• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Israel was attacked almost immediately upon its foundation

    It was attacked for a reason. Pretending otherwise is dishonest. The Nakba led to the attacks.

    “The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” refers to the 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what today is Israel before and during the war surrounding its creation in 1948.”

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/palestinians-mark-the-nakba-the-original-catastrophe-of-mass-expulsion

    Do you see the “before” in that quote? The Nakba was the cause of the attacks.

    Beyond that israel was attacking the british and muslims in the area before israel became a nation-state again. This isnt the first israeli genocide in that area in service of building a new kingdom either. Its the third or fourth, depending how you count ethnic mass murders sprees of innocents as genocides. And Zealot/Zionist (Jewish far right splinter groups) terrorism has been ongoing since early Roman times at least.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish–Roman_wars

    For those reasons alone, Israel should not have been granted statehood by the UN. Maybe the UN. thought giving them the state would settle the issue and the murders would stop, but the desire for ever more land shows no signs of stopping, and knows no shame or humanity.

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      2 days ago

      You act like I’m defending israel. I’m not. I’m just refusing to0 defend Hamas either.

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        2 days ago

        Fair enough. yes, I see in your previous comments you were thumping on @eldritch, so you are a certified good person in my book.