• @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    so we give back the US to indigenous population and the rest can live in a 16 square mile strip?

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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      42 years ago

      I actually considered drawing parallels between Israel/Palestine and an imaginary future where the US collapses into its individual states and foreign governments prop up the tribal governments with weapons and cash, however I thought the comparison might be lost on a lot of people.

      No, I’m not saying what Israel is doing is okay, nor am I saying that it’s okay for Hamas to be murdering civilians en masse. All I was saying is that the situation is a clusterfuck. Giving Israel the land ignores all of the people who had been living there for hundreds of years and have no where else to go. Giving Palestine the land ignores the fact that the land has a long history of being stolen from Israel.

      The ideal situation would be for Israel and Palestine to govern jointly, however as I said, Hamas and the Zionists would probably never be willing to compromise and they’re the ones who are currently causing problems.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        it’s hard to compromise with an oppressive state.

        I wonder what a lot of these Israeli defenders would have advised the black people of South Africa to do during the 80s.

        Just negotiate with the apartheid regime?

        Israel has has years to try and find a solution to the problem they created.

      • jungle
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        12 years ago

        There’s also the non-religious issue of the right of the Jews to have a place where they won’t be persecuted for being Jews.