Benjamin Netanyahu has evoked the spirit of London during the blitz, and pointed to his own family’s sacrifice amid the blood, toil, tears and sweat of his nation: the second postponement of his son’s wedding.

The Israeli prime minister’s remarks, solemnly delivered to the cameras against the backdrop of a missile-struck hospital building in the southern city of Beersheba, set off a howl of derision that echoed around the Hebrew-language internet, at the height of a war that Netanyahu unleashed on Friday.

The stunning comments also added grist to the arguments of his critics that the PM is increasingly cut off emotionally from the daily realities of Israel and the region, after more than 17 years in office.

Seeking to underline his family’s shared hardship with ordinary Israelis, Netanyahu adopted a Churchillian tone when pointing out that this was not the first time his son Avner’s wedding had needed to be postponed, and that Avner’s fiancee was also disappointed, not to mention the thwarted mother of the groom, Netanyahu’s wife, Sara.

“It really reminds me of the British people during the blitz. We are going through a blitz,” Netanyahu said, referring to the wartime Nazi bombing of Britain in which 43,000 civilians died.

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[–] 101 points 1 year ago

Poor kid who can't get married, because his dad decided to bomb another country to distract the international community from the genocide he's committing.
Which means Bibi is also directly responsible from fucking up his son's wedding. Fucking narcissists.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago

    Spoken like a true sociopath.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh noes! Maybe uhhh don't pull this type of bullshit?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He probably did it so he wouldn't have to pay for the wedding or some shit like that.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lol or better yet, didn't approve of the fiance.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    I could end the conflict right now and go to my son's wedding BUT probably lose the next election and go to prison... OR I could keep it going, make the entire planet a worse place but stay out of prison, keep leading the party and not go to the wedding...

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    To me, the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank reminds me of the Nazi occupation of the USSR and Yugoslavia, mass murders and everyday war crimes. The IDF are on the same level as the Nazi SS brigades, war criminals and child murderers.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Unfathomably tone deaf, the people he's bombing are unable to attend their children's weddings, because the bombs are killing those children.

    Also the headline is ridiculous, scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything positive, there's nothing remotely stunning here.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I think they were saying it was stunningly stupid and tone deaf. No one is actually stunned, it’s more that it’s unbelievable to everyone that he actually said it. It was a bit tongue in cheek.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Comparing this to the Blitz.... Fucking yikes, no wonder the guardian broke free of their leash to underline how tone deaf this is.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Bloodthirsty butcher. He is up there with Hitler. Stalin and Pol Pot as one of the tyrants of modern history.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    He had to cancel his son's wedding? Wow, he must be suffering almost as much as everyone living in Gaza. Too bad this is just a thing that happens, it's not like there's a single person who can just stop the whole thing...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    No, really, it is like the blitz. It's just Israel is playing the German side.

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    [–] [S] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Please show your respects for Netanyahu during this challenging time.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Luckily for him, he doesn't need to be worried about an IDF raid while he's mourning oh wait this 'personal cost' is about a wedding being postponed...

    Dror Sadot, the spokesperson for B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, said the Israeli police’s actions at Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral were “horrific” and exposed “a broader, more routine aspect” to Israel’s approach toward Palestinians mourning their dead. Sadot said that Israeli security forces’ actions at the journalist’s funeral are part of a pattern of Israeli abuses at Palestinian funerals that B’Tselem had documented over the years, including dismantling of mourning tents, destroying memorials and murals commemorating the dead, and “violent incursions into the homes of grieving families, as was also the case with the Abu Akleh family,” as police had stormed her home hours after she died.

    https://archive.is/YkeLy

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    Tldr: “Ohhh, buuhuuu, my son can’t marry because the countries we attacked are now sending bombs and drones in return 😭”

    Meanwhile, thousands will not be able to marry ever ☠️🪦

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    These fuckers (and I mean people like Netanyahu, Trump or Musk, just to avoid any misunderstandings) have zero empathy for others but will squeal like stuck pigs the second they get any kind of blowback.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    I can smell antisemitism here Edit: I was joking, not so obviously I guess 🤷

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can you point to any line from any definition of antisemitism that applies here? I'll even accept the flawed IHRA document in this case.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Wow he really is overdoing the Ozempic

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