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Comment by the_origami_fox

9 hours ago

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> Israel has been defending itself against for 78 years in both the physical and informational domain, and will continue to do so, just like any other country on earth.

Of course we could argue any country try to defend itself, but an ever expanding bellicose colony stealing lands from adjacent countries is hardly what could be described as a "defending" stance.

> People need to wake up to the one-sided lies of the antizionist hate movement that single it out and want to destroy it and its people.

The end of a State doesn't mean the end of its citizens. It simply mean that a state apparatus and power structure is taken down and replaced by something else.

The bodies of dead children speak for themselves.

  • Yes! Hamas deliberately attacked Jewish children like the Bibas twins and that girl that watched her father slaughtered whereas the IDF put Israeli soldiers lives on the line to avoid civilian casualties.

    • Yes, but statistically Israel (IDF + settlers) commits crimes like that on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis.

    • > the IDF put Israeli soldiers lives on the line to avoid civilian casualties.

      Nonsense.

Who knew that seizing the literal holy land and expelling most of the native population would make the neighbors angry?

  • About equal numbers of Palestinians were displaced from the new, UN sanctioned state of Israel, as Jews from adjoining states. And many many more people have been displaced since then. While undoubtedly tragic, most displaced people at some point move on with their lives, and stop terrorising their neighbours and the world.

    • "Okay, we stole the country and expelled the native population, but they should just get over it and move on."

      It would be easier for the Palestinians to just move on if millions of them didn't live under 59 years of Israeli military occupation, with no end in sight. They have no way of moving on, because the IDF controls their lives, and Israeli settlers are taking their land piece-by-piece.

    • > While undoubtedly tragic, most displaced people at some point move on with their lives, and stop terrorising their neighbours and the world.

      The irony is that this statement (which I disagree with) could be applied equally well to both Israel and the Palestinians.

You don't start an international terrorist movement, bomb british colonial authorities, use money to influence british colonial authorities, create armed miliciais and massively finance migration to a land that is owner by other people, kill and expell them by violent means from their cities, homes and farms, use your influence to force the UN to partition the land giving the majority and the best land for you, and then ignores this partition wanting even more land and then you get to call it defense.

  • By owned by other people you meant the Ottomans, right?

    Cause they seemed to be just fine selling that land.

    Also “ignoring the partition”? Literally the day the partition was adopted, the Arab league attacked Israel. 6 nations to 1, yet Israelis outsmarted them all (which is why you keep hating us).

    Read more here (not TikTok) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

    • > Literally the day the partition was adopted, the Arab league attacked Israel.

      Because the partition was forced upon them. If a foreign entity forced you to split your land you will fight back too.

      > which is why you keep hating us

      Oh, of course, they hate you because you are so smart. Seem you (singular) suffer from a superiority complex.

    • Afaik it was forbidden to sell lands in Palestine to Jewish people, though I don't think it was that effective in stopping lands being bought out by Jewish people due to weak central authority and worsening economy.