• rdri@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    So it really has just been 1 people genetically and the differences are mostly just made up.

    As with the whole Earth population. I couldn’t find proofs that Palestinians have deeper or bigger presence over time there than Israeli.

    But either way, this is something I refuse to accept as an argument. Nations move. Some not but it doesn’t mean they are unable to. I’d check out specific reasons like natural disasters, resources etc. But I see no such arguments - everyone just scream “this is our land and we must take it back”. Humans don’t work like that and there is no need to spend tons of resources to fight for it. Adaptation is how everyone lives. Sure, spend some resources on figuring out diplomacy, but terrorism is beyond the adequate line.

    I’ll point you to human rights organizations describing the current conditions as Apartheid

    And I thought the current condition is war.

    They see violence as the only option, since when they peacefully protest (eg. great march of return), they get shot. And no, throwing stones does not justify that. Israeli soldiers got at most a few bruises.

    If there was anything like throwing stones with slongshots then it wasn’t a peaceful protest. We know palestinians are raised with “gotta kill a jew to become a hero and make my parents proud” thought, and it’s easy to realize those were aggression actions masked as “protests”. Before you judge an army for shooting them, you have to consider palestinian “protesters” would not be judged if they manage to kill anyone with a stone, they would be praised instead.

    Israel regularly overreacts to violence from Gaza

    “Chill up Israel, it’s just a child’s play”?

    by leveling civilian infrastructure without providing proof that it’s being used by Hamas

    Maybe we should ask hamas to provide proofs that they fire missiles at military objects in Israel?

    Over 1000 palestinians are being held in Israeli prisons without any charges against them. Some children in prisons are held in solitary confinement (torture)

    You really can compare that to (and justify) what happend at October 7? At this point I’ll kindly ask you to agree that you are applying different judgement systems for 2 nations. You allow palestinians be bloody monsters but you require that israeli would not touch them no matter what happens.

    A while ago it came out that Israel used to harvest organs from dead Palestinians, and currently they haven’t given back a few hundred bodies iirc.

    Spooky. Any investigations of that at all?

    And human rights organizations have describes Gaza as an open air prison.

    It’s just a nice word. If you can build rockets surely you can build something more useful, and it can’t happen in a prison.

    considering how much money the defense industry makes from them

    There is a contradiction when people first expect the western world to take the side of Gaza in order to save lifes, and then say that the same western world really sell defense equipment for profit only and not to save lifes.

    This is just speculation, we don’t know what it would look like if the Palestinians won.

    Basically, it would look like there is no more Israel, and a lot more of “Allahu Akbar” screams everyday all over the world, probably.

    Worth it in my opinion, if it means that there is relative peace.

    Worth it to get rid of Israel? Or worth it to leave a terrorist organization in power of 2 million people alone?

    if it means that there is relative peace

    And I thought people learned a lesson from the WW2, from the Ukraine war. Once you appease the aggressor there is no way back. And certainly no way for a peace.

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      2 years ago

      You really can compare that to (and justify) what happend at October 7? At this point I’ll kindly ask you to agree that you are applying different judgement systems for 2 nations. You allow palestinians be bloody monsters but you require that israeli would not touch them no matter what happens.

      No, that isn’t the only justification. You are ignoring the apartheid and settler colonialism and focusing on one or two other things I said.

      Maybe we should ask hamas to provide proofs that they fire missiles at military objects in Israel?

      I mean any rocket at tel aviv could be aimed at a military target, the IDF headquarters is in the middle of a densely populated area. But yeah, a lot of those rockets are simply to hurt anyone they can. Again, do I need to point you at the people killed by the various other organizations that used terror to fight for freedom? It’s horrible, yes, but the way to stop it is by giving people their freedom.

      There is a contradiction when people first expect the western world to take the side of Gaza in order to save lifes, and then say that the same western world really sell defense equipment for profit only and not to save lifes.

      I can expect someone to do the right thing, but also recognize that they have no morals and so they won’t do it.

      Worth it to get rid of Israel? Or worth it to leave a terrorist organization in power of 2 million people alone?

      I don’t think you understand what it would be like if the Palestinians won. Even in the best case scenario for the Palestinians, it wouldn’t be Hamas completely taking over Israel. That is definitely physically impossible. It would be both groups come together and negotiate, and either Israel turns into a secular state and swallows the west bank and gaza, or a new secular state is formed that encompasses the whole area. That’s what “from the river to the sea” means.

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          2 years ago

          Yeah. Glad you noticed. Would you say the Viet Cong and the ANC weren’t justified?

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            2 years ago

            I’m not sure what the ANC is, but the Viet Cong were absolutely not justified in their actions. They were part of an attempt to force communism on South Vietnam. In effect, they used force of arms in lieu of democracy to get what they wanted. They committed atrocities and were unjustified in their actions.

            Any group that rejects political and democratic solutions to its problems in favor of violence is unjustified. Violence is a last resort.

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              2 years ago

              Any group that rejects political and democratic solutions to its problems in favor of violence is unjustified.

              Nice, we should have just voted the Nazis out then. Algeria and Vietnam should have just voted out the colonial powers. The ANC should have just voted out South African apartheid. Violence is a last resort sure, and Palestinians (along with those other groups) are at a point where they have to turn to it.

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                2 years ago

                Way to completely ignore what I actually wrote.

                Resorting to violence when democracy fails is different to outright rejecting democracy and going straight for violence, which is what Hamas and other Islamist terror groups in that region do. Hamas (and, I guess all Palestinians, since you’re lumping them together?) have rejected political solutions to their conflict with Israel because they do not desire to coexist, they want to eject all Israeli Jews from the region, or, if possible, slaughter them. They don’t desire peace. They desire war and terror and the genocide of the Jews.

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                  2 years ago

                  I guess all Palestinians, since you’re lumping them together?

                  There’s a difference between saying that all Palestinians are Hamas and saying that the only option Palestinians have left is violence.

                  Resorting to violence when democracy fails is different to outright rejecting democracy and going straight for violence, which is what Hamas and other Islamist terror groups in that region do.

                  Can you explain how you expect them to negotiate with Israel peacefully when Israel has shown that it is not interested in peace by continuing to build illegal settlements in the west bank, effectively killing a two state solution? They can’t peacefully protest, they’d get shot. They can’t vote Israel out, they aren’t citizens of Israel. The only options left for them is violence. And out of the organizations there, the secular ones like the PFLP and DFLP aren’t as powerful as they used to be so Hamas is the only viable one left.

                  If there was a way for Palestinians to achieve liberation peacefully, that would be awesome for everyone, but I’m struggling to see how that’s possible.

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                    2 years ago

                    Hamas killed the two-state solution. Israel bent over backwards to try to compromise with and accommodate the Palestinians, which it had no legal obligation to do, and Hamas and its ilk rejected those offers because they didn’t want two states–they wanted one state, sans Jews.

                    I’m not a fan of what Israel has been doing in the West Bank, but don’t lie to me and act like those actions are why a two-state solution isn’t working. Palestine didn’t want to exist in a world that included Israel.