Context (for those who don’t know): Israel and Palestine
France and England seeing their current new citizens and wondering if it was worth it to fight.
Someone’s parents never taught them to share.
Obligatory fuck religion.
Yeah, fuck religion
Palestine is not a religious entity, and have been in favor of religious coexistence since the very beginning. It is the Zionist state that is exclusive of other religions by design.
All the yelling of “Allahu akbar” while celebrating the death and destruction in Israel, would seem to be in conflict with your statement.
yelling of “Allahu akbar”
Saying “God is great” is problematic?
celebrating the death and destruction in Israel
They are resisting against the Zionist state founded on genocide and exclusivism. I don’t see that violating their will for coexistance.
When they’re celebrating the killing of civilians at a dance party, or the beheading of babies, it is a problem. Religion is the cancer that keeps that entire region either at war, or the brink of war
You’re gonna have to substantiate that claim. Show me evidence of Palestinians celebrating “killing of civilians at a dance party, or the beheading of babies”. Without evidence, your claim is to be ignored.
By the way, Israel has already admitted that they faked the “beheading of babies” story. Verify your evidence before responding.
Not all Palestinians are Hamas…
So then, why is their official goal to destroy Israel? Thats 100% a religious war
Israel is by its own definition the Zionist state founded on religious exclusivism. An ethnocentric state in a land inhabited by other religions and ethnicities. It should absolutely be taken down.
religious war
Israel is not Judaism.
An ethnocentric state in a land inhabited by other religions and ethnicities.
- In land bordering the lands of lther religions and ethnicities.
What exactly justifies the takedown of Israel? That its religion is different or what? Thats none of ghe other countries business.
as I already said above, it is because it is an ethnoreligious state that excludes people of other ethnicities (Arabs, Africans, etc) and other religions (Muslims, Christians, etc). It has engaged in massacre and forced expulsion of those people, so it must be taken down and the genocide must cease.
ethnoreligious state that excludes people of other ethnicities (Arabs, Africans, etc) and other religions (Muslims, Christians, etc)
So what? Thats their business what rules they want to have inside their country. Thats nl reason to attack them.
forced expulsion of those people, so it must be taken down and the genocide must cease.
Forced expulsion is dtill inside their own country. So you take them down with a genocide yourself? Fight fire with fire?
No it is not their business to genocide ethnic and religious minorities lmao. Would you say the same about the Nazis too? was the US justified in genociding native americans also? ridiculous.
Forced expulsion is dtill inside their own country
yes it is. I hope you dont mean that this makes it better. I may be failing to understand this genocide sympathizer logic.
So you take them down with a genocide yourself?
No. The only one committing genocide at the moment and in this conflict is Israel itself.
So what? Thats their business what rules they want to have inside their country.
Come on…
It worked so well when they did the same thing for themselves and Ireland.
It always works out fine for them. I don’t know why anybody says imperialism or colonialism are bad or destructive, seems to me that Britain and France and Spain and Portugal and the Dutch are all doing fine. Really weird how maps of their empires seem to overlap a lot with parts of the world that currently or recently experienced a lot of, idk let’s call it “troubles?” They must be dumb or smth
Well, since those former colonies can’t quite work it out on their own, maybe they should just be brought back into their respective empires again? 🤔
Also that whole India/Pakistan thing. And I seem to remember some stuff happening in Africa.
And the Soviets did the same with Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The secret ingredient is running the fuck away before either of them notice.
Because all those countries had lovely relationships among the people beforehand with absolutely no genocide and war.
Really easy to make perfect borders that makes everyone happy.
They weren’t countries. They became countries when the colonizers (and I’m using that term as accurately as possible) lumped together into managed regions and then told them they were countries with their own governments and flags. It was all “We’re going to conquer these people and these people and these people, then put Governor Fitzroy, nephew to the Prince, in charge of all of it with a big army to back him up.” Then they wrote laws and made flags and all the happy crappy stuff they do. Then they lost WWII (because pretty much everyone except for the US lost WWII), and said “you’re on your own.”
They turned former colonies into artificial countries with governments that all but guaranteed factionalism.
There was always war, and there always will be war. But the specific type of war we’re seeing in former colonies is because of the post-colonial situation.
Exactly and when they drew the borders of those artificial nations, they had a strange talent for choosing two or more peoples who would otherwise never have formed a nation together voluntarily, so they still don´t get along today and probably never will.
Are you suggesting we should reinstate the glory of the British empire?
How the fuck did you get that from what you just read??
Well… it shouldn’t be an issue.
They even had a nice little name for it, The
TroublesFun Times!“Spicy diplomacy”
Lmfao
It was still a better plan than the ottoman empire had before Britain took it from them.
Yeah, genocide turned out to be much better alternative right?
Either way, the Ottoman empire was on its way out, and the Arabs sought to establish a United state. So whatever the ottomans were doing is irrelevant.
Palestinians also contain Christians. Its just the modern term for gentiles in Israel now.
Britain has planted the seeds of hatred and bloodshed in the middle east and is now acting as if it has no responsibility towards resolving the conflict.
It is hard to watch the British media coverage of this war acting all outraged and surprised by the violence while being proud of their historical imperial inheritance .
Britain and France are responsible for such an enormous fuck up in Asia, Africa and the middle east, past and present, it’s probably impossible to put it in numbers. The US gets bashed a lot (deservedly), but I think those two were planting something way more devastating for generations to come
Britain is laughably impotent today.
It’s not a religious conflict. It’s an imperialistic conflict.
It’s both. Religion is a cancer.
The fact that you think there’s a difference is sad.
If you just state it’s religious, you open up space for “Muslim bad”, or “Christian bad” arguments. Which lead to nonsense and prosecution to specific peoples
If you use imperialism concepts, everything fits well together, and it leads to structural criticism of capitalism, and prosecution (to use the same word) against oppressive ideas and power structures, not against specific peoples.
But I can agree that imperialistic forces oppress religions that are not the same as theirs, if that’s what you meant.
Because all things point to “capitalism bad” for the lemmy FOSS nerd social studies undergrad.
Are social studies undergrads often fans of FOSS lol?
Borders are violence.
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Even animals patrol and defend their territory. Why should human be any different? If anything else, borders are an improvement over constant skirmishes and raids where two different ethnic groups meet.
EDIT: Interesting how you completely ignored the “Borders are a solution to constant ethnic clashes” part of my comment
Interesting how you ignore the reality of constant ethnic clashes and raids inside the borders of many african nations and also across borders e.g. Armenia vs Azerbaijan, Kosovo vs Serbia, Russia vs Ukraine or… Palestine vs Israel.
“animals do it why shouldn’t we” is one of the worst reasons to do something. Animals are literally dumber than us.
You are an animal…
These comments read like a realism vs idealism debate
The animals argument is fucking stupid.
How exactly are borders helping? In what was specifically?
The animals argument is bad. We are animals and the idea is to refrain of our bad instincts in favour of the greater good most of the time.
That being said abolition of borders is a very bad idea, a very basic visit of human history will squash any misplaced idealism regarding that subject.
That also being said immigration is most of the time a good idea as long as you put a consideratr effort into integration for your newly minted citizens.
Now I realize most of those are opinions without substance, the idea is to realize where people push back and why before backing them up.
The reason ethnic clashes are happening in the first place, is because there was not enough intermingling between neighbors, in big part because people like you thought humans aren’t smarter then animals and should be separated.
Humans aren’t smarter than animals because we are animals. We’re also not smarter than non-human animals either, as evidenced by our self-destructive behavior.
Easy now dont cut yourself on the edge you’ve got there bucko
Are you a bot, or just really dumb? That phrase doesn’t even apply…
Comeone you are going around all “Hurr durr humans aren’t smarter than animals, we are so self-destructive” that’s an edgelord position if I’ve ever seen one
Got it, it was the second option.
Borders areviolence.Religion is violence
Why not both?
good argument. Agreed
One group was actually living there and the other group moved in and literally ripped people from their homes.
One group took 2 years to organize an attack on civilians, the other didnt…
The other has been attacking them for decades…
This was on a different level though. Taking civilian hostages? Launching rockets with the target being a music festival?
Dont forget Israel bombed Associated Press & Al Jazeera office building in 2021 for reporting against them
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights press release outlining large scale targeting of peaceful protesters, women, children, people with disabilities, paramedics and journalists by Israeli snipers: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/02/no-justification-israel-shoot-protesters-live-ammunition
BBC report on the killing of Christian American-Palestinian journalist and subsequent attack of her funeral: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y11CVGz7toM
BBC article about the Human Rights Watch report detailing Israel’s crimes of apartheid: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56898864
The majority of Gaza children suffer from PTSD caused by the constant conditions of warfare, psychological study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00004/full
Human Rights Watch report on “indiscriminate” bombing of schools by IDF forces: https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/11/israel-depth-look-gaza-school-attacks
Al Jazeera article about Israel bombing a refugee camp housing refugees of Israel’s air strikes: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/14/israels-bombardment-of-gaza-continues-live
Amnesty International—Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian housing constitute war crimes https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/05/israelopt-pattern-of-israeli-attacks-on-residential-homes-in-gaza-must-be-investigated-as-war-crimes/
Article by the Intercept about Israeli airstrikes targeting medical facilities: https://theintercept.com/2021/05/21/gaza-bombing-hospital-israel/
IDF snipers intentionally targeting civilians including children
when did Israel specifucally taregt civilians?
They do it often. Here’s a particularly nasty one from 2009, there are plenty more if you care to look.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza
do u live under a rock?
Both sides constantly attack civillians.
That’s been happening for the last 5,000 years in that region though, since the Canaanites.
It’s not like the Palestinians were the first there.
The Palestinians are descendants of the ancient canaanites. Most of the people in that region never left they just changed their religion at some point. This hasn’t always been happening, in Ottoman times Christians Jews and Muslims peacefully coexisted in the region.
I mean, kinda? They’re also heavily descended from 7th Century AD Arabic conquerors, but yes, many other natives may have adopted Arabic culture, language and religion at that time.
But Jewish culture is also derived from the Canaanite culture, with arguably more overlap. Jewish culture in the region can be traced back to at least the 9th Century BC, with the literal Kingdom of Israel. So the argument of “Well who was there first?” does not necessarily favor the Palestinians over the Israelis.
This has always been happening though. It’s not like the Ottomans took over the region peacefully. It’s been conquered and re-conquered by Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans…
Palestinian culture is also derived from canaanite culture. Arabs are semitic people and follow abrahamic traditions. When places get conquered usually the ruling class changes but the lower class people stay in their homes and just change language/religion/identity. Usually the new rulers don’t try to completely wipe out the inhabitants of their new land the way israel is doing with Palestinians
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6 people deny history.
Alternate caption: “Zionists smuggling in settlers before the British mandate ended to have enough votes to create a State of Israel as a safe haven for Holocaust refugees, then getting populated mostly by Jews fleeing Arab countries out of fear of retaliation for having created the State of Israel a day early and having pushed most Palestinians out by force”
You realize that most Israelis came from Europe after WW2?
or do you think Liebermann, Herzog, Weitzmann, Goldberg, Weinstein etc. are Arabic names?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelis 33 % are ethnic Europeans as opposed to 12% from asia and 15% from Africa
Ashkenazim have European surnames because Europeans literally forced them unto Jews. Austro-Hungary, Russian Empire - both had policies for giving Jews “local” surnames (for taxation purposes). It’s how you get Jews with German surnames in eastern and central Europe (i.e.the ones you have listed), and how you get Jews with Ukrainian and Russian-ish surnames in the appropriate areas (see Abramovich, Litvak)
And they did so in Europe. Which means that people with this family names were Jews coming from Europe to Israel and not from Arabic countries like the comment above claimed.
“promising to give two different groups”? You mean the natives and the colonisers? Tf is this “meme”?
This war really makes you hate Britain (and possibly France) for causing unrest in the first place
Can we just glass Isreal and Palestine both?
I do hope the Israel and Palestine Wikipedia pages are doing ok.
Looks like there’s a war
FINE YOU WEIRDO ZEALOTS:
I do hope the Palestine and Israel Wikipedia pages are doing ok.
wut
Also Britain: Oh good, the UN voted in favor of splitting up the land except the entire Arab League voting against the plan? Ok, sounds good, bye guys, have fun!
It’s like an HOA: The council is deciding how to divide up your backyard between your neighbors. The lawn owner is the only dissenting vote and then the neighborhood wonders why they are being so hostile.
Except in this case it costs you not just your backyard but basically your entire life.
In this case the land owner has been renting for 100 years and doesn’t really care what the tenant thinks.
