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Israeli minister: 'We are fighting human animals' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Every group that fights an occupying force gets labeled a terrorist organization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every indigenous group that fights an occupying force gets labeled a terrorist organization.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well done, that's less false than your initial comment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for testing my thesis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

How is the UK not the occupying force there? The Falkland Islands are nowhere fucking near us.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 year ago

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.