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The creator of Zionism, Teodore Herzl was very clear that it was a colonial project dependent on ethnic cleansing: > We must expropriate gently the private pro
by sosomoxie 4mo ago
The creator of Zionism, Teodore Herzl was very clear that it was a colonial project dependent on ethnic cleansing:
> We must expropriate gently the private property on the state
assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back. (Theodore Herzl, 12 June 1895)
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- throw310822 4mo agoYes, it describes ethnic cleansing. As for colonialism it doesn't need to be described, moving en masse to a country inhabited by an indigenous population to settle it is the definition of colonialism.
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- lorecore 4mo agoThe Palestinians are absolutely indigenous to Palestine. Israel is a synthetic European creation, no one is indigenous to Israel.
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- lorecore 4mo agoThis is blatantly false. Palestinians are indigenous to Palestine. No one is indigenous to Israel, which was created in 1948. Israel is a colony, defined by its non-indigenous population.
- throw402672 4mo agoAre Palestinian Jews indigenous to Palestine or when you say “Palestinian” you mean only non-Jews?
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- dang 4mo agoWe've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological/political/religious battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations. (Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed in general, btw.)
- diffs 4mo agoThis is both harsh and untrue. While I've allowed myself to be baited here, I've clearly discussed other topics. This is (was?) a somewhat new account as well. How big of a buffer should I have before I'm allowed to discuss controversial topics without fearing the ban hammer?
- dang 4mo agoWe have no interest in being unfair, and anyone who genuinely wants to use HN as intended should have no trouble getting unbanned. In this context, the test for whether an account is using HN as intended or not is whether it is primarily using the site for ideological/political/etc. battle. If an account is mostly using HN for the latter, which yours plainly is, then it's not using the site as intended. I think that answers your question, no? It's not about buffer size, it's about what an account is primarily using HN for. It's supposed to be used for intellectual curiosity in a kind of meandering random walk. It's not supposed to be used for prosecuting fixed agendas, regardless of what the agenda is.
- lorecore 4mo agoThe Palestinians are absolutely indigenous to Palestine and they were absolutely ethnically cleansed from their homeland by Zionists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
- throwaway3060 4mo agoThis is not what the word "colonialism" means in modern times; which imperial state is exploiting the resources of the destination?
- lorecore 4mo agoZionism itself is the colonial movement exploiting Palestinian resources. 100% of Israel is on Palestinian land.
- throwaway3060 4mo ago[flagged]
- lorecore 4mo agoPalestinian land is where they were before being ethnically cleansed since the Nakba.
- throwaway3060 4mo ago[flagged]
- dang 4mo agoIt looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political/ideological/nationalistic battle, which is not what the site is for. We ban accounts that do this, regardless of what they're battling for or against. I'm not going to ban your account right now because I noticed at least one comment in your recent history which was on an unrelated topic, but if you'd please fix this, we'd appreciate it. HN is supposed to be for intellectual curiosity, random-access style, not pre-existing agendas, ongoing political battles, or single-purpose accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html