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0 pointswaterlaw8mo ago0 comments

There are numerous clips of Rabbis openly promoting the extermination of Palestinians.

They use the story of Amalek from the Torah.

One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when you kill the first child it breaks your heart [...] then you start to enjoy it."

_Many_ Rabbis are demanding that animals, children, women and unarmed males be "erased." IDF soldiers are bragging about killing and raping civilians on social media. One IDF soldier was complaining he hasn't shot any children under 12 yet.

Netanyahu is a moderate. He's not an "extremist."

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jibal8mo ago

I've seen the video on Twitter but no confirmation that it was actually an IDF soldier -- Grok claimed it was authenticated as such but when further challenged said it was a South African satirist. I don't know one way or the other but again cannot find any confirmation. (But I'm aware of plenty of other unspeakable horrors committed by IDF soldiers and similar horrible things said.)

As for Netanyahu ... the Overton window in Israel has shifted far to the right so one can say in those terms that he's a "moderate", but I think it's a bit of a semantic game. His behavior is extreme, regardless of the fact that the behavior of the whole damn country is extreme.

roshin8mo ago

> One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when you kill the first child it breaks your heart [...] then you start to enjoy it."

Can you link to that video? I want to see it.

arbitrary_name8mo ago

Evidence please!

somenameforme8mo ago

South Africa's genocide case against Israel [1] is chock full of quotes from high level Israeli officials, including Netanyahu. Check page 59. Obviously much more has been said since that claim was filed, but the nature of genocidal rhetoric is such that you can't get much more extreme. Netanyahu himself repeatedly referenced the biblical tale of Amalek [2] which reaches its climax with this passage [3] : "Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey."

[1] - https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/So...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek

[3] - https://biblehub.com/1_samuel/15-3.htm

dlubarov8mo ago

He didn't reference that particular passage about Amalek though, he just said "Remember what Amalek did to you". And it was pretty clear from the context of his speech that he was talking about Hamas and their invasion, not regular Gazans.

His office pointed out that the same phrase appears at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, as well at a memorial in The Hague, in reference to the Nazis. Of course they're statements about remembering Nazi atrocities, and not calls to genocide the German people.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-office-says-its-prepostero...

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xdennis8mo ago

GP asked for proof of "numerous clips of Rabbis openly promoting the extermination of Palestinians". If there are numerous, he should be able to post some.

South Africa has no moral authority given that it refuses to arrest Putin.

em3rgent0rdr8mo ago

I don't know what specific rabbis the parent referring to, but Israel's PM has referenced the Amalek story:

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211133201/netanyahus-referen...

scotty798mo ago

So they basically caught up with the rhetoric of the other side of the conflict?

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