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Sure, how about I drop a 30 second "door knock" before I blow your life to smithereens because I feel like your 10 story building might be hiding a few kalashni

Sure, how about I drop a 30 second "door knock" before I blow your life to smithereens because I feel like your 10 story building might be hiding a few kalashnikovs? Feel free to evacuate to the few hundred meters of free space in the world's largest open air prison. The simple fact is: this is colonialist ethnic cleansing and the only reason it goes unchecked is because of historic Western guilt uncritically favouring the Israeli state for geopolitical reasons.

mustafa_pasi 5y ago
> the only reason it goes unchecked is because of historic Western guilt uncritically favouring the Israeli state for geopolitical reasons. That is not true. It is the US alone whose conscience is tarnished. If it wasn't for the US, I am sure the rest of the developed world would not stand for such injustice.
- pmyteh 5y ago
  Nope. The UK also has plenty of tarnished conscience (we were the mandate holder for Palestine immediately before the creation of Israel and played communities against each other, as we normally did in our colonies). The French also played their dishonourable part in carving up the middle east with us. Plenty of guilt to go around.
- skinkestek 5y ago
  A growing number of Europeans are also getting their eyes up for the fact that it has been one small democracy (kind of) against a whole region of warlords propped up by oil money from the gulf. It used to be for years that newspapers only wrote "Israel bombed". Now they write "Israel bombed [...] after days of rocket attacs". Hopefully it will soon be: "After days of unprovoked attacks Israel demolished weapons". At that point maybe we can get UN soldiers on the ground to catch the torturists and warmongers in Gaza and elsewhere, get rid of the rockets, restart schools with a curriculum that doesn't include death wishes for their closest neigbours etc. Well, one can dream. Here is a very short joke: the UN.
sdasarter5634 5y ago
Just to be clear again: > "door knock" is a hellfire missile being blown up above someone's home.

mustafa_pasi 5y ago

> the only reason it goes unchecked is because of historic Western guilt uncritically favouring the Israeli state for geopolitical reasons. That is not true. It is the US alone whose conscience is tarnished. If it wasn't for the US, I am sure the rest of the developed world would not stand for such injustice.

pmyteh 5y ago
Nope. The UK also has plenty of tarnished conscience (we were the mandate holder for Palestine immediately before the creation of Israel and played communities against each other, as we normally did in our colonies). The French also played their dishonourable part in carving up the middle east with us. Plenty of guilt to go around.
skinkestek 5y ago
A growing number of Europeans are also getting their eyes up for the fact that it has been one small democracy (kind of) against a whole region of warlords propped up by oil money from the gulf. It used to be for years that newspapers only wrote "Israel bombed". Now they write "Israel bombed [...] after days of rocket attacs". Hopefully it will soon be: "After days of unprovoked attacks Israel demolished weapons". At that point maybe we can get UN soldiers on the ground to catch the torturists and warmongers in Gaza and elsewhere, get rid of the rockets, restart schools with a curriculum that doesn't include death wishes for their closest neigbours etc. Well, one can dream. Here is a very short joke: the UN.

sdasarter5634 5y ago

Just to be clear again: > "door knock" is a hellfire missile being blown up above someone's home.