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dunekid
2y ago
>Iraq war and now even the Israel war to make parallels Well the West could simply stop the Genocide today and prove them wrong. If they think they have the moral high ground, they could repeal the Hague Invasion act. Throw in Bush and B
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dunekid
2y ago
There were 2 aids. Only one is fattening. That one is fattening the Israel US military infrastructure.
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dunekid
2y ago
>Israel government, military, and social policy is borderline genocidal, or at the very least a strong example of apartheid. By the time it is recognised for being completely genocidal the damage done would be scarily irreversible.
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dunekid
2y ago
>In one remarkable part of the account, Lt. Col. E. describes firing upon an ambulance on the Gaza side of the border, admitting that they were not entirely sure whether the wounded person being carried to it was a hostage or a militant.
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dunekid
2y ago
Not sure if you have seen it already : https://youtu.be/uvU5dmu4sl8?si=cCQ7ZOriFp4rdmQM . As much as I love architecture and design, this take is pretty funny and relatable to many BS architecture.
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dunekid
2y ago
Same as USA in Iraq, Afghanistan? Vietnam? Israel? No. They are not in the category of western empires who could kill and maime civilian population and get away with moral superiority. These people are bad, unlike the western empires.
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2y ago
Sorry, there was no nuance. It's painting Israel as successful, but not explaining the atrocities and war crimes it did before and after its establishment. It is creating a self serving and hollow set of principles to deny the Palestin
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2y ago
The Imperial Japan surrendered before US forces with the hope that they could continue administering their country, but stop the offensive war as part of the axis powers. Vietnamese were fighting against occupation and, if they surrender th
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2y ago
>At best, they're idiotically-attempted coups. I am tempted to add an image of Jack Sparrow saying, But you've heard of me. That aside, US would not fall for a coup because of the strong institutions in place. But these places
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2y ago
Do you remember the insurgency at the Capitol?
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2y ago
>if there is no critique of the founding of Jordan, which was given as a gift by the British to the Hashemites for helping them during the Arab revolt, then I think this is a problem. That can also be criticised. Although what is tend to
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2y ago
You have added a long list. Yet it would be worth noting that, Afghanistan didn't really work very well, in that the said government just waited for the occupation to leave. ISIS didn't have any civilian leadership/structure
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dunekid
2y ago
>Yet another by the way is that it's worth mentioning Egypt refused to let aid through the Rafah border crossing once Israel took the Palestinian side of it just because it refused to deal with Israel on this matter. Has the current
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dunekid
2y ago
Please do mention about the complete sea, air, and land blockade of Gaza, when you do that. You can mention the raid on Gaza freedom flotilla as well. While Israel supposedly disengaged from Gaza, it had conducted similar attacks with hund
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dunekid
2y ago
I would just note here that Israel being a safe space after Holocaust is not in line with history. I am not denying that it had some aspects of being a safe space, but the project Israel started much before Holocaust, and Balfour declaratio
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dunekid
2y ago
>Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin condemned the attack, describing Goldstein as a "degenerate murderer" and "a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism" - which is important. Agree that it is important. Wh
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dunekid
2y ago
Why would you say that Israel is a safe space, while Canada is/might not?
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dunekid
2y ago
>Famously the ex-Israeli Prime Minister Barak said that if he were a Palestinian he might have become a terrorist himself. I wonder how do someone tells something and not think it through? Can you get the the full statement by Barak on
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2y ago
>We would basically see women and children sat on the side of the road with their belongings packed up neatly beside them, mattresses, bags of flour, jerry cans, book, clothes. I can see that people in the west would get more sympathy an
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2y ago
Hey there! I'm really sorry if that came as snarky, but didn't mean that way. But you have to see that most of the comments are just plain disinformation and just could not let them hang in a no-way-out situation. I hope there wou
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2y ago
> Override the will of Palestinian elections and you're denying them their sovereignty, interfere with the obvious military threat, and you're doing apartheid. So it is decided that it will do both. Maybe, just maybe, reconcile
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dunekid
2y ago
Well the Israel does have a history of door to door killings, please reference the 1948 Nakba massacres and Deir Yassin atrocities. IDF used Palestinians as literal human shield. No amount of whataboutery could erase the horrors IDF has com
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2y ago
You could look at West Bank and arrive at a conclusion that laying down arms did not end the occupation, not the colonisation. Neither the different rules for Palestininas and Israelis.
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dunekid
2y ago
>But people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have no way to become Israeli citizens (unless they are Jewish) >That is clearly undemocratic Not only undemocratic, but it is running an apartheid. Not to mention the complete denial of
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>A blockade is not an occupation. Killing people and children along the border is NOT a characteristic of occupation. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230513-gaza-israel-confe... Counting calories of food consumed by
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2y ago
>which does not exist, refugees have no right to return after they lost a war Really? The entire point of the Aliyah for return to Israel is that they lost against Romans, and they expelled them. Or is it selective injustice to the Pales
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>legal. Israel is not responsible for feeding Gaza. With all due respect, no asked them to. Its about letting the aid from those are feeding. And maybe not raze the grain silos and farms? And not bulldozing the olive farms, both by the m
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> During the Oslo process there was support in Israel to dismantle those as part of a peace agreement. I think murdering Rabin was also part of the Israeli support for peace?
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You mean asking for 1967 armistice lines? Maybe you should read the Likid party charter too and understand what they want as their borders? Even though it didn't prevent him working with them to alienate PA though.
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> Israel justice system has put prime ministers and presidents on trial. > Clearly unlike Israel there is no chance in *$#@ that Hamas would prosecute their own leadership for violation of international humanitarian law. Huh, I almost
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