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Biden says Netanyahu must change, Israel losing global support (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by sqgl to c/news

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[–] sqgl 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This shit goes back further than people here care to investigate...

"The Antichrist will pass by this salty barren area i.e. Madinah, in a passage of a canal. Most of those who will come out to him will be women so that a man will return to his intimate wife, mother, daughter, sister or aunt to tie them up for fear that they might go out to him. Then, Allah will afflict him with Muslims who kill him and his followers and the Jews will hide behind a tree or a rock and the rock or the tree will say to the Muslim: There is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!”

This Hadith was reported by Ahmad in his Musnad. About 1200 years ago.

https://alsalafiyyah.github.io/hadith-on-stones-will-speak

[–] t3rmit3 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know what relevance you think scripture has to this conflict, but despite what Israel would like to claim this is not a religious war, this is a settler-colonial project driven by modern, western Imperialism. Religion is being used by Netanyahu and Likud in the most cynical, blasphemous way, in order to justify their murderous acts.

[–] sqgl 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You think religion wasn't being used by Hamas to justify Oct 7?

[–] t3rmit3 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not an any practical level.

It certainly hasn't been weaponized by them to deflect criticism of their actions by international observers, like Israel has been doing.

I haven't really seen any accusations that being anti-Hamas (the political entity) is Islamophobic, only that being anti-Palestinian (the people) is, which is true.

Contrast that to Israel and its supporters very openly pushing the narrative that being anti-Israel (the political entity) is antisemitic, not just being anti-Israeli (the people).