Holocaust

"For every drone, ten buildings in Beirut will be destroyed."

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

Cenk Uygur

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And he’s saying this about invading Israeli soldiers. So, for every time Lebanon defends their own territory, Israel is going to attack ten times more. This is Nazi logic. If your victims dare defend themselves, kill ten times as many. Why are we funding the Nazis?

And he's not saying they'll destroy ten military buildings each time, he's saying they'll destroy civilian buildings and murder ten times as many civilians for every Israeli soldier attacked in Lebanese territory. So, the Lebanese must surrender, otherwise, they'll be butchered.

'My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don't worry, there will be enough for everyone.'

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

"Netanyahu is the most able consolidator of all the dark impulses of Israeli society … [However], the Messianic drive to settle the greater Israel predates Netanyahu, as well as the overall brutal, racist degradation of Palestinians … [Very noticeable] is the subservience of the “opposition”; I don’t recall anything like it in the past. If you look at the governments that went to wars in 1973 and 1982, they faced considerable opposition, within the Knesset and outside of it, on the very issue of whether the war was justified … None of that is left today … In Lebanon, the Israeli armed forces are using Gaza tactics, attacking hospitals and killing medical staff, while in Iran they have engaged in what has been rightly described as chemical warfare on account of strikes on fuel depots.

"As to the Labor Party … [there are] a handful of MKs that are obsessed with displays of liberal values and with welfare legislation when genocide is in full force and Apartheid shifts from de facto to de jure. The other “opposition” parties are either led by generals (Golan, Eizenkot) who offer zero alternatives to military dominance, or by right-wing neoliberals (Bennet, Lapid). The only representatives of left values in the Knesset are the Arab MKs …"

Idan Landau, Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University, who has been imprisoned on several occasions for his refusal to serve in the IDF, quoted by Alastair Crooke

“It’s ironic and tragic that a movement that began as an attempt to free Jews from persecution, to give them a place of their own – a process of emancipation, liberation, humanitarian aspiration – ends its path as a racist and violent one … It became more and more likely that without a constitution that protects rights for everyone, Zionism, once it became the ideology of a state, would give up on the option of becoming a normal state for its citizens … There were attempts to redirect the process. The most important came in the early 1990s with Oslo. That attempt was blocked, very aggressively, with Netanyahu’s encouragement, with Rabin’s murder. Not enough is said about the fact that Rabin’s blood is on Netanyahu’s hands. Netanyahu was the main beneficiary of one of the most successful political murders of the 20th century." 

Professor Omer Bartov interviewed in Ha’aretz

"You said that Israel is at war with Hamas. Let me ask you a simple question. Why are you shooting children in the skull and in the chest? why are you killing journalists? Why are you killing medics? Why are you killing UN workers?" 

Norman Finkelstein