It’s unreasonable to not respect conquest and annexation.
Yeah that was my point, it’s unproductive to dredge up the history, you have to find reasonable solutions to allow people a dignified life now. And the majority of Palestinians are actually on board with that.
I’m all in favor of giving Palestinians reparations but after that it needs to be in exchange for releasing all claims to the land. And they need to be resettled with equity and dignity in friendly Arab nations with a compatible culture.
I’m not sure if you can seriously believe your justification for pushing out the Palestinians. Especially since you’re constructing a narrative based on Jews “deserving” this because of holocaust - which justifies it based on ancient history again and makes it explicitly a European colonial project. Which it was. Anyway - displacing them is not an option, the “friendly arab neighbors” are a different ethnicity and don’t want them. That again is racial bias to think “they are all the same”.
So yeah the only viable solution would be a one state, and that AFTER Israel has been “denazified”. Because that’s what they are more or less now. Fascists who believe that there can never be peace between those “sub humans”. They kept millions of people in occupied areas, and actively suppressed any peaceful movements in the illusion that this is somehow sustainable. FYI a modern definition of fascism is a belief in “Inequality through mythological and essentialized identity”. Israel now is basically the US after 20 years of Trump rule. We (US and EU) need to stop supporting them.
I’ve grown up with this propaganda in my head too that the arabs are just violence terrorist and bomb etc. And that the Jews need to be protected. But to say “never again” most of all means to prevent genocide. Israel’s regime now calls everyone who criticizes them antisemitic and actively seeks to create anti-semitism for their own political gain.
And I would have loved to stand back and not get involved in this, but my government made my country complicit by aiding Israel perpetrate this genocide. I just hope it’s not too late.
Yeah that was my point, it’s unproductive to dredge up the history, you have to find reasonable solutions to allow people a dignified life now. And the majority of Palestinians are actually on board with that.
But the current regime in Israel and the geopolitical strategies in the middle east are just… abominable. Long before Okt.7 Israel used genocidal tactics by creating a fascist legal system and try to push out and disenfranchise Palestinians more and more (e.g. Israel Escalates Genocidal Violence Against Palestinians In The West Bank - YouTube Jul.8th 2023)
If you want to know the lies and propaganda that is being used to fool the world around all this, read this: Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians - theintercept Feb.7th 2024. Or at least the beginning, it’s long but in depth.
I’m not sure if you can seriously believe your justification for pushing out the Palestinians. Especially since you’re constructing a narrative based on Jews “deserving” this because of holocaust - which justifies it based on ancient history again and makes it explicitly a European colonial project. Which it was. Anyway - displacing them is not an option, the “friendly arab neighbors” are a different ethnicity and don’t want them. That again is racial bias to think “they are all the same”.
So yeah the only viable solution would be a one state, and that AFTER Israel has been “denazified”. Because that’s what they are more or less now. Fascists who believe that there can never be peace between those “sub humans”. They kept millions of people in occupied areas, and actively suppressed any peaceful movements in the illusion that this is somehow sustainable. FYI a modern definition of fascism is a belief in “Inequality through mythological and essentialized identity”. Israel now is basically the US after 20 years of Trump rule. We (US and EU) need to stop supporting them.
I’ve grown up with this propaganda in my head too that the arabs are just violence terrorist and bomb etc. And that the Jews need to be protected. But to say “never again” most of all means to prevent genocide. Israel’s regime now calls everyone who criticizes them antisemitic and actively seeks to create anti-semitism for their own political gain.
And I would have loved to stand back and not get involved in this, but my government made my country complicit by aiding Israel perpetrate this genocide. I just hope it’s not too late.
Some links:
An interview with the Author of the above intercept article: Jeremy Scahill on Israel’s “Deliberate Propaganda Campaign” - YouTube
Report Finds “No Evidence” in Key Dossier to Support Israel’s UNRWA Allegations | Truthout
Israel’s free speech crackdown: ‘War inside of a war’ - The Washington Post Nov 12th, 2023
Israeli Kids Torment Principal Who Voices Empathy For Gazans - YouTube Jan 7, 2024
You’ve lost me entirely.