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American Dr Mark Perlmutter, who has volunteered in Gaza, says one of his Palestinian colleagues was taken by Israeli occupation forces, had his fingers shattered and was told to confess to being a member of Hamas or have his wife gang raped in front of him.

Soldiers 'crushed' his fingers, Perlmutter explains, adding that they also threatened to 'send a drone to your bedroom window and incinerate your children.' The doctor did not confess and spent 11 months being tortured in Israeli detention.

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 90 points 6 days ago (18 children)

This is yet another one of many examples that affirms the correct answer to "does israel have a right to exist?" is no. No nation has an inherent right to exist, but certainly a nation as horrible as israel should not exist for many reasons, including morally, just like how nazi germany has no right to exist.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

You gotta wonder how Israel will get out from under netenyahu/spelling. He’s their sadam now

[–] bedouin@infosec.pub 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nope nope nope. Putting the blame entirely on Netanyahu is like putting the entire blame on Trump. Both are symptoms of an underlying society and many people enabling and condoning that behavior. Look at stats, watch translated videos of their media, read Israeli and non-Israeli historians. This shit ain't new and some would argue is exactly what the Zionist state was created to carry out.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh youre not wrong but sadam wasn’t in a vacuum either is my broader point. These personalities have always existed in every time period in human history. It wasn’t until the cognitive revolution of he 50s did we start to develop archetypes of personalities and on a broader macro sense the cognitive behaviors of societies as a whole.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Saddam quickly went from ruling by popular support to ruling by scaring the shit out of any opposition.

Netanyahu and other Fascists in Israel still enjoy comfortable majority support in Israel. Even if people protest against Netanyahu, they are largely still in favor of ethnical cleansing and genocide against the Palestinians. Most people in Iraq didn't need reeducation when Saddam was toppled. The vast majority of Israelis need a reeducation and be confronted with their crimes at large and have hundreds of thousands of their war criminals permanently locked away in order to cure the Fascism that has deep roots in their society now. It will take decades to safe them from who they have chosen to become.

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

For everyone wondering if this means genocide against Israel -- no! Of course not! This means the nation -- that is, the government, the borders, etc. -- needs to be reformed.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 16 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I think you’re getting into dangerous territory with that thinking. People are not a monolith, even when an outspoken and visible portion of the population are monsters. Secondly, you say “Nazi germany has no right to exist,” but Germany does. Painting with that broad a brush and speaking in such absolutes opens the door to horrible acts. Because the zionists speak the exact same way about Palestine. That’s where that thinking and language can lead you.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There is no equation of victimhood here. Zionists have stolen Palestinian houses and land.

There were Nazi Germans occupying houses in Poland which they stole from Jews. After the Holocaust those Nazis were expelled back to where they came from. In this case from Nazi Germany (which included Poland) to Germany (without Poland)

[–] vibraniumdroid@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (11 children)

My dude, the whole thing is a settler colonialist project. It has no right to exist, and no word salad attempting to introduce nuance into a black and white situation is convincing anyone otherwise. This isn't Reddit.

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Germany does not have the right to exist. The German people have a right to self determination, like any people in the world does. This right is not tied to any specific state.

It is also completely absurd to define such rights to a specific state. Any specific state needs a specific government, a specific territory and a specific people. The only thing that carried over from the Nazi era was the people. A different government was formed on a very different territory. If you claim "Germany has a right to exist" in connection with the Nazi Reich, that Germany would have to include large swaths of what is todays Poland and Czech Republic.

Meanwhile there was no Israel in 1947. There was no Israeli people in 1947. The entire people is a construct, that only started to become a reality through 80 years of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people. Now that they are a people is a reality. That this people thus has the right to form a fascist state and deny the rights to the people who they have uprooted is nonsense.

If the US was to invade Canada, drive the Canadians north of the arctic circle and then claim this is US-Canada now because the filled it with millions of their own settlers, that does not create a "right to exist" for US-Canada.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

We are all dirt to these people.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I'm always really surprised more people don't post this stuff in conservative dominated spaces.

They're not monsters. Aside from the trolls and bots that are paid to try to sway them to be. Also the under 20 year olds that are edge Lords.

I think it's legit to get discussions and to challenge their core beliefs honestly. I do it. Some get through, sometimes I get banned. But I'm surprised more people don't go out and do similar

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Most moderators of conservative spaces actively remove this type of news. If you manage to find a conservative space allowing this kind of stuff by all means do post it there.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Have you tried? Your fantasy depiction of unfortunate misguided Nazis does not meet up with reality.

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[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

These days feel like an 'Are we the baddies?' moment for the US

[–] WuceBrillis@lemm.ee 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Always have been. Hitler said himself he was inspired by the American way of treating people of colour.

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