Netanyahu snaps back against growing US criticism after being accused of losing his way on Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed Sunday against growing criticism from top ally the United States against his leadership amid the devastating war with Hamas, describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”

In recent days, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the country and a strong Israel supporter, called on Israel to hold a new election, saying Netanyahu had “lost his way.” President Joe Biden expressed support for Schumer’s “good speech,” and earlier accused Netanyahu of hurting Israel because of the huge civilian death toll in Gaza.

Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.

“We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”

Buddahriffic,

Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.

Does anyone other than fascists think anything about the response to 9/11 was good?

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

I remember seeing people getting swept up in the transient sense of belonging and power that came with all the xenophobia and nationalism that followed. There are probably many who pine for that feeling, and fail to recognize its part in our undoing.

Buddahriffic,

Oh yeah, absolutely. I remember feeling that to a degree myself (and I’m not even American), though I also remember thinking the “freedom fries” shit was dumb. But the fervor was still popular enough that Bush got his second term.

But I’ve been under the impression that it has since faded.

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

I think the word is “metastasized”

bitwaba,

“metastisized fries” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

skuzz,

I hated the whole damn reaction from the beginning, and young me became quickly jaded about the world watching the brainwash in America happen so fast. Our governments, especially the American government, don’t seem to operate in the best interests of their people. In America, we don’t care about our own, why would we ever care about others?

Nobody,

Israeli Trump has got to go. If you don’t place value on human life, you have no business running a hot dog stand, much less an entire country.

Bleach7297,
@Bleach7297@lemmy.ca avatar

Bibi, welcome to the other side of US foreign policy!

DragonTypeWyvern,

Oh, you’ve become a liability during election season.

How unfortunate…

For you.

dbilitated,
@dbilitated@aussie.zone avatar

monster

NutWrench,
@NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

Schumer (re: Israel) “losing their way” Biden (re: huge civilian death toll in Gaza) “hurting Israel”

You weak, pathetic sons of b*tches. Your government is contributing militarily and financially to a genocidal ethno state and THIS is the best you can come up with? This is what your “criticism” looks like when someone’s got you by the balls.

stoly,

The alternative is for them to become a Democratic version of Trump. There’s a reason why politicians are careful with their words under most circumstances.

RedWeasel,

“We’re not a banana republic,”

If that is the case then they should refuse US foreign aid.

bartolomeo,

That was surprising to read. What a racist statement.

Passerby6497,

Why would you expect anything else from Bibi and the LIKUD?

bartolomeo,

I guess it was just him commenting on the western hemisphere that surprised me.

“You can’t force an election on us, what do we look like to you, a bunch of Latinos?!”

You’re right though, no surprise there. Rascists gonna racist.

RedWeasel,

I simply quoted what he stated. If it wasn’t for US financial aid Israel probably couldn’t exist as a country so they are not going to stop accepting aid. Hamas couldn’t have reasonably expected to win, so they must have had a different goal, most likely to turn the world against Israel and Netanyahu has pretty much stomped right through that door and has no issue pushing forward. If that was their goal they appear to be succeeding.

bartolomeo,

I simply quoted what he stated.

Yes, I know. That’s what I was referring to.

olympicyes,

We only read the comments!

3volver,

Israel is a fascist ethnocracy.

Live_Let_Live,

same will be if we let palestine be a country

Dehydrated,

Username doesn’t check out

Honytawk,

Palestine already was a country long before Israel invaded its borders.

RedAggroBest,

The region of Palestine has never been a country. Palestinians have always been under the rule.of another. Don’t do the Zionists’ work for them by being ignorant.

mightyfoolish,

At one point there were three Palestines.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_the_East

RedAggroBest,

A diocese is not an independent state. It’s a province of Rome. Again, there never was a Palestine. Fucking hell this is why Zionists can call the other side ignorant.

The people of Palestine have been ruled over and abused by empire after empire from Alexander the Great.

mightyfoolish, (edited )

What about the Nabeteans? The Nabeteans absorbed the Qederites and the Edomites (who made up Palestine south of Beersheba). They ruled till the Romans absorbed their kingdom late 1st century.

Edit: Also, it seems that the Nabatean royal family and the Idumean royal families seem to be related more than just the marriage of Harold Antipas.

Also, comtemparies of Jesus like Strabo thought the Idumeans were Nabeteans (the confusion makes sense when you reliaze all of the Canaanite Kingdoms (except Israel/Samaria) were absorbed by the Arabs by 400 BC.

My point is I consider Kingdom of Nabeteans to be mostly consisting of people who’s kingdoms already existed in the region of Palestine (the extremely similar Qederites along with the Edomites and Judahites). But I admit this can be a stretch since no one knows xactly where the Nabeteans came from.

I also have to find the article mentioning the Nabeteans absorbing the Edomites as too many sources suggest EVERY last Edomite moved to the area around Beersheba.

DragonTypeWyvern, (edited )

Fun Related Fact: The very word Palestine is derived from Philisitine, the tribes who made up the kingdom of Philistia.

lilsolar,
@lilsolar@sh.itjust.works avatar

Classic zionist supporter excusing genocide :)

bartolomeo,

So that’s bad, right?

masquenox,

Sure Butcher Ben has “lost his way”… he slaughtered so many Palestinians that white western liberalism started being inconvenienced by all the bad press.

RamblingPanda,

Yeah, it feels as if he finally found his way. Or gathered the courage to live it. He’s a monster and his supporters are as guilty.

maculata,

Bibi, you are a total asshole. You have destroyed any possible goodwill you might’ve gained for Israel. I now have nothing but bad feelings for ANY Zionist sentiment. Before I had some sympathy. Not any longer. You are the Hitler of the Jews.

masquenox,

any possible goodwill

White supremacist settler-colonialist states do not deserve any good will.

Live_Let_Live,

and brown supremacist do???

gregorum,

Oh, look, a whataboutism

Bakkoda,

That’s the worst straw man I’ve ever seen. You either need to put in more effort or no effort and not post.

masquenox,

Oh look… a white supremacist outs itself.

Snowpix,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

You should find something better to do with your time. Trolling clearly ain’t your strong suit.

stoly,

Before I had some sympathy.

NO JUDGEMENT but I am very curious about why. Although this incident is pretty egregious, it’s not unique to the history of the country.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Zionism, expressed in the most favorable way, is the belief that Jewish people deserve their own state where they need not fear oppression.

Thus Biden telling a Jewish American group that he is a Zionist.

The problem started when it turned out all the land everywhere already had people living on it, so to make that state and make it democratic, well, turns out a bunch of Holocaust survivors and their descendants don’t actually mind forced displacement that much when it’s not them. Not to mention that while being Jewish is half tribal identity and half religion, a Jewish state can not help but ultimately turn into a theocracy, otherwise it’d just be a secular state like most everyone else.

maculata,

Yeah. This.

olympicyes,

I’m sympathetic to this line of thinking but it ignores the expulsion of Jews from nearly all the other Arab countries after the foundation of Israel, and these are significant numbers, around 900,000 people until the 1960s. Around 700,000 Palestinians were likewise forcibly displaced in 1948. This is more or less like the population swap that took place in India after the British left, leading to the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh.

nonailsleft, (edited )

It is kind of a weird move though. Seen that elections in Israel tooday wouldn’t move the needle (at least not in the right direction) wrt their stance on Gaza or any two state solution, it’s a message meant for anywhere but Israel.

Its just meant to signal they strongly dissaprove but with impotence and a personal attack that just makes them lose even more of the sway they actually have in the Israeli government

Varyk, (edited )

I’m a little confused by the calls for a re-election. Netanyahu was just re-elected a few years ago, and they’re in the middle of a war and he’s a constant.

Won’t he likely be reelected?

This is a pretty good rundown of why you shouldn’t count netanyahu out of re-election:

foreignpolicy.com/…/netanyahu-is-a-failure-and-is…

LadyAutumn, (edited )
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    Varyk,

    Thirteen years, i think? I’m not sure, but it’s been a long time

    Grant_M,
    @Grant_M@lemmy.ca avatar

    Oust Netanyahu and Hamas

    MataVatnik,
    @MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

    “We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”

    The US people then should choose who they will fund and back

    ininewcrow,
    @ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

    The fact that both sides casually talk about their governments like their systems and influences are interconnected shows how they are not exactly run by a democratic process but by who funds who when, where, how and why.

    kumatomic,

    describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”

    You know what’s wholly inappropriate? Genocide.

    chalk46,

    Palestinians are just Arab. Nobody's trying to wipe out all the Arabs.
    ffs people, learn English and do your own research

    tocopherol,
    @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Palestine is a distinct people and culture, attempting to destroy a national group is genocide.

    stoly,

    “I mean they are only letting the Irish starve while selling potatoes to the rest of the world. Nobody is trying to wipe out all Westerners here.”

    dbilitated,
    @dbilitated@aussie.zone avatar

    ok they’re trying to kill every arab in their country and steal their homes.

    I suppose it’s more of an ethnic cleansing? is that better?

    i_have_no_enemies,

    which hamas is soley responsible for

    masquenox,

    Oh look… a kapo.

    kumatomic,

    Say it if it makes you feel better, but it doesn’t make it true👎

    dbilitated,
    @dbilitated@aussie.zone avatar

    🤮

    girlfreddy,
    @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

    Nah.

    Maybe learn what a genocide is first before commenting.

    Zaktor,

    Who cares what Netanyahu thinks about whether Netanyahu should be removed from power? “Netanyahu opposes being removed from power” isn’t exactly a revelation. Tell me what other key Israeli politicians and the Israeli public think.

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