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When HackingTeam was exposed, no one was asking to sanction Italy. Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades.
by keyme 6y ago
When HackingTeam was exposed, no one was asking to sanction Italy. Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades.
- j0ej0ej0e 6y ago> Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades. Well Israeli has been treating palestinians pretty badly so it's not like it isn't justified. At least critising Israel for genuine reasons isn't deemed anti-semitic in the latest international standard of the definition, oh wait!
- xinniethepooh 6y agoDepending on when your justifiability timeline begins, Palestine is occupying the area illegally.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoSane people hold others culpable for what they do and not the sins of their fathers. By that sane metric, Israel is by far the more complicit of the two entities, and everyone knows it. Even the biggest, baddest ally of Israel (America) has a population where the vast majority are opposed to supporting them any more because of what they've been doing right now.
- Splendor 6y agoI don't care when or how Palestinians came to the area. Their treatment is immoral.
- Daho0n 6y agoIllegally living in slums and being killed by those they oppress and occupy? Oh please.
- captain_price7 6y agoOh come on. It's not like Italy has been bombing foreign scientists, sending assassins all around the world, or illegally occupying an entire country for seven decades.
- AsyncAwait 6y ago> Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades. And defenders of Israeli actions using the defense of people 'hating on Israel' instead of reflecting on the fact that people have genuine policy disagreements with what Israel does has been a popular deflection tactic for decades. You can't divorce what Israel does on a daily basis from its image and then act surprised when it is being criticized.
- smashah 6y agoWhataboutisming when people are justifiably calling out an Israeli company (shielded by Israeli courts) for continuing to be the reason why human rights activists and journalists are being jailed or murdered, is a very cool and contrarian thing to do. Why does this shining light of democracy allow/encourage it's companies to perpetuate authoritarianism for their neighbors? Not a very democracy-loving thing to do.
- sa-mao 6y agoThere is genuine interest for perpetuating authoritarianism and more importantly corruption for their neighbours.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoWho was the last agent of the Italian state to infiltrate a foreign country and bomb and assassinate civilians in broad daylight? Israel did this last month. I also don't remember Italy bulldozing people's homes while the occupants watch and then turning that land over to their preferred ethnic group, but you know my history isn't so great.
- tripzilch 6y ago> Who was the last agent of the Italian state to infiltrate a foreign country and bomb and assassinate civilians in broad daylight? That'd probably be Super Mario.