Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14095378 [https://lemmy.ml/post/14095378] > Biden administration set to greenlight $18 billion sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel > > All of this after “getting angry” with Israel
Israel is a genocidal colonial ethnostate.
We never should have given them a fucking penny or a single bullet.
It should be pretty clear when I say loaded terminology.
genocidal
This is not an accusation to throw around lightly. If it was, we could say that Palestinians were once genocidal, for instance, while they were targeting Jews with violent campaigns. As terrible as it is, urban combat is going to produce unintended casualties. It’s an extremely complicated, tangled mess to uncover genocidal intent amid an active war.
colonial
The Ottoman Empire (yeah, this was so long ago that those were still around) collapsed, the British Protectorate sanctioned the country of Israel, land titles were sold to the JNF, the Palestinians besieged Jerusalem in a bid to starve all of its Jewish inhabitants to death, and Plan Dalet was spawned to rid neighboring villages of potential combatants during an active war with a stated goal of allowing anyone non-hostile to remain. Doesn’t sound very colonial to me, especially given that there was Jewish owned territory in the region and there was no other Jewish countries.
ethnostate
Israel welcomed Palestinian refugees. The surrounding Arab nations didn’t and don’t. What else is there to say?
If it was, we could say that Palestinians were once genocidal
Hamas certainly has genocidal intent today, they just lack capability.
Colonial
Israel is in violation of international law in regards to settlers in the West Bank. Not to mention the settlers currently drooling over the new “beachfront prime real estate” in Gaza. No need to look back to the Ottoman days when we can see what’s happening now.
Ethnostate On July 19, 2018, the Israeli Knesset voted to pass the “nation-state law” which declares Israel “the national home of the Jewish people”.
Non-Japanese people live in Japan; doesn’t make it any less of an ethnic-state.
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