Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, has called for the execution of Palestinian prisoners to ease overcrowding in the country’s jails.
Writing on social media, he welcomed a decision by the Israeli army to build 936 additional prison places for “security prisoners”. “The additional construction will allow the prison service to take in more terrorists, and will bring a partial solution to the prison crisis that exists in the Shabak,” he said, referring to the Israeli Prison Service.
“The death penalty for terrorists is the right solution to the incarceration problem, until then - glad that the government approved the proposal I brought.”
During a visit by members of the Public Defender’s Office, squalid conditions were noted, including “intolerable overcrowding”, with less than three square metres of space per person, poor sanitary conditions, pest issues, inadequate ventilation, and a lack of basic necessities for the incarcerated.
But when I compare this genocide to the Holocaust I get called an antisemite
Yes, that comparison is absurd. Don’t do that.
30’000 death, including the terrorists mind you, in more than 6 months means roughly 160 per day. The numbers are hardly going up in the past months.
Ausschwitz, one concentration camp out of many, saw more than 1 million people murdered in about 3 years, about 900 per day.
What kind of asinine comment is this? What does it even mean? It just seems like a snarky thought-terminating cliché to avoid actually having to engage with difficult ideas. The dead don’t notice anything, they’re dead. Do you think the living notice they weren’t murdered?
You can compare them in that they are both genocides. The Holocaust was certainly a genocide done on a much larger scale, especially near the end of Nazi Germany. But there isn’t a certain death count needed to count as a genocide, we have multiple international definitions to determine and (ideally) prevent them.
Leaving aside the fact that it’s not the volume that defines genocide, what you’re saying doesn’t seem to take into account the way that genocide ramped up from a lower initial death rate. The Nazis weren’t killing anything like that in the first 6 months.
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Aid agencies like UNICEF are saying that at the moment a child is wounded or killed every ten minutes in Gaza.
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In 0.5 years the Gaza genocide has already killed about 1.5% of the population. By comparison the Bosnian genocide killed 3% of the population over 2 years.
See that’s where you are wrong. Calling evil by showing how it is similar to another evil isn’t trying to minimize one. Is it just about numbers? Their universities, schools, hospitals, records and cultures are being destroyed as we speak. Children are being starved. So you’re saying this isn’t evil enough? Comparing numbers is Israili propaganda at this point. Never again means never again for anyone.
I refuse to believe that a sane, rational person would put forth such a braindead argument in good faith.
(With my apologies to any braindead people and their families/friends for the unflattering use of the adjective.)
Comparing people that get round up and murdered in insane scales with people in a war zone getting notified about bombings and not leaving is the braindead argument to me.
We’ve started going full death camp yet people still don’t believe that there’s a genocide. There are no words to describe just how truly disgusting that is.
I wonder if they will concentrate all of the prisoners in one spot before they implement Ben’s solution
With so many prisoners it’s gotta be hard to process all of those death penalties. I wonder if there is a fast and efficient way to apply the death penalty. Maybe they can do it in groups
Everyone knows that gases are the most convenient option, too. None of the logistical issues of solids and none of the messiness of liquids.
Take em to the Zyclon B Bathouse
When the Nazis were invading Eastern Europe prior to WWII they told the other European powers they only needed “lebensraum”-“living space.” This comment thread is pointing out the similarities between the actions of contemporary Israel against Palestinians with the actions of Nazi Germany against Jews and other groups they considered “undesirable.”
What a dick.
Soon they’ll start sending them to the showers. We’ve seen this before. Fascists never change
