Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein say the Israeli government should 'instil sovereignty over and annex the West Bank, Gaza… make it all Israel'

In an episode of Two Nice Jewish Boys, which aired three weeks ago, host Weinstein said: “If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second.”

He claimed that “most Israelis” would do the same.

Meningher added that they would also want to wipe out Palestinians in “the territories”.

The clip of Weinstein and Meningher lauding the idea of all five million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank being wiped out has drawn fierce criticism online.

“Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing,” journalist Samira Mohyedeen wrote on X, referring to the broadcasts that incited genocide against the Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
    736·
    4 months ago

    Someone will unironically post this as though that’s not what every member of Hamas means when they say “from the River to the Sea.”

    Yes, this guy is an asshole. Yes, there are assholes in every political group. Yes, there are podcasters in YOUR country calling for genocide of some group.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      274·
      4 months ago

      "Yeah these guys are calling for literal Genocide, but that’s what “from the river to the sea means!”

      What an incredibly weird whataboutism and wild claim to make without evidence.

      Meningher has done actual media for Netanyahu’s campaigns.

    • IAmNotACat@lemmy.world
      121·
      4 months ago

      How does anything Hamas are doing have any bearing on this guy openly broadcasting his genocidal fantasy?

    • fukhueson@lemmy.world
      215·
      4 months ago

      Those that use the phrase definitely know what they’re saying and how they’re saying it. I could think of any other number of ways to convey a message of “liberation” without such loaded language, but this is a choice to use that phrase.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea

      Al Qaeda

      Among the materials recovered by American forces during the killing of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a speech addressed to the American people, in which bin Laden proposed economic and security guarantees in exchange for a “roadmap that returns the Palestine land to us, all of it, from the sea to the river, it is an Islamic land not subject to being traded or granted to any party.”

      Hezbollah

      On September 27, 2008, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah stated at a rally “Palestine, from the sea to the river is the property of Arabs and Palestinians and no one has the right to give up even a single grain of earth or one stone, because every grain of the land is holy. The entire land must be returned to its rightful owners.”

      Iran

      Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, in 2023, used the phrase, saying “The only solution is a Palestinian state from the river to the sea”, meaning that the only solution to the conflict would be a Palestinian state encompassing all of Israel and the Palestinian territories.