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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/41590

Israeli protesters during an judicial overall protests outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images)The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.


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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.

Misinformation. There's literally Israeli Kinesset members that oppose the genocide in Gaza and the war with Iran. They are the minority, but they do exist.

Not to mention the Israeli citizens refusing to enlist in the military, who are sent to prison.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

There's literally Israeli Kinesset members that oppose the genocide in Gaza and the war with Iran.

How many?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

"The entire political spectrum" doesn't mean "every single person ever," or even "every single politician ever." The implication is only that the statement applies to all political segments of the population. If the left, right and center (and any other significant political blocs) mostly agree on something, then the whole political spectrum supports it, even if some people don't.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 18 minutes ago

That's literally not what it means.

There is people that oppose it. there is politicians that oppose it. The entire political spectrum isn't discrete. It's a spectrum. That's literally what a spectrum means.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that these same people were praising their soldiers for raping captured civilians?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 51 minutes ago

Death to the IDF and all but this article is misleading horseshit. Do better, lemmy.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Damn. I expected better reporting from Mondoweiss.

Is this an opinion piece? Because it's clearly not factual.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

There's been huge anti war protests in Israel.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran
...
An Israeli poll in early March showed that a whopping 93% of Jewish Israelis supported the war of aggression on Iran.

Wow, did this not get passed by an editor?

93% is an overwhelmingly majority. It literally is not the entire Israeli political spectrum.

This article is factually inaccurate from the first few sentences

[–] Rumo161@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Bashing the limited opposition inside israel against this horrifying war while asking for a nuke as a "cure" is pretty zynic.

Its obviously wrong what Israel is doing and the have to be stopped. Its very important to keep in mind that every Nazi and even Hitler, Trump, Putin an Netanyahu are/were humans. Its Humans which do those things. Dont make yourself belive just because you are not them, non of your wishes could be as brutal as theirs.

[–] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The poll they cite only polled 500 people and the "Israel Democracy Institute" who conducted the poll was founded by a Trump mega donor.

Mondoweiss loses credibility by releasing this article without pointing out the obvious polling issue.

They also failed to shout out the organizations that have been protesting daily against the war! Standing Together עומדים ביחד has been organizing protests since day one of the operation.

Mondoweiss is showing itself as an unfair propagandist publication who is more interested in clicks and spicy headlines than actually giving a real picture.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

The poll they cite only polled 500 people

Which is more than enough. Statistically, you only need 30 or so samples to get a normal distribution, at which case the error varies with 1/sqrt(n) for sample size n. This means that if a sample size of 8000 would only have 4 times less error (so from 4% to 2%) compared to one of 500. The mathematics of the thing is ironclad: Provided the sample is representative (i.e. doesn't unfairly over or underrepresent a particular group) and exceeds the mid-double digits*, any issues with sample size would manifest as a large calculated error.

[–] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Founded and funded by people and orgs that have a vested interest in this conflict. Like the heritage foundation polling for gay marriage.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Israel is a sick and diseased society.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Israel really blows my mind. Pro or Anti Netanyanhu supporters still want to kill Arabs. Seeing interviews and social media pics of just regular Israelis casually wishing death is still so jarring to me.

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