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‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms (www.theguardian.com)

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Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was speaking on Thursday after Israeli and Hamas delegations left the ceasefire negotiations in Cairo.

It was unclear whether the talks had broken down or simply paused, but the failure to reach an agreement on this week’s round of meetings raised apprehension of an imminent Israeli attack on Rafah.

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

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[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 131 points 6 months ago

OK. Do it.

A) Most people don't believe that the only way Israel is able to fight off the evil Palestinians is because of bid daddy US.

B) The 13,000 Palestinian children you have murdered would've been happy to be able to defend themselves against fingernails.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 110 points 6 months ago

lol did he think that made them sound strong or tough, or does he realize it makes him sound like an emotional manbaby?

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Emotionally disturbed if you ask me

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

My first thought was that he's starting to sound like Putin.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 93 points 6 months ago

"we". mfer is sending other people to war. he is not involved in any fighting. eff outta here

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Why do they always send the poor?

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 17 points 6 months ago

Why don't presidents fight the war?

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[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

It's not a war. It's a genocide.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

A number of high profile Israel failkids have gotten themselves killed doing insane bullshit in Gaza since the bombing started. The war cabinet minister Gadi Eizenkot's son headed a commando raid into northern Gaza in the middle of a bombing run. Very likely he was killed in friendly fire, under orders from his own father.

Much like the 30 year old Brigadier General and his 20 subordinates who killed themselves dynamiting the home of a slaughtered Palestinian family, he's become collateral damage in his country's bloodthirsty rampage of revenge.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When you play the victim role one (or rather 50) times too many.

According to Israel, everyone is against Israel

Sometimes, when everything is shit, check your shoes instead of telling others that they are shit

[-] filister@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

And everyone who dares criticizing them is obviously antisemitic.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Can a country have a gender, too? Can the state of Israel be a woman so its also sexist not to commit genocide?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Especially those self-hating Jews.

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

If you perfectly obey israel and wag your tail for them you are allowed to exist.

The second anyone pushes back in the slightest against their Nazi regime trying to execute a Holocaust they are instantly slandered as Hamas.

Israel has no qualms throwing loyal dogs that have been supporting them for their entire lives, just look at Genocide Joe getting labeled as Hamas the second he draws any lines.

These are not people that can be negotiated with. The are extremist maniacs.

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[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 55 points 6 months ago

Sounds like they don't need any help. Good to hear. Now maybe we can stop providing billions in support each year.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

Finally might be a fair fight

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[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

Maybe the US should just stop arming Israel and give the arms to Gaza instead and see how that plays out.

I can't believe this bullshit has gone on for so long

[-] snownyte@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago

Nobody can believe the shit has gone on so far with Russia and Ukraine but here we are 2 years later.

This conflict with Israel is looking to go on for just as long if not longer.

[-] Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

The conflict with Israel has gone on for 76 years. October 7th was just the start of a cycle of intensification within the larger conflict.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Thats something that a lot of people seem to forget. This fight has been going on in one form or another since the creation of the modern state of Israel. And there is an almost unlimited amount of blood on the hands of both the Israelis and Palestinians. (As well as the colonial countries who set up the borders in the first place)

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

Pay attention to this, America. This is a desperate politician facing embarrassment, criminal prosecution, prolonged jail and international ridicule for the rest of his life if this "war" doesn't perpetrate indefinitely. This is how trump will hold the US hostage if your boomer aunts and uncles in the swing state suburbs elect him again.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Israel has already been preparing for this eventuality for years. They’re not as dependent on US aid as one might think. They had started working towards reducing their dependence on US military aid specifically because of US presidents trying to set milquetoast restrictions like, “Please stop committing war crimes so openly.” And our aid makes up much less of their GDP (though still something like $3+ billion/year). Likely they’ll just take their business elsewhere to countries more willing to ignore war crimes. We should still stop providing aid to them though, they’re a belligerent country and committing war crimes & genocide.

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 6 months ago

well fingernails are better than bombs and white phosphorous

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

Sounds like there isn't any issue if we stop all arms shipments then. See ya Bibi bitch.

[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

Victimitation

[-] Today@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

That sounds a lot less likely to murder innocents.

[-] yarr@feddit.nl 24 points 6 months ago

They will also be fighting with:

Toothpicks
Plastic straws
Cotton balls
Rubber bands
Feather boas
Marbles
Jump ropes
Paper clips
Marshmallows
Bubbles

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[-] Hegar@kbin.social 21 points 6 months ago

Fingernails and decades of US arms sales.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Send those interceptor missiles to Ukraine instead

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Ok. Have fun.

[-] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

PILE HIGH THE FINGERNAILS OF THE VANQUISHED OPPRESSOR, THAT NAGLFAR AT LAST MAY UNFURL HER SAILS FOR RAGNARÖK

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

If those old oral traditions turn out to be prophetic, I wonder if that makes Russia an analogical Jormungandr, eating the remnants of the former USSR and growing ever larger.

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[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Good, then let them fight with their fingernails. STOP ALL MONEY & WEAPONS TO ISRAEL.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

This was the first thought that came to mind:

And I'm sure they'll be just as heroic.

[-] DrDominate@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Israel's ministry of peace said on Thursday that the withholding of arms would pose no obstacle to the swift end to the looming Hamas threat. They added - All previous Palestine land will be ready for Israel citizen settlements by next spring. /s In case that's necessary.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’

He said that if he were in charge of Israel his number one priority would be getting civilians out of the southern city of Rafah, and that “with diplomacy” it could be possible to get them into Egypt.

“But in addition to that, I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there,” he said. “I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job.”

He reiterated the point a little later, saying: “I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.”

Just need a little Lebensraum and we can get it with this Final Solution.

[-] pop@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

Political theatre.

US keeps trying to pretend and appear rational, peaceful, trying to end "war", then ships a ton more to start the slaughter. Then US sends another warning…

[-] pachrist@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

The US is the really annoying parent in a grocery store counting to 3 over and over to try to get their child under control.

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