• الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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    The US is bankrolling the genocide and vetoed the ceasefire. Who are you lying to? The US and its interests are a fair and legitimate targets because of its involvement and complicity in the genocide.

    Joe Biden Moves to Lift Nearly Every Restriction on Israel’s Access to U.S. Weapons Stockpile https://theintercept.com/2023/11/25/biden-israel-weapons-stockpile-arms-gaza/

    Don’t be fooled. Biden is fully signed up to ethnic cleansing in Gaza https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-biden-fully-signed-up-genocide

    • ex10n@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      As a defensive partner it makes sense to continue to provide aid and arms to Israel for defensive purposes, which includes the removal of a condemned terrorist organization as the acting government of the Gaza strip. This does not reduce or remove the US effort to provide aid and humanitarian support to the citizens of Gaza. A 2 state solution remains the policy of the United States, even if this is a foil with both Hamas and the Netantahu government.

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        defensive purposes

        You wouldn’t say this if it was Russia bombing Ukrainians. I’m gonna blame this on racism against Arabs. No other reason to describe the murder of 18,000 civilians and the bombing of schools and hospitals as defensive.

        condemned terrorist organization

        Citation needed.

        According to Wikipedia the countries that consider it as terrorist are only than 13% of the world’s population. That doesn’t seem like much condemnation when 87% of the world aren’t on board.

        • ex10n@lemm.ee
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          Russia has been and is currently bombing Ukrainians on sovereign land. Pretty easy to learn this tidbit of information.

          • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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            And the Palestinians are bombed where? in the skies? they are being bombed on their own land that was stolen from them, and in the refugee camps they are forced to live in. Internally displaced on their own land.

            • ex10n@lemm.ee
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              11 months ago

              Was this supposed to draw a response? Can you reiterate your question?

                • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                  Palestinians are not a target of bombings in Gaza, they're sad casualties of the realities of war and conflict. Bombing non-military targets is never okay, but there's limits to the precision of weapons in use today.

                  • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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                    11 months ago

                    There are two ways to read this:

                    1. You are lying and know that you are lying
                    2. You are genuinely naive and misled

                    If 2, then maybe this will help make it clear to you that the occupation military always intended to target and kill as many civilians as possible:

                    “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant says following an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba.

                    “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he adds.

                    https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/

                    • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                      11 months ago

                      I have not voiced my support for the Netantahu government, and am failing to see the connection to the United States official policy for a 2 state solution.

                      • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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                        The US government has though and everyone knows that Netanyahu always opposed a Palestinian state. Netanyahu has been playing the US as a sock puppet for years.

                        Here was when he scammed the US into invading Iraq: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzSr52fZLQ

                        • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                          Thankfully democratic institutions with likeli guide a change in Israeli policy here. Netanyahu is on his way out.

                            • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                              "Meanwhile, most of protestors in Tel Aviv are wary of making this connection and are horrified by speakers who try to connect the palpable risk to democracy with the occupation of the territories or the waving of Palestinian flags in protest. However, the moment may well come when they too will recognize that there is no democracy alongside occupation."

                              Haven't I been reiterating my support and official US policy for a 2 state solution?

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                                  Palestinians would want two states so they can govern themselves in a sovereign nation, while concurrently Israel can do the same.

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                                    Palestinians need a state I agree, not sure what the second state would be for

                                    Most of the world already recognized Palestinian statehood by the way, not the US or the civilized and european west though

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                                    • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                      The second state would be the counterpart to Palestine in a 2 state solution. Based on historical context, this would be the Israeli government.

                                      • YuccaMan [he/him]
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                                        Israel isn't a real state, it's a neoimperialist attack dog that occasionally forgets its leash. It's theft and murder incarnate. If you really consider historical context to be important and still hold to a two-state solution as the ideal outcome, then I'm sorry, you're lacking a great deal of historical context and haven't the right to invoke it here.

                                        • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                          Unfortunately the stain of religion has caused the fruition of needless casualties throughout the centuries. As the world becomes more atheistic over time due to the nature of scientic discovery, my hopes for change grow.

                                          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                                            Broadly speaking, religion is not diminished by scientific discovery, it is diminished by people's material needs being met and their prospects looking good. Our friend Marx called that one a long time ago, but modern studies on secularization say the same thing.

                                            But Israel/Palestine is not about religion except as a smokescreen. It is about race, specifically an overwhelmingly white population of settler colonists creating and expanding an ethnostate. The aggrievement of the Palestinians is not that Jews exist, but that their homes were taken and their family members and friends were butchered like animals.

                                            • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                              It is most definitely rooted in religious conflict and it'd be naive to think otherwise.

                                              • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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                                                No, its rooted in Western colonialism, and it's cope to think otherwise.

                                                • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                                  I've never said western colonialism hasn't had it's negative impacts, but this is grossly minimalizing historical context.

                                                    • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                                      Care to elaborate? Your non-point responses are not encouraged in thoughtful debate, but youre welcome to do as you please.

                                                      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                                                        What they are correctly suggesting is that your thesis is ignoring Israel's context as a settler-colony authored by Britain to enable what amounted to the mass-expulsion of Holocaust refugees from Europe to run an ethnostate in the Middle East that would act as an instrument for its interests.

                                                        The idea of religious conflict being the main element is completely absurd. A truly Jewish state would not forcibly sterilize Ethiopian Jews

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                                                          I never claimed Britans handling of the relocation of Jewish people was perfect, many things could've been handled differently, however the conflict around Jerusalem is much older than you suggest and riddled with religious interests. Religion should not guide modern policy. At most religion should act as, "an opiate of the masses."

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                                                            That conflict is a fiction invented by zionists that has only the most tenuous analogy to anything in actual history. The small number of Jewish Palestinians who were used as part of the smokescreen are out of the picture at this point, as Israel is overwhelmingly and aggressively white and has no interest is helping either Jewish or Muslim Arabs. The modern state of Israel is not based on those conflicts, there is no causal continuity, that is just a lie you have been fed. It's a white colony that is as connected to that inter-Palestinian conflict as the Nazis were connected to the Arabs of Ancient India, it's just something some racial supremacists conjured up for their fascist mythology.

                                                            Incidentally, get Marx's words out of your mouth if you won't bother to ever actually read him

                                                            • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                                              "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised." - Hamas Covenant 1988

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                                                              "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory)." - Hamas Covenant 1988

                                                              https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

                                                              This is most certainly rooted in religious beliefs.

                                                                • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                                                  And the definition of Jihad is? Ding ding, you just landed on religious conflict, congratulations 👏

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                                                              "They (Jews) were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there." - Hamas Covenant 1988

                                                              Sounds pretty darn racist to me. The same beliefs are echoed today by neo-nazis.

                                          • YuccaMan [he/him]
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                                            11 months ago

                                            Alright, I mean this in the kindest way possible, you have no idea what you're talking about. I don't have the time required nor the desire to rectify that, so I'll simply say that you've spent a regrettable amount of time here embarrassing yourself in front of people who know substantially more about history and politics than you do. Trying to debate communists on those subjects at all is generally a bad idea, but to do so armed only with natsec PR and mystery statistics is something else.

                                            • ex10n@lemm.ee
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                                              I mean personally I support communism, but I have yet to see it implemented without authoritarian influence. The Native Americans have a pretty decent communal system, which the US should learn from.

                                              • SexMachineStalin [comrade/them]
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                                                I mean personally I support communism, but I have yet to see it implemented without authoritarian influence

                                                Pretty rich coming from someone on the side of idf-cool isntrael

                                                Also you do realize why socialists and communists become "authoritarian" right? It's at least partly to do with people like you who would have snitched to the Apartheid government and even attempted to kill them.

                                                PIGPOOPBALLS

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        I want you to consider this comment and compare it to your previous comment above. You said that the US is reducing spending on Israel because of Israel's brutal actions. Then when it was pointed out to you that they in fact were doing the opposite, your response was not to then say "wow, that's really shitty of them" but instead to try and justify their actions to yourself.

        Have you no brain? No heart? No soul? No spine? Is this really the person you want to be? Someone licking the boot of the dickhead politicians in Washington so much that you'll abandon any and all morals to do so? It's ok to be mad at your government when they do shitty things, even if they are "your team."