Israel’s ambassador to Austria, David Roet, has suggested executing Palestinian minors involved in armed conflict, a secretly recorded video has revealed.
During a closed-door meeting with the local Jewish community in Innsbruck on Thursday, Roet said that “there should be a death sentence” for teenagers for “holding a gun” or a “grenade”. He provided no evidence of children carrying weapons in Gaza.
The video was recorded two days after Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire on 18 March, by which time more than 500 Palestinians were killed, of which almost 200 were children.
Roet dismissed concerns over civilian casualties in Gaza, stating: “If you believe that there are no uninvolved [people] in Gaza… you’re believing that Israel is targeting babies intentionally, which is not correct.”
Palestinians lives matter to me. They should also matter to Palestinian political leadership.
Palestinians have the right to self determination, as do Israelis. So they should find a way to share the land.
Palestinians have a right to resist and use violence even. However this has not been a successful tactic except during the first intifada. Hamas‘ violent resistance from Gaza over the last 20 years has been an utter failure to the detriment of Palestinians and their goals.
Those westerners advocating for eternal violent resistance and for Israel‘s destruction are not acting in the interest of most Palestinians.
Palestinians are oppressed by Israel, the Islamo-fascist authoritarians of Hamas, the police state of the PA, the governments of Lebanon and Syria denying them equal rights as citizens. UMRWA is holding their future hostage, denying them to build a new life elsewhere, keeping them downtrodden and dependent on western aid. Palestinians deserve much better. Fundamental irredentist nationalism leads nowhere but suffering.
I never advocated for extermination of children. No child should be enlisted to fight in a war either. They deserve to grow up with love and hope for the future.
If you read the links, they contain references to reports of human rights groups like amnesty international.
Unhinged is denying the abuse of Palestinian children by their own people. You don’t give a shit about actual Palestinians. You only hate Israel.
Man barges in to both sides a genocide and pretend it is Hamas oppressing the Palestinians.
Notice the insertion of the term “Islamo-Fascists” for the Islamophobic cherry on top. I wonder what people would say if you replaced the word “Islamo” with “Judeo”.