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guykdm | 3 years ago

He used "them" in regards to the killing of armed Palestinians exchanging fire. Now, you can choose to interpret it as calling to kill all Palestinians, but that is very ungracious. Maliciously so I'd say. So in short, this is ridicules and completely biased. Bummer to be an Israeli (and a jew) in that regard, we're treated unfairly.

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happytoexplain|3 years ago

I strongly disagree. When somebody says the phrase "keep killing them", they are expressing hatred for that side of the conflict. This is exceedingly clear-cut colloquial semantics. Is "kill all Palestinians" explicitly stated? Of course not, but it's ungracious of you to frame this as a binary, where either he is saying we should kill all Palestinians, or this whole thing is ridiculous. It's nowhere near a binary. He obviously understands what those words conjure. It seems pretty clear he is at least implying, "I hate Palestinians and enjoy violence against them".

guykdm|3 years ago

This was said in Hebrew to an Israeli audience, and we quite simply know exactly what he meant. If he called to the killing of Palestinians in general there would be lots of outrage in Israel, such an opinion is not part of the Israeli public discourse. This is part of a known argument in Israel regarding the IDFs existing policy to minimize casualties among Palestinian combatants, which many argue puts the lives of our soldiers at risk. Anyway, Israelis know what he meant. I'm sorry to use my cultural and linguistical familiarity as an argument, but it is what it is.

giraffe_lady|3 years ago

Maybe if israel didn't have a robust and consistent decades long history of killing palestinians and calling them terrorists to justify it. Given they do have that though, you're asking for a lot of grace here.