• ModestMeme@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    I don’t know who is driving the Gaza protest rhetoric. It’s a question that should be answered. Because the absolute anti-Democrats narrative while simultaneously getting extraordinarily butthurt if anyone points out the Trump/Republican stance (and the fact it’s Congress that votes the Israeli aid) is indicative of foreign-based propaganda that cares NOT AT ALL about Gaza. It’s about getting Trump re-elected. Either that or the people posting here and across social media calling this war a genocide are just plain stupid or really, really feel self-fulfilled by their own anger.

    You wanna complain about an actual genocide, look up what’s happening in Sudan as we speak.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Holy shit these comments…

    Guys, I think you have over-saturated your target forum. Too many on the same site, you gotta tell the higher ups to spread it around more so it’s not so obvious.

    Edit: Just for folks who may not understand: Harris has to walk a fine rhetorical line before the election. The reality is, if she comes out strongly about Israel/Palestine in any way whatsoever, she will lose. People here can’t seem to grasp this fact. Maybe they don’t live in the US and understand the political/social climate here? Or perhaps they’re just too young?

    She will lose, and Trump will give Netanyahu carte blanche to expand his ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

    I wish I knew how Harris actually feels about the situation, and I believe her reticence to support Israel in the way Biden has is a good sign. But no, I wish I knew what she’s going to do; all I know is that it’s far better than the only other possible alternative. Anyone who’s gonna say ‘der how you know that,’ is disingenuous as fuck. You know why. I’m not going to explain that shit again.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    There was no massive Jewish/Muslim conflict for a 1000 years in the region. The biggest massacre in the region against the Jews was probably the Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, albiet exact numbers are not available. The crusaders killed everyone in the city with a death toll as low as 3000 to as high as 70000. This includes all Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

    When I tried to look at the pogroms done against Jews in the Levant the history is actually remarkably scant. While they did happen, my impression based on just reading the wiki article was that they were caught up in larger conflicts in the region and it wasn’t a deliberate targetting in the same way the Tsar’s cossacks targetted Jews. And in all those cases the dominant power always came to their rescue and compensated them for the damages done by their persecutors. Also it appears that the worst perps weren’t Muslims, but Druze (who are not Muslims).

    In short, Trump is not only highly dishonest, but also a worthless shitbag who has been struggling his entire life to enshittify the world we all live in. He is worse than Bezos or Zuckerberg, because at least Amazon is a decent shopping platform, and Zuckerberg’s facebook helped many people (myself included) to reconnect with childhood friends that I thought I would never speak to again).

  • cashsky@lemmy.world
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    57 minutes ago

    Please look up Brett Mcgurk before you praise Biden and Kamala’s stance on Israel. Literally following Bush era policies in the Middle East.

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    Lmao genocide is not a “highly complex geopolitical issue”

    It is neocolonialism that has been going on for a while (not 1000 years??) and is now ramping up to full on blatant murder, genocide, and devastation for the Palestinian peoples.

    I can think of something US govt can do literally right now to help; STOP GIVING ISRAEL FUCKING WEAPONS!

    But then the poor investors of aero/defense industrial complex will whine and complain that their Raytheon stock went down 5% ☹️. Can’t have that now can we

  • StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    This breaks rule 2. “No misinformation” Israel is not a 1000 years old it is less than 100 years old

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    7 hours ago

    This is classic liberal brain worm nonsense.

    Blue maga cultists world rather blame leftists than get your shitty candidate in line with her genocidal policies.

    It’s not a difficult situation to resolve: stop supplying Israel with weapons and support.

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    What 1000 year conflict? The nakba was less than a century ago. Plus “please stop giving 2000 pound bombs to Israel to commit a genocide with” is a very far cry from “please end the Israeli apartheid state”.

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    Stop killing Palestinians is such a far left position man. I can’t even. Americans are effing weird.

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    4 hours ago

    Vote third party if you live in a solid state like me, vote red or blue if you are worried about your states outcome.

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    5 hours ago

    “1000 year conflict”

    Year of Israel’s creation: 1948

    Start of Gaza genocide: 2023

    🤔