• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I don’t really get how the bad guys are a country fighting the literal Muslim Brotherhood who continue to hold American citizens and many others hostage for 529 days.

    • Valthorn@feddit.nu
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      19 hours ago

      Because they are attacking civilians, children, hospitals and UN aid deliveries, and have outspoken goals of removing all Palestinians from their homes. War crimes and ethnic cleansing seems like pretty bad guy stuff to me. Both sides can be bad.

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        17 hours ago

        True both sides can be bad, but one side made secularism illegal and is funded by actual terrorist organizations and the other is funded by a nation-state who actually is a secular multicultural society inclusive of LGBTQ people.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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          secular

          The secular, explicitly Jewish state.

          multicultural

          With a system of apartheid and that’s committing genocide on another culture. I mean, I guess apartheid South Africa could also be described as “multicultural,” in the sense that multiple cultures existed, with one oppressing the other. Nazi concentration camps? Very multicultural.

          inclusive of LGBTQ people.

          That doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage and indiscriminately murders queer Palestinians alongside cishet ones.

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            3 hours ago

            Everything you said here is factually correct, in case anyone comes here to argue what you said.

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              3 hours ago

              So when you described them as a “secular, multicultural society inclusive of LGBTQ people,” you were lying, then.

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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        16 hours ago

        Don’t harass mods, they volunteer a lot of time to the community, and they have their right to an opinion if they aren’t silencing others’.

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          14 hours ago

          I literally left lemmy.world as a user when the e-mail I used to register there was leaked and a Tel-Aviv based organisation started sending me e-mails to it, in my native tongue (which is not English), to attend their “Learn about Israel” online course.

          I have little doubt in my mind that at least one of their admins is either a sockpuppet of a state actor or a rabid Zionist.

          You can be pretty sure that if the former, their “Lemmy.world admin” time is being paid for.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      The Israeli killing of US civilians goes back at least to 2003, when American activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death in Gaza by an Israeli soldier driving an armored Caterpillar-brand bulldozer as she laid down to prevent it from moving to destroy Palestinian houses.

      https://www.vox.com/israel/371491/aysenur-eygi-israel-palestine-west-bank-idf-biden-blinken

      What Fanon implored us to do was to view the struggle of the oppressed as a struggle to create a new mode of being, a new form of humanity. Within the revolutionary struggles of the masses, he insisted, lie the seeds of a new humanity. The ongoing resistance in Palestine today is not a new phenomenon, but is rather the latest episode in a decades’ long struggle for freedom and what Hegel and Fanon both agree on, recognition. Not recognition to live within shrivelled little cantons and drip-fed subsistence, but recognition as a human being in the holistic sense of the term. The stone throwing, the stabbings and the bombings are a reaction to a colonial regime which denies this recognition.

      https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20151019-palestine-through-the-lens-of-frantz-fanon/

    • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      In an alternative reality where the literal nazi’s are fighting the Muslim Brotherhood, would that mean that the nazi’s are the good guys?

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          13 hours ago

          Both sides-ing a genocide is bad. Difference is one side is fighting eradication for their humanity and emancipation while the other is doing the eradication for supremacy and Colonialism.

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        15 hours ago

        Fair enough. Assad was fighting ISIS, and he was still a genocidal maniac. Of course, Israel has a long way to go before they come anywhere close to that level of killing.

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      15 hours ago

      Go on that link and check the editing list. It’s very interesting and worth looking at the dates and how it peaks Oct 7 2023