coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them] to news • 1 year agoPalestinian uprising on a scale not seen in 50 years just startedlockexternal-linkmessage-square753 fedilinkarrow-up1523file-text
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minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear7·1 year agoQuick question though, if Israel's gov't was gone and replaced, would it be better to name it "Palestine" or "Israel-Palestine" to be more inclusive, like how Rhodesia was once temporarily "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia"... ? link
minus-squarecoeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]hexagonhexbear11·1 year agopeople's republic of the levant link
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]hexbear7·1 year agoBut it doesn't include Lebanon yet, doesn't it, let alone Jordan, or Syria? So, what would you call it at the moment... link
minus-squarechickentendrils [any, comrade/them]hexbear17·1 year agoUS of A doesn't include most of the Americas (on paper), the Democratic People's Republic of Korea only includes half the Korean peninsula. link
minus-squareGivingEuropeASpook [they/them, comrade/them]hexbear1·1 year agoI think a lot of people here would say Palestine because they are imagining an outcome without any Jewish people still living there. link
minus-squareProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]hexbear30·1 year agoJewish people lived in Palestine before Israel was created link
minus-squareCigarette_comedian [he/him]hexbear23·1 year agoThe strawest of mans ever conceived! Wowza! link
minus-squareferristriangle [he/him]hexbear19·edit-21 year agoGuess what! Palestinian Jews are also treated as second class citizens under Zionism! Pretending that Zionism is equivalent to being Jewish is antisemitism. link
Quick question though, if Israel's gov't was gone and replaced, would it be better to name it "Palestine" or "Israel-Palestine" to be more inclusive, like how Rhodesia was once temporarily "Zimbabwe-Rhodesia"... ?
Palestine.
people's republic of the levant
But it doesn't include Lebanon yet, doesn't it, let alone Jordan, or Syria? So, what would you call it at the moment...
US of A doesn't include most of the Americas (on paper), the Democratic People's Republic of Korea only includes half the Korean peninsula.
Fair enough...
I think a lot of people here would say Palestine because they are imagining an outcome without any Jewish people still living there.
Jewish people lived in Palestine before Israel was created
The strawest of mans ever conceived! Wowza!
Fuck off with this projection shit
Guess what! Palestinian Jews are also treated as second class citizens under Zionism!
Pretending that Zionism is equivalent to being Jewish is antisemitism.
Nah