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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Acknowledging a country's right to exist is the opposite of Nazi policy...

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Maintaining that an Apartheid state has the right to keep being an Apartheid state is very Nazi-like.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This is not agreeing that Israel is allowed to continue committing genocide. This is just saying that country is allowed to exist as a country. Or do you think that once a country commits a horrific act that they should no longer be allowed to exist?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I'm more interested in the inverse: when does colonizing an already-inhabited area turn into a recognized country? Because Israel was created by a stroke of the pen out of Palestinian land. Or is it purely "might makes right"?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Oh. Could you educate us more about this? Why exactly was it created with the stroke of a pen and when? And by whom? By the mighty Jewish people?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

not OP, but, google Mandatory Palestine

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

If you're not willing to learn, then don't ask people to educate you!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I wanted him to write out his opinions. Since COVID I’m done with people who just throwing a link to me and say educate yourself.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

it's not their opinion... it's facts.

Since COVID I'm done with links...

So, you rather accept someone else's opinion, instead of building your own one? That's how the Nazi-regime started in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, I just don’t like to get some bullshit link with the words educate yourself.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I can send you some books to your home address, if you prefer it that way?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, but please give me the titles with authors.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The great sea - A human history of the Mediterranean by david abulafia.

It's not Palestine/Israel specific, but a "broad" history about the Mediterranean .

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, thanks. I make sure to check this one out. I like reading about history.

I recommend you the last book I have read: the world of yesterday by Stefan Zweig.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, I've read "schachnovelle" from him, back in school, which brought me into chess 😅

the sea is a very long book... I'm just half way through, although I'm not much of a reader.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I want to read the schachnovelle at a later point! Looking forward to it.

If you’re interested in the Mediterranean, I recommend Constantinople by Theophile Gautier. It’s about his visit to Istanbul in the 19. century. I think the print version is hard to come by in English, but the ebook is just a few cents.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

lol... who the fuck downvotes this comment? it's just regular convo about books... people are really awkward.

thx for that book recommendation. I love the turkish culture, and will put it on my list... after I'm done with the sea, the arabs and the balkans.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries. Lemmy is unfortunately sometimes Like Reddit. Comments get downvoted just because of opinions.

I wish you the best and really hope that people learn to live in peace and that there are consequences for evil goverments. It doesn’t look that at the moment, but you can hope.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

the thing is...WTF do people care about Israel, Brazil, Uganda, Madagascar, etc. when applying for German citizenship? That's the whole point of this absurdity.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You can’t understand that a county that once did a genocide tried to make amends?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

A country being shitty doesn't mean they don't have a right to exist. Does Russia not have a right to exist? Did Iraq not have a right to exist?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Countries, as a rule, don't have a right to exist. People have a right to self-determination. These are different things. That said, Israel is fundamentally an Apartheid state. If Israel stopped being an Apartheid state it'd stop being Israel. And if a state needs to treat half the people in it as second class citizens to exist then it can go die in a ditch.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

no state has a right to exist. None of them.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Points for consistency, but no points for nihilism because the points are meaningless anyway.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't consider myself a nihilist, so where did that come from?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

White South Africa did not have the right to exist. Rhodesia did not have a right to exist.

That's what we are talking about.

Israel has become a Jewish supremacist apartheid state. Its crimes have become so egregious and so entrenched ("facts on the ground") that it is not unreasonable to argue that it cannot be reformed in its present form. In this case it is reasonable to argue for its replacement by a democratic successor state in which Jews and others will all have the same rights to freedom and safety.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So funny story, South Africa was able to end apartheid without not existing.

Imagine that!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wake me up when Israel institutes universal suffrage and legal equality for everyone from the river to the sea, elects Marwan Barghouthi as president and changes it flag and anthem to incorporate Palestinian national symbolism. If such a country would like to still call itself Israel, I will be happy to be proven wrong.

Because this is what ending apartheid means, buddy. Not just getting rid of Netanyahu, but deep structural change, and a commitment to justice, truth and reconciliation.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I favor a two state solution myself, as it is my understanding that is the desire of the majority of Palestinians.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, it is the Fatah line as well. If it were feasible, I would also support it. However, Israeli created "facts on the ground" say it isn't. It is impossible to extract the entrenched colonists from the West Bank and it is impossible for Israel to accept a sovereign Palestine that is anything more than a Bantustan. Worse, it might just mean that Israel will have not one but two Gazas on its doorstep. It's a recipe for more death and destruction.

The 2SS was reasonable 30 years ago. That time has very sadly passed. Just like the Palestinians lost their chance in '48, so did the Israelis lose their chance at Camp David in 2000. The current mess is a knot that can only be solved by a single state solution. And if that is the case, and we agree that either side "cleansing" the other is completely unacceptable, then universal equality from the river to the sea, a democratic country, is the only game left.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The current mess is a knot that can only be solved by a single state solution. And if that is the case, and we agree that either side “cleansing” the other is completely unacceptable, then universal equality from the river to the sea, a democratic country, is the only game left.

We disagree on whether a two state solution is possible but do agree that either side committing genocide on the other is unacceptable.

I disagree that a single state solution is possible, even if we named it Peaceland because the same conflict you say prevents the two state solution will still exist and the conflict will continue within the single state. Forcing two opposing cultures into a single state against their will is how we get ethnic cleansing, aka genocide.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you mean you support Russian ownership of Crimea?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No, because Crimea is part of Ukraine.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What makes it different from Israel on occupied Palestine?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, time. Time eventually changes things and Russia's occupation of Crimea was only a decade ago and the founding of Israel was like 80 years ago. Israel's continued expansion and settlement is wrong and comparable to Russia occupying Crimea.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then why isn't Germany recognizing Palestine? Those people have been there quite a while.

Only the 75 year old Israel appears to enjoy existence for Germany. Of course supporting Israel's now open and blatant annexation of the West Bank and planned annexation of Gaza.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Germany should recognize Palestine!

But the fact that they don't doesn't mean they shouldn't be actively opposing antisemitism in Germany. Opposing Israel's actions is different than "Israel shouldn't exist" because in the context of Germany and the neo mazid, not existing is literal and includes the people of Israel.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germany is famous for being a primary enabler of the Genocide in Gaza. Only beaten by America the original Nazis from Manifest Destiny.

Supporting the white nationalist ethnostate of Israel only solidifies the Nazi reputation of Germany being as strong as ever.

This pretense of antisemitism is just a dogwhistle for white nationalists to hide their racism

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

If you have 11 people and a Nazi at a dinner party, you have 12 Nazis.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The historical Nazi Germany was actually quite supportive of zionist efforts and interestingly the reverse was also true for some time before the holocaust got into full swing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The Nazi party supported zionist plans because they wanted more options for expelling Jews. That was antisemetic.

Modern Germany is supporting the state of Israel's existence because of modern antisemitic rhetoric about how Israel shouldn't exist. This requirement is in opposition to antisemitism.

The context is completely different.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What's anti-semitic about saying israel shouldn't exist?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When any other country commits genocide, nobody says that country shouldn't exist. They say that they should stop doing those things.

There were a bunch of countries that were consolidated, created, or had lines redrawn after WWII along with Israel. Other than some choosing to split themselves once they gained autonomy, such as Yugoslavia, nobody is saying that those countries shouldn't exist.

The only country that regularly has people say it shouldn't exist is Israel. The only reason people say that is because it is a Jewish ethno state. It is surrounded by ethno states that nobody says shouldn't exist. The primary people pushing the "Israel shouldn't exist" are antisemitic groups like neo nazis.

Now, that isn't to say that creating Israel was a good idea or done for good reasons, but enough decades have passed that it is established. There is plenty of criticism to be had about the genocide, apartheid, borders, and what Israel does wrong without leaping to the antisemitic idea that Israel shouldn't exist.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israel gains the right to exist when Palestinians grant it the right to exist.

As it stands Palestinians do not recognize israel. There is an opportunity for israel right now to have a two state solution and have Palestinians recognize them. Yet israel is not accepting it. Because in their infinite Nazi wisdom they want to keep expanding the Lebensraum.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Found the hasbara bot. Just for the record states have no eight to exist. This concept doesn’t exist.

Let’s assume for a second though that states would have such a right. When Nazi Germany committed genocide, hell yeah people said that state shouldn’t exist and they were right to say so. Apartheid South Africa, that state also shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

To spin this further, the settler colonial states that got established through genocide on the indigenous population, e.g. the USA, Canada and Australia should have never existed in the first place. It’s not so difficult.

Hence, why should I agree to an anyway non existing right for a settler colonial state to exist that can only keep existing through genociding the indigenous population and otherwise keeping it under an apartheid regime.

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