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1) Accusation of obsession with Israel - check 2) Classic both siding with a cute "we're just defending" and leaving out the constant colonisation and ethnic cl

1) Accusation of obsession with Israel - check 2) Classic both siding with a cute "we're just defending" and leaving out the constant colonisation and ethnic cleansing campaigns & apartheid[0] - check 3) "it's complicated" - check (it's not remotely complicated, plain old settler colonialism) The 1990s called, they want their hasbara back. [0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...

metta2uall 5y ago
It's actually not plain old settler colonialism because Jewish people are also the "indigenous" inhabitants of those lands - but instead of sharing them with the non-Jewish indigenous inhabitants (now called the "Palestinians") the militant Zionists have declared a "Jewish State" where they systematically discriminate against Palestinians (e.g. no right of return for non-Jews & hardly any building permits for non-Jews in the West Bank). Regarding bombings & war crimes, they have indeed been done by both sides. The crimes of Palestinian terrorists are obvious, but there is widespread denial & attempted justification of the IDF's crimes, hence the topic generates a lot of writing & debate. Examples of IDF crimes are the bombing of houses with many children in assassination missions (these are obviously not preceded by warning phone-calls) [0], and the shooting of Palestinian protestors at the Gaza fence who do not pose a risk to the lives of IDF soldiers.[1] The data ([2]) also speaks for itself. [0]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entire-palestinian-families-hamas-1.9820005 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entir... [1]: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-israel-sniper-video/ https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-... [2]: https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=minors&tab=overview https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-...

metta2uall 5y ago

It's actually not plain old settler colonialism because Jewish people are also the "indigenous" inhabitants of those lands - but instead of sharing them with the non-Jewish indigenous inhabitants (now called the "Palestinians") the militant Zionists have declared a "Jewish State" where they systematically discriminate against Palestinians (e.g. no right of return for non-Jews & hardly any building permits for non-Jews in the West Bank). Regarding bombings & war crimes, they have indeed been done by both sides. The crimes of Palestinian terrorists are obvious, but there is widespread denial & attempted justification of the IDF's crimes, hence the topic generates a lot of writing & debate. Examples of IDF crimes are the bombing of houses with many children in assassination missions (these are obviously not preceded by warning phone-calls) [0], and the shooting of Palestinian protestors at the Gaza fence who do not pose a risk to the lives of IDF soldiers.[1] The data ([2]) also speaks for itself. [0]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entire-palestinian-families-hamas-1.9820005 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/gaza-israel-wiping-entir... [1]: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-israel-sniper-video/ https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-... [2]: https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=minors&tab=overview https://statistics.btselem.org/en/all-fatalities/by-date-of-...