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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Israeli lawmaker Moshe Saada from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party said on Tuesday that recent widespread calls to "destroy" the residents of the Gaza Strip affirm that the right-wing was right.

In an interview on pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, Saada said that even "in the kibbutzim they say, 'destroy them.' My friends at the prosecutor's office, who fought with me on political matters, in debates, tell me, 'Moshe, it is clear that all the Gazans need to be destroyed,' and these are statements I have never heard." This proves, he said, that the right-wing was correct just as it was on the Palestinian issue.

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In November, Far-right Eliyahu said that that dropping a nuclear weapon on the Gaza Strip is "an option."

Eliyahu, a member of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party, maintained that "there are no non-combatants in Gaza." He was then asked, in light of his views, whether a nuclear attack on the Gaza Strip is an option. "That's one way," he responded.

Seems pretty clear and unambiguous what he means. This is calling for genocide.

In response, Ben-Gvir said that the Eliyahu was only speaking "metaphorically.

A ridiculous statement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

A metaphorical nuclear weapon, much better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Does it mean they now admit the Vela incident was them?