(October 9, 2023 at 11:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^Of course it's dehumanizing. Israelis are 'people'. Palestinians are just, well, 'Palestinians'. It's a not-so-subtle way of 'othering' the dead in Gaza, to exclude them as human beings. If you can keep them from belonging to the group 'people', it makes it easier to justify butchering them.
Boru
To your point:
Quote:The militant group Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel on Saturday, leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally declare war Sunday. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant then vowed to halt the supply of food, electricity and water to Gaza, saying in a video message posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the nation is at war with “human animals.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international...aza-strip/