Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled that the government has failed to provide Palestinian security prisoners with adequate food for basic subsistence and ordered authorities to improve their nutrition.
The decision was a rare case in which the country’s highest court ruled against the government’s conduct during the nearly two-year war.
Since the war began, Israel has seized thousands of people in Gaza whom it suspects of links to Hamas. Thousands have also been released without charge, often after months of detention.
Rights groups have documented widespread abuse in prisons and detention facilities, including insufficient food and health care, as well as poor sanitary conditions and beatings. In March, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy died at an Israeli prison, and doctors said starvation was likely the main cause of death.
I’m surprised people don’t talk more about Netanyahu’s genocide. He’s in the driving seat, and calling him out by name instead of “Israel” is far more likely to affect change, focus pressure where it belongs, and dodge spurious antisemitism accusations. Give it a go.
(EDIT: my inbox seems to be filling with the same response over and over. At no point am I trying to excuse the complicity of others; “it’s not just Netanyahu” is hardly a deep insight.)
That would imply removing Netanyahu would end the genocide (it won’t).
If anything, he’s actually dragging it out as his contemporaries are even more hardline insane and would justify sacrificing relations with the US to go full gas chambers execution.
He didn’t stay in power by being wildly unpopular. He’s just another drop in the barrel of similar nation leaders like India’s Modi or Russia’s putin.
All three are very well supported publicly and privately, despite what some media outlets may want you to believe.
He has majority support. It is truly Israel’s genocide.
I didn’t say it wasn’t. I’m saying you’ll get a lot more traction with a more focussed message that’s less likely to cause kneejerk reactions down tribalistic lines, and give Zionists less opportunity to shut you down.
a king does not enact his own will.
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genocidal ethnic cleansing has been going on since the ‘founding’ of israel. if you say “hitler did the holocaust,” that’s true but not the complete truth, it misses all those key supporters who enthusiastically participated and without whose support the holocaust could not have taken place. placing the responsibility for a campaign of genocide enacted and supported by the political will of an entire nation onto the shoulders of a single scapegoat robs people of their agency and thereby tends to legitimize “just following bibi’s orders” as a defense. you didn’t mean to “perfect is the enemy of good” your way into the nuremburg defense did you? surely you must have had another direction in mind for scapegoating an entire genocide.
edit: also I’m pretty sure my aphorism was novel, or at least rare, not trite. see if you can come up with where it’s been said before since you say it’s trite. i tried.
edit: i found it. “a king does not enact his own will” is basically a summary of this video. pretty sure that’s where i got it. you decide if it’s trite.
im not missing the point of ‘blame the Palestinian genocide on netanyahu.’ im intentionally dismissing that point, after considering the merits presented. i decline the opportunity to ignore the broad social support within israel for the genocide in the name of “pettyfogging semantics” forsooth; words have meanings. (edit: and not incidentally, with which words’ meaning do you say i am playing semantics?)
editing your comment to state your intention not to bother replying doesn’t count as not bothering replying.
While it might feel like Netanyahu’s genocide, what with the defense minister switching and all, the truth of all people in power is:
They have support from others.
From fanatic support to apathy, someone is listening to what he says (and making his dreams a reality), while others are letting it happen by not doing anything.
Had Netanyahu suggested genocide and gotten laughed at, none of this would be hapening.
Yet he didn’t get laughed at. He got listened to instead.