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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    Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people. Hamas is a terrorist organization. The Israeli government support the genocide of the Palestinian people. Everyone else are just planning to profit from this.

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      The people fighting against a genocidal state are ‘bad people’? ‘Terrorists’, even?

      What exactly is wrong about fighting back against one’s own genocide? Should they be peacefully protesting it instead?

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      Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people.

      Shut the fuck up. Every Israeli “civilian” is complicit in the torture of Palestinians, except for children. Not to mention they’re all potential combatants anyway.

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      Israel: we literally don’t consider the people of Gaza to be humans

      You: sheesh, I really I can’t tell the difference between these two!

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        *Israel Minister.

        And Hamas also thinks jews are no humans, so yes, there is no difference.

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          Israel Minister

          So… A representative of the Israeli state? The state founded on Zionism? That’s not a correction. That is Israel.

          Hamas also thinks jews are no humans

          Source? Hamas has a history with anti Semitic conspiracy theories and generalizations, but not to the extent of saying Jews aren’t human.

          Not to mention, even said anti semitism was dropped long ago, when Hamas underwent a radical shift in membership when Israel killed off other PLO groups.

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            They literally want to kill all Jews and convert the whole world to Islam. Do you think that’s better than calling someone an animal?

            “I think you’re absolutely a civilized and intelligent human being, and I want to see your intelligent brains on the ground so I can convert them to Islam”.

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              They literally want to kill all Jews

              Source? Highly doubt

              and convert the whole world to Islam

              Not really concerned with with if they want people convert to Islam. Christians want to convert the whole world to Christianity too. Not concerning. not even close to Israel.

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      The rebels in star wars are terrorists because they killed civilians living in the death star. They’re just as bad as the empire.

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        Any of the popular definitions. If they’re simply organizations against the government, they’re terrorists as Israel basically claims Palestinian land is their own. If they’re organizations that use terror, brutality, and fear against citizens to achieve political ends, they’re definitely terrorists, and so are the IDF.

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      Every single liberation group was considered a terrorist organization. Fuck, even Antifa gets called that and they’re not even an organization.

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        I’ve always wanted to find sources of the monarchy calling American revolutionaries terrorists. Maybe that language wasn’t prevalent then.

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        Hamas believe that Jews are literally the enemies of Allah and that it is a holy war to kill them.

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          Incorrect. Hamas, in accordance with the Quran, believes it is possible for Muslims, Jews, and Christians to live in harmony. Furthermore, in their updated charter they explicitly reject targeting Jews for simply being Jewish:

          Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.

          Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage.

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          I do agree that conservative Islam is partially to blame for the violence and terror but so is conservative Judaism. The conservative jews think it’s their God given right to take the homes of the Palestinians and rule over them. Religion is fueling the fire on both sides.

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      Reminder that both siders are the biggest status quo supporters of existing horrors. In your case, it happens to be support for Israeli colonisation and genocide since over 80 years. Calling Palestine defenders terrorists means you actively want Israel and USA to win.

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      There are non-combatants in this conflict that are bad people. They cheer on the extermination of others. Sometimes that’s Hamas or the PLO (they run a fund that gives stipends to families of terrorists). Other times it’s certain Israeli Jews who encourage conflict while not risking their own necks because they can claim a religious exemption from military service. They seek an Israel without Palestinian territories, or for that matter Palestinians at all (aka ethnic cleansing).

      I’m not saying that non-combatants should be targeted. At the same time, I am saying that just being a civilian does not mean someone lacks blame.