Germany's support for Israel's genocide against Palestinians is all the more sickening when you understand the striking parallels with Germany's first genocide, against the Herero and Nama people in Namibia.
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Much better comparison than that other that you did before (Spanish conquistadores). Nanking also, perhaps: fully published and public, fully hate-driven, fully imperial
Germany colonized Namibia in the late 19th century and began seizing land from the Herero and Nama, forcing them into reservations and establishing settlements on their territory - exactly as Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for generations.
In 1904, the Herero and Nama took up arms and rebelled against their colonizers. In the process they killed over 100 German settlers.
Germany, humiliated by a subjugated people they considered racially inferior, whipped up a storm of outrage and reacted with overwhelming genocidal violence.
They massacred the rebels and cut the people off from food and water, causing mass death from starvation and dehydration. In a second stage of the genocide, they forced people into concentration camps where the majority died of diseases and abuse.
The Germans saw the rebellion as an opportunity justify mass extermination and accelerate their plans to ethnically cleanse the region. All told, the Germans killed between 34,000 and 110,000 people during the genocide.
These events bear striking similarities to the Israeli case. A long history of colonization and ethnic cleansing triggers a revolt from the colonized, and the colonizers respond with overwhelming disproportionate violence to destroy the society and accelerate ethnic cleansing.
The same pattern occurred repeatedly during the genocide of Indigenous peoples in North America. Colonizers stole Indigenous land, they resisted and sometimes killed settlers, and the colonial state would whip up a storm of outrage to provide support for genocidal violence and more ethnic cleansing.
This is the dumbest take I’ve seen in a while. No, you can’t just pluck bad things from history and apply them all to Israel. You’re making blood libel into an airborn virus with its very own time machine. No, this crap doesn’t make you look smart, it makes you a bigot.
Nope, it's because Israël slaughters, tortures, sexually abuses, kills doctors and caretakers, refuses food and water, bombs , deliberately kills children and women by having them shot by snipers. Simply said: people have got enough of the endless lies of Israël about the genocide they commit.
Perhaps if Palestinian leaders would do literally anything else besides murder, rape and kidnap Jews, they might’ve had a country by now. Sadly, the West has fallen for the terrorists. Rape is not “resistance.” Disemboweling mothers in front of their children is not “resistance.”
Kidnapping toddlers is not “resistance.” Beheading corpses is “not resistance.” Methodically planning the mass murder of the very same people employing you and caring for your the most vulnerable is not “resistance.” Your movement is a barbaric fraud.
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Germany, humiliated by a subjugated people they considered racially inferior, whipped up a storm of outrage and reacted with overwhelming genocidal violence.
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