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    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      165·
      1 year ago

      racism, forced displacement and oppression

      HMM WHY DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?!

      capped off with one of the most horrific genocides in the history of the world.

      History repeats, I guess.

      Keep screeching for nuance while Israel bombs evacuation routes and refugee camps with the full throated support of Europe and America.

      • probablyaCat@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        While I won’t argue in support of the amount of force Israel is using, I am curious what you believe they should do. For this current situation and the whole situation at large.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          54·
          1 year ago

          Return the land they stole and reform the single Palestinian state so they can peacefully coexist within Palestine.

    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
      31·
      1 year ago

      It’s almost like you just want to believe Jewish people are bad guys to fit a simpler narrative of what’s happening.

      Its almost like you want to collapse all Jews and the settler colonial state of Israel into one group to fit a simpler narrative of what’s happening.

      • probablyaCat@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        So all of Israel is a colonial state? What should happen with it and it’s over 9 million people? Of which almost half are middle eastern (I’m only including several generations middle eastern here, obviously we have people that are 3 or 4th generation Israeli, but I am not sure what your threshold is for being considered a native of an area). Then another 2.5 percent are beta Israel. So let’s just say half are middle eastern or African. What should happen with this colonial state?

        • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          So all of Israel is a colonial state? Yes.

          What should happen with it and it’s over 9 million people? You return proper land ownership and a lot of people will move back to where they’re from when they no longer get preferential treatment and free stuff. It happened in South Africa. If you don’t live on land that was stolen from Palestinians but within Palestinian borders, you live in Palestine now.