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News & Current Events Apr 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM

South Korea’s president hits back at Israel in row over ‘disturbing’ video

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South Korea’s president hits back at Israel in row over ‘disturbing’ video
South China Morning Post
South Korea’s president hits back at Israel in row over ‘disturbing’ video
The video purportedly shows Israeli soldiers torturing and pushing a ‘Palestinian kid’ off a roof.

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idiom_exon_0s Apr 12, 2026 +454
World leaders beefing over social media posts. We're all doomed.
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Aethericseraphim Apr 12, 2026 +146
Politicians should be banned from social media. It brings out the absolute f****** worst in all of them. Especially world leaders who have numerous actual diplomatic channels for these kinds of things.
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kojimbob Apr 12, 2026 -84
Yes we should ban things that random listnookor #56498223 doesn't like
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Sir_Encerwal Apr 12, 2026 +131
The South Korean post of "We need to look into this because it seems like historic war crimes are occuring" seemed completely reasonable.
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DweebLSD Apr 13, 2026 -16
i think the more reasonable thing would be for a leader of a country to verify a video before posting it to Twitter and giving his opinion
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PeksyTiger Apr 13, 2026 +4
You being down voted is simultaneously funny, sad, and makes total sense in the current state of things 
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xDolemite Apr 12, 2026 +81
War Criminals posting their acts of child abuse and murder being called “social media posts” We’re all doomed.
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Potates42 Apr 12, 2026 +51
Israel torturing a child and executing them by pushing them off of a roof is "high school drama" apparently.
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overcooked_biscuit Apr 12, 2026 +68
The issue isn't social media posts, the issue is the Israelis were called out for their soldiers abusing a child before dropping him off a rooftop.
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kind_bros_hate_nazis Apr 13, 2026 +2
What the f***
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shayKyarbouti Apr 13, 2026 +1
Nah I say let em beef over social media and ONLY on social media. We’d have less wars in this world
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[deleted] Apr 13, 2026 -4
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FiddlingnRome Apr 13, 2026 +6
Well, if you voted for Yoon Suk Yeol, that's nothing to be proud of!!!
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idiom_exon_0s Apr 13, 2026 +1
You’re missing the point entirely.
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MobileHedgehoga Apr 12, 2026 -12
Not all Koreans support this moron.
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idiom_exon_0s Apr 13, 2026 +2
Never said they did.
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breadstan Apr 12, 2026 -12
World leaders are overly obsessed with online reputation is the right observation. It’s like high school drama all over again. Daddy issues out in the open. Having power and money doesn’t really solve bad parenting
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nnooaa_lev Apr 12, 2026 -13
Ah tbh Lee was always like that. He's always online like Elon Musk
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dzan796ero Apr 12, 2026 -17
They do it because their followers go crazy about it. Lee has a basically cult-like following in Korea. Well.... not just him. It runs in Korea. Both sides.
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Substantial-Plane405 Apr 12, 2026 +218
> South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday accused Israel of failing to “reflect” on allegations of rights abuses by its forces, after Israel decried him for amplifying social media “disinformation”. > Lee irked Israel’s foreign ministry this week with his comments on a social media video with a caption purporting it showed Israeli soldiers torturing and pushing a “Palestinian kid” off a roof. > >“I need to look into whether this is true, and if so, what measures have been taken,” Lee said in a social media post on Friday. Oh, woah. They allegedly tortured this kid, then threw him off a roof? Was the kid linked to Hamas, or something?
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WarpedWiseman Apr 12, 2026 +48
From the article “However, it [the video] appeared to show a different angle of an incident captured in the West Bank two years ago, when reporters saw an Israeli soldier use his foot to push the body of an apparently dead adult man off a roof.”
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lordkeith Apr 12, 2026 +268
Sorry, you're anti semitic for questioning this.
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Shoddy-Fan-584 Apr 12, 2026 +120
The official Israeli defense is that, of course, the kid was a "terrorist" and that he was already dead before being thrown off the roof. Having seen how liberally Israelis apply the term "terrorist" to apparently anyone who happens to be in Gaza while an operation is underway, needless to say I question this official defense.
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corbantd Apr 12, 2026 -129
What evidence do you have for Israel being too ‘liberal’ with its use of the term terrorist? On October 7, as Israelis who were taken from a music festival, beaten and raped, were being paraded though the streets, there wasn’t exactly a popular uprising to protect them. No evidence of helping hands. No evidence of the righteous Palestinian standing up for ‘not torturing civilians.’ I’m in no way saying Israel is always in the right. At all. But they don’t seem nearly as monstrous as their enemies in any of this.
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skrub55 Apr 12, 2026 +39
>What evidence do you have for Israel being too ‘liberal’ with its use of the term terrorist? Are you just playing dumb or have you actually just never seen statements from Israeli officials and media? >there wasn’t exactly a popular uprising to protect them. People are almost always too slow to rise up against evil, even when it affects themselves and those they actually care about. Why in the world would you expect Palestinians who (rightfully) hate Israel to start an uprising because Hamas went too far by targeting civilians? >No evidence of helping hands. No evidence of the righteous Palestinian standing up for ‘not torturing civilians' Surely you've seen any of the reports indicating that Hamas was suppressing dissent within Gaza? Whether any Palestinians had qualms with targeting civilians do you really think that once Israel retaliated by striking civilians there would be Palestinians arguing "when they go low we go high" and willing to fight Hamas for the moral high ground? >I’m in no way saying Israel is always in the right. At all What exactly do you think Israel has done wrong? Are you aware of the atrocities they commit and simply unaware that they justify it by calling anyone they kill a terrorist? >But they don’t seem nearly as monstrous as their enemies in any of this. Monstrous might not be an exact term but are you sure you're looking closely enough? I could understand this viewpoint a month after October 7 if you had little to no background knowledge on Israel. I don't really understand how you can reach this conclusion today. You seem to have a problem with Palestinians not coming to Israeli civilians' defense, but surely you're aware that Israelis haven't exactly been standing up for Palestinian civilians, right? Maybe you've even seen the polls showing that the vast majority of Israelis support ethnically cleansing Gaza and targeting civilians. Is this just as bad or do you hold a double standard? Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians mostly without proper trial. They've just passed a law to fast track executing them en masse as well. Reports and leaked videos consistently show torture of prisoners and those responsible aren't held responsible. I don't want to power scale morality or anything but what exactly makes Israel appear like the less monstrous one?
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pubicfart Apr 12, 2026 +34
you have some research to do if you think that. israeli occupation and terror attacks on palestinians did not start on october 7th. google “naqba.”
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LogFar5138 Apr 12, 2026 -24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anti-Jewish_pogroms_in_Ottoman_Palestine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Tiberias_massacre
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OneMagicMango Apr 12, 2026 +8
Yeah they’ve both done fucked up shit to each other. They’ve massacred each other. It seems you can accept that Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, etc. and others that support them have done fucked up shit to Jewish people and Israel (and there has been. It’s horrific targeting someone for their race, ethnicity, or religion) but can’t accept the opposite has happened. Israel has done the similar things to Palestine and Palestinians among many others. I think it’s fucked up that they both have been doing to each other and then claim to be the moral one.
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Nom_de_guerre_25 Apr 13, 2026 +1
Israel has done these things far more frequently as well. They carried their frustrations at Europeans and took them out on Palestinians. After totally dispossessing them. Far more Palestinians have been killed by Israel; the numbers are truly staggering. Specifically, the number of women and children Israel has killed.
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Top-Promotion8982 Apr 13, 2026 -5
If Israel stops fighting, there will be no Israel. If Palestinians stop fighting, then there will just be peace. Every Muslim country has already expelled basically every Jew. One country in a sea of Muslim countries should be ok with everyone.
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pubicfart Apr 13, 2026 +4
large numbers of extremist settlers are continually pushing into palestinian territory to effectively further expand israel’s borders. thats just one reason that it just is not true that if palestinians stop fighting there will “just be peace.” and the fact that you think that, and other things you said point to a bias in your train of thought, whether you recognize it or not.
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Top-Promotion8982 Apr 13, 2026 -3
There’s a small minority of crazies on both sides that will never stop. The overall prevailing statement is still true
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OneMagicMango Apr 13, 2026
To predace I’m on the side of the innocent civilians whether they be Jewish or Arab. No there won’t peace. Don’t kid yourself. This is a cycle of violence that will continually happen no matter what. It’s in our nature and it’s just what humans do. There’s an hatred for Arabs and Palestinians just as there is for Jewish people. Look at that Palestinian prisoner who was sexually assaulted and nothing ended up happening to that IDF soldier who did that. Same thing has happened with Hamas and Jewish people. And I agree it’s so fucked up to go after someone because of their race, religion, ethnicity, etc. but as you can see with ol bibi Netanyahu he wants to continually start shit. Just like Trump and just like Hezbollah, Iran, and Hamas. It’s one battle, war, and attack one after another. Also if palestians stop fighting what do you think will happen? A group of Israelis will come in and destroy their property and steal their land and house. If Israel truly wanted peace they would be taking care of these settlers and punishing them but all I have seen is the Israeli government is say “don’t do that” and that’s it. And do you not realize when you bomb people you’re just creating more Hamas, Hezbollah, hotuhis, etc. members. They’re angry and they want revenge and same goes for the isakris that join the IDF for the same reason. Israel and Palestinians are very simar in so many ways and I wish more people could see that and come to terms with it. I’m not saying I support it at all, I’m just saying I can see why they’re joining these groups. You can’t bomb an ideology away. It just makes it worse and furthers that cycle of violence. I just want you to see why there will never be peace. You’re right though there will always be crazies on both sides and that’s why the majority need to have this want for this to stop. Right now we’re just revving each other up. There’s so much hatred and I hate it so much. I wish we could live together in peace and be friends with one another and I hate we can’t.
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Deamon- Apr 12, 2026 +6
Why would they In their view that state took their homes, kills their people and puts others into prison with 99% conviction rate F*** Hamas but you really cant blame that population for not going up to defend this state
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No-Possibility-3227 Apr 12, 2026 +41
Seems you are the baddie in this case. Once again with feeling: We mustn't throw kids off the roof!
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nnooaa_lev Apr 12, 2026 +23
It wasn't in Gaza, not a kid and he was armed even in the video. It's a corpse they throw
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WolfofTallStreet Apr 12, 2026 +22
Of course, throwing a child off of a roof — even if it’s a child you’ve already killed — is horrific. Even the U.S. asked for an explanation *at the time* … which was 2024… … I think the question is why South Korea’s president randomly posted something from 2024, unprompted. It doesn’t mean that what Israel did here was any less horrific. South Korea’s president posting this now, though, coupled with a weird comment about the Holocaust, *does* come off as a deliberate provocation.
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exoriparian Apr 12, 2026 +45
They did so many war crimes, we're going to be discovering them for decades.  The right time to comment on this stuff is CONSTANTLY.
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WolfofTallStreet Apr 12, 2026 -36
Why not show one that’s *not* from 2024? And why make a weird comment comparing comfort women to the Holocaust?
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jlharper Apr 12, 2026 +12
You don't get let off the hook for war crimes because two years have passed. You can't bury things that make you uncomfortable with arbitrary rules like "That's 18 months ago". Particularly when we are in the same situation from 18 months ago, if not a worse situation.
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hisgoldfish Apr 13, 2026 +5
lol look at you defending a child getting killed. 
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Practical-Spot-1803 Apr 13, 2026 +8
"He was murdered whole two years ago, bro, move on, otherwise you sound like Hitler". I just can't get the grasp on how these people are ok with themselves.
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hisgoldfish Apr 13, 2026 +1
The cognitive dissonance is real with them. 
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exoriparian Apr 12, 2026 +7
2024 is still extremely recent by crimes against humanity standards. Bizarre question. Also, because what happened in Korea and what happened in the holocaust were both from a fascist takeover? It's weird that you would take issue with the comparison.
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WolfofTallStreet Apr 12, 2026 -6
“Everything is the Holocaust” is a form of soft core Holocaust denial. Yes, it was bad, but it wasn’t the Holocaust. Not all bad things are the Holocaust.
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exoriparian Apr 12, 2026 +4
Taking umbrage to one case of extreme human suffering being compared to another is a symptom of thinking one group matters more than the other.
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zurvivl Apr 12, 2026 +11
Body of an adult hamas soldier
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yosisoy Apr 12, 2026 +2
"Big if true"
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Western-Box7295 Apr 13, 2026 +3
It's a corpse which even Lee Jae Myung didn't deny. You're just echoing his fake news. Plus, the corpse of an adult Palestine combatant, not a child.
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Massive-Grocery7152 Apr 12, 2026 -4
Regardless isn’t that a war crime lol
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DiscipleOfYeshua Apr 13, 2026
IDF had a gun battle with terrorists. In the aftermath, soldiers kicked a dead armed terrorist off a roof. The soldiers were investigated and found guilty of breaching IDF code of ethics.
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Remote-River268 Apr 12, 2026 -109
They literally threw a dead body of a hamas member off a rooftop after clearing a building in an intense fight. This happened in every single war in modern history. South Koreas president compared that very normal act to the holocaust. See the problem?
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Wooden-Feeling8519 Apr 12, 2026 +83
I’m actively enlisted in the forces, I don’t recall any throwing of dead bodies off of a rooftop procedure when it came to clearing buildings…. 🧐
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king_hutton Apr 12, 2026 +18
Did you serve in any armed forces? Is this something you did?
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Siderophores Apr 12, 2026 +5
“Lets normalize desecrating dead bodies” Ok Buddy
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Ultra_Metal Apr 12, 2026 -57
Those allegations are fake.
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Siderophores Apr 12, 2026 +4
You should move to Israel
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Accurate_Result5427 Apr 12, 2026 -19
Nah, It's Rhhhhhhhhhammmmass for you. It wasn't lengthy enough.
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exoriparian Apr 12, 2026 -13
It's a kid.  Your question is perverse.  Also, literally everyone in Gaza is "linked to Hamas" if you play the Kevin Bacon game.
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Royroy87 Apr 12, 2026 -41
As bad as it was it wasn't a kid a woman or a journalist...
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retardedguy39 Apr 12, 2026 +81
This was literally posted a few days ago and it ended up being a year+ old video of a deadbody getting kicked off a roof. Bad, but not the claim that is being made in this article.
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Low-Temperature-6962 Apr 12, 2026 +64
The article actually says > However, it appeared to show a different angle of an incident captured in the West Bank two years ago, when reporters saw an Israeli soldier use his foot to push the body of an apparently dead adult man off a roof. So the article agrees with you. It's possible it was edited after your comment was posted.
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Jubba_JubJub_0271 Apr 13, 2026 +2
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Level-Display-6670 Apr 12, 2026 -15
Are you actually defensmding the idf because it didn't happen 2 months ago, but rather 2 years ago? Its still the sane conflict. Its still a war crime.
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Low-Temperature-6962 Apr 12, 2026 +1
I'm defending the SCMP (a Hong Kong Chinese news site) for accurate reporting.
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Denim_in_dago Apr 12, 2026 +12
So North and South Korea finally agreed upon something, thanks Israel!!!!!
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humanoiddoc Apr 13, 2026 +3
Utterly stupid... no better than Trump
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MachineMindless549 Apr 13, 2026 +1
李在明果然是一个正直聪明的总统
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Whtblwhtnvgrd Apr 12, 2026 -76
South China Morning Post - ok bye.
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Ragebaiterlmao Apr 12, 2026 +6
Are you mentally disabled?
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BabylonianWeeb Apr 12, 2026 -24
Even their allies are mad at them now.
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nnooaa_lev Apr 12, 2026 +25
Lee was never an ally. He's pro Palestine since 2012
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Jubba_JubJub_0271 Apr 13, 2026 +3
Damn, love this for him. But Mossad agents will be crawling up his ass like they did in Spain and Ireland
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nnooaa_lev Apr 12, 2026 -25
President Lee didn't give af in 2023 or 2024, but when SK need oil he suddenly remember there's a war 🤦‍♀️. It's also dumb because why are you brining a fake video from 2024 and don't talk about the current war? 
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Worried_Exercise_937 Apr 12, 2026 +24
>President Lee didn't give af in 2023 or 2024, but when SK need oil he suddenly remember there's a war 🤦‍♀️. Because he was just Mr. Lee not President Lee in 2023/2024. >It's also dumb because why are you brining a fake video from 2024 and don't talk about the current war? It's not dumb because Israelis are doing the same thing now as they were doing in 2023 or in 2010's and 2000's. It's just that with prevalence of cell phones everywhere, you get caught doing this kind of stuff on video where in 2000, unless you were doing it right in front of CNN cameraman, there was no video. Israelis should stop killing other people.
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hisgoldfish Apr 13, 2026 +5
You are a special special person. 
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MobileHedgehoga Apr 12, 2026 -19
As a Korean, South Koreans don't take this idiot seriously, so the world shouldn't either. If you want to understand his nature, he has previously been quoted: "In Ukraine, a novice politician of six months became president and declared [Ukraine's] accession to NATO, which provoked Russia and eventually led to a clash." "Why meddle with China? Just say 'Xie Xie' to everyone. China and Taiwan's domestic problems are none of our business." Yet suddenly, when it comes to Israel and Gaza, he’s all over social media acting like some moral arbiter, shouting about human rights. Netanyahu is an admirable leader with historical gravitas who understands well that sovereignty is won through the employment of lethal force. Lee Jae-myung is just a typical coward politician that hides behind populist rhetoric and manipulative tactics. They are not even comparable. Korean progressives are a delusional cult that believe that their useless poems about justice and moral conscience can change the world.
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Gundungus Apr 12, 2026 +2
Big Yahu is as admirable as the mud on the bottom of my shoe
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hisgoldfish Apr 13, 2026 +3
lol what is this nonsense?
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External-Plastic-154 Apr 12, 2026 -126
At last, the South Korean president has made a miscalculation. I understand that South Korea’s energy supply from the Middle East is unstable, but the consequences of provoking Israel will not be very favorable.
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Fickle-Maintenance-1 Apr 12, 2026 +63
What’s Israel gonna do to South Korea lol. Israel is a regional power at best surrounded by hostile nations kept afloat by U.S. backing allowing for a technological gap. It has absolutely no leverage over Korea or any part of east asia.
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External-Plastic-154 Apr 12, 2026 -63
Israel is the core hegemonic power in the Middle East.. Israel has effectively wiped out Iran and even eliminated the remaining forces, so it is now, in both name and reality, the dominant power in the Middle East. Turkey is now Israel's primary enemy.
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BitFickle62 Apr 12, 2026 +24
This was what Saddam thought in the 80s before the Gulf War.
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External-Plastic-154 Apr 12, 2026 -32
Saddam Hussein was merely a pawn on the U.S. chessboard, used and then discarded. In contrast, Israel is a core ally of the United States in the Middle East. In an increasingly multipolar world, the U.S. will not abandon Israel. Otherwise, it's possible that Israel wants to eliminate U.S. influence in the Middle East
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BitFickle62 Apr 12, 2026 +14
This was what South Vietnam thought in the 60s before abandonment by the US.
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External-Plastic-154 Apr 12, 2026 +1
Extremist factions in Israel have a desire to eliminate U.S. influence in the Middle East.
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BitFickle62 Apr 12, 2026 +9
Good. Count me in.
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CaptainWaterpaper Apr 12, 2026 +10
This is amazing cope. Israel’s power has decreased in the Middle East. Iran has only been strengthened and proved that they can hold the world economy hostage on a whim.
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Halbaras Apr 12, 2026 +19
Israel is a state of nine million that can't even bomb Natanz without begging the US to bail them. South Korea is already facing severe economic damage from Israel's war against Iran, and watching the US divert THAAD systems to the middle east. There is no threat anywhere near as scary as what Netanyahu has already chosen to do with the Strait. Threatening a US ally that holds a huge share of global chipmaking, has a much larger GDP and population and which has massive shipbuilding and artillery production would be a foolish even for the Israeli far right.
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External-Plastic-154 Apr 12, 2026 -6
So, they actually ended up striking the nuclear facilities....
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External-Plastic-154 Apr 12, 2026 -5
It could be a different story if South Korea provided overwhelming military support to other Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, instead of states like Iran or Israel. But South Korea, which is nothing more than a U.S. lapdog anyway, won't be able to pull off something like that.
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Yeongno Apr 12, 2026 +7
SK gave missie defense systems to UAE 😕 SK is a 'lapdog' sure but SK believes in becoming rich together you know. Free trade has been just upside for us and everyone that works with us, we make semiconductors and US makes tech and sink money into AI. It's win win. There's no reason for Koreans to like wars and belligerant leaders. They threaten free trade. SK wants countries to get the f*** along, and if nothing else to trade with us when they are done bitching.
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HousingThrowAway1092 Apr 12, 2026 +43
Israel is a country with a population smaller than North Carolina. South Korea has 5 times the population and 3 times the GDP of Israel. Israel’s disproportionate influence in the region stems exclusively from having the backing of the US. The US is no longer a reliable partner because it can swing to diametrically opposed positions every four years. Israel is also not monolithic. Netanyahu has control due to a fragile coalition of parties. There are a ton of liberal Israelis who hate him and don’t support his war crimes. In any event, Netanyahu is going to jail for corruption the second he loses power which is exactly why he doesn’t want a solution. Bibi wants chaos because it’s the only way he stays out of jail.
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ynhnwn Apr 12, 2026 +1
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