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Comment by zouhair

4 months ago

Genocide and colonization, you forgot those two.

To the extent that I would use those terms, I'd withhold some of my judgement.

If the Israelis are committing genocide, it's of a people obsessed with destroying them.

If it's colonisation, it's colonisation with about a dozen caveats.

That doesn't make things any better for Gazans, for whom I also have sympathy.

The aspect of the original comment that I was poking fun of is that it is reductive.

  • >If the Israelis are committing genocide, it's of a people obsessed with destroying them.

    That's the same justification used by a certain failed Austrian painter.

    Genocide is never right.

    • Did German Jews make public statements prior to Nazism about driving 'Aryans' from Europe? What were the equivalents to the Munich Massacre, suicide bombings, rocket attacks, or October 7th?

      The situations seem quite different to me, but maybe there is an outrageous gap in my knowledge of Weimar Germany.

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