• Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Trtworld is just Erdogan’s personal propaganda channel. Obviously this article is ok but I’m just saying

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    I haven’t really kept up with this, so this is a genuine question—why are people protesting in the US about something going on in another country? What is the goal?

    • SuperIce@lemmy.world
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      Because the US provides tons of money and weapons to Israel, which are supposed to be used for self-defense but are now being used to mass murder Palestinians.

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        This, plus the fact that the US refuses to be even slightly critical of Israel, whether media or state.

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          Israel has a fascist stranglehold over United States domestic policy. It is illegal to boycott the state of Israel. They spend millions of the dollars we support them with to interfere with domestic US politics. The state of Israel is an enemy of the American people.

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            I’ve been wondering why the US supports Israel so much considering it doesn’t do much for anyone else outside of Western Europe if there isn’t a secondary gain. Do you have any readings on these claims?

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              Not handy tonight, I am just very engaged with electoral politics and this is the conclusion I’ve reached after earning a degree in political science followed by 10 years of observations.

              I wrote this comment in two sittings because I have too many responsibilities. Start with the wikipedia page for history of Israel. The unspoken answer to why the US supports Israel so much despite the lack of secondary gains is largely a consequence of Allied strategy going back to world war 1, but most of the geopolitical world except for the far east played a role in what Israel is today.

              It is critically important to remember a few things.

              1. that the anti Jewish progroms in the long lead up to the Holocaust first reached critical mass in the old Russian empire.

              2. the Soviets betrayed Hitler eventually but they started WW2 on the side of the Reich and are still (lmao) not commonly considered an “allied” power the way other more anglo countries would fraternize.

              3. Any would-be elders who survived the Holocaust and would speak authoritatively (subjective relative to the Israeli government) out from within Israel against the palestinean genocide are long dead by now and the Netanyahu administration is completely surrounded by yes men and weapons that they don’t deserve access to.

              4. and TL;DR; The history of the region called Israel, Judea, Palestine, Levant… Whatever you want to call it, the land is completely soaked in blood going back for thousands of years and the United States of America has an enormous ego when it comes to world war 2, what it meant and what price the allies paid to stop the Holocaust.

              I blame religion.

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                Ahh, that makes sense. Thank you! and good luck with your political science interests 🙂

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                I reckon it was Hitler that betrayed the Soviets, rather than the other way around.

    • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
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      The goal is to influence the government to respond in a certain way, protests are a faster and more direct way to show support than sending letters and voting

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      There is a 0 percent chance of Israel doing anything ever if they weren’t confident they would have US backing

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    Is that why they beheaded babies, paraded naked women before/after raping/killing them, targeted civilian congregations and killed them without warning? Wait.

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      The Hamas attacks were barbaric and horrific. Israel giving 1 million+ people 24 hours to leave or risk being destroyed in a bombing campaign while cutting off access to food, water, and fuel is barbaric and horrific. There is such thing as nuance, but it doesn’t take very much critical thinking to recognize that both Israel and Hamas are commiting atrocities.

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        It serves Israel for Hamas to exist. Everything Hamas does leads to the death of Palestinians more than Israelis.

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          And everything they don’t do changes nothing, they’re slowly dying and have been for a while now. Their public image changed nothing, and it wasn’t about to.

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          So, why does Palestine still house and hold a high opinion over Hamas? A terrorist group just lives over there in Gaza Strip and Palestine doesn’t lift a finger to get rid of them.

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            Why did Israeli police do nothing to stop the increasing violence perpetrated by illegal Israeli Settlers attacking Palestinians, of which Palestinian police are forbidden to react to? Their cops aren’t allowed to do anything, their illegal occupants cops won’t do anything, and the majority of Israeli Jews say they dont want Palestinians to have the right to vote if they annex Gaza. A minority of Israelis support a two state solution.

            It’s not like Israel has been trying to play ball with them.

          • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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            To you, me, and many of us, they’re a terrorist group, but to those who get stepped on by the Zionist for decades, who have their home bombed, who land got stolen, who families and relatives got killed, they are their only hope.

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              To you, me, and many of us, they’re a terrorist group

              To all of the groups that matter, they are a terrorist group.

              but to those who get stepped on by the Zionist for decades, who have their home bombed, who land got stolen, who families and relatives got killed, they are their only hope.

              Then they aren’t living as a government that deserves statehood. If a terrorist group is the one leading the country, that becomes the definition of that country.

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                To all of the groups that matter, they are a terrorist group.

                good way to say “they deserved to be wiped out, innocent or not”, which isn’t something shocking coming from war criminal apologist.

                If a terrorist group is the one leading the country, that becomes the definition of that country.

                Just like War mongering state of America and War Criminal state of Israel?

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            Why are there still Kahanites in Israel’s government?

            Also, get rid of Hamas with what. Are you going to give them weapons to do it?

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        I don’t know if you noticed but it’s been more than 24 hours since they said that and they’re still letting them evacuate. Time to retire that talking point.

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          Sure. Except “letting them evacuate” in this case is better characterized as “continuing to expel them from their homes under threat of violence.” I’m not arguing the 24 hour time period is the atrocity, I’m arguing the act of creating a humanitarian crisis under the auspices of a military campaign effort is abhorrent.

          It’s not like we don’t have any good reporting on the matter either. The BBC for example has already been attacked because they refused to declare Hamas as terrorists (a label I agree with, for the record). [This article](BBC News - Khan Younis: A Gaza city on its knees, now with a million mouths to feed
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67116403) provides some insight into the absolute horror regular Palestinians are going through right now.

      • Tygr@lemmy.world
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        When Israel declared war, what do you think that meant exactly?

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      Two wrongs don’t make a right. Both sides have done wrong. Isreal has attacked ambulances unprovoked. Hamas attacked Isreal at a music fest. Isreal retaliated by attacking schools and hospitals (aka, people that had nothing to do with said attack) Isreal has been subjugating Gaza to sub-human conditions for 20+ years. The attack on the music fest isn’t justified but it is understandable.

      Again. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      Is that suitable justification of a genocide? That some people of a ethnic group committed heinous terrorist acts? How many people individuals can condemn an entire race of people? 1, 5, 2000, 10,000?

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        That’s not what was confirmed. Not all of the 40 murdered babies (from one village) were beheaded. At least one was.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      Woah if you didn’t include the two item, one cannot and refused to be confirmed to the point that White House have to issue a statement saying they just “heard” from the Israel Authority, and one you’re so undecided which is which, i’d thought you’re talking about Israel.