IL of its international law obligations, considering to do so insensitive or inappropriate. However we disagree.”
-Foremost UK Jewish Legal Experts
[2] “In these times of pain and terror the notion that there are laws that we must all live by is challenging but essential. Jewish history teaches us that we cannot give up on them.”
Full text in the images below:
[3] The letter is signed by:
Lord Neuberger, Former President of the UK Supreme Court
Professor Phillippe Sands KC
Professor Sandra Fredman, University of Oxford
Richard Hermer KC
Danny Friedman KC
Anthony Metzer KC
Jon Turner KC
Adam Wagner
[1] BREAKING: 2.5 hours ago a bulldozer demolished 3 water cisterns and 2 water tanks in the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills. In addition to uprooting many trees and sealing up one of the caves of the community.
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[2] The bulldozer is also blocking almost all access roads to the community.
[3] The madness of this story is that the driver of this bulldozer is Ynon Levy, a settler from the nearby unauthorised outpost - Meitarim Farm. See my post here about him.
[1] Hamas’ war crimes are an opportunity for the Israeli Right to advance their messianic agenda beyond the IDF response in Gaza. From rebuilding settlements in Gaza, to intensifying the takeover of Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount, & pogroms in the WB.
We must prevent this.
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[2] Arnon Segal is promoting a plan to reoccupy the Gaza Strip and establish settlements there.
[3] Keep in mind what minister Orit Strock said earlier this year: "I don't know how many years it will take... a return to the Gaza Strip will also involve many sacrifices... but there is no doubt… the day will come when we will return to it."
[1] @bezalelsm has announced to the Knesset FAC Committee (19.7.23) his intention to fight Palestinian development in Areas A & B of the WB in the name of national security. Giving a boost to the long, ongoing settler campaign to undo Oslo.
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[2] In recent years, the settler community, led by @RegavimEng (co-founded by Smotrich) has been working to undo Oslo by fighting Palestinian development in Area C and cementing Israeli permanent rule there.
[3] Let’s remember that according to the Oslo Accords (XI, 3, c), Area C was supposed to “be gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction” (within 18 months of signing and with the exception of “issues that will be negotiated in the permanent status negotiations”).
זוכרים את הדיווח של יובל שדה על כך שלמעלה מרבע מתקציב החומש לפיתוח כבישים של משרד התחבורה יוקצה לכבישים לטובת הרחבת ההתנחלויות בגדה? הנה ניתוח של איזה כבישים יקודמו ע"פ ההסכם של אגף התקציבים עם משרד התחבורה ולמה.
שרשור
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המטרות האסטרטגיות 1) העמקת ביתור הגדה ע"י מסדרונות רוחב שימנעו רצף פלסטיני בגב ההר מדרום לצפון (קדומים, צומת תפוח, מעלה אדומים) 2) פיתוח מעלה אדומים לעיר של 100K מתנחלים וסיפוחה לישראל 3) סיום מפעל הכבישים העוקפים ע"מ לפרבר התנחלויות בעומק הגדה (אל פונדוק, א-לובן, אל ערוב)
2/19
פירוט הפרויקטים
30 מליון הוקצו לתכנון הביצוע של כביש "מרקם חיים" אל עזרייה-א זעים. (כביש הריבונות) זהו כביש אסטרטגי שנועד לייצר הפרדה בין הפלסטינים למתנחלים במרחב מעלה אדומים, ולנתב את כל התנועה הפלסטינית בין דרום הגדה לצפונה ישר ל"כביש האפרטהייד".
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