• GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    "The minister, who also has some powers over the Israeli unit that controls border crossings and permits for Palestinians, has a long history of denying the existence of a Palestinian nation and has previously made controversial statements about them as well as on other issues like LGBTQ rights.

    Earlier this month, he made incendiary comments saying that the in the West Bank “needs to be erased”’

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/middleeast/israel-smotrich-palestinians-intl/index.html

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        1 year ago

        State policy is made up of the opinions of those in power. They’re not going to put in their state policy “we want to ethnically cleanse Palestine” but you can use some critical thinking, read the opinions of those in the government, and see that is their intention.

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        The Prime Minister of Israel is a Holocaust revisionist. He led a protest that included death threats towards his opposition.

        At what point do you look at the evidence and say, hey, maybe a genocide is happening. Hey, all these officials are referring to a minority as subhuman.