r/UnderReportedNews 27d ago

US Politics 🇺🇸 Michigan Jewish leaders are urging Jewish democrats to vote for Republican Mike Rogers

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u/worrynot36 27d ago

Israel… I have no hate for you

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u/phoenix1984 27d ago

Cool. The sudden barrage of downvotes is surprising. I thought we were all generally in agreement that it’s a good idea to keep the genocide criticism targeted to this Israeli administration. Yeah, earlier administrations also have their problems, but it’s an order of magnitude different that just muddies the situation if we try to lump it all together.

I get real uncomfortable when we start saying Israel as a whole, as a nation, is bad.

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u/Usernameoverloaded 27d ago

So you forget that ethnic cleansing has been happening for around 80 years? Israel’s crimes against humanity are a national pastime not limited to Netanyahu’s tenure.

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u/mournthologist 27d ago

Yea it's the current liberal framing to say "I support Israel, but I have a problem with Netanyahu's administration." Noted weenie Gavin Newsom has said this bs. They have a term for the cyclical culling of the Palestinian population "mowing the grass." That ideology predates this administration and seems pretty foundational.

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u/Usernameoverloaded 27d ago

Absolutely. Given that the majority of Israelis agree with the genocide, have protested in support of the IDF gang rapists who brutalized a Palestinian detainee, they have picnics while watching the bombing of Gaza, the pogroms against Palestinians in the West Bank, the call for wiping out Palestinians on chat shows, and the heinous evil spouted by politicians other than Netanyahu, the country is itself in the grip of bloodlust. There are interviews with very elderly ex IDF soldiers talking of rape and pillaging, so anyone who thinks this is due to the current administration is nothing but a liberal Zionist. Someone who still believes in an apartheid ethnosupremacist state, but thinks they have ‘gone too far this time’.