This idiot doesn’t know when to shut up. This war started when Israel had the worst and most extremist government it’s ever had, there were many protests about it in the first half of 2023. That minister in particular is possibly the craziest of them, and easily the one least able to co-ordinate his statements with the rest of the government. It’s both a PR disaster for Israel and plain misleading information - this is not a policy that Israel has.
Unless I’m mistaken, he’s even been banned from cabinet meetings because of this kind of shit. So please, take everything he says with a mountain of salt.
Disclaimer: I’m Israeli. I know Israel is not handling this war remotely well, but it’s also not guilty of the extreme accusations the internet blames it for.
P.S. mods, if you decide to ban me (as another community did) then at least have the courtesy of informing the rest of the userbase about it, and ideally leave my comment intact. If you just delete and ban every comment that doesn’t uphold a specific viewpoint, you’re just making an echo chamber, and the whole community becomes more extremist by the day.
It wasn’t my intention to make him a scapegoat, I’m only accusing him of the statements that he made, nothing else. Any actual actions that the government and military make can’t fall on just his shoulders.
What everyone globally seems to forget, or maybe never even heard about, is that Israel has tried multiple times in the past to make peace with a Palestinian state, with generous offers of land (generous when you consider that it was under no obligation to offer them, and it’s a state not a person so ethics don’t apply in quite the same way). Right from the get-go, it’s the Palestinians who always refused these peace offerings, ever since with the UN decision to establish the state of Israel which was largely supported by the western world.
Even in the past few years before the October 7th attacks, Israel has gradually increased the number of work permits for Gaza citizens to work in Israel.. Israel has been trying slowly to gain any sort of trust and be humanitarian, but time and time again this trust is betrayed and progress is reversed.
I will say that I don’t think any of this justifies the number of casualties in Gaza. It doesn’t make sense to me, and I don’t think it’s acceptable that destruction of this extent is Israel’s course of action. But I also can’t agree with claims of genocide or ethnic cleansing, especially not as a long-term policy of Israel. It doesn’t add up.