{"id":44296,"date":"2023-10-15T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=44296"},"modified":"2023-10-15T03:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T11:39:35","slug":"israeli-presidents-direct-call-to-genocide-annotated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/15\/israeli-presidents-direct-call-to-genocide-annotated\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli President\u2019s Direct Call to Genocide \u2013 Annotated"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israeli President&#39;s Direct Call to Genocide Annotated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RDcNV7DEvk\">https:\/\/t.co\/RDcNV7DEvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scotthortonshow\/status\/1713332647924060601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog: <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">&#8220;It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. <\/span><span class=\"r-36ujnk\">[No, it&#8217;s not a nation, that&#8217;s the whole point.]<\/span> <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">It&#8217;s not true, this rhetoric about civilians were not aware, not involved.<\/span> <span class=\"r-36ujnk\">[Of course it is impossible that 2 million Gazans, half of them minors, could have known about the attack.]<\/span> <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">It&#8217;s absolutely not true. They could have risen up.<\/span> <span class=\"r-36ujnk\">[No they could not have risen up and he knows that. Now not all dying in a failed overthrow attempt to protect Israelis equates to knowing what Hamas is going to do to them and being responsible for it. Nonsense.]<\/span> <span class=\"r-b88u0q\">They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup de tat.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"r-36ujnk\">1 Now he acknowledges they could not overthrow Hamas but implies they should all die trying anyway. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"r-36ujnk\">2 It&#8217;s not a regime. Hamas are nothing but a terrorist militia, trustees in Israel&#8217;s Palestinian prison camp. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"r-36ujnk\">3 OOPS, he just admitted that the people of Gaza did not choose Hamas, they seized power by force (after a failed Israeli coup against them ruined a power-sharing deal with Fatah). Quick just start blathering &#8220;We are at war&#8221; since your pathetic rationale for killing helpless civilians is unraveling since you have no more justification than your enemies did last weekend.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog: &#8220;It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. [No, it&#8217;s not a nation, that&#8217;s the whole point.] It&#8217;s not true, this rhetoric about civilians were not aware, not involved. [Of course it is impossible that 2 million Gazans, half of them minors, could have known about the attack.] It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-44296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44297,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions\/44297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=44296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}