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right guys, it’s only like 80% of that population that has the ideology we don’t like and in the other 20%, many of them don’t get conscripted due to a religio
by yieldcrv 11mo ago
right guys, it’s only like 80% of that population that has the ideology we don’t like
and in the other 20%, many of them don’t get conscripted due to a religious exemption that includes being in a totally different ideology that has always disagreed with the other
odds not looking good, speaking as a betting man, not one with any actual opinion just need my prediction market bet to hit
- whimsicalism 11mo agoWhat is the ideology we don’t like? I think it is easy to throw stones when the reality is that if your nation suffered a similar attack, many many people would get swept up in anger and outrage and retaliatory madness. What Israel is doing is wrong, but I don’t think it would be unique among developed states experiencing something similar.
- Swizec 11mo agoYes most people would fight back against foreign occupation
- whimsicalism 11mo ago[flagged]
- barbazoo 11mo agoZionism and violence against Palestineans predates the October attacks by a couple of decades.
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- cess11 11mo agoMore like a century.
- HappyPanacea 11mo ago[flagged]
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- JumpCrisscross 11mo agoThis game—who hurt whom first—doesn’t work outside the new world. It particularly fails in parts of the world that were prehistorically settled.
- HappyPanacea 11mo agoI also dislike this game but I didn't start this game - barbazoo did and he happened to be wrong so I had to correct him.
- ori_b 11mo agoZionism, as in the belief that Jews deserve self-determination as a nation?
- sporkxrocket 11mo ago[flagged]
- wk_end 11mo ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 11mo agoThe formation of Israel was a shitshow. The region has always been a shitshow, it’s the coast closest to the cradle of civilization. But it’s unfair to refer to the Nakba as peaceful. (Though it’s no less peaceful than the nutters calling for the destruction of Israel in response.)
- wk_end 11mo agoI don't believe I referred to the Nakba or anything else as "peaceful" - of course the Zionists engaged in (non-peaceful) violence, before and during and after the war. But the point is that, contra the claims that ethnic cleansing is "at the core" of Zionism, violence wasn't the Zionist starting point and unlike the Palestinians they were content with a peaceful solution; neither of those things would've been the case if violence was fundamental to their project.
- whimsicalism 11mo agoyou’re denying ethnic cleansing occurred in the Nakba when we have primary source evidence that it was
- wk_end 11mo ago