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“He’s doing a good job,” Trump saidabout the Israeli leader. “Biden is trying to hold him back, just so you understand, Biden is more superior to the VP. He’s trying to hold him back, and he probably should be doing the opposite, actually. I’m glad that Netanyahu decided to do what he had to do, but it’s moving along pretty good.”

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago

Honestly, is there anyone alive today with more blood on their hands than Benjamin Netanyahu?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Trump's response to covid. Putin's entire career. Kim Jong Un's slow starvation of his entire fucking nation. But Netanyahu is up there and we should stop letting him write our foreign policy.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

don't forget ~~Mao~~ Xi.

sorry, Pooh bear.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, him too. But I'm not gonna minimize the perpetrator of an ongoing genocide either. Netanyahu is a piece of shit and we shouldn't be supporting his genocide. No matter how much centrists want to. We should cease selling him weapons right now. Centrists might not get everything they want for the first time ever, but they can vote blue no matter who.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 26 points 7 hours ago

It's sad to say, but yes. Gaza is a horrific tragedy, but it is an admittedly small corner of the world.

The Palestinian health ministry has reported 40,000+ Palestinian dead. Meanwhile, George W. Bush is responsible for the deaths of over a million Iraqis following his completely unnecessary invasion of Iraq. He's still kicking, probably using some of that blood on his hands for the painting he does now.

Putin is also pulling comparable numbers as Bibi in Ukraine, though that conflict has been going on for a little bit longer than the one in Gaza. But that's also not counting how many of his own men he sent to their deaths, which is estimated to be over 100,000.

Henry Kissinger would also be on this list but thankfully it's been almost a year since his long-awaited demise.

And that's really only looking at conflict. Not factoring in others who are responsible for large-scale humanitarian crises that may end up killing many more people just from disease or starvation.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 4 hours ago

Not to detract from your point, but the real number of deaths in Gaza is estimated to be between 100-200 thousand.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 hours ago

The Palestinian health ministry has reported 40,000+ Palestinian dead.

That only counts people who get found, obviously it doesn't count the tens of thousands who are dead or dying under the rubbel. The real number is probably an order of magnitude higher.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 7 hours ago

Honestly, yeah. Whoever is running the genocide in Sudan, probably.

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