Yeah, I agree completely. That was my point. The Likud government and Sharon didn’t really care about that and I really believe there was another world where the withdrawal happened gradually alongside a diplomatic process that ended with the establishment of an independent Palestine.
I read that story several times last night and googled it and I still couldn’t work out what was offensive about the watermelon or the t shirt other than that it is sometimes used as a substitute for the Palestinian flag in places where it is banned because a watermelon has all the same colours.
https://x.com/antisemitism/status/1849048561155023242?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
“Ignore the actual genocide, look at the genocidal t-shirt!” 
Embarrassing.
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Ah, the watermelon is in the shape of Israel. At least now I know what the offence is supposed to be.
All in all I take more offence to the casual murder and displacement of a civilian population.
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The existence of Big Brother is more offensive.
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People in the pro-Israel community associate that symbol with the idea of a one-state solution where no Jews are allowed to stay on the land. I’m not saying that’s what the person wearing the shirt believes though.
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This graphic has caused significant distress among the British Jewish community.
If they’re distressed about a melon on a T shirt, they should avoid watching the news about the terrorism that the Israel government have been involved in.
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Again, it’s not the melon on the shirt. That graphic is associated with the idea of a one-state solution and often a one-state solution that involves replacing the current state with force and/or removing Jewish people from the successor state.
There’s a reason it makes some people uncomfortable just like someone wearing a Kahanist or Yisrael Shlema (Greater Israel) shirt would make people uncomfortable.
Very odd contrast
I think we’ve finally found the thing that’s gone too far in this conflict.
The US, one of Israel’s closest allies, said Saturday’s strike against Israel was an “exercise of self-defence,” language echoed by the UK, where a government spokesman said Israel has a “right to self-defence”.
Tehran said it had attacked Israel in retaliation for what it called the “violation of Iran’s sovereignty and the martyrdom” of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed by an explosion in Tehran in July that Iranian officials blamed on Israel.
At the time, Iran said the attack was also in response to the Israeli air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Brig-Gen Abbas Nilforoushan, a high-ranking Iranian official.
Israel are the only country in the world that are allowed to defend themselves. Israel the aggressor in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria and its Israel that has the right to defend itself?
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It’s such a redundant statement since every country, at least in theory, should have the right to defend themselves.
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I wonder how long the US’s/Wests attention can remain on Ukraine when this shit looks like it’s going sideways.
What a sketchy time to be alive.
You’re not allowed to defend yourself against Israeli aggression.
Iran is a paper tiger. They know they’re at the most risk in a wider conflict it’s why they launch these performative drone/missile attacks.
I think what we’re seeing now will be the extent of conflict which is pretty limited atm compared to Ukraine. Apparently, North Koreans are join the fight over there.
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Yeah exactly.
People aren’t seeing the wider realpolitik aspects of what’s going on in the Middle East. It stopped being about defending Israel a long time ago and more about using Israel to do the west’s dirty work in terms of undermining, weakening and destabilising the Iranian regime.
By letting Israel go all out against Hamas and Hezbollah, you massively weaken Iran’s force projection capabilities and weaken/undermine the regime back home. This is not just in the west’s interest in the Middle East but also in Ukraine and Taiwan because Iran a key part and facilitator of China and Russia’s geopolitical objectives of imperial expansion. Iran supplies a huge % of China’s oil and Russia has only been able to keep up the invasion of Ukraine through Iranian supplies of ammunition, drones and other supplies.
By letting Israel expose Iran weaknesses and destroying their proxy power we also potentially weaken their support of antagonistic agitators like China and Russia.
There is a reason why key Middle East powers such as Egypt, Saudi and UAE/Qatar have turned the other cheek (to an extent) and have not thrown their weight around nearly as much - it’s because they hate Iran much more as they are the main political and regional threat and competitor to them. The Saudis and co. are more supportive of what’s going on against Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah than the vast majority of people really understand.
It’s ugly but if the west is able to undermine the powers that threaten our way of life in the west and who are doing everything they can to undermine our democracy and stability without any loss of life of western troops, it does make sense from that perspective.
People need to understand that we are walking straight into a global escalation with Iran, Russia, China, NK and Venezuela in the late 2020’s and we need to do everything we can in our power to undermine them as much as possible in the time leading up to that while we rearm.
Just look at NK sending 12,000 troops to fight in Ukraine. It won’t be long before the first Chinese plays on Taiwan start.
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Yeah I’m wary of Israel hitting targets in Iran. Whether or not they’re a paper tiger, it still only serves to create more instability and boost Bibi’s chance of staying in power.
There is a certain level of cynicism and a whole lotta level of hypocrisy towards other nations pursuing their interests when you condone the indifferent killing of innocent civilians; flattening of cities into rubble; illegal colonization of land and repeated violation of sovereign nations’ territory around you. Just because it’s your side of the coin doing the abuses and murdering to further their geopolitical agenda.
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