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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

That’s far from the only interpretation.

What is the explanation then?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Free in both Gaza and the West Bank is the main one. "From the river to the sea excluding a 40 km gap roughly in the middle" just doesn't have the same ring. There's also the one-state interpretation, where the Jews are still there but living alongside Palestinians as equals (nice but currently implausible IMO).

Taken without any context, it actually says nothing about Israel at all, or the exact nature of said Palestinian freedom somewhere between those two landmarks. With context it means more, but the context varies considerably depending on whether it's, say, a peace-loving Jew or Hamas saying it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I understand that there actually might be some people that mean it in the ways you are explaining.

Since Hamas has adopted it more than 10 years ago, it is at least (!) a dogwhistle by now. The whole phrase is burned for a peaceful message because of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s been a saying in Palestine since Israel happened to them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the UN partition plan from 1948 that Israel accepted to create Israel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What’s your point?

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