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A French and Saudi-chaired UN conference will be held in June in order to resurrect the idea of a two-state solution

Israel has issued a threat to France and the UK that any moves to recognize a Palestinian state will see Tel Aviv annex parts of the occupied West Bank in response, according to a 26 May report by Haaretz.

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[-] [email protected] 150 points 6 days ago

If you do that, I'll do what I planned to do from the beginning but quicker and I'll blame you for it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Surely appeasement will work this time

[-] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

Will annex if recognised, will annex if not recognised

Man, this shit has been going on for a hundred years...

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

It's the Putin strategy of "stop forcing me to colonize you!"

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Don't interfere or I won't stop!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

russian method, "you're making me do this to you"

[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

“We’re gonna continue doing the Holocaust we’re already doing.”

[-] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

“Israel threatens to become more evil if european countries point out how evil they are”

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

At this point, it's a recurring headline.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"I'm doing a genocide, but it is this other unrelated dude's fault"

[-] [email protected] 69 points 6 days ago

“to annex”? what have they been doing for literal decades?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I guess it means "full mask off". Wait, that's what they've been doing for the past years anyhow. Hmmm.

Also how would that be retaliation against France and the UK? It's like any tough movie criminal's favorite trick: I will torture not you, but this person you feel for until you give me what I want!

But seriously, my octogenarian parents would probably gobble it up and blame anybody who recognizes Palestine for being too confrontational, thus making lasting peace impossible. I kid you not.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

yeah. it’s fucking sad the amount of zionist rhetoric stuck in folks like that. i mean to be “fair”* they were like 10 when israel “became” a “state.”

  • fair would be that they grew up watching zionists do a genocide and be against it TODAY. but noooooo the “greatest generation” and their boomer kids are straight assholes.
[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I wonder how much of it is (dis)information warfare. I'm glad these things are coming to broader attention now, but it's probably been happening right from the start.

Also Germans. They can hardly start accusing Israel of genocide, even today.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Occupying it. Meaning that Palestinians living there could not vote, and were subject to martial law. At the same time Israel administered things such as building permits which means that Israel could "legally" demolish "illegal" buildings.

I highly doubt they're going to annex anything that's full of Palestinians, not while the Kahanites are in power they're way too much into the whole ethno-state thing to do that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Palestinians in Jerusalem are many on a permanent residency visa which doesn't allow them to vote.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

And presumably the terms of the permit allow Israel to kick them out at their heart's content.

I gotta be honest Jerusalem is a thing I was overlooking but I still don't think Kahanites would be willing to do that. Some kind of compromise to be able to say that Jerusalem is (fully) Israel, one thing, but the west bank? It's just land. They don't want the people living there they'll either not take it, or take it without the people, no matter how disenfranchised.

I suppose this is more about annexing the illegal settlements. Ones which already have sky-high walls around them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, whatever they do it's going to benefit settlers and not the Palestinians, that's pretty much guaranteed with the current government.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I highly doubt they’re going to annex anything that’s full of Palestinians

Makes sense, that's why they are flattening those places with bomb first and/or raiding

[-] [email protected] 72 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Israel to annex parts of West Bank if Europe doesn't move to recognize Palestine, too

[-] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago

So...

If the international community recognizes Palestine, Israel is going to continue it's genocide and land grabs?

What changes? Besides it becoming clearer that the rest of the world needs to get involved?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Yeah, the West Bank is basically just a collection of little concentration camps at this point.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I really hate Israel but it's not that bad. You can move from city to city and towns inside the west bank and the life there is pretty vibrant.

The current issues are that the PA is corrupt but elections are banned by Israel. Revocation of work permits in Israel has really hit the economy hard. It's very annoying to cross the border since the checkpoints are unreliable and sometimes close or slow down a lot. Traffic from Ramallah to Jerusalem on Saturdays can take 3-4 hours.

Settler violence against Palestinians is practically legal and sometimes the Israeli army goes in an destroys commercial stuff. One time they even robbed a jewellery store. It feels like a predator coming to town. Also, Palestinians are tried in military courts but settlers in civil courts even if they live 100m from each other like in Hebron.

It's bad but it's faaar from being concentration camps, when you're in Ramallah you won't even notice the occupation most days and life is generally good. You'll eventually hit an issue regarding papers, travel, work, running a business, farming, building and whatnot because of the Israeli government but nothing compared to being in a concentration camp.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

Wtf kind if threat is this? They were gonna try doing that anyway. It's never the oppressor's fault that they commit genocide, only the victims. Someone unironically said it's that doctor's fault her kids died because she chose to have so many. Anything to justify manmade horrors beyond human comprehension. Even a tiny bit of plausible deniabilty is what Isn'treal is trying to squeeze out. Keep the genocide going just a bit longer so Netenyahu can stay in office and not get arrested

I wish fascists would skip to their inevitable end.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

What kind of threat is that...

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

They will anyway. It's always been the plan.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Can we start delivering those 2,000lb. bombs that the U.S. gives to Israel one by one, to Netanyahu's house, by airmail?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

They already control the whole west bank . This will only make that official

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

ding ding ding

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Lol, jk.

Nothing will stop our thirst for Lebensraum.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Annex as in make it part of Israel instead of the west bank? Would that involve forcibly removing current residents and inserting Israelis into their homes?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

You mean... exactly what they're already doing and will definitely continue to do?

Yes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Some of us used to scoff at the idea of some people lying awake in bed, thinking up ways to be more horrible human beings.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ef Yew Fockers Dernt STAHP threat tinning me I vill CONTINUE 2 EAT DIS HOTDOG I ALREADY STUFFED INTO MY MOUTH.

If u take ANY step closer I will be forced, FORCED to do what I was already going to do!!!

"Sir this is a hotdog stand? You can order another hot dog if that is the issue...?"

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