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We must face reality — the Gaza War is now a war of annihilation (forward.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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from The Forward
[Jewish publication from USA]
Jay Michaelson
May 28, 2025

"The gulf between Israel’s government and the rest of the world — including its allies, the Trump administration, the Israeli public, and the American Jewish community — is widening into a chasm. And yet some in Jewish leadership are hiding their heads in the sand.

Critics of the Netanyahu-Smotrich regime are no longer just campus protesters, or hostile-to-Israel regimes, or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week. They include former prime minister Ehud Olmert..."

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Was about to say… wasn’t that always their plan…?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The goal has been annihilation since well before 1948. It's so ridiculous that news media keeps pretending that October 7th kicked off a new conflict.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Bibi donating to Hamas got him his pretext.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

At what point will people realise this genocide is not a 'War' at all.

These murderers should be tried in the Hague.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only facing reality now?

Better late than never I guess.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week

lol sure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Two young Jews

What a weird thing to call a Christian and his (maybe Jewish) fiancé

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"Now?"

"One day everyone will have been against this"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

No shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Israel lost forward.com ???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't worry it's the Forward, there's 3 more articles coming about how the definition of genocide should exclude destruction in whole or in part of a group by a group that has "epigenetic trauma" from being victims of a genocide themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm worried that India and Pakistan might get there first; and in an even more dramatic fashion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Ha! He's protesting a war FOR ZIONISM.