Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread

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Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread - Lemmy

Due to the severity of the situation and the fast flowing news cycle, we have decided to create a general megathread for discussion regarding the conflict. Informal/Satirical news sources are not allowed on the main feed of the community but you are free to post them in this thread. Please remember that all community and instance rules apply to this thread hence keep is civil.

Why do Palestinians and Israelites hate each other?
Hmm, why would Palestinians hate European settlers that stole their land via the imperial edict of Britain? 🙄
“European settlers” in the sense that they hadn’t been in Israel since the Romans kicked them out in '65 for causing too much trouble with all their messiahs and religious. zealotry.

2000 years!

They hadn’t ever been in Israel, they were born and raised in Europe by parents that were born and raised in Europe by grandparents that were born and raise in Europe etc. etc. They were Europeans, complete with white skin and European culture and European language.

This wasn’t refugees returning to their home. It was settlers invading nonwhite people’s land and stealing it for themselves.

2000 years of racism, forced displacement and oppression, capped off with one of the most horrific genocides in the history of the world. It’s almost like you just want to believe Jewish people are bad guys to fit a simpler narrative of what’s happening.

It’s almost like you just want to believe Jewish people are bad guys to fit a simpler narrative of what’s happening.

Its almost like you want to collapse all Jews and the settler colonial state of Israel into one group to fit a simpler narrative of what’s happening.

So all of Israel is a colonial state? What should happen with it and it's over 9 million people? Of which almost half are middle eastern (I'm only including several generations middle eastern here, obviously we have people that are 3 or 4th generation Israeli, but I am not sure what your threshold is for being considered a native of an area). Then another 2.5 percent are beta Israel. So let's just say half are middle eastern or African. What should happen with this colonial state?

So all of Israel is a colonial state? Yes.

What should happen with it and it’s over 9 million people? You return proper land ownership and a lot of people will move back to where they’re from when they no longer get preferential treatment and free stuff. It happened in South Africa. If you don’t live on land that was stolen from Palestinians but within Palestinian borders, you live in Palestine now.