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Not really. As far as news coverage goes Israel doesn't plan annexations as in integrating the regions into their state and claiming them as theirs.
Russia explicitly wants to annex crimea.
Classic case of the words have meanings and you are conflating them.
I believe the illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza, and the Syrian Golan Heights would be evidence to the contrary. There's also the whole Greater Israel vision that Bibi openly supports.
Woops
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-890938
From the article:
*Israel should extend its border with Lebanon up to the Litani River deep inside the country's south, Israel's finance minister said on Monday as Israeli troops bombed bridges and destroyed homes in the area in an escalating military assault.
The comments by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich were the most explicit yet by a senior Israeli official on seizing Lebanese territory in a fight Israel says targets Iran-backed Hezbollah militants*
Zionists have wanted to occupy south Lebanon up to the Litani for decades. The only reason they didn't in 1948 is because they were preoccupied with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
This is a proposal from 1916
Now with the settler takeover of Israeli politics this is becoming a reality.
There is also the Greater Israel Project, based on scripture which Zionists and evangelist fanatics like US ambassador Mick Huckabee are enthusiastic about.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/what-greater-israel
Your mental gymnastics is next level
The Israelis aren't even changing their MO and you think there is some translation.
Yes, Israel has never illegally settled territory outside their Western imperialist designated "state" borders. /s
Leave it to feddit.org to defend Israel. db0 wasn't kidding about the zionist bar problem
I feel like people conflate words when talking about Israel painting them differently from reality.
There are many terrible things done by Israel, but let us not forget that there are even worse countries doing things that are terrible for different reasons.
The treatment of Palestinians is particularly hainous, but remember that there were worse genocides and more effective genocides this century. The bar to be the worst is incredibly terrible.
Against my better judgement, I'll bite: what other genocide this century was worse and by what metric? Even if we assume there is such a thing, I don't see how that's relevant in justifying Israel. It's like saying that you shouldn't care about the Bosnian genocide because there are other worse ones on this artificial scale.
Tigray is worst from number of dead, for example. Muslims in China are suffering, but information is difficult.
If you feel like reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st-century_genocides
There are also cases where the methods were particularly cruel and ones where there are virtually no survivors.
I don't really see how that's relevant. In which of these genocides have Western governments been COMPLICIT by supporting the side doing the genocide? Providing the equipment and international support to carry it out?
It's telling how the West has been very eager to label the Uyghur situation a genocide before any body was even documented (it's since been quietly downgraded to a cultural genocide), but still has not acknowledged any of its own genocides of recent history or the ongoing one it's supporting in Gaza. It's pure political theater that serves the current geopolitical order.
Here is how the West in general treats the horrors it is responsible for (this is just from yesterday):
The west has been complicit in south Sudan by delivering the tools via the Arabs. The war in eastern Congo is fueled by our need for resources.
You hyper focus on one genocide as a beacon of inhumanity while ignoring the very severe suffering of other people and barely caring about them in the name of reducing the genocides. You are not achieving that.
Also the slave trade was further in the past than happing yesterday. Not even figuratively
How the fuck do you think you're going to reduce genocides on the other side of the world when your fucking governments don't even acknowledge the one they're actively complicit in right now, or the ones it has committed in recent history?
Until US/Europe/the other vassals deal with their own imperialist history, nothing is going to change. It's also ironic that you're accusing me of ignoring severe suffering, while your first post here was actively defending Israel for invading foreign territory.
How did I or my ancestors have any part in the slave trade or benefit from them directly? Also that's more than 3 generations in the past and the quoted resolution demands undue reparations. Africa and the South must be aided in their development and not be exploited, but that resolution seems to be made in a way where it's goal was to be repealed. There is little merit in that.
Oh, well if it’s not the only genocide it’s fine then!
It is not.
Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?
Yes?
So why do you defend a genocidal state?