• barbarosa@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Palestinian population increased by some 500% since the founding of Israel in 1948. The goal of the current Israeli operation is the destruction of the actually genocidal Hamas, not of Palestinians.

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      Look at the map of where Palestinians are living in 1948 (or hell, even 1966) vs now. Then you’ll see why it’s called a genocide.

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        That would be a map of the whole of Israel. Palestinian Arabs who want to live in peace in Israel are doing exactly that, and have positions across all ranks of Israeli society, including an Arab judge that sent a corrupt Israeli politician to jail.

        Might you be referring to that debunked collection of four maps, which use the same two colours to show different things in the hope that people will just jump to incorrect conclusions without doing too much research?

        Israel is the most amazingly incompetent genociders on the planet. The genocided Palestinian population is shrinking at a large negative percentage every year, going from a few hundred K to several million. Even in the current campaign in Gaza they’ve only achieved a mortality rate of about four bombs per person. If you’re doing a genocide, what you really need to do is drop a single bomb on a hospital and kill 500 people in one go (or was that a Hamas misfire that landed in a car park and lightly singed a couple of dozen cars?)

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        Like the previous comment said, not a very effective genocide. Land wise, Palestinians were offered their own state on 48, they rejected so that Jewish people will not have their own state.

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          Their rejection is understandable. The west/UN offered them land? Shouldn’t the people who had lived there for generations be able to decide for themselves?

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            Jews have lived in this land for many generations as well and equally have the right for that land as well. That’s not to say that they should drive whoever lived there out. They were offered full citizenship and their own full sovereign country which they didn’t have before but they refused and instead declared war.

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              Jews have lived in this land for many generations as well and equally have the right for that land as well.

              I don’t know, man. Many Arab Jews lived in Palestine alongside everyone else just fine… but those you are talking about weren’t in Palestine since what year? since like 600 BC? 🤔 No offense, buddy, but if you don’t live in a place for that long, it’s not really yours anymore… and if you have to ethnically cleanse the population (the Nakba) then that raises more eyebrows, sounds like the land isn’t yours… sounds like colonialism to me.

              They were offered full citizenship and their own full sovereign country which they didn’t have before but they refused and instead declared war.

              LOOK AT ME! I’M ISRAEL! I TAKE TWO-THIRDS OF THE CAKE, YES? AND YOU GET 1 THIRD OF THE CAKE, YES? THAT IS FAIR. WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S NOT FAIR??? WE WILL BOMB YOU TO THE GROUND!!!

              Maybe we should all take over Africa, since we ALL have the right to live there and exploit its riches, being homo sapiens and all.

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              They were offered full citizenship and their own full sovereign country

              Somebody doesn’t even pretend to have ever read a book in their life or listened to somebody who actually lives there.

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                  No meaningful conversation to be had with somebody who spouts such blatant obvious falsehoods.

                  Sorry I won’t waste my time replying and compiling sources just so you can call them all fake. 🤷

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              Yes, a Jewish minority lived in Palestine with no problems as far as I know. But again, they where offered citizenship and a sovereign country. This is not something that should be offered by the rest of the world, or by a bunch of immigrants with a motive to create their own country specifically for themselves.

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          Yeah, how were the water resources in those lands? Were they capable of supporting the population being asked to depend on them.

          I’ll save you the trip to the library. No, they weren’t.

          Not agreeing to commit slow suicide doesn’t give the other side the right to murder you.

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            If you are talking about the water situation in Gaza prior to October 7th, I want to remind you that Gaza also borders with Egypt and any humanitarian crisis that is present in Gaza could be easily aided by Egypt, opening its borders and providing them all the water they need. They are their “brothers” after all.

            In my opinion, Israel has the right to refuse aid to a place that constantly fires rockets at them. But Egypt, What is their excuse? Why are you not pointing your criticism towards them as well?

            The sad thing is that Israel has developed advanced technology to shoot rockets in the air. This paradoxically has been a mistake as it normalizes firing rockets as long as the casualty numbers are very low.

            Please, if you can, tell me of any other example of a country that will allow constant barraging rockets towards its land and still provide aid to their enemy?

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              In my opinion, Israel has the right to refuse aid to a place that constantly fires rockets at them.

              Ah yes, Israel has the right to collective punishment 😍 not like, “sanctions” or something of a political caliber, nope, just straight out no food or water or meds or fuel so that children can die in their hospital beds from 100% preventable diseases.

              still provide aid to their enemy?

              Funny how it’s not Hamas that’s starving, just the other 2.3 million Gazans, of which about 1 million are children.

              Can you explain to me how your views fit with the fact that Israel steals natural water resources from Gazans?

              In Gaza, the only source of surface water has been the Wadi Gaza. There are claims that Israel diverts part of its water for agricultural purposes within Israel prior to its arrival to Gaza.[40][41]

              Same for the West Bank:

              According to a World Bank report, Israel extracted 80% more water from the West Bank than agreed in the Oslo Accord, while Palestinian abstractions were within the agreed range.

              Read all about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_the_State_of_Palestine

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              Israel has no right to deny food or water to a place that they control the borders too. Thankfully, this isn’t something that requires your opinion. Blockading another country is an act of war. Occupying forces are required to provide required food and water to populations they occupy. Something Israel has been doing for 17 years.

              The Egypt thing is a BS racist side argument and you know it. It is used to justify illegal actions on the part of Israel, with the full knowledge that the Rafa crossing is controlled by both Egypt and Israel, and really it’s controlled by the US. The second the Egyptian government at the time opened the Rafa border crossing, there would immediately be another Egyptian government taking its place.

              Israel is an Apartheid state, exactly like Apartheid South Africa. It is as evil as Apartheid South Africa was. Desmond Tutu, and other black people that suffered under Apartheid South Africa rule that have visited Gaza have stated that the Palestinians have it worse in the Gaza strip then they had it under apartheid rule in South Africa.

              Finally, to your question trying to justify ethnic cleansing: EVERY OCCUPYING POWER SINCE WW2. Israel is treated differently than every other county in that it doesn’t have to abide by the same standards as anyone else. Stop trying to pretend that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic. It isn’t. I’m not criticizing Egypt right now because they didn’t kill 8,000 children in two months. Come back with your “Why aren’t you critizing them” bullshit when they go free fire insane like Israel has.

              Your wonderful country little democracy killed 8,000 children in 2 months. Stop trying to pretend that it is a reasonable country.

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                  It’s an act of defense against an occupying power that slaughters them when they try unarmed peaceful resistance. Remember two years ago? I do.

                  I’m also done interacting with someone who continues to ignore the 8000 dead children in two months because they know that that is morally indefensible.

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                    The situation with the Palestinians in Gaza is very tragic and sad. At no point did I ignore it. War is horrible and especially when Hamas embeds itself inside the civilian population, people get hurt and it’s very sad.

                    I think that you, however, are completely oblivious to the suffering on the other side. There are still little children held hostage in the tunnels under Gaza. Call it resistance, freedom fighting as much as you want. It’s no less tragic.

                    Even though Hamas started this round, the question of who started it is irrelevant. The relevant question is how does it end. No side is willing to make any compromise and I fear this will go on for years still.

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      Then Israel is failing miserably because they’re intentionally killing a whole lot of innocent Palestinians.