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Israel’s foreign minister has said that an arms embargo on his country would lead to the elimination of the Israeli state and “a second Holocaust”.

Gideon Saar was speaking on Tuesday at an international conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem.

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (10 children)

You are probably very steeped in theory, and such words have a precise meaning to you. That's awesome btw that you read and think about this a lot, but the people we need to advertise to don't.

"destroy israel," "israel doesn't have the right to exist" and so on just sound to me like a call to evict israelis from the land. I have seen people on lemmy make this exact inference. A common response is "but what you want is also genocide," indicating that people think those phrases really mean physically destructive action.

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