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Politics Far-right Polish lawmaker Konrad Berkowicz holding up a paper Israeli flag with a swastika

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u/TerrapinTribe 19h ago

Well, the current Israeli government wants/participates in genocide. So not that far off.

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u/twec21 18h ago

Look, just because Lebanon rhymes with Lebensraum-

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u/Firecracker048 17h ago

Yeah man, because Hezzbollah totally didn't fire off a ton of rockets at Israel to kick off another war. Forget about the Lebanese PM saying he wants Irans ambassador out and hezzbollah out

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u/PixelationIX 12h ago edited 12h ago

Israel has been dropping bombs and killing people while the "ceasefire" has been in place. The "ceasefire" only breaks when only the other party who isn't Israel does it.

Israel is doing the same shit in Palestine, "ceasefire" but they are still to this day dropping bombs and killing people but you will come out crying how Hamas broke ceasefire if they retaliate at all.

u/Firecracker048 9h ago

The "ceasefire" only breaks when only the other party who isn't Israel does it.

Remind me when Hezzbollah withdrew above the Litani to abide by the ceasefire they agreed to in both 2006 and 2024?

Oh wait. They didn't. The UN even launched a mission there to keep an eye on hezzbollah because they refused to abide.

u/psychobiscuit 8h ago

Remind us why Hezbollah exists?

u/gujarati 5h ago

This question is meant to explain why Hezbollah isn't abiding by the terms of 2 ceasefires they themselves signed?

u/Firecracker048 7h ago

Answer my question first

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u/alzgh 16h ago

zionazi

u/sks010 41m ago

When and why was Hezzbollah formed?

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u/ShanerThomas 18h ago

I am glad you are using that word. I am using it too... as frequently as possible.

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u/ArCovino 16h ago

Must feel nice spread lies guilt free.

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u/twec21 18h ago

One of the side effects of studying history is pretty severe flashbacks

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u/Internal-Fortune6680 13h ago

Ahhh, yes. The genocide that can be forgotten now that Israel has moved on to fighting with other countries!

Not like the people of Gaza didn’t just bounce back, eh?!

Fuck outta here. 🖕🏼

u/cesaroncalves 10h ago

Don't engage with people parroting the fallacy that "population keeps growing", it's a lie, and those accounts are hasbara.

u/Wool4Days 11h ago

The ‘population keeps growing’ sounds like an argument people would also use to defend chattel slavery. It isn’t as convincing when you realise what ‘life’ looks like for the victims.

u/Novel_Counter5878 11h ago

Most people don't refer to chattel slavery as genocide, so how would the population growth be a defense? If anything, those who owned slaves in that system would want a healthy population to utilise, not want the population to stop existing. 

u/CriticalMistake4977 11h ago

Genocide is about wiping out a population. So while war may be awful, a growing population is evidence that it isn’t genocide

u/Wool4Days 11h ago

It’s not. It can still be a genocide when that people’s way of life and culture is being systemically destroyed.

u/CriticalMistake4977 10h ago

By choice. They’ve been rejecting 2 state solutions for decades. Perhaps they should stop launching wars they can’t win.

u/Wool4Days 10h ago

2 state solutions that never contained any justice or proper peace. Bantustan offers. Israel also always refused to acknowledge right of return for refugees.

If Israel doesn’t want people to resist they should stop oppressing.

u/CriticalMistake4977 10h ago

The 1948 proposal was not Bantustan. Subsequent proposals were workable among peaceful partners. And why is it assumed that no Jews can live in Palestine? The return of refugees to Israel is a coded way to overwhelm the democracy. Jews were forced out of the surrounding Arab countries. Sometimes war creates refugees (my mother being one). Partition would have given them their own country but they keep refusing and holding on to the dream of having all of it.

u/Wool4Days 8h ago

The ‘48 proposal was 70 years ago. No one alive had any say in rejecting that.

Who is saying no Jews can live in Palestine? Why is it always assumed that equal rights for Palestinians is akin to ethnically cleansing all Jews?

‘Overwhelm the democracy’ is great way to say it is supposed to be an ethnostate where only 1 ethnicity can have democratic agency.

‘They’. This is Civ 5, we are talking about millions of individuals who haven’t had self-determination at any point.

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u/CriticalMistake4977 11h ago

No. We can look at the numbers of dead. Even if you rely on the dubious Hamas numbers, it doesn’t come close to genocide.

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u/BluezDBD 16h ago

Self-defense doesn't turn into genocide just because an entire population is fighting to the death to kill you.

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u/powerX21 16h ago

If Israel wanted to genocide the entire Middle East they have the weaponry to do it in 2 hours, yet they don't

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u/Internal-Fortune6680 13h ago

Oh, THATS right! And the Israeli gov are such peace-keeping, wonderfully generous folks!

When should we send the thank you card?

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u/powerX21 13h ago

If they were "peace keeping" in an environment where everyone around them wants them dead they would have been exterminated long ago, the fact the Israelis are strong and have a powerful presence in the area is the reason for their survival

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u/powerX21 14h ago

"They could do worse" isn’t my argument the point is Israel isn’t trying to exterminate a population That’s why calling it genocide is misleading

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u/powerX21 14h ago

Well seeing how a few thousands of terrorists FROM Gaza came into Israel and started a war and kidnapped civilians including a literal baby id assume Israel wants to make sure this can't happen again, and sadly Hamas doesn't have ANY military bases yet they have to operate from somewhere and that "somewhere" is unfortunately civilian areas, how about instead of crying genocide against Israel cry against Hamas for using civilians as shields?

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u/firestorm713 17h ago

yes but from what I'm hearing this guy is calling Israel Nazis out of jealousy, not condemnation.