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The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades.

“They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

It is incredible to hear Netanyahu call on the Iranian people to rise up against the very things he has subjected Palestinians to. But it is not surprising. I am all too familiar with the ways imperialists, occupiers and invaders weaponise Muslim women’s bodies and rights to justify their wars.

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[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

You hear that? Netanyahu is woke. We gotta drop this DEI regime!

Alternative take: Netanyahu has the balls and courtesy to flatten entire families instead of just the men. How chivalrous.

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

What a fucking stupid excuse. That's like force feeding fat people in case they lose weight.

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He is right for all the wrong reasons. There are only bad sides in this conflict.

The world will be a lot better without both those authoritarian regimes.

[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Islam is hell for women but this is a thin veneer of lies to justify something he already wanted to do. I hope one day no Muslim women exist because Islam hates women so deeply they realize no loving or reasonable god would create a system reliant on their subjugation and leave.

[-] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

This is opinion—not news. What is this doing here?

[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I saw a commercial yesterday that was Israel advertising for the war with Iran. Get that propaganda off my tv.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

This sounds just like all the ridiculously hollow propaganda Putin was dropping for justifying the attack on Ukraine.

"We're rescuing them from uh, really bad people, er... By invading them, yes. They wanna be Russian so bad!"

[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 1 points 1 week ago

This is the propaganda every single occupiers used

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

Israel fighting for anyone's rights is so fucking laughable

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