Israel’s foreign minister has said that an arms embargo on his country would lead to the elimination of the Israeli state and “a second Holocaust”.

Gideon Saar was speaking on Tuesday at an international conference on antisemitism in Jerusalem.

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    That’s why I say it has a right to become Palestine. It will still exist, sort of, but in a revolutionary new form.

    And Israelis can become Palestinians.

    Assuming they aren’t just settlers that moved there recently to steal land, of course.

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      if the world was fair, that tract of land in the middle east would become palestine, jewish immigrants would be allowed to live there and have full citizenship and rights, but a nice chunk of territory would be carved out of central or eastern europe to make “settlerania”.

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      What Israel has a right to do is not relevant. America has the right to become part of Canada. Israel remaining as it is is the problem – and more to the point, the problem is that people don’t see that as the problem.

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        America has the right to become part of Canada.

        Except Canadians don’t seem to want that.

        What do you think “river to the sea” means? It means Israel will become Palestine again.

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          Fair enough about America and Canada. Still, I think the Israeli are perfectly aware that they could become part of Palestine. They just don’t seem to want that. Honestly, trying to convince the Israeli people to go for this option seems rather Liberal-minded to me – liberal democracy! Just vote!

          “river to the sea”

          RttS is a prediction, or a call to action. It is a slogan used by both sides, to mean freedom in one case or manifest destiny in the other.

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            Oh, I think Israelis are a lost cause.

            The only thing that will convince them is defeat. I’m more interested in convincing concerned Westerners, who seem more wishy-washy about Israel.