"Why are you singling us out for something only we are doing?"
1 year ago | 106
I heard once "do not justify your mistakes by the mistakes of others"
1 year ago | 146
Not-so-fun fact: Even during the height of international condemnation, Israel STILL supported Apartheid South Africa. Real shocker, huh??
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It’s also important to point out that most of the “other conflicts” especially in that region are actually directly connected to the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine
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The situation is also unique because Israel is engaged in a traditional form of colonialism that for the rest of the world has been dead for many years. The word “colonialism” tends to be loosely used to describe more modern forms of international exploitation, but in a strict sense of the term Israel is pretty much the only remaining true colonial state.
1 year ago (edited) | 138
What Israel is doing exceeds the brutality of what other countries are doing.
1 year ago | 29
I think for Americans it’s because our government is so involved, there’s no way this would be happening if the US was not holding Israel’s hand at every point and that bothers more than any other conflict going on.
1 year ago | 306
Whenever you say look at them or what about them. That's an admission of guilt. You only point to others when you know what you are doing is wrong.
1 year ago | 62
“Look at all the other conflicts in the world that we created. Why don’t you pay attention to those instead?”
1 year ago | 19
If any other nation acted like Israel has, every government in the world would have had no moral ambiguity or trouble condemning that nation and work to stop them and bring them to justice, as well as sanctioned them without hesitation. But since it’s Israel doing the killing and horrific slaughter, suddenly it’s a complicated question??
1 year ago | 8
I don’t get called an anti-semitic racist when I point out other countries genocides
1 year ago | 15
A Western citizen have every right to ask his government what they are doing with their resources and why they are giving out military aid to Israel including missiles and ammunition and airplanes and all sort of military stuff. These are democratic states in which the officials answer to people. You can't demand those states give you what you want then also attack the people that worked to pay taxes that ended up as aid to you.
1 year ago | 8
That's the creed of the "chosen people", nobody is allowed to question their ways, as deceased Sharon once said...
1 year ago | 35
They forgot they got their paws on every other conflicts. So yeah looking at other conflicts made me realize how evil these people are.
1 year ago | 3
i think its because the US and South Africa are founded on settler colonialism so dealing with our own displacement of native peoples can be a hard thing to grasp and to deal with
1 year ago | 14
Yeah, there’s nothing quite like this, in terms of how brazen, how rapid, how insulting, how dishonest, and how dangerous of a precedent.
1 year ago | 30
This is not a “normal” conflict, I absolutely hate this excuse. The current Ukraine-Russia war has caused around 11k Ukrainian civilian deaths. This is a large scale conflict that has been raging for two+ years now (many more if you include 2014-2022) where shipping, transportation etc are all Military targets, there’s been massive urban battles in places like Mariupol yet somehow the IDF has “accidentally” killed over twice as many civilians while fighting over a single city defended by a military force that doesn’t even have tanks/IFV’s/aircraft barring gliders and only the most basic form of military infrastructure. There’s absolutely no way you can explain this outside of purposeful killing of civilians, even extreme incompetence can’t explain this.
1 year ago | 77
GDF
Israel’s apologists will say — ‘look to other conflicts, why do you not care about those? Why are you singling out Israel?’
These are attempts to normalize Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians of Gaza.
But it is not only abnormal — it’s without precedent.
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