Oxymoron wrote:This lo-life would have been a great Polizine back in the day.
There is a lot of these "Bad Jews" in America and Europe today. And that is only increasing. They wouldn't exist if Israel wasn't the Apartheid pariah state that destroys the lives of millions of Palestinians every day, that it insists on being.
Rich wrote:Israel makes perfect sense for preserving Jewish life. 30% of the world's Jews live in Israel and for multiple reasons that percentage is only going to increase going forward.
But the opposite is happening.
The Jews of Israel are not just going to leave. Therefore the Israeli State is needed to protect their lives.
Nobody is demanding Jews in Palestine leave, we're demanding equal rights for the natives who live there too. And Israel is not needed to protect any lives, since if that were true, 100% Jews would be living there today, and as you stated, there's only around 30% and those numbers are decreasing as time goes on.
These claims that Israel is genocideing the Palestinians are utterly absurd. Even in the 48 war the Jews didn't engage in genocide. Sure they used mass killings to create terror to drive out the Palestinians to ethnically cleanse large parts of Palestine, but the killings were never approaching the level to actually significantly effect the demographics.
What has happened to the Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing ongoing today fits under the definition of 'genocide'. That it does should be the thing that upsets you, not the language used to describe what has happened and continues to happen.
But one thing the last 50 years has taught us, is that the Jews of Israel can be trusted not to try and genocide the Palestinians.
Just because all Palestinians aren't shot dead today or yesterday, doesn't mean what is happening in Palestine isn't genocide. Your obsession with semantics is weird.
Look at the hatred expressed by @skinster toward Israel. She doesn't even live in Gaza or the West Bank. She is not even an Arab. She isn't even still a Muslim. Just imagine the level of hatred felt by the actual "Palestinians" that actually live there.
Calling out the racist and colonial crimes of Zionism is "hatred"?
You don't have to be X religion or Y ethnicity to oppose settler-colonialism and apartheid. You can see that by the fact that there are people in countries all over the world who are on the same page as me.
This is the problem when you demonise genocide. This is the problem when you make genocide into an absolute evil, beyond compare with any other grievances of rights, liberties or opportunities. This is the problem you create for yourself if you fetishise genocide. If genocide must be stopped at all cost. If preventing genocide is our moral dictate above all else then you are compelled to support the status quo in Palestine.
You seem to be obsessed with a word for some weird reason. Since you have already spoken about the crimes, the daily humiliations, the lack of equal rights and ethnic cleansing, maybe focus on those things instead of a word.
Deutschmania wrote:Is Bernie Sanders a socialist then , given your narrow subjective definition ?
Of course not, he's a Zionist and imperialist pig.
Free Palestine.