Former Israeli Knesset member Moshe Feiglin quoted Adolf Hitler as he called for Israel to resettle the Gaza Strip and create a “Hebrew Gaza.”

Feiglin, who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party to found the right-wing Zehut Party and plans to challenge Likud in Israel’s next elections, made the comments during a panel discussion on Israel’s Channel 12 that was shared on social media on Sunday, as Middle East Eye reported.

“We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it…” Feiglin said, adding, “As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”

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    6 months ago

    I see people constantly invoking the Nazis to make excuses for the actions of Hamas. The logic is “Israel is like Nazis therefore everything Hamas does it permissible.” It’s idiotic reasoning but it’s commonplace here.

    This guy is similarly idiotic. If you’re outraged by what this guy is saying, look at the rationalizations people on here do everyday in support of Hamas. It’s the same eye for an eye kind of thinking. “Other side is Nazis, therefore we should do horrible things!”

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        6 months ago

        I guess you just pretend not to see comments all over Lemmy expressing support for Hamas?

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            6 months ago

            Doesn’t mean there isn’t support for Hamas abounds.

            They seem like immature TikTok kids from what I can tell, but they’re around.

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              6 months ago

              Oh definitely. I’m just saying both sides have their indiscriminant supporters and that one side is way overrepresented in my experience

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          6 months ago

          I read newspapers in several languages and see your strawman in comments all over the world: Criticizing Israel means supporting Hamas.

          In reality pretty much everyone is explicitly not supporting Hamas terrorists while arguing for a stop to the Israeli atrocities.