my inner pessimist expects isreal and the palestinians to play out the same way that the united states and it's native americans did; or canada and its first nations did; or australia and its aboriginals did, or new zealand and its maori did, so normalized in the west where even the notion of reparations is openly laughed at by its anglosphere-aligned leaders.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Israel" as a settler project is decaying rapidly, thankfully. The TRUST plan will not succeed, and I'm not just saying that. The resistance will never disarm themselves. Nearly 100,000 settlers left Israel in 2024 alone, the economy is faltering, and they are losing support internationally.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the best case scenario is another south africa; which isn't entirely bad because i would expect the isrealis to denuclearize its samson option before handing the keys over to the native population as it finalizes its white flight like south africa did w their nuclear weaponry.

i don't expect to see it in my lifetime and, by then, i suspect that there will be as few palestinians as there are isrealis today.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I expect things to come to a head much sooner than that, unless you're particularly close to death. "Israel" isn't doing very well, which is exactly why the resistance has fought its asymetric war in the manner it has.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

With great success.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

Credit to comrade @RedWizard@hexbear.net for his research on this subject.

Autel, the drone manufacturer in this article, does not ship to Israel nor allow their purchase. These drones are sold overseas, then donated or smuggled to Israel to skirt China's control over it, then modified to be able to drop grenades. From RedWizard's post:

As it stands now China will not ship these drones to Israel. According to Autel, they have banned the sale of their drones to the entire region. They've made two statements on the matter. Here:

DJI has a similar statement pre 2023:

https://www.dji.com/newsroom/news/dji-statement-on-military-use-of-drones

On Amazon and other platforms you can not get these drones shipped to Israel:

China is not arming the IDF, the west is arming the IDF, and since practically everything is made in China these days it's cheaper for the west to buy consumer drones from China, smuggle them into Israel, then modify them. The idea that China is directly selling drones to Israel is fake news created directly to sow division on the left with respect to China as US/PRC relations are dramatically in flux right now.