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Ex-CEO of Russian Yandex made a post in an internal network explaining she moved to Israel, and, among other things, saying "I don't want to live in a country w
by reisse 3y ago
Ex-CEO of Russian Yandex made a post in an internal network explaining she moved to Israel, and, among other things, saying "I don't want to live in a country waging wars with its neighbours (sic)". I wonder if she understood her own hypocrisy.
- roynasser 3y ago[flagged]
- whimsicalism 3y agoRussia unambiguously occupies territory in Ukraine, starting the Ukrainian conflict. Israel is unambiguously occupying PA territory.
- rizpanjwani 3y ago[flagged]
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- roynasser 3y ago[flagged]
- roynasser 3y ago[flagged]
- reisse 3y agoWhile the matter of PA might be controversial, Israel is unambigously occupying Syrian territory - that is, the Golan Heights.
- whimsicalism 3y agoas is the United States :)
- petre 3y agoSyria attempted to invade Israel asking for a fight. It's tertitory is used by Hezbollah to launch attacks on Israel. It's quite a different situation from the war in Ukraine.
- whimsicalism 3y agoIsrael both initiated the 1967 war and is still occupying the golan heights.
- roynasser 3y ago"initiated" is a stretch... If your neighbor is coming to kill you and you shoot first you are - again - defending yourself... thats one of the dumbest arguments i've ever heard!
- buran77 3y agoEveryone who ever waged war since the dawn of time though they are justified or entitled to do it. Russia invaded Ukraine to defend endangered Russian minorities. Israel pounds tens of thousands of civilians that they were already treating inhumanely into dust to defend against terrorists. US blew up villages in Asia or weddings in the Middle East to defend democracy. Germany plunged Europe into war to defend the dream of the third Reich. It's "only" a matter of painting yourself as a victim or as a defender of what's right. Even a robber will justify breaking into your home or killing your family by the need to feed their family. But to address your point head on, there is absolutely no way the war Israel waged on Palestine for decades, killing more acutely these days, is about any reasonably justifiable defense more than the Holocaust was in defense. It's just one more step into implementing the extremist views that the current Israeli leadership always had. But if you have enough money and ignorant enough audience the world is your oyster.
- peterfirefly 3y ago> Russia invaded Ukraine to defend endangered Russian minorities. No.
- buran77 3y agoDid you read on? You may have put as much effort into understanding what I wrote as you put in the reply. Do you genuinely think the answer is "no" just for that first example or that's just where you stopped reading because you knew better anyway? I'll spare you the additional effort. The answer is actually "no" for every single one on that list. None of those wars were/are just but that never stopped any of the aggressors from painting themselves as defenders of some fair and just ideal.
- peterfirefly 3y agoI agreed with most of the rest.
- buran77 3y ago
- rizpanjwani 3y ago[flagged]
- tim333 3y agoThat was in March 2022, before the recent stuff kicked off.
- reisse 3y ago"Recent stuff" has little to do with the hypocrisy of this statement.
- tim333 3y agoThe statement was present tense. I don't think there were wars being waged at the time. Also when coalition of dictators A say they want to wipe small democratic country B off the map and attack it then I'm not sure A and B are equivalent and moving from an A to a B is hypocrisy.
- zaphirplane 3y agomaking up facts, denying one’s behavior and measuring on the greater evil scale, is not the behavior of the good
- syene 3y ago“Neighbours” isn’t misspelt there, that’s the British spelling.