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submitted 1 year ago by mwguy@infosec.pub to c/world@lemmy.world

By David Gritten BBC News


Israel has demanded that the UN's secretary general retract comments he made about the Gaza war and apologise.

António Guterres said in a speech to the Security Council on Tuesday that he condemned unequivocally Hamas's deadly attacks in Israel two weeks ago but that they "did not happen in a vacuum".

Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan accused him of "justifying terrorism" and called for his immediate resignation.

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[-] ShroOmeric@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

They really have no shame.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

How DARE you imply our actions have consequences!

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Walter: “Antisemite!”

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

It's a heavy mantle to wear when you have God On Your Side.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago

Netanyahu is taking Israel down a very very dangerous path. This will not end well.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Likud is doubling down because the Israeli public is blaming them for failing to stop the attacks. They're grasping at any attention shifting straw they can.

Looking at this situation critically is an existential threat to the Israeli right wing. It would be usefu if more world leaders called them out as such.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Israel was always extremist right wing anyone's thinking otherwise is deceiving themselves.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They were always Zionist. I'm not a fan of nationalist shit like that regardless but that doesn't mean they were fascists like the current crop. Hoping to expel Arab citizens and cheering settlers murdering bedouins ain't the political history of Israel.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The nationalist concept is just so alien to me. I don't understand how can anyone come to this conclusion unless they never left their home town in their entire existence. Most israelis have more in common with Arabs than differences. In fact even their religion is essentially the same thing. It's trully depressing.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

Israel could leave the UN.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

A day or two after 9/11 I attended a memorial service at Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco. A black minister who spoke to the assemblage made a similar remark about US policy in the Middle East. Dianne Fienstein stood up and walked off the stage in protest.

R.I.P. bitch.

The best security policy is not manufacturing enemies.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub -5 points 1 year ago

The best security policy is not manufacturing enemies.

I wish that were true.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

How about this: the worst security policy is manufacturing enemies.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 11 months ago

Indeed that hasn't been effective for us. But we're going to try again by funding Al-Qaeda in Syria. Maybe it will work differently this time.

[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Riddle me this..Fuck __________

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

authoritarian warmongering shitheads

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago
[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


António Guterres said in a speech to the Security Council on Tuesday that he condemned unequivocally Hamas's deadly attacks in Israel two weeks ago but that they "did not happen in a vacuum".

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 6,500 people have been killed in the territory since Israel retaliated with air and artillery strikes while massing troops for an expected ground invasion.

He then told the council that it was "important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum", adding: "The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation."

He warned that the failure to include fuel risked a disaster, explaining that hospitals would be left without power and drinking water would not be purified or pumped.

The foreign minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, Riyad al-Maliki, demanded an end to what he called the "ongoing massacres being deliberately and systematically and savagely perpetrated by Israel" against the two million people living in Gaza.

Mr Cohen said the killing of 1,400 men, women and children by Hamas constituted a massacre that would "go down in history as more brutal" than those committed by the Islamic State (IS) group.


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