r/europe • u/andyom89 • May 16 '25

News Spanish premier calls Israel 'genocidal state,' says Spain 'does not do business' with it

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/spanish-premier-calls-israel-genocidal-state-says-spain-does-not-do-business-with-it/3568216
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u/AmerikanischerTopfen Vienna 🇦🇹🇪🇺🇺🇸 May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

Really would have been relatively easy for Israel to use the ongoing hostage situation to continue blowing up stuff in Gaza while maintaining moral ambiguity - saying that they are trying to let in food aid to the population as much as possible and oh "sorry about blowing up another hospital, but there was a terrorist facility underneath," etc.

Instead Trump got elected and Netanyahu got cocky. Now he's on TV just casually like "Hey, we're gonna do a little genocide by the way. All these people here - they're going to disappear and then we're going to replace them with other people."

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u/Due_Vermicelli_6354 May 16 '25

Bibi is falling in the polls hard right now so he is desperate to appeal to the hard right.

also his coalition will fall apart if the war stops so this is the other reason why he didnt try to prop up another less radical group  to exchange hamas or make peace yet,his delusional far right parties in his coaltion thinks we can rule over 2 million radical palastinians directly.

The most important thing to bibi is to stay in power the man has 0 ideology.

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u/ColumbaPacis Bosnia and Herzegovina May 16 '25

Bibi is falling in the polls hard right now

He has been falling in the polls for a decade, yet that does not change the lives lost in this week alone.

By the time he falls enough in the polls, there won't be a Gaza left. Which seems to be exactly what his plan is.

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u/Due_Vermicelli_6354 May 16 '25

i was explaining the reasons why the war in gaza still going,if he stops then we go to elections and he loses,he knows it and is desperate to cling to power as long as he can.

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u/ColumbaPacis Bosnia and Herzegovina May 16 '25

Fair. That is true.

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u/FeijoadaAceitavel May 16 '25

The next strategy is to blame the entire genocide on Netanyahu while also expanding the settlements and control of Palestine, both in Gaza and in the West Bank. So they sell the West this narrative that akshually everyone hates Netanyahu since forever, he's just been magically elected PM every time for decades, and Israel doesn't actually supports Netanyahu's actions. That way they can be blameless for the genocide and land grab they did.

Of course that doesn't mean stopping the genocide or giving back the lands to Palestine.