• masquenox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    And still people make surprised Pikachu faces when we call Israel a white supremacist settler-colonialist state.

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    9 months ago

    It’s Netanyahu’s whole plan in a nutshell … raze it to the ground, then let rich Israeli’s buy up the land and leave nothing for Palestinians.

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      9 months ago

      It was played off that way at least. Follow the linked article to the twitter profile, you can see he’s deeply reprehensible and a huge booster of settlements. He would “gladly build the condos if the government allowed it” when asked for comment.

      Epshtein told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that his employees were hearing talk about the “day after” the war and one option discussed was reoccupying Gaza and reestablishing Israeli settlements there. Another post advertises “presale” lots on a map of Gaza, dividing it into regions named after the evacuated Gush Katif settlements. It also includes the settlement of “Nova,” named for the Supernova rave targeted by Hamas in the Oct. 7 massacres, and “Upper Nova,” which is billed as a new city for ultra-orthodox Haredi Jews.

      Seems like the office staff put a little more than “15 mins for the lulz” in photoshop to mock up the house render, given that there’s community names, maps, and lot layouts. What a lovely bunch of ghouls.

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    9 months ago

    If you build it, and if the price is right, they will come. There are a lot of people who simply don’t care.

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    9 months ago

    The advertisement is specifically about returning to the Gaza settlements that were abandoned during the disengagement of 2005; no one in Israel right now knows what’s going to happen to Gaza once the war winds down, there’s no consensus even for what the Israeli public would want to happen in theory. So, while this ad is jingoistic, tasteless and not a good look, it is not some deep chess move by the Israeli govt sending the real estate industry to Jewify Gaza; it’s one actor among a cacophony of competing voices, shouting “LET US UNDO THE 2005 DISENGAGEMENT THIS IS THE REAL SOLUTION”. If you want to correctly argue that historically these kinds of crazies do end up having govt backing then by all means argue that, but it’s better to understand the situation as it currently is.

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      9 months ago

      Well this particular actor has been quite successfully “Jewifying”, to use your term, the West Bank.

      If you look at the increase of settlements between Oslo and Camp David, you can see why Camp David was a non-starter for the Palestinians.

      Now Gaza will slowly be clawed away and the occupiers will ask why the Palestinians don’t want peace.