Amid growing pressure in Britain to stop arms sales to Israel, former prime minister publishes scathing column in which he condemns the calls to 'let the jihadis win'
  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    432·
    9 months ago

    If “western civilization” requires genocide to exist, then it shouldn’t exist.

    (Obviously he’s just wrong, but I’m arguing down at his level.)

  • 800XL@lemmy.world
    28·
    9 months ago

    I’ll take my fucking chances. Whenever some right wing cunt makes some statement like this my first thought is they’re full of shit and the only they make stupid statements like this is because they stand to lose money

  • acargitz
    26·
    9 months ago

    Guess what fucko, western civilization survived the end of apartheid in South Africa, and will survive the end of apartheid in Israel/Palestine.

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    13·
    9 months ago

    Without even getting into the racist undertones of “the end of western civilisation”, he’s just talking absolute nonsense.

  • macniel@feddit.de
    142·
    9 months ago

    Mhm given that Israel is doing a jihad right now… Perhaps he’s right or he mispoke.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      121·
      9 months ago

      Okay Israel is not doing Jihad. Israel is doing what uninformed Westerners imagine when they hear the word “Jihad”. Let’s not get things mixed up.

      • macniel@feddit.de
        91·
        9 months ago

        They are certainly on a religious crusade to get rid of the Palestinians who occupy their holy land.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          5·
          9 months ago

          I mean they’re doing genocide, which runs contradictory to the purpose of Jihad since you can’t spread Islam (or any religion, really) to dead people. That’s why I’m saying to not get things mixed up.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
    10·
    9 months ago

    Can he just slide into the obscurity and irrelevance that he deserves? Same with Trump. I really wish for politics to be boring again and not about quirky individuals with bad blond haircuts.

  • hackerwacker@lemmy.ml
    133·
    9 months ago

    Well he’s the fucking lord of death for NATO recently so I guess he would know about death wishes.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      34·
      9 months ago

      It, along with the whole “smiley buffoon” act is an affectation the embodiment of Oxbridge arrogance and callousness adopted to make him appear silly in an endearing way so that his actual words and actions would appear less villainous than they actually are.

    • ivanafterall@kbin.social
      52·
      9 months ago

      I’m going with unaddressed mental illness run amok, leading to apathy regarding presentation, hygiene, etc. Also why Trump looks and smells like literal shit.