Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

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Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation
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Or maybe Israelis are the ones who are not facing reality. You keep a malnourished and abused big dog chained in your backyard, you're going to get bitten sooner or later.

...And now that they've been bitten, they're going to beat it to death, and god help anyone that thinks what they're doing is cruel and unnecessary (and terrorism, and a war crime).

Ok I want to start by saying I agree with you in principle. I’m not commenting on substance, but on form. I know this metaphor. It’s provocative and is used frequently. But I don’t love the idea of comparing Palestinians to dogs. Is there any way it can be tweaked to not refer to an oppressed people as animals?

I don’t comment this directly at you either. I’m asking the broader Lemmy community. Can we workshop an adjustment?

Slave, or internment camp prisoner i guess.

Maybe label it as a camp where people of a specific ethnicity are gathered, or concentrated, and not allowed to leave.

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