Israel’s Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism for advocating collective punishment of Gaza’s entire civilian Palestinian population in breach of international law.


Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered an increase in intensity of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

Gallant said that the war Israel is fighting against Hamas is “a war for our future.”

He added: “Exacting a heavy price from the enemy is a necessary condition for our existence in the region.”

Gallant makes the comments during a visit to the Israeli Air Force’s underground command centre at the Israeli occupation forces headquarters in Tel Aviv.

link: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231009-israeli-minister-we-are-fighting-human-animals/

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    Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people. Hamas is a terrorist organization. The Israeli government support the genocide of the Palestinian people. Everyone else are just planning to profit from this.

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        When Argentina occupied the Falkland Islands, the UK military who fought them weren’t described as a terrorist organisation. Not by anyone with an ounce of sense at least, and certainly not by the islanders who’s land and homes had been occupied.

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        And therefore terrorism’s not real. Right? Because it’d be fucking stupid to mess up that basic formal logic, if there were legitimate reasons to describe an action as terrorism, a distinct from other forms of transformative paramilitary action.

        ‘All freedom fighters get called terrorists,’ so killing hundreds of civilians at a concert is exactly as defensible as destroying supply lines.

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      The people fighting against a genocidal state are ‘bad people’? ‘Terrorists’, even?

      What exactly is wrong about fighting back against one’s own genocide? Should they be peacefully protesting it instead?

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      Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people.

      Shut the fuck up. Every Israeli “civilian” is complicit in the torture of Palestinians, except for children. Not to mention they’re all potential combatants anyway.

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      The rebels in star wars are terrorists because they killed civilians living in the death star. They’re just as bad as the empire.

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      Israel: we literally don’t consider the people of Gaza to be humans

      You: sheesh, I really I can’t tell the difference between these two!

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        *Israel Minister.

        And Hamas also thinks jews are no humans, so yes, there is no difference.

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          Israel Minister

          So… A representative of the Israeli state? The state founded on Zionism? That’s not a correction. That is Israel.

          Hamas also thinks jews are no humans

          Source? Hamas has a history with anti Semitic conspiracy theories and generalizations, but not to the extent of saying Jews aren’t human.

          Not to mention, even said anti semitism was dropped long ago, when Hamas underwent a radical shift in membership when Israel killed off other PLO groups.

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              They literally want to kill all Jews

              Source? Highly doubt

              and convert the whole world to Islam

              Not really concerned with with if they want people convert to Islam. Christians want to convert the whole world to Christianity too. Not concerning. not even close to Israel.

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        Any of the popular definitions. If they’re simply organizations against the government, they’re terrorists as Israel basically claims Palestinian land is their own. If they’re organizations that use terror, brutality, and fear against citizens to achieve political ends, they’re definitely terrorists, and so are the IDF.

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      There are non-combatants in this conflict that are bad people. They cheer on the extermination of others. Sometimes that’s Hamas or the PLO (they run a fund that gives stipends to families of terrorists). Other times it’s certain Israeli Jews who encourage conflict while not risking their own necks because they can claim a religious exemption from military service. They seek an Israel without Palestinian territories, or for that matter Palestinians at all (aka ethnic cleansing).

      I’m not saying that non-combatants should be targeted. At the same time, I am saying that just being a civilian does not mean someone lacks blame.

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      Yeah… it’d be great if the geopolitical ramifications weren’t playing out as terrorism versus war crimes.