• AdeptusPrimaris@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Because the very creation of Israel was a settler colonialist state ethnically cleansing the local population.

    I would say their neighbours had plenty to be pissed off about.

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        10 months ago

        When you do that on someone else’s land?

        We call that colonialism and the people who’s land it was generally aren’t too thrilled

      • beardown@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Yes? Especially if the territory of that state is forcibly taken away from others who are living on it

        Creating the United States was similarly terrible as it involved the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. Same with Australia. Same with South Africa. Same with Rhodesia.

        Forcibly taking someone’s home and cleansing an area of an ethnicity is certainly regarded as one of the worst actions a group of people can do. And rightly so

        • theotherverion@lemmynsfw.com
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          10 months ago

          Of course, the way Israel was created was not ideal. I do not agree that Israel should have forced people out.

          Just like many Arab countries should not have forced Jews out.

          But unfortunately, it’s not very feasible to return it to the previous state now…

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            A lot of countries have a right of return. It works just fine. They may not be able to get the family farm back, but we can’t win everything.

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                  10 months ago

                  So far the international court has not decided on the genocide case, so it’s incorrect to accuse them of genocide now.

                  • beardown@lemm.ee
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                    10 months ago

                    South Africa has accused them of genocide. You’re saying South Africa, a former apartheid regime that has since been liberated, is incorrect to do so? What gives you the authority to judge them so? Obviously it isn’t because you’ve read their filings with the International Court of Justice

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                    10 months ago

                    The UN definition is public knowledge. It’s not like it’s a secret we have to wait for the clerics to decipher. What they’re doing meets the definition.