A new mass grave has been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital where a two-week siege by the Israeli army has turned the facility into a graveyard and put what was once Gaza’s largest medical complex out of service.
A new mass grave has been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital where a two-week siege by the Israeli army has turned the facility into a graveyard and put what was once Gaza’s largest medical complex out of service.
All of the above are consequences of Israeli colonialism/imperialism, not a direct consequence of its existence as a state.
The German example is odd, because not only did Germany not cease to exist, but in fact the exact opposite of what you’re proposing was done. That equivalent would be if a victim of Nazi Germany - say, Belgium - annexed Germany in its entirety.
There isn’t a one-state solution that creates an environment where both Palestinian and Israelis can live peacefully, because Israeli citizens are unwilling to live under a Palestinian state, and Palestinians are (of course) unwilling to live under an Israeli state.
Israel’s founding principles are all those terrible things and the state was formed around them, just like how Nazi Germany was formed on fascism, racism, genocide, land grabs, etc. Nazi Germany is not the same as the Germany we know today or the Germany which existed before Nazi Germany. You’re tying the people to the state even though the state can change without forcing everyone out of it.
There was a one-state solution where Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived peacefully and that was Palestine long before the formation of Israel. Of course, there are always agitators who push for discrimination to grab power, but peace is a never-ending struggle that requires vigilance. If we can denazify Germany, we can deisraelize Palestine.
Nazi Germany is not, but it is still Germany nonetheless. Your proposal is equivalent to the elimination of the concept of Germany in its entirety.
Basing your solution on a state that last existed in 1516 is an awful approach, and ignores the Israeli people’s right to self determination.
Additionally, the number of people who identify as Israeli significantly outnumbers the number of those who identify as Palestinian, so your one state solution still involves a state in which Palestinians continue to be a minority in a nation where Israelis have political control.
And you haven’t even begin to consider how you’d actually make it happen - are you expecting netanyahu to volunteer to join Palestine, or are you proposing a full fledged invasion of Israel, a regional military superpower?
Really, this is one of those situations where an idea is so bad, that it’s not viable to list all the reasons why it’s a bad idea
Yea, the whole “Make Judea Great Again” idea holds no water, yet here we are.
I don’t know how you determined that to be my proposal, unless you think the people of Israel cannot exist without all the racism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, etc. Even when we defeated Nazi Germany, most of the people living there still lived there.
I’d say basing solutions on what worked in the past is a good approach, actually. I’m not saying that we turn back the clock since that’s impossible and not even optimal. What we should be doing is moving towards a society that promotes peace and harmony, using what worked and improving it with lessons learned in the modern age. Israel as it exists now does not do that at all, and in fact does the opposite in many cases.
The idea would be to combine Israel and Palestine to form a new country where everyone can participate democratically and the rights of the minority are protected.
That’s because we saw what happened to all the Jews living in other middle eastern countries. Hint: all expelled or killed
Plenty do. You just only hear about the ones causing terror or violence.
plenty of jews are fine living in a Palestinian state, you just don’t hear about them because they aren’t the “right” kind of jew, It wasn’t the Palestinians that segregated out dark skinned jews, nor ran sterilization campaigns for Ethiopian jews
Stop acting like you have a right to self determination but Palestinians do not.
Stop pretending like they won’t murder or expel every jew in Israel given a chance.
Jesus Christ, you racist bastard.
You’re spouting bullshit, you got bullshit. Next time come up with actual replies that aren’t accusing others of unfounded things.
ah yes, the lebensraum bullshit.
you know why people point out that the modern Israeli state has ironically taken on fascist characteristics? because of people like you, literally on here trying for a speedrun Umberto’s common features of fascism
And you know why Israel ignores people like you? You eat up all the misinformation produced by countries that refuse to acknowledge its existence, or outright want it wiped off the map. Then when presented with actual facts that were conveniently left off by your sources, you close your eyes and yell fascist like you’ve been told. Yes, Israelis aren’t perfect either, but the people sitting in their comfy homes watching what’s going on there like entertainment and do nothing but yell at how you should sit down and take it, how the thousand cheap rockets are okay, because they only occasionally kill your neighbors. Yeah, that’s why Israel doesn’t listen to the world anymore.
ah yes, the argument of Israel is both weak and strong, it is perpetually threatened by the entire world around it, but it also is the only safe place for Jewish people
we got a bit of the good old disagreement is treason
maybe some Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
oh, and let’s not forget Selective populism, you got that going as well
you see Israel could try the whole not being an expansionist ethno-theocracy with a penchant for wanting to commit genocide on Palestinians who made the mistake of existing on the land divinely gifted to god’s chosen people, attacking its neighbors, etc…
but hey, after all, one Jewish child is worth an entire village, and you don’t bat an eye