• SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Israel is a colony. Do I need to explain why showing up to a place, claiming it as your own and violently repressing natives to make it so is bad? Sorry I don’t mean to be snarky, I just wanted to be simple

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      2 hours ago

      Which group of people on the planet hasn’t done that?

      My ancestors did, as did theirs and yours. Should we all suicide over it, to make it right? Or try and pack ourselves back into where we came from? Get everyone to head back to Sumer?

      What’s done is done and not accepting that seems to be the problem to me. For all parties involved.

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        2 hours ago

        The problem is that it isn’t done. Its happening right now. This isn’t like the native Americans where they have already been completely displaced and whatnot. Its happening right now before your eyes.

        The main solution has been a two state solution. That would be what your saying as “what’s done is done and accept it”

        But Israel has rejected a two state solution for its entire existence, and continued colonizing and genociding folk to get the land they claim

        That’s right now at this moment. I cannot stress this enough, it’s like going to a native American before the trail of tears and saying “I don’t know, seems like what’s done is done” when we have only just started starving and slaughtering their entire population. There’s so much slaughter left to go.

        This isn’t done. Israel is committing a colonizing genocide right now. Today. Right now. Today. Right. Now. Today.