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Palestine-Israel Crisis Megathread (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (37 children)

Hmm, why would Palestinians hate European settlers that stole their land via the imperial edict of Britain? 🙄

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Can we acknowledge that it’s one of the most complicated geopolitical circumstances in the history of the world?

    No, we can't... because it's not. It's only "complicated" due to pro-Israeli propaganda and nothing else - it's no more "complicated" than Apartheid South Africa was.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's only two teams. The imaginary side you made up in your head doesn't exist.

    It's Hamas or Israel. Pick one.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Almost a troll-like insistence on lack of nuance to an extremely complex situation

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The invocation of nuance is a trick to get you to not take a stance that matters and to stay trapped in your own head cooking up imaginary solutions that can never and will never happen.

    The actually nuanced position is to support Hamas despite its flaws, because they're the only material force that is fighting for Gaza.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    The actually nuanced position is to be opposed to the bloodshed and race/religion-based tribalism happening with both the Israeli government AND Hamas, and to do more than just “tut tut” Israel’s recent activities in the West Bank and the virtual prison they’ve turned Gaza into.

    Hamas is resisting Zionism, not Jews. They're pretty explicit about that.

    So if you oppose race/religion-based tribalism you support Hamas, because they're the ones opposing it.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    By not picking a side you become invisible and irrelevant. If you don't want to pick a side, just tune out and go play video games or something because it's basically the same thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No shit that I am irrelevant to the war in Gaza. I live on the other side of the world and dont have any political power. The most I could do is try to send some money to aid the Palestinian refugees, and I still would be invisible and irrelevant to it. Are you sending money, supplies, armaments, or fighting for Hamas? If not you are invisible and irrelevant to this conflict yourself. Just like 99.999% of the world's population.

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