Israel’s ambassador to Austria, David Roet, has suggested executing Palestinian minors involved in armed conflict, a secretly recorded video has revealed.

During a closed-door meeting with the local Jewish community in Innsbruck on Thursday, Roet said that “there should be a death sentence” for teenagers for “holding a gun” or a “grenade”. He provided no evidence of children carrying weapons in Gaza.

The video was recorded two days after Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire on 18 March, by which time more than 500 Palestinians were killed, of which almost 200 were children.

Roet dismissed concerns over civilian casualties in Gaza, stating: “If you believe that there are no uninvolved [people] in Gaza… you’re believing that Israel is targeting babies intentionally, which is not correct.”

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That is crazy. Did you know every single Israeli is recruited in the IDF under conscription and many undergo training camps when underage? What are your thoughts on this?

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Read my comment until the end.

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I have changed my question up slightly seeing your virtue signalling at the end.

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Look at this guy justifying the extermination of literal children with timesofisrael articles and a wikipedia page… this is unhinged. You can try and spin it as an educational post, but reading through the different statements you’ve made regarding this genocide, you clearly do not value the lives of Palestinians and their right of self determination as highly as you do israelis.

I laughed when I read your futile attempt at moral redemption.

White supremacists hunting down and exterminating migrants and POC

You: “I mean there are several reports about criminals being POC and migrants eating pets, look at this Joe Rogan podcast or this Newsmax article. Still I do not condone violence, it’s very very bad.”

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Man barges in to both sides a genocide and pretend it is Hamas oppressing the Palestinians.

Notice the insertion of the term “Islamo-Fascists” for the Islamophobic cherry on top. I wonder what people would say if you replaced the word “Islamo” with “Judeo”.

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Austrian minister: “Ja, I’m listening…”

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Well, at least someone recorded and published it. Thats something. But disappointing that the Israeli ambassador wasnt imprisoned for his support of war crimes.

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There already is a death-sentence for being Palestinian & being a child, while the IDF is pointing a rifle in your general direction, as the statistics prove ( & video of their children being killed for sport, too )…

Even more dangerous being a Palestinian child than being a journalist, in Palestine, when the IDF’s around…

Scroll down to the bottom of this, & get to finally get past all the … shit “web interaction” of their site, … to the graph…

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FATALITIES/byvrxlqeqve/

13,320 children’s lives destroyed by “Israel” … that wouldn’t be the same “Israel” as the one that Isaiah was of & loyal-to, would it …

( no, it wouldn’t )

& these gaslighters want to pretend that they were all armed combatants??

I’m sure…

No matter: their Continuums/Souls/CellsOfG-D will reincarnate into more of the hell-mess they make/enforce, to continue that “religion”, until some other world crops-up with opportunity to outgrow it…

Their opportunity to outgrow it among this world is pretty-much gone:

population-polarization’s only going to be increasing, from here until the end of The Great Filter, in the 2070’s or 2080’s, now…

Churchill’s “never argue with drunks or fanatics” rule is pertinent, to any aliens considering opening-discussions with our species: don’t bother, there’s no intelligent life down here.

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Is Austria getting up to Nazi shit again?

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Always have been. We have the same problem as the Germans.

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Roet said that “there should be a death sentence” for teenagers for “holding a gun” or a “grenade”. He provided no evidence of children carrying weapons in Gaza.

Hmmmm, I swear I’ve heard this somewhere before…

Oh yeah it was the Bush administration defining “Enemy Combatant” as any “adult male.” As in “they looked adult enough to me,” which when you contrast with evidence that young black men are viewed as older and less innocent to white Americans leaves one going “Ah, so any boy aged 14 and up, really.” Because young men from Afghanistan and Iraq are surely brown enough to elicit the same feelings in the invading (mostly white) forces.

Worse, as evidenced in Collateral Murder, most of these decisions were being made from up-above and far-away either from attack planes and helicopters or drones. This meant if you were a young man who “looked” the right age from a blurry camera a half mile away and you were carrying something that “looked like” a weapon, they could rain hellfire down upon you with no consequences.

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The irony is that the exact same people defending the Bush massaceres in Iraq are using the exact same arguments to defend the genocide in Gaza. “Most moral army, airstrike clearance” etc etc.

Notably edgelord content creators such ss Asmongold and Destiny.

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That’s not irony, irony is something unexpected - those two behaviors are exactly consistent and congruent with one-another.

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I left out a little context. The irony is: All those people supporting the Iraq invasion said they regretted it a decade later, and admitted they were wrong.

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