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WexfordHo t1_ivz44pr wrote

Classic, it’s a pity they won’t extend the same courtesy to LGBT people that they do to dogs. That recent beheading in Hebron was just another in a long line of atrocities.

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Steaknkidney45 t1_ivz8ki2 wrote

What imperialism? West Bank was won from Jordan in 1967, and Israel ceded Sinai to Egypt, another aggressor in that same war, in exchange for peace deal.

And what apartheid? Israel is 20% Arab and Arab Israelis have equal rights compared to Jews, Christians and others in the country.

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WexfordHo t1_ivz94tt wrote

There’s a lot of hardship and hard situations in the world, in quite a few cases you have a clear and unambiguous division between victims and the groups victimizing them, such as the case in Myanmar, Ukraine, victims of pogroms in Sudan, Australian immigration camps in Papua New Guinea, the US separating children from families in camps. A lot of that kind of thing. Few of those events get the sort of the lasting, intense, coverage and attention loaded with inflammatory buzzwords that the “Israeli Palestinian conflict” does. Few of those events are treated like a team sport for decades, often by people the furthest away from those events.

The only other comparable thing I can imagine is the “Free Tibet” movement, but even that has largely petered out as people realized that China wasn’t going to listen to them. But not this, not Israel. It’s always the same fury, the same certainty and the same muffled hatred, even when the “victims” of the conflict are not especially sympathetic and the conflict is far from one-sided. Funny isn’t it? How that works.

So I hope you understand why it’s so notable that this is the thing that makes people this intent on vilifying one party to an ongoing conflict. That’s doubly true when the party in question just happens to be the largest group of Jews in the world, and when so much of the “criticism” comes in the form of ahistorical and hysterical rhetoric.

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lironi1111 t1_ivzclen wrote

Maybe one day they will also backtrack on their fund rewarding terrorists for killing Jews..

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Yuskia t1_ivznani wrote

It's absolutely wild that you can openly say "I dont agree with the cultural aspects of Palestinians so it's ok they are being genocided."

As a member of the left, here is my personal stance.

I dont agree with a lot of the cultural aspects of Palestinians, but I dont think that is an excuse for them to be genocided.

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BeefyHemorroides t1_iw21yp3 wrote

You’re talking to someone who called murdering gay people just a little “cultural aspect.” Well, I guess we shouldn’t pay any mind to Israel’s “cultural aspects” against Palestinians either. Job done.

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strictly-for-crypto t1_iw5lmod wrote

Take it up with the occupying force...

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With most of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli military and administrative control, there is no joined-up strategy for dealing with the problem.

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dxploys t1_iwc256h wrote

They are islamists, not to defend them but it's an entirely different culture. Why does the west have the right to impose LBGT values on them when it's not in their beliefs?

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