• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    I hate myself and enjoy pain so I skimmed through this video. This guy keeps quoting a guy named Benny Morris occasionally, quoting from the book Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. Benny Morris is an self-admitted Zionist who was in the IDF for 33 years and was present at the Siege of Beirut in an artillery unit. I only know the name because Norman Finkelstein absolutely hates Benny Morris and considers him a fraud.

    This breadtube guy also at one point brings up the stupid rent agreements that Israel made with Jordan, as if that wasn't something done under duress and under bad terms. "This piece of paper that says i'm your landlord now says you have to pay me rent and if you don't i'm seizing your house because you're Palestinian" isn't a justifiable reason to evict people and toss them in jail and I don't know why liberals keep bringing this up.

    The second half of this video is literally 45 minutes of "but what about Russia mr second thought." Making the bizarre claim that if Israel is doing ethnic cleansing, then Russia is also doing it. That would be true if we were talking about I don't know, Chechens in 1996, but Ukraine in 2024?

    • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      The second half of this video is literally 45 minutes of “but what about Russia mr second thought.” Making the bizarre claim that if Israel is doing ethnic cleansing, then Russia is also doing it. That would be true if we were talking about I don’t know, Chechans in 1996, but Ukraine in 2024?

      What's the difference between Chechnya and Ukraine tho?

      I know the speed of which Israel is killing is probably more than that of Russia, when it comes to civilians

      25,000 dead in 3 months

      compared to

      10,000 dead in 2 years...

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        In case of Ukraine war Russia is not deliberately targeting civilians, the military to civilian death ratio being like 40 or 50 to 1 speaks by itself, in this aspect it's actually one of the most restrained big military operations in entire modern era.

      • D61 [any]
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        8 months ago

        A history of right wing Israeli statements along the lines of, "From the river to the sea, all of Palestine belongs to us" and then marching militias supported by armies to forcibly depopulate areas of their Palestinian residents.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        I don't think it's the case that Russia is doing a deliberate cultural or ethnic genocide against Ukrainian people themselves. This is a conflict over territory, NATO encirclement, and self-determination for people in the Donbas.