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[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

You are getting emotional about this and I know that you're afraid. You may be too afraid to hear what you need to hear right now. You have a common fear among white people which is that if you lift your heel from the neck of those you oppress they will strike back at you and you will deserve it. By advocating to remove the heel of the Likud Party's boot from the necks of Palestinian people, we are not saying that we expect Palestinians to kill all Jewish people and support their "right" to do so. We actually expect that not to happen, as there is no precedent for that happening when a nation extends rights to formerly oppressed people. We are saying that Palestinians are human beings who do not deserve genocide as no group of humans deserves genocide. This idea which I believe strongly was proliferated mainly by Jewish groups and individuals.

When African nations turned their backs on Israel after the six-day-war causing them to have to collaborate with the ex-Nazi head of the Apartheid South African government John Vorster to have the means to continue their genocide rather than change course and restore those relations, it was not because everyone in all those nations suddenly wanted to kill all Jewish people. It was because they had experienced the kind of violence inflicted by the nation of Israel in the six-day-war by people like John Vorster and opposed that kind of violence being enacted against anyone.

In fact, by being the main or only exposure many people have toward any Judaism and claiming that opposing genocide is the same as opposing Judaism, Israel is now proliferating anti-semitism due to their behavior and propaganda and putting everyone affected by anti-semitism in greater danger. Likud Israel must cease their siege and rebuild Gaza at the very least, and ultimately Isreal must free its prisoner population by granting them citizenship and equal rights in Israel. The alternative is maintaining this intolerable situation or enacting a kind of "final solution" one way or another which would truly be the end of Israel and any kind of Zionsim.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

You're laboring under a misunderstanding.

I don't think Palestinians are going to strike back and hurt Israel. I think Iran will do it, because Iran is using Palestine as a proxy to conduct a larger war against Israel.

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