frobishercresc

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by frobishercresc 3y ago
> Their anonymous responses were transcribed and sent back to me This doesn't pass the smell test for me, this journalist never directly met or claims to have verified the identity of anyone that they are speaking to, the contacts w
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by frobishercresc 4y ago
It is not Israel's state to offer. Either they annex the land and give Palestinians universal suffrage as the democratic country they claim to be, or unilaterally pull out of the land they are occupying (which includes land in Syria).
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by frobishercresc 4y ago
Jews from Europe and the former Soviet Union and their descendants born in Israel, including Ashkenazi Jews, constitute approximately 50% of Jewish Israelis.
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by frobishercresc 4y ago
Palestine is occupied Israeli land and Israel is building settlements there. Israel only keeps Palestine de jure 'external' due to international pressure, with the extra advantage of not having to give Palestians the same rights a
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by frobishercresc 4y ago
The US and the west seeded all these conflicts after WW2 when they arbritrarily divided up ex-Ottoman Empire land with no real interest in Japan or Germany esque Marshall Plan or establishing democracy. The US funded the Mujahadeen (now the
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by frobishercresc 4y ago
It's self evident, endless and unchecked profit motives (neoliberalism) are divorced from considerations of resource sustainability or genuine social need, it will always use up more land than market economies with a more social minded
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by frobishercresc 4y ago
Technocratic neoliberal consumer capitalism isn't the only form of market economy, it's just the form that uses up the most land without regard to social and environmental impact because it is inherently focused on capital gains.