Israelis are finally revolting against Netanyahu — for agreeing to the U.S. ceasefire with Iran

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/04/israelis-are-finally-revolting-against-netanyahu-for-agreeing-to-the-u-s-ceasefire-with-iran/

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/41590

The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.


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Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · 112 pts · 134d (18 replies)
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daannii@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 134d (14 replies)

There are a handful of decent humans there who oppose it all. They have protested and been beaten up.

Mostly young people. Not very many of them. But I think that's pretty courageous considering they are literally surrounded by wolves.

What must it be like to live in a country surrounded by insane fascist. ?

Oh... Nevermind I guess I know.

Well.

But at least most of my fellow U.S citizens aren't in support of it.

I think Israel must feel like literally everyone is maga except like 2 people you know.

Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 133d (1 reply)

It's a good time to recommend the Discworld book Jingo, which remains just as relevant as when it was written.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. *No one* ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

And another quote from Feet of Clay:

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk

(And then there's The Fifth Elephant that's so painfully spot-on that I'd rather not spoil a single moment of it. Terry Pratchett was amazing and I wish he was still around to share his humor and wisdom. We could use a few laughs right now.)

BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 133d

Seems like a lifetime since he died, I hope his books are still popular in a hundred years. Gnu pterry.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 134d (11 replies)

But at least most of my fellow U.S citizens aren’t in support of it.

Only 60% oppose an unprovoked attack targeting schools and hospitals?!

And their reasons:

  • I am from the other side of the uniparty so I dogmatically am against anything the other side does.

  • The gas prices are going up!

  • We are sending our poor little innocent baby killers to die for israel!


No, your country isn't better.
Also at best a handful of decent people, the US should be nuked just as hard AFAIC.

daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

It's a little better. I honestly feel that most of my community is not insane. That's something.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 134d (9 replies)

What country are you in bloomcole that your hands are clean?

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 134d (8 replies)

Belgium, to humor your whataboutism

Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (7 replies)

Shall we ask a couple of countries in Africa whether Belgium has clean hands?

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 133d (6 replies)

Like I haven't heard that feeble argument from an americunt when he looked up Belgium to try some whataboutism.
Bravo you've found ONE straw to grasp at from a long time ago where the circumstances are in no way comparable.
We're talking about support of the people.
For one, what did people know back then about the private endeavour of a royal or about anything remotely distant from where they lived?
Yes that definitely is the same as the people of the US shithole supporting nearly all their violent imperialism and terrorism while they have every opportunity to know they're wrong.
Oh, and BTW, it's your cancer shithole that took over in Congo and about everywhere they could in Africa.
So you can fuck right off with your ridiculous gotcha attempt.

Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

That was a long way to say yep we fucked around in Africa.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 40 pts · 134d

Even the Nazis weren't "a whole nation of genocidal maniacs." In both Israel and Nazi Germany there is/was opposition to the atrocities committed by their leadership, just not enough. In Israel in particular "do you support comically evil thing" polls tend to get 60-80% support, except the Iran war which at its outset had 93% support. That's not a whole nation of genocidal maniacs; that's a nation of mostly genocidal maniacs.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 133d

It's not all of them, but the lack of people speaking up over there is chilling. I hope it's just media suppression, and the numbers aren't as bad as it seems.

scarabic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 133d

Sad how abuse begets abuse, innit?

Jollyllama@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 134d (3 replies)

The poll they cite only polled 500 people and the "Israel Democracy Institute" who conducted the poll was founded by a Trump mega donor.

Mondoweiss loses credibility by releasing this article without pointing out the obvious polling issue.

They also failed to shout out the organizations that have been protesting daily against the war! Standing Together עומדים ביחד has been organizing protests since day one of the operation.

Mondoweiss is showing itself as an unfair propagandist publication who is more interested in clicks and spicy headlines than actually giving a real picture.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 12 pts · 133d (2 replies)

The poll they cite only polled 500 people

Which is more than enough. Statistically, you only need 30 or so samples to get a normal distribution, at which case the error varies with 1/sqrt(n) for sample size n. This means that if a sample size of 8000 would only have 4 times less error (so from 4% to 2%) compared to one of 500. The mathematics of the thing is ironclad: Provided the sample is representative (i.e. doesn't unfairly over or underrepresent a particular group) and exceeds the mid-double digits*, any issues with sample size would manifest as a large calculated error.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Founded and funded by people and orgs that have a vested interest in this conflict. Like the heritage foundation polling for gay marriage.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 133d

Sure that's a fair point, but then we'd expect other polls to produce similar results. It's not like we have to take their word for it.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 47 pts · 133d (12 replies)

The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.

Misinformation. There's literally Israeli Kinesset members that oppose the genocide in Gaza and the war with Iran. They are the minority, but they do exist.

Not to mention the Israeli citizens refusing to enlist in the military, who are sent to prison.

RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 133d

The fact that it's a minority means that the article is barely exaggerating. If they slapped the word majority or major majority infront of their statements and it made it accurate then you can't even call them a liar.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 15 pts · 133d (10 replies)

There's literally Israeli Kinesset members that oppose the genocide in Gaza and the war with Iran.

How many?

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -18 pts · 133d (9 replies)

At least one

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/3/ofer_cassif_knesset_israel_iran_war

Which is enough to mark this article as incredible

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 31 pts · 133d (7 replies)

"The entire political spectrum" doesn't mean "every single person ever," or even "every single politician ever." The implication is only that the statement applies to all political segments of the population. If the left, right and center (and any other significant political blocs) mostly agree on something, then the whole political spectrum supports it, even if some people don't.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -23 pts · 133d (6 replies)

That's literally not what it means.

There is people that oppose it. there is politicians that oppose it. The entire political spectrum isn't discrete. It's a spectrum. That's literally what a spectrum means.

prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · 22 pts · 133d

I was inclined to agree with you but he has a point. The entire spectrum supports it, not everybody in said spectrum needs to support it for the statement to be true.

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 133d (4 replies)

The point is not that ∀s∈S∃f(s) and g(s) | f(s)∈[0,1] and g(s)∈[0,1], it's that ∀y∈[0,1]∃h(y)∈S

semperverus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 133d

I like your funny words, magic man

jj4211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 133d

I was told there would be no math

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d (1 reply)

you know you finally demonstrated a reasonable use for the keys on the number row (i prefer tenkey for numbers anyways) and coding in logic ascii would be perfect. i just need to make myself some keycaps. and the library with the 3d printer is just a 7 hour bikeride away...

cockmushroom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 129d

Fwiw, i'm using unexpected-keyboard on android. You can add a button for the greek/math symbol layout in the settings.

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 132d

At least one

Saying that there's at least one israeli politician who opposes the war, therefore Israel is not a war-mongering country, is like saying that wildfires aren't dangerous because there's at least one house that doesn't burn down.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 134d (2 replies)

Israel is a sick and diseased society.

lobut@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 134d

Israel really blows my mind. Pro or Anti Netanyanhu supporters still want to kill Arabs. Seeing interviews and social media pics of just regular Israelis casually wishing death is still so jarring to me.

GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 133d

So is the US. It's terrifying what propaganda will do to a population.

kingofras@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 134d

This got to be the level of head shaking that can break a neck and dislocate shoulders.

sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 134d (10 replies)

Inhuman savages.

Then they'll claim people hate them "because we're Jews".

UltraBlack@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 134d

I was once quite a fierce supporter of israel. Maybe because I was trying too hard to not be antisemitic.

But this shit man... It's getting ridiculous.

They've lost all my sympathy

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 134d

It's the same with minorities who are racist.

There are assholes in every society.

Just because they are marginalized by someone else doesn't make them any less of an asshole.

It makes them conservatives.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -2 pts · 133d (7 replies)

Most Zionists that are responsible for the genocide in Palestine and the war crimes in Iran are Christian.

Conflating Zionism with Judaism is anti Semitic.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (6 replies)

What do you mean. The people doing the actual colonization are the israelis which are majoritarly jews . It doesn't mean jews as a whole is responsible for the actions of the israeli jews so there is no conflation between judaism and zionism

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 133d (5 replies)

Look behind the curtain. The people who established Mandate Palestine and made 48 possible were mostly Christians.

And the people funding the Zionist project today are mostly Christian fascists

mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 133d (4 replies)

The terrorist zionists organizations got must of it's funding from zionist jews abroad

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 133d (3 replies)

Misinformation. Trumpism is the biggest funder of the Zionist terrorists. That's Christian fascism.

Balfour was Christian. Even Nazis were Zionist. Herzl himself said that antisrmites were giving to be the strangest allies with Zionism, because the European antisemitism meant deporting Jews from Europe.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 132d (2 replies)

No it is not misinformation. Hagana, Irgun and lehi was predominantly by from foreign Jewish Zionists . Those Zionists who bombed Arabs, British and jews in a same attack on an Hotel was going to steal the land with or without Belfour . That's not to say that evangelical Christians do not have influenced in America and support for Israeli terrorism and settler colonialism .

Many secular countries has normal relation with the genocidal settler colonial power for decades too.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 132d

Zionists would have tried and lost without support of Christian Zionists.

And they would also loose horrendously today without the support of Christian Zionists.

Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 134d (1 reply)

I'm all for shitting on these goons, but that pic is from 3 years ago and unrelated.

x00z@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 134d

The picture in the original article does indeed mention that:

Israeli protesters during an judicial overall protests outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images)

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 134d

Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that these same people were praising their soldiers for raping captured civilians?

Meron35@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 133d (3 replies)

Israeli (derogatory)

Yes, Most Jews are in fact Zionists - by Tariq Acknickulous - https://tariqacknickulous.substack.com/p/yes-most-jews-are-in-fact-zionists

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d (1 reply)

That is heart-breaking. How can people develop such hate and violence in their hearts?

BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 132d

I think it has to do with the fact that most of them were born in area surrounded by hostile adversaries who would wipe that out of existence given the first opportunity.

Even if they spent the next fifty years being as nice as possible to the people around them, they would be conquered and assimilated if the US ever pulled their funding. They have two options: war or Exodus.

MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Atleast seculars seem to have better opinions according to your graph

Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 134d

Bloodthirsty pigs.

Foni@piefed.zip · 20 pts · 134d (16 replies)

I understand the hate in the comments, but I think the important part is something else, How can the world deal with a country that only wants to commit genocide with all its neighbors? and not the government, the population in general. What can we do with this? How do we get out of the cycle of violence with people like this?

brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 134d

Not supporting and helping their fascists government and leaders would be a good start and would solve most of the problems.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 133d

It's pretty easy actually.

Israel's economy is dependent on US funding. If the US stopped sending them money, they couldn't commit genocide and also the economy would crash..leading to mass migration out of the country.

herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 134d (8 replies)

Denazification of Germany after WW2 is a good example.

CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 5 pts · 134d (6 replies)

Is it a practical example for dealing with a country that is (or at least makes it an open secret that it very probably is) nuclear armed though?

German "denazification" first required complete military defeat and occupation of the German state, that's not really practical to achieve when the country to be occupied has the option to devastate whatever country it's fighting as a deterrent/revenge once it concludes defeat is inevitable. As such, what is needed here I think is examples of how to defuse such a situation and push a population away from violence purely through limited conflict, economic pressure, sponsorship of internal dissent, etc

kreskin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 134d (2 replies)

Its possible, just very expensive. A complete blockade for a decade or two would be a good start. They dont have the resources there to be self sufficient.

backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 134d (1 reply)

It would be a good start but as long as the US supports them they’ll remain sufficient enough that their ruling class can enjoy their standard of living. It’d be the same as turning the US into a pariah, only the poorest would suffer. Might get some of them to flip on their support for the regime since the consequences hit home, but both regimes are self-sufficient and no longer need the support of the people to maintain power. The wealth class in the US could survive a long blockade on the resources available there, natural and human, if cut off from it’s ability to outsource exploitation.

The real cost to dislodge these regimes is going to be money and blood, because they will not give up their power without a fight externally or internally. We got rid of Trump once and he unleashed his supporters on the Capitol, they’d vote/fight for the same thing the next time they got a chance. Same in Israel. It’s probably going to take a combination of external powers leveraging their global economic influence, apply military force, and coordinating with internal opposition to oust the central powers, then stick around and help what can be scavenged of the resistance to build new infrastructure and help prevent the Lost Causers from creeping back in to positions of influence and power.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Yes, the US needs to implode for Israel to ever see accountability. Israelis are stupid and hostile enough to implode it-- even when thats against their interests. I think it'll happen.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 134d (2 replies)

Even pakistan has more nukes then Israel. Israel can't win a nuclear war

AlDente@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 133d (1 reply)

Nobody wins in a nuclear war.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 133d

Israel is small and can be fully destroyed with multiple nukes. Big countries especially with nukes could still exists after getting nukes. So the idea that israel would use a nuke on nuclear countries who will sct to end occupation foesn't look realistic to me

Maeve@kbin.earth · -1 pts · 133d

Except Nazis were just sent somewhere else and called libs.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 7 pts · 133d

Echoing basically all other replies: Israel doesn't actually have the juice to get their lebensraum alone; they need all sorts of American and European support for it. Cutting off their support would immediately destroy their position as regional near-hegemon and force them to compromise.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 134d

Countries should keep imposing economical sanctions on Israel till they start dismentling settlements and lift the blockade on Gaza in exchange Hamas has to disarm and organize elections. If hamas refuse countries should be arming the PA instead of israel and allow them to take down Hamas . If israel refuse countries should keep sanctionning israel and allow PA to get rid of settlers and defend itself against Israel

kreskin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 134d

They must be put under ethical adult supervision. They clearly cannot be allowed to rule a state. They flatly do not beleive in human rights and are supremacists. Basically nazis.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 133d
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parlor3949@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 134d

Crater it

manxu@piefed.social · 16 pts · 134d (8 replies)

To be "fair" to hard-line settler types, the mood of the world is swinging so strongly against them and their regime, this might be the very last time they have a chance to get what they want.

Hopefully, they'll never find a world again that is as complacent as it is now.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 134d (6 replies)

Israelis are deeply supremacist and dont care what the world thinks, except insomuch as it affects their access to resources and influence. This is reflected in the targetting of their missiles in their "samson" doctrine. They targetted capitals across the world, including Europe.

prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · -4 pts · 134d (5 replies)

Israelis !== The government and settlers.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 133d

They always voted for pro settler colonialism and genocide people. As a state with fair election there is no excuses for Israelis to vote like that

kreskin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 133d (3 replies)

82% of Israelis want every single Palestinian ejected from the region, by whatever means necesary. So I'm 82% right and you are somewhere less than 18%, since some refused to answer the question. I'm tired of pretending that their whole society isnt sick. It overwhelmingly is and pretending otherwise just lets 82% of them off the hook.

prenatal_confusion@feddit.org · -3 pts · 133d

I am not saying that you should let the guilty of the hook (whatever that means) but that calling a whole people sick is wrong.

I know that the actions of the Israeli government in the region are wrong and criminal and need to be stopped but two wrongs don't make a right.

wesdym@mastodon.social · -4 pts · 133d (1 reply)

@kreskin @prenatal_confusion Extraoridinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and you've cited no evidence at all. You've also childishly made this personal between you and someone else. And, you're demonizing an entire people -- which is genocide.

Congratulations, you've completely failed this test of your humanity and intelligence.

kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 132d

oh sorry. This stuff was cited so often by people who keep up with it that I assumed you knew about it. But I know a lot of young kids are entering the internet every day and some of them might not have seen it-- so yes lets absolutely keep this front and center for all to understand with clarity. Thank you. Here you go. You just need to google "82% of israelis" and you get a boatload of articles across plenty of sources.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/00000197-12a4-df22-a9d7-9ef6af930000

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/poll-overwhelming-majority-of-jewish-israelis-share-genocidal-belief-there-are-no-innocent-people-in-gaza/

https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/poll-show-most-jewish-israelis-support-expelling-gazans

https://zeteo.com/p/its-not-just-netanyahu-a-lot-of-israelis

https://www.newarab.com/news/poll-huge-majority-israelis-back-gaza-ethnic-cleansing

mrdown@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 134d

The settlements are built by the state of israel and armed and protected by the idf. Netenyahu approve those settlements yet countries still sells weapons to them and has no economical sanctions on the state itself. Hypocrites been fake condemning settlers for decades with no action to back their claim. Iaraelis voted for Netenyahu for 6 goddamn time

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 133d

The bloodlust is real

lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 134d

All this makes sense… Instilled fear and paranoia for generations.. and now they collect the fruit of it.. people are afraid that Iran will nuclear bomb them (with a bomb that Iran doesn’t have) if they don’t final solution Iran

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 134d (1 reply)

Some people need a meteor.

sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 134d
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wpb@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 133d (1 reply)

The entire country is sick to its core. Death to pissrael. All of it.

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 132d

Isn'trael

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 134d (11 replies)

I guess what goes for the US population goes for Israel's, too: not all of them are infected.

As nations though, they're both fascist.

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 10 pts · 134d (10 replies)

Read closer, they're criticizing Netanyahu for not being pro-war enough. Not all of them are infected, but Israel is a lot worse than even America in this regard.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 134d (1 reply)

Read closer, they’re criticizing Netanyahu for not being pro-war enough.

Yeah I totally got that but I can see how my comment is not quite unambiguous enough.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 134d

They are ironically, like Sodomah and Gomorah.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 133d

Misinformation. There's protests against the genocide and war in Iran.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/6/israel_anti_war_protest

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 134d (6 replies)

what are your arguments to prove the US, the country actually bombing schools and hospitals is better than them?

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 134d (1 reply)

Israel is doing that too, but also America has a lot more domestic opposition to its leadership's naked imperialism than Israel. This opposition rarely translates to action making it more or less worthless, but still, Americans do better on the "do you not like naked imperialism" index than Israeli Jews.

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 134d

a lot more domestic opposition to its leadership’s naked imperialism

Again purely out of self-interest and their 2 sides cultism.
Both sides support imperialism, none of their voters care about that.
They care about domestic issues and that's it, unless foreign policy affects them, making that into a domestic issue also.
Navel staring and selfish people.
And I can add deluded and thinking too much of themselves too.

mrdown@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 134d (3 replies)

Israel are bombing schools and hospitsl too. The usa did multiple war but not is not currently doing settler colonialism and expand it's burder by force. Americans do not support the war on Iran as opposed to israelis

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 134d (2 replies)

Shitrael wouldn't be able to do this without the americans in the first place.
Despite the media attention to the genocide and how horrible it is, it fades into insignificance to what the US does and did.
It's only not so visible as the concentrated massacre in the small place that is Palestine.
They have a vastly bigger military causing conflicts and murdering people in many places at the same time.
Nothing compare to that.

Americans do not support the war on Iran as opposed to israelis

Read my other reply, only 60% oppose and only for selfish reasons.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (1 reply)

I do not absolve the us responsibility. I am not one of those who think Israel control the USA. 60% opposing it for selfish reason is less than 78% of israelis supporting the war

Bloomcole@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 133d

Why are you fixared on the detail of those BS numbers, they oppose the CONSEQUENCES, not the war itself.
And as I said, doesn't compare in the least to the scale of US war crimes and casualties.
They had murdered infinitely more before shitrael's miserable existence.
If I could only take one off the map it wwould be the US, the other would follow shortly.

Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 134d

Can't say I'm surprised.

libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 133d

Down with Knesset!

brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 134d

🤦‍♂️

IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Holy fuck they're all inhuman.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 133d

Who you going to call?

Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 134d (2 replies)
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mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 134d

Get lost zionazi

Jollyllama@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 134d

Get outta here with media literacy, you'll scare the kids

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 133d (3 replies)

Death to the IDF and all but this article is misleading horseshit. Do better, lemmy.

bilb@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 133d

I think saying that without explaining what you mean is unhelpful.

pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (1 reply)

how about you do better and explain

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 133d

The people in the surrounding g discussions have already done a better job than I could myself.

Rumo161@feddit.org · -2 pts · 134d

Bashing the limited opposition inside israel against this horrifying war while asking for a nuke as a "cure" is pretty zynic.

Its obviously wrong what Israel is doing and the have to be stopped. Its very important to keep in mind that every Nazi and even Hitler, Trump, Putin an Netanyahu are/were humans. Its Humans which do those things. Dont make yourself belive just because you are not them, non of your wishes could be as brutal as theirs.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -3 pts · 133d (2 replies)

There's been huge anti war protests in Israel.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 133d

That's a lie. They rest because Israel isn't genociding harder.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d

Huge protests are in ten thousands not thousands

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -4 pts · 133d

Damn. I expected better reporting from Mondoweiss.

Is this an opinion piece? Because it's clearly not factual.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -11 pts · 133d (3 replies)

The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran
...
An Israeli poll in early March showed that a whopping 93% of Jewish Israelis supported the war of aggression on Iran.

Wow, did this not get passed by an editor?

93% is an overwhelmingly majority. It literally is not the entire Israeli political spectrum.

This article is factually inaccurate from the first few sentences

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 133d

93% with a 5% error margin is overwhelmingly close to 100%.

I'd say the editor was pretty fair in the phrasing.

YeahToast@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 133d

Entire political spectrum means people from the far left, left, centre, right and far right support it (entire spectrum).. not that every single person does.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

and the institute that did the polling was founded and funded by a Trump mega donor.

"Trump Institute Finds Broad Support For Trump's War Exactly Where They Left It" fixed the headline.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -18 pts · 134d (72 replies)

Iran has claimed on many occasions that Israel shouldn't exist.

Iran is funding groups that target Israeli civilians.

Iran used its missile program to launch splitting cluster warheads on Israel to maximize civilian casualties.

Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb.

Most Israelis support a war which would end once Iran will no longer have the means to create and launch a nuclear bomb at them.

So, the obvious conclusion is that Israelis are war junkies.

(edited to add citations and fix a technical term)

kingofras@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 134d (10 replies)

Look bibi, we did say Lemmy is a place for everybody, that was our mistake.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 134d (9 replies)

Who's "we"?

kingofras@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 134d (8 replies)

All of us.

Your last source has a critical sentence:

Iran began breaching limits imposed by the nuclear deal in 2019, one year after the United States withdrew from the accord.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 133d

There's no proof they breached limits.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 134d (6 replies)

Your last source has a critical sentence:

Could you explain why that's critical? But, like, maybe try for a better explanation than "'we' is all of us".

Actually, let me head you off at the pass:

  1. The survey OP linked to is from 2025.

  2. If it was clear Iran didn't want to develop a nuclear bomb, why was a deal needed in the first place?

  3. I agree withdrawing from the agreement was dumb.

kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (5 replies)
  1. I agree withdrawing from the agreement was dumb.

Well, we’re on the same page then.

I know we’re not, but we’re too far apart to ever reach consensus. You think you’re being reasonable but really are just pro-zionist, where I think muslims, arabs and generally non-white people are supposed to live in that area, and the Anglo-American colonisation made a lot of mistakes, and this is one of the biggest ones.

I have huge problems with Islam (well, pretty much every religion really) and the way they treat women and protestors. But Iran has a right to self determination. They are allowed to have a nuke just as much as anyone else. Ideally nobody has one, but since radical zionists have them, and North Korea has them, and Putin has them, they can have them too, because we see with Ukraine what happens when you give that up.

If you make a list of aggressions, you’ll see that Israel is permanently and non stop attacking and provoking every non-white neighbour around it. And they are going mentally fast now, before america completely collapses.

Of course Hezbollah and Hamas are annoying little terrorists. But they aren’t backed and aren’t blackmailing the mightiest nuclear power in the world. They are standing up to a mega bully, and apart from Iran, very few people have their backs.

Iran was never going to have nukes as an offensive weapon, just to establish MAD, because bibi has been wanting to attack them for nearly half a century.

As I said, there is no bridge long and strong enough to connect our viewpoints, but this is mine.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 133d (4 replies)

There's value to a discussion without reaching agreement. I'm actually not trying to convince you, rather to understand you and help you understand me. Which is why I appreciate your reply.

Looking at the situation in Israel by race is wrong to the extent that I actually feel a bit racist. Israel is made of Jews mainly from eastern European and Middle eastern ethnicity. The ones who support the occupation and are generally more right wing are from the middle east (Ben Gvir, the head of the most right wing party in the Israeli parliament was born to Iraqi parents), but the best indicator if someone is pro-peace or pro-war is, surprise surprise, religion.

Realistically, if you make up a list of aggression, it'll be a long road ending with "does the fact that Jews came to their historic homeland in mandatory Palestine in the goal of having their own state there even though other people were living in that area constitute an act of aggression". I'd be interested to hear your opinion on that one, but I'm not sure that really matters. The fact is that Israel exists, and the only way it's going anywhere is if the Arab states will do to it what you're accusing Israel of doing to them. It's also worth mentioning that the Jews didn't chose mandatory Palestine because they like the weather or the view, but because that is where the Jewish people came to be, and they themselves were banished from the area by a colonial power. While this happened hundreds of years ago, at the very least I think it means that the Jews have more "right" to Israel than, say any ex-colonial state (US, Canada, Argentina, Australia etc.).

But lets take for example the closest Palestinians ever came to their own state and Israel came to living in peace - the Oslo accords. They were met with murderous acts on both sides (including the assassination of Israel's prime minister by a Jewish terrorist), and of course every side viewed the other one as the aggressor and the accords fell apart for the most part. You can't really put the finger on either side. The blame should go to the extremists on both sides for believing they have a right to the entire area and willing to commit murder in order to try and get it.

I understand what you're saying about Hezbollah and Hamas, but if your family was kidnapped and tortured by someone, you wouldn't call them "annoying little terrorists". That said, you are correct in saying they are weaker than Israel. Which brings me to an important point - let's say we have two sides engaged in a blood feud, but one side has access to firearms while the other only has knives. Would you say the side with the firearms is the aggressor, or would you say they happen to have a better way of attacking the other side?

Israel, as the stronger side, has a moral duty to restrain themselves and consider the way their actions affect Palestinian civilians. But that doesn't mean Hamas are excused from any moral consideration, and at the very least have a duty not to target civilians specifically.

I can't really know what Iran is going to have or what their plan is, but for someone who often states Israel is a cancerous regime that should not exist while also being religious extremists, it's not unreasonable of Israel to be afraid of a nuclear Iran.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 133d

More Zionist bullshit.

kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Ok. Last response

Israel, as the stronger side, has a moral duty to restrain themselves and consider the way their actions affect Palestinian civilians.

If you only stop there. This has been the case since their formation, and they have never shown any restraint, or understanding for said “moral duty”

But that doesn't mean Hamas are excused from any moral consideration, and at the very least have a duty not to target civilians specifically.

And this is why you are a zionist apologist. You are the parent that tells their kids “if you get beaten up at school, jesus teaches us to show the other cheek”. I’m the parent that says, if you don’t stand up to a bully, nobody else will do it for you, and once they’re finished bullying you, they will keep bullying others.

And they should be scared shitless about Iran attacking them. Wouldn’t you? After they assassinated your religious leader and an entire school full of girls. And that happened in the first 2 days of the war. And now they are doing the same in Lebanon. Over 300 dead to get a few “terrorists”.

And that’s what they do during wartime. In “peacetime” they go underground and set up elaborate lobby groups like AIPAC and use agents like Epstein to play the long game, so when they do radical genocide like this, the media and the biggest military police force are all in their pocket. All because they believe some vague ancient scribbles and think they own humanity.

Anyway, you’re in the wrong place if you think you’re going to change anybody’s mind here.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 134d (12 replies)

Israel said multiple time they would steal lands even feom arab countries that have peace treaties with israel. Israel said multiple time they want to colonize all palestine and to do it they have the destroy Iran. Iarael is the only country doing war of extermination right now

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 134d (11 replies)

Yes, and if a survey will find that most Palestinians would be for a war with Israel (provided they think a victory is possible), I wouldn't call them "war junkie", I'd say "Yeah, I'd feel the same if I were them".

Actually, that's not far off - around 72% of Palestinians showed support for Hamas after the attack on Israel on Oct. 7th that resulted in the murder of entire families, acts of abuse and the kidnapping of 251 Israelis, including children and elderly people.

I'm not bringing this up as an excuse for what Israel did, rather because I had this exact conversation with people who used that survey to say the Palestinians are "genocidal maniacs. Just as racist and murderous as the Nazis".

mrdown@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 134d (10 replies)

Israel is the settler colonial power not palestine . They are not the same.Palestinians hate for israelis is do to 57 goddamn year of occupation and 78 goddamn year of ethrnic cleansing and genocide. Israeli hate for Palestine comes from their supermasist genocidal ideology called zionism. Every attack by Hamas is a response to israel either expulsing palestinians, raping and torturing palestinians or the settlers violence.

Palestinians support Hamas disarming only after colonization end

The only nazis are israelis and zionists like you

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 134d (9 replies)

I see, when Palestinians abuse, rape and kill Israeli civilians it's ok because they have a moral right to do so, but when Israelis do it it's because they're genocidal maniacs.

So... the issue isn't that Israel is raping and torturing Palestinians, it's that they don't have a good enough reason to do so? Who decides what's a "good enough" reason to commit atrocities, the UN? History? Every person/country for themselves? You?

Also, calling someone a Nazi for saying Israelis aren't war junkies is a bit unhinged.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 134d (8 replies)

Abuse, rape and killing is never accepted. You been ignorinf 78 godamn year of israel doing that. That's why I support the end of occupation and the "denazification" of Israel unlike people like you who justify settler colonialism by saying palestinians want to kill all israelis too . You the same type of scums who was saying black south african would kill killing white south africans after apartheid end or the scums who would both side the slaves and slave owners after Nat turner groups of slave killed slave owners including children

You are a nazi for both siding the settler colonial power and the victims of the settler colonial power

You also shamelesly lying sbout irsn seeking nukes and act like the Iran on Iran is purely defensive

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 133d (7 replies)

You seem to be trying to force a straw man of some "zionist" caricature you have without trying to understand what I'm actually saying.

I didn't say Palestinians want to kill all Israelis. I said that a survey that shows that 72% of Palestinians support atrocities done to Israelis (which is an actual survey that was done by a Palestinian research center) DOES NOT mean they want to kill all Israelis. I literally said I'd feel the same way if I were in their shoes.

I provided a link to the arms control association that states "Iran’s advances included enriching uranium to 60 percent, a level close to weapons-grade that has no practical civilian application, and deploying advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium more efficiently". These are facts that have been verified, and even Iran's own head of the Atomic Energy Organization has admitted they have enriched uranium to 60%.

edit: I prefered to focus on one thing at the beginigng, but if anyone is lying it's the editors of the Mondoweiss. Lapid (and many others) didn't criticize Netanyahu for agreeing to a ceasefire, rather for "trying to sell the battle in Iran was as a success” and for the poor outcome of the war, the "revolt" pictured in the photograph is from 2023 against the Israeli version of project 2025, and there's no mention of multiple protests held against the war.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 133d

You are the one who used a straw man. I said how Palestinians hate comes from 78 goddamn year of occupation then replied by asking me so you support Palestinians murdering innocent Israelis.

Chris Sidoti UN commissioner agree with me there is no equality between an occupying power and an occupied people. By saying both side are the same they hate each other you are promoting the status quo which is Israel continuing settler colonialism

Iran respected the jcpoa and waited 3 years before enriching to 60% they could have easily enriched to 90% but they didn't. It is simply a bargaining tool nothing else to deflect from Iran real power which is their conventional missiles and drones project . There is a fatwa prohibiting the creation of nukes. Supreme leaders fatwa are legally binding. Even the usa intelligence said Iran is not seeking nukes. You are just spreading Netanyahu propaganda because you are a dirty Zionist

emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 134d (8 replies)
CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 134d (7 replies)

Fair enough, but, like, everything?

It's ok not to know a few things, but if you don't know the basic facts of why Israel views Iran as a threat, maybe don't form an opinion?

Anyway, I edited the original message and added citations.

mrdown@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 134d

A threat to israel commiting more genocides and settler colonialism

emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 134d (5 replies)

Lol I know why Israel hates Iran I'm asking where you're getting these conspiracy theories from.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 134d (4 replies)

I literally gave a citations for everything I said, and don't really know what "conspiracy theories" you're talking about.

emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 133d (3 replies)
  1. We trusting Epstein regime media now?
  2. You know who else funds Hamas? Israel.
  3. Technically correct, but my understanding is that the multiple warhead missiles Iran used have larger warheads with a lower failure rate, and so aren't the type of cluster weapons that leave behind unexploded bombs.
  4. Iran had a ban on making nukes. Do you really think Iran couldn't do something North Korea and Israel did decades ago if they wanted to?
CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 133d (2 replies)
  1. Sorry, a bit out of the loop, what Epstein regime media?
  2. Yes, the current Israeli government is very much anti Israeli civilians (much like the current US government is anti US civilians, cough-ICE-cough).
  3. Aljazeera stated Iran's cluster warheads "disperse munitions over a wide area and are particularly dangerous for civilians". It fits with other sources I read and have no reason to doubt that.
  4. To answer your question - yes.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 133d
  1. See which country that source is from.
  2. Fair.
  3. Cluster weapons are dangerous because they disperse a large number of very small warheads, many of which do not explode immediately and can be triggered by civilians, particularly children, finding them and picking them up. The Iranian missiles have fewer, larger warheads, so most of them do explode immediately.
  4. Why?
Objection@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 134d (38 replies)

Hasbara bot.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 134d (37 replies)

Let's test that hypothesis - is there anything I can say that will make you think I'm not a bot nor getting paid to post this?

mrdown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 133d (22 replies)

Say Israel is a settler colonial power created by ethnically cleansing Palestinians and want to exterminate Palestinians either for religious or ethnic reasons and that Israel should unconditionally end settler colonialism by getting out of the west bank, east Jerusalem, the golan height and shabaa farms

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 133d (21 replies)

Oh, I get it, you don't actually think I'm a bot or that I'm payed by the Israeli government for this. a "Hasbara bot" is your way of de-legitimizing anyone who doesn't fully agree with your stance on Israel. Kinda like the equivalent of "everything I don't like is woke" for MAGA.

Maeve@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 133d (1 reply)

No we think a Nazi is a Nazi.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 133d

You (I'm guessing, but fell free to correct me): Israel writes off every piece of criticism as antisemitic! What a dirty, bad faith dishonest tactic!

You when someone says some criticism against Israel is incorrect: NAZI!!!

mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d (18 replies)

All you did was lying to make look like israel is defending itself agsinst the people it colonize.

Why are you unable to say what i told you to say.

You are acting like colonization being bad is a matter of opinion

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 133d (17 replies)

Could you quote on lie I said?

(it might also worth pointing out Israel didn't colonize Iran)

mrdown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 133d

Iran seeking nuclear weapons and israel attscking Iran to defend itself . That's two dirty lies

Objection@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 133d (13 replies)

If you're not a bot or getting paid, you should be. It might be worse if you're supporting genocide pro-bono.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 133d (12 replies)

Now now, that's not in the the Lemmy spirit. https://lemmy.world/post/45328499

Objection@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 133d (11 replies)

I hope you have to explain yourself to murdered children in the afterlife.

CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 133d (10 replies)

I don't, those children suffered enough.

(CerealKiller01 would like to take this opportunity to say he doesn't take lightly the murder of children, but he also doesn't appreciate using murdered children as a rhetorical device)

Objection@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 133d

"Rhetorical device?"

This is what you're justifying right now.

anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · -20 pts · 134d (10 replies)

It really is a shame that Iran never got to nuke Israel. So many of the world's problems could have disappeared in an instant.

volore@scribe.disroot.org · 17 pts · 134d (6 replies)

no, I do not believe that indiscriminate mass murder and wanton destruction is an acceptable solution for any of the world's problems. If you do, I'd suggest seeking therapy.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 134d (5 replies)

93% approval in pols. The entire country being trained in war.

There are essentialy no civilians or good guys.

The handful that are not evil should leave, they are acceptable collateral at this point.

volore@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 134d (1 reply)

my objection is not coming from somewhere you can throw justifications or "gotchas" at to refute. Morally distasteful it would certainly be (at least to me), but what I say mostly comes from the simple truth that wiping out entire populations indiscriminately -- doesn't matter who, Iran, Israel, w/e -- especially with a nuclear weapon in the middle east, would be an irreversible and stupid decision that would have far-reaching, long-lasting consequences regionally and across the world, both easily anticipated (i.e. radioactive fallout) and unforeseen; ergo is not something to be treated with the same cavalier attitude Donald Trump has towards the idea. That he has the actual power to do so and clearly has the same "act now, think of consequences later" attitude some of you do is fucking terrifying to me.

Think of the unforeseen consequences Trump's little poorly-planned foray into Iran has had, that had him backpedaling fast enough to win the Tour de France in reverse. Some of them we haven't even gotten to yet, I'm sure, as it's still an ongoing debacle. You want to tell me, with a straight face, that glassing Israel and the aftermath thereof is going to be less messy than... well, gee, just about any course of action that does not involve doing that?

Can you walk me through it? The aftermath, I mean. Because sure, I can see a lot of problems you might think would just go away with Israel vaporized, but I somehow really doubt they're all going to be wrapped up nicely with a bow. But perhaps I just lack vision.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 134d

Knowing Iran does not have many more nukes, the rest of the world would get involved in taking over Iran, possibly a tactical nuke or so deployed in counter-attack, since no one wants to deal with the radiation fallout from nuking Iran. So, millions dead. Gaza people rejoice, Israel severely damaged, exports from Israel reduced significantly, background radiation (and cancer rates) increased. Israel is humbled to shit, but actually rebuilds unfortunately. Mossad still does it's awful thing, genocide against Iran essentially "justified" in the eyes of the world, so 90 million (or however are left) at risk of total genocide.

Uh yeah, it would not actually stop Israel at all, unless someone can nuke them multiple times, like Japan. Or unless Iran can actually win the war after (USA would probably not stay out of the war).

Jollyllama@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 134d (2 replies)

Please check your sources.

The 93% poll was conducted on 500 people.

The "democracy" institute that conducted the poll was founded by a Trump Republican mega donor.

This poll is the same as Donald Trump thinking his approval rating is at 99% in recent polls, polls of who???

anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 134d (1 reply)

Israel has a proportional voting system, meaning its party representation across the knesset (its parliament) pretty accurately reflects the desires of its people.

And that's the problem.

Israel doesn't just have evil institutions or an evil settler colonialist origin, but a modern populace with evil intent. Sure, they may be propagandized, but so were the Nazis; that didn't make them any less dangerous. And the nuclear bomb was invented to deal with them.

Jollyllama@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 133d

*reflects the voting public

Just calling it evil is a cop out. It's religious colonial nationalism fueled by propaganda and racism that is fed to them as soon as they leave the womb. There is a very intentional wall that keeps the settlers and Israelis from seeing what is happening to Palestinians. When that wall cracks some people switch sides. These absolutists "they're all evil" end up contributing to the problem by drawing that line. Instead we should be amplifying the voices and orgs in Israel and Palestine that aren't giving up on the propagandized. It is an uphill battle and you're helping the other side more than anything else.

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 134d

If Iran had nukes, this problem wouldn't happen in the first place, because no country would dare instigate a war against a country with nukes. Same reason why Russia dismantled Ukraine of nuclear weapons before going into war with them, and also the same reason why no country dares to touch North Korea.

kingofras@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 134d (1 reply)

I don’t think you played that record all the way till the end.

anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 134d

No, I did