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> how the one tiny country in the whole world This tactic of saying "oh try to find Israel on the map, it's so tiny, oh poor state of Israel" is often pushed b
by devtul 5y ago
> how the one tiny country in the whole world
This tactic of saying "oh try to find Israel on the map, it's so tiny, oh poor state of Israel" is often pushed by Zionists, also often trying to link anti-zionism with anti-semitism.
I saw a talk with Ruth Wisse, a professor at Harvard University pushing this narrative.
- myfavoritedog 5y agoBecause the argument has validity. If Israel weren't Jewish, nobody would care about it. You can go line by line describing Israel and its so-called "atrocities" and I'll show you countries that are far more appropriately accused of those types of atrocities... yet those other countries never make it into the international news cycle. I'm not Jewish. I'm not religious. But the singling out of Israel by political/antisemitic forces has not escaped my notice.
- Macha 5y agoChina vs the Uighurs and Tibetans? India vs Pakistanis? Pakistan vs Indians? Russia vs Chechnya? Spain vs the Basque people? Canada in the 80s vs native people (we had an article just the other day)? The US vs black people? Plenty of countries get criticised for their treatment of minorities when they do something wrong.
- myfavoritedog 5y agoYou're making my point. China is literally wiping out the Uighurs. There's no hair-splitting or propagandizing about it. They're committing actual genocide. But besides a few mentions here and there, the international community is doing nothing about it. If it were at all proportional, the stories and condemnation should be in the news every day. But instead, we see more media coverage in a single day of Israel's counter attacks from rocket fire than we do for a year of Uighur genocide.
- Macha 5y agoThe news gets bored. It's why settlements don't make the news but it makes the news when it rises to armed conflict. Israel has already been pushed out of the news cycle by Belarus here. There were plenty of news stories about the Uighurs last year. The international community is not doing much about Israel either.
- 8note 5y agoIf it weren't for oil and the Suez canal, nobody would care about Israel's genocide either. The area currently has geopolitical importance. Once global warming makes the canal less relevant, and renewables replace oil, Israel will get to wipe out the Palestinians in peace
- myfavoritedog 5y agoNah, what will happen is that after renewables replace oil and the Palestinians keep firing rockets, people like you will find a new spin to claim that some grave injustice is being done because the Israelis defend themselves. Anyone who looks at the power dynamic knows the truth of the saying: If the Palestinians put down their weapons, there would be peace. If the Israelis put down their weapons, they would be slaughtered.