Israel is not only fighting Hamas but a global “eighth front” [Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, etc.] war—framing pro-Palestinian demonstrations as a civilizational threat to “free societies” across the world.

Netanyahu said protests in Western capitals are “celebrating murderers, rapists, baby burners, hostage takers.” He claimed Israeli, American, British, Canadian, and French flags are being burned at these protests [they aren’t], and are evidence of a broader attack on “Western civilization.”

Netanyahu claimed that Hamas’s October 7 assault was an attempt to “recreate the Holocaust”…

He claimed that…world leaders…are “cowed” by pro-Palestinian movements and are trying to “corral the victim,” while actually enabling “barbarians” and weakening free societies’ ability to defend themselves.

“You dehumanize a group of people in human society and you prepare them for the kill, for the butchery. That is always the case. You always demonize before you annihilate.

Had they had their way, they would have butchered every man, woman and child in this state, and every Jew around the world. They openly say that.

“We take thousands of prisoners, sort them out into civilians and combatants, and we photograph them… The first thing you do is you tell them, ‘Take your shirt off. We want to see that there is no suicide vest.’… and you don’t see one, not one emaciated from the beginning of the war to the present,” he said.

“In fact, you see quite the opposite because you don’t get that much exercise, certainly not in tunnels, but you get food.”

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    a broader attack on “Western civilization.”

    He talks like a white supremacist.

    enabling “barbarians”

    And on the nose colonial basics of civil/savage narrative.

    Neither of which is a surprise. Fits the nature of israel to a T.

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    Netanyahu claimed that Hamas’s October 7 assault was an attempt to “recreate the Holocaust”…

    Oh wow, the Holocaust must have been insignificant. What does everyone go on about that shit again?

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    So they are both weak and strong? Sounds like a certain guy with a weird mustache talking about the Jews…

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    Netanyahu claimed that Hamas’s October 7 assault was an attempt to “recreate the Holocaust”…

    I know it’s about anti-semites, but anti-Palestinians fascists like you, Netanyahu, fit the bill too

    “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”