idk, man, it just seems ridiculous to use "colony" when Israelis came from practically the whole Old World, like okay, you can hate us for going to Israel but use a pejorative phrase that makes sense. How do you colonize without somewhere to colonize from? I don't get it.
The English had England to go back to after they had their fun in the Raj. The French had France after they so graciously gave Indochina the blessing of the baguette. The Belgians had Belgium after they got bored of slaughtering millions of people in the Congo.
There isn't and never has been a Jewlandia for Israelis to "go back to", because it's not colonization, it would be like if the Quarians crash-landed back on their planet. Find a new word. Although, I will contend the settler stuff in, *fascistic moon walk* Judea and Samaria might constitute a more
strong argument for colonization. Idk, the standard "oppressor/oppressed" dialectic breaks down in this conflict. It's just two heavily victimized, ideologically opposed groups put it in a tiny cage by the world and asked to fight over a single cot for sleeping somewhere there isn't broken glass
Like, I'm sorry Israelis don't want to sleep on broken glass, but it's also pretty annoying that audience members are throwing glass bottles into the ring.
My country is currently funding your country's arms industry to the tune of billions of dollars I would not call that broken glass. I would like to stop giving your country bombs maybe they'd be able to get along better with everyone if they didn't keep trying to kill them!
Maybe going somewhere without people you have to displace by force? I don't hate you for being born in the country you were in I hate you for defending an ongoing genocide and apartheid regime with my countries tax dollars on the Internet for fun it makes me very mad!
Sorry for making you very mad. I was having fun, but it was mostly in expressing what amounts to me as righteous fury. So, I guess we're all mad in some respect.
Okay, I get that Palestinians look all weak and powerless now, but it's not like they were a bunch of helpless children in 1948 or before or later or even now. The Nakba was not one-sided. It was a war. It is documented. People on both sides got displaced. Stop viewing this conflict as Manichaen
I know ww2 was one of the worst things that ever happened but a lot of this would have been solved if England didn't give you guys Palestine because you've turned a place millions of people used to live in peace into an open air genocide prison
Imo part of the problem is just that they didn't want to let you/your families in, which makes me really sad and would've been against. I don't know what to do about that racism sucks
This is a very distorted understanding of how the British shaped and continues to shape Palestine. And what are you doing about being mad about your tax dollars?
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I am looking for that thing you said about "I don't think they'll let the people in Gaza starve," do you remember that?
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