Informed Consent

  • chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The inverse is also true. Israel has kept these people bottled up in what amounts to open air concentration camps for the last 70 years, and constantly killing Palestinians for that entire time.

    Israel has never cared about collateral damage in their war on the people who lived there before.

    So imagine a people, treated like criminals for their entire lives, all because they lived on the land that Zionists wanted.

    All that resentment for the unceasing oppression let the worst elements gain power.

    The path to change is not to expect the oppressed to stop lashing out. Only in ending the oppression can there be change.

    But the Israeli government isn’t interested in stopping the oppression. They could have done that at any time in the last 70 years. No, they seem to want a full genocide.

    • xenomor@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The reason that Israel doesn’t go full speed on genocide is the same reason why they never actually pursue peace. That is, the ruling authority there benefits from having a persistent threat. They get to maintain and build power and wealth while genociding in a slow enough fashion to not raise a critical mass of objections from their benefactors in the United States.

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        That’s not congruent with the facts. If Israel wanted only to guarantee its own security, it could have accepted the Arab Peace Initiative, but deemed withdrawing to the pre-1967 borders unacceptable. It wants to guarantee its own security, to be sure, but it also really, really wants more land.

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        Israel could genocide the Palestinians in a few hours, but then the international community would bomb their asses back to the stone age.

        But, if they were to say, fund a religious extremist or two (which they totally did in the beginning), and then look the other way as that extremist starts up a terrorist organization or two, then the Israeli leaders can constantly be in a state of “protecting themselves” and easily maintain their own power in government.

        Plus the constant low level terrorist attacks justify more oppression and theft of land, and any time there’s international pushback about the oppression or theft of land, you see a larger terrorist attack.

        If I were conspiracy minded, I’d say that there are mossad plants in Hamas who gently nudge when Israeli leaders need a distraction.