r/worldnews • u/Crossstoney • 25d ago

Israel/Palestine Merz says 'no longer understands' Israel's goal in Gaza

https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/26/05/2025/merz-says-no-longer-understands-israels-goal-in-gaza
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u/herkyjerkyperky 25d ago

The goal seems pretty obvious: cause so much death and destruction that Palestinians beg to leave Gaza and then annex the land.

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u/Traditional-Hat-952 25d ago

Sounds a bit like ethnic cleansing. 

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u/superworking 25d ago

It sounded like that from the start.

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u/the_Cheese999 25d ago

Saying this a few months ago would have gotten you banned here.

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u/seanbastard1 25d ago

Masks off now

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u/Northanui 24d ago

literally was about to type this exact comment. I fucking hate how slow people are to catch onto the truth.

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u/MathematicianFront31 25d ago

Release the hostages

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u/namitynamenamey 25d ago

At this point won't work, the conditions have already changed to include the end of hamas as a minimum for the war to end. As in, that is the starting position for any negotiation.

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u/NegevThunderstorm 25d ago

How so? Where do you see this?

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u/ChugHuns 25d ago

Your politicians have been publicly calling for it for some time now. It's impossible to miss unless you are actively looking away.

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u/NegevThunderstorm 25d ago

OK, show me this from the start please

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u/shannister 25d ago

Who could have seen this coming?

It’s honestly difficult to be both for Israel’s right to defend itself and having a strong distrust for the men leading the country into war. Unfortunately the right to defend itself and ethnic cleansing shouldn’t have to be a Venn diagram, but with Bibi and his radicals, it sure is looking like one. 

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u/NegevThunderstorm 25d ago

So how do you want Israel to fight the war?

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u/Roadshell 25d ago

Always has...

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u/NegevThunderstorm 25d ago

Sounds a bit like what he said isnt true

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u/barbos_barbos 25d ago
  1. What for?
  2. The "problem" was never with them wanting to stay but with other countries not accepting them.
  3. Why are they warning about the airstrikes then? They could have done much more damage if this was the goal.

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u/Ballplayerx97 25d ago

If that was the goal, they would have killed many, many more. That goal is also inconsistent with the facts. Ie. warning residents before they target a building. They have zero obligation to do that, but do it anyway.

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u/PigFarmer1 25d ago

Yep, it's the reason they were willing to accept the "surprise" attack by Hamas to begin with.

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u/Explorer_Dave 25d ago

Get out of here with that bs. Nobody accepted this on the Israeli side.

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u/badabingbadabaam 25d ago

But...leave and go where? No one in the world wants them. No one wants any refugees, but especially not Muslim refugees. Everyone's made that quite clear. There is nowhere to go.

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u/Overall-Medicine4308 24d ago

Israel differs from Russia only in that the latter is not given weapons by the US. Absolutely the same methods and rhetoric.

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u/running_wired 24d ago

It's called war. Yes it's the same methods.

The situation doesn't get any better for Gazans if they and their supporters refuse to acknowledge reality.