This would be appropriate reparations for the Holocaust, would give Palestinians back their land, and would provide a Jewish state that would be safe (right?) amidst European countries who are not anti-Semitic (right?).

So what do you think Germany, the EU, and the USA will say?

  • KimJongGoku [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I'm okay with splitting my country up in two, but leaving Bavaria untouched and as part of Germany is just cruel

  • ReadFanon [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    Lmao I've been saying this for years to Hasbara trolls when they accuse me of not supporting a Two-State Solution and the point of it is that they absolutely know that any objections they have to a German Repartition Two-State Solution is going to be met with a "So why is it okay for you to do that to Palestine then?" and they absolutely know it.

    I've never deployed this argument with them and had them reply because they know they can't come back at it and, essentially, because the Zionist project depends upon the extermination of Palestinians and they don't want to openly admit it.

    I even mentioned this in Socialism For All's recent stream which got mentioned by them. It was funny to hear someone else say it out loud.

  • HarryLime [any]
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    1 year ago

    Actually, just make it out of the former DDR since they're all voting for AFD now anyway

    • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You see it in a lot of Europe. The working class poor people who used to be left have been won over by racist propoganda.

      • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

        In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live.

        Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda

        We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be. This means that we can be reasoned with, that there is a way out.

        Remember this, kids...

        • ArsenLupin [comrade/them, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yup, you tell the average American that their military is in the middle east for oil, if they acknowledge that fact, their response is usually going to be: good I want my gas to be cheap.

          • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I'd say there are significant groups who will answer all of the below:

            1. Yes, and that's good because I want cheap gas.
            2. No, we're really the good guys!
            3. Yes, and I oppose this old war- oh wait there's a new war? Fuck it turn up the Toby Keith
            4. Yes, and I oppose this old war, and I see the echoes of us going down the same road with this new war but I'm hesitant to oppose it (because there's nonstop propaganda calling me a Nazi if I do).
  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    israeli settler colonialism is a furnace and its main fuel is european anti semitism: the idea that jews cannot possibly live in europe, or be european. this is used by the settle colonists to justify their white supremacist ideal to settle palestine and commit genocide there. some of the most opportunistic white supremacism I've ever seen. masquerades as progressive while making common cause with the anti semites. of course reparations from a european country to the jewish people will never be pursued by israeli settlers because it's entirely contrary to their purposes.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    okay this map cannot be even close to right

    Israel is just under 21 thousand square kilometers. Germany is just under 350 thousand square kilometers. Germany is almost 17 times bigger than Israel.

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Yea I mean I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure Jewish people wouldn't want to live in Germany and it's probably a bad idea regardless

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It wouldn't be Germany any more and any Germans still trespassing there should just go home to Germany or Belgium or wherever.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      pretty sure Jewish people wouldn't want to live in Germany

      If my neighbor tries to kill me and my family, most systems of justice would give me restitution from my neighbor and those who helped him. Doesn't matter how much I want restitution from the guy across town who had nothing to do with the crime, he shouldn't suffer for a crime he didn't commit.

      • Venus [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        and those who helped him.

        Does this mean Israel should be relocated to Japan?

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Imperial Japan was actually weirdly nice to Jewish people despite being in the Axis. They kinda looked at Nazi ideology and concluded that if Jews did control the banks and media, Japan should get them on side.

          But hey, let's compromise and just put New Israel in the Baltic States and Banderite Ukraine.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Berlin has a large Israeli community and a lot of Jewish people from former USSR member states moved to Germany after the fall as well. Our Jewish community isn't as big as that in the US, but it is there. I agree it would have been a problematic idea immediately after WW2, tho, can't see many Jewish people wanting to move to Germany back then.

  • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    They had their chance to do it right by creating a Jewish state in East Prussia (instead of forming Kaliningrad Oblast). Now that ship has sailed they'll have to give up the Rhine instead.

  • huf [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    this map gives a pretty false impression. the lower half is the negev, it's practically empty. so you wouldnt need half of germany for this new state of israel.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      the other false impression is that Israel is anywhere near this big.

      Germany is over 16 times larger in extent than Israel

      • huf [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        oops lol, yeah, the scale is way off. they could've made an israel out of like meckleburg-vorpommern...

  • Pili [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    We should just give them New York, half the population of Isn'treal comes from there anyway.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    A little unironically a great idea, just like 70 years too late.

  • Pisha [she/her, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    That's the strangest map of Germany I've ever seen. Anhalt has absorbed all of Saxony-Anhalt? Saxony, Bavaria and Lower Saxony are in English, but the rest aren't, and the German name of Lower Saxony is also there, but with an extra "n"? And all the islands are missing?

  • Koa_lala [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I frankly do not want Israel on my border. They seem to have a habit of colonization.

    • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Neither do Palestinians. Europeans have the responsibility to correct the sequence of history that has occurred because of their anti-semitism and resulting Holocaust. Sorry not sorry.

      When is the last time a white people got colonized? You’re inventing a boogeyman to be afraid of that is pure fantasy.

  • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Well if we do this 45 years after that Israel will celebrate a day of unity as the government in the east ceases to exist and the west takes over. Suddenly the largest member in the EU will be Israel. So I think the cons outweigh the pros in this one.