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[–] OccamsTeapot 236 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If he's so upset about being compared to mass murderers he should have not murdered people en masse. It's actually very easy to not do that

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 102 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have, completely by accident and with no significant effort on my part, gone 40 years without mass murdering. It almost just happens on its own.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, you're lucky. I wasn't paying attention the other day, and accidentally wiped out a family of 30. It's just so easily done.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To avoid that label, he could, like.. not mass murder the people of Gaza.

[–] ChillPenguin 41 points 1 month ago

The bar is really really low

[–] AshMan85 124 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Palestinians are not people, therefore it's not murder" - Bibi

[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, I wonder why they could have compared you to mass murderers".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4490z75v3o

In a bitter personal attack, Mr Netanyahu said Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was one of the "great antisemites in modern times."

I've checked the ICC most wanted list. It's here: https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendants

It's almost all African warlords. Not a big Jewish demographic, if I'm honest. If the leader of Israel can describe the ICC as antisemites, the word literally has no meaning any more.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

At this point, if you don't support the genocide and forceful taking of land in Gaza, you're antisemitic.

[–] Avatar_of_Self 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just wanted to say that Palestinians and their Canaanite ancestors are Semites as well. So, if we take the phrase antisemitic literally, then the current Israeli government is also antisemitic.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, Bibi. He's not comparing Israel to mass murderers. He's comparing you to mass murderers.

[–] b3an 28 points 1 month ago

It's like Bernie Sanders said:

“But please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal policies of your extremist and racist government. … It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable for your actions.”

Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’

[–] Zehzin 70 points 1 month ago

And by comparing to mass murderers I mean correctly stating that we are mass murderers

[–] Passerby6497 62 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If it honks like a goose, flaps like a goose and steps like a goose...

[–] Treczoks 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In another article, some Hamas guy was outraged because of being put on the same level as the Israeli murderers.

[–] Passerby6497 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shit birds of a feather whine about being grouped together.

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[–] wurzelgummidge 55 points 1 month ago

The average mass murderer is a rank amateur compared to Netanyahu

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

How you can tell it's actual journalism - it says "lambasts" instead of "slams" 😂

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Bibi, if you did nothing wrong there's nothing to fear. Just comply, will you?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Save it for the trial, criminal.

[–] HelluvaKick 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been calling this man a war criminal for almost my entire life and it's good to see the ICC figuring it out

[–] Maggoty 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More people need to watch the interviews with former IDF soldiers. They openly talk about doing things to Palestinians in West Bank that are war crimes. They also say they do these things routinely. Even the arrest policy is a war crime because they aren't turned over to the PA, they have to go in front of an Israeli court. If they go in front of a court at all, instead of being indefinitely detained.

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[–] blazera 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe it, but i hate quotes like this. Give me at least a full sentence in quotes.

"I reject with disgust the comparison of the prosecutor in the Hague between democratic Israel and the mass murderers of Hamas,"

[–] skhayfa 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's right, he completely smashed their records, he needs his own medals for his massive achievement in murders and massacres.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Protests were calling for years for Netanyahu to go to The Hague. Is it happening?

[–] Madison420 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. They would never drag him there but they won't mind trying him in absentia at some point.

[–] chonglibloodsport 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. The ICC never tries anyone in absentia. His arrest warrant, if approved, will stand for all time until he either dies or is arrested. There is no statute of limitations for any ICC charges. This means he is effectively barred from visiting any party to the Rome Statute (124 countries).

It also means he could potentially be arrested in Israel and handed over to the ICC if he loses an election and the new government wants to get rid of him.

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[–] TallonMetroid 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, they aren't mass murderers, they're genociders! Get it right!

[–] saltesc 17 points 1 month ago

Mass murdering too. There's all those aid workers.

[–] Sam_Bass 26 points 1 month ago

Because they are, son

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

If the shoe fits

[–] ikidd 12 points 1 month ago

Maybe they can get the corruption trial done at the same time they decide whether to hang this despot.

[–] Etterra 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, jackass. Think about that for a minute before you pop open your idiot mouth.

[–] Sam_Bass 10 points 1 month ago

Has anyone ever known a criminal to go along with and agree they should be punished?

[–] Bookmeat 8 points 1 month ago

Well, he's not wrong.

[–] eran_morad 7 points 1 month ago
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