I'm sure I'm not the only one having started off life as staunchly pro-Israel, but that have gradually been disillusioned over the years, and especially during the last decade.

Back in the day, Israel was an easy country to root for and be sympathetic to, due to the horrors of the Holocaust and the fact that Israel was a democratic island in a sea of autocracies/theocracies.

But Israel, under the rule of Benjamin Netanyahu, has become increasingly more violent, strident and nationalistic, increasingly more willing to bulldozer ahead no matter the body count.

Everyone who's not a racist/psycho acknowledges that the Hamas-led 7. Oct terrorist attack was a sickening act of violence, but so too has Israel's reaction to it been. Wholesale slaughter of women children, civilians. Genocide.

Jewish settlers are allowed to run rampant, killing Arabs/Palestinians for fun, and in Israeli prisons, systematic sexual abuse and torture has been well documented. And now, they've started attacking Lebanon again, possibly to derail the deal ending the Iran war.

Yes, Israel is allowed to protect itself, but that's not what this is. This is wholesale slaughter. Netanyahu and his government must go. Hopefully the next election will take care of that.

I'm linking to an article just written by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. It's free to read but requires you to register an e-mail address.

'Israel Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in the West Bank'

'These are unprecedented and harsh accusations against an Israeli government and the defense establishment, especially from a former prime minister. But after years of restraint, I have no choice but to make them'

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-06-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-is-conducting-a-systematic-campaign-of-ethnic-cleansing-in-the-west-bank/0000019e-db02-d7a4-a99f-dfce00a20000

"The fight against Jewish terrorism in the West Bank must advance to the next stage and be waged with greater determination. The daily terrorism that is managed, directed, encouraged and supported by the Israeli government can no longer be tolerated.

Today, it must be said that the State of Israel is conducting an organized, systematic, state-funded campaign of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Not in the Gaza Strip, not in southern Lebanon, not in Syria, but in areas of the West Bank that are under the exclusive security control of the state and its security and law enforcement apparatus."

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When a government minister writes this you know things are out of control.

So you want what the Nazis didn't achieve?Totally eradication of the Jews?

Don't get me wrong, I have no love for Jews, nor any hate, but for God's sake they are people and deserve to live the same as anyone else.

Edited 37 minutes ago37 min by emptypockets

The left seems to love Iran and hate Israel

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

The left seems to love Iran and hate Israel

Where did anyone say they love Iran?

Always the same childish arguments. If you criticise Trump you love terorrists and want men in women's showers (always this obsession).

If you criticise Israel you love Iran. It's playground stuff.

So you think this is an appropriate thing for a government minister to say?

For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn

Yeah yeah, you'll back with something like I must support terrorism or bring some trans thing in to it as per your usual obsession.