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Israel’s foreign minister branded a recent international push to recognise Palestinian statehood a “mistake” on Sunday and warned it could trigger an unspecified unilateral response, after reports that Israel plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

Several countries, including France and Britain, have pledged to recognise a Palestinian state on the sidelines of the 80th UN General Assembly this month.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 93 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Are they saying it might make them start treating Palestinians badly, killing them and stealing their land? What is this threat of "unilateral decisions" supposed to be that Israel hasn't done or doesn't plan to do anyway?

Seems like an after-the-fact "look who you made me genocide!"

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm reading it as a threat to the countries who are recognizing the Palestinian state, and possibly their neighboring countries.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Yup.

It's amazing how brave a country will be about this shit when they're getting billions in WMD's for free.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Israel showing how german they are by threatening France and England

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Germany is threatening France and England?

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Israel is not thretening them and canada and france aren't thretening israel either. They are allies in the genocide while pretending to fight each other

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"If you do this performative and largely symbolic action, we are going to genocide even harder."

WHAT THE FUCK!? Bernie had a rally in Chicago yesterday and I tuned in on YouTube just as he said, "And we should not give one more NICKEL to Israel..." Well said, Mr. Sanders. It's horrible that this genocide is happening, it makes me complicit that it's being done in my name.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're already taking unilateral action. Everything they're doing is under their own authority.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yah but they're going to do it even harder now. They gonna dig up dead bodies and bomb them again.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago

Isolate Israel

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 23 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a threat from terrorist genociders. No one should listen fuck pissrael

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 months ago

Following through on the plans would make it “harder to get to the peace”, he added.

“It will destabilise the region. It will push Israel also to have unilateral decisions.”

Odd. The perpetrator that refuse to reach any long term peace and is currently destabilising the middle east, and also taking unilateral action on annexing west bank and later gaza, are now saying it's harder to get peace, will destabilising middle east, and will take unilateral decision.

Is this person perhaps time traveller that doesn't aware of what their country is doing for the past decades?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is that a threat? ...because Israel is in no position to be making threats.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, they seem to be pretty insulated from most any serious consequence, as much as I hate that.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is existential that the powers that enabled Israel to be insulated sever such a relationship with Israel or be ousted from power by internal unrest. That pattern is developing all over the world, people in general don't want genocide to happen it turns out.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

They are. The major western countries let them doing it too

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What worse actions? They already doing the final solution with western major power and arab leader traitors complicity

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Been doing it a long time ago

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

Seeing my country's (already shamefully atrocious) foreign minister and former prime minister next to that ambassador of evil is fucking nauseating! 🤬

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

for those who are confused, he means as opposed to what they're doing now, which is ask Palestinians if it's ok to genocide them and i assume they say "have at it, hoss".

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought it means they stop pretending the opinion of other countries matter

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I don't think they're pretending at all tbh they killed someone from every western country already

[–] riskable@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a plan. Let's do it 👍

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

What are they gonna do?

Redirect arms shipments meant for them in protest?

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"If you recognize palestine, I will kill more of them"

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Not really. They will keep trying to finish the final solution till they are forced not to, when major westerns stop being complicit

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

So basically "if they are not a state we kill them slowly, if they are a state we kill them quickly"?

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Unilateral response AKA even more war crimes.