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Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: "Everything we do is justified."

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[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

“Actually white people originate from Africa, so we have a right to take back the ancestral homeland of the white race”.

“There are plenty of ‘black countries’ for them to choose, this should be a white country for us.”

“If those people keep reproducing, soon white people won’t be a majority, and that’s ‘white genocide’.”

Arguments like this are only plausible to terminally racist settlers. You go along with them because it licenses you to keep pursuing your material interest in murdering people that don’t look like you and stealing their land. After all, if the people living in Palestine have a right to live in their homes without being invaded and exterminated, then that raises some uncomfortable questions about the US, Canada, Australia, and other countries built on land theft and extermination by white Europeans. You obviously can’t think too hard about that and still believe that you’re the protagonist of history, so you’ll seek out any flimsy justification to keep believing that bombing hospitals makes you heroic.

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe you should research on the ratio of european jews to arab jews in israel. Where do these arab jews originate from i wonder.

[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2008, of Israel's 7.3 million people, 75.6 percent were Jews of any background.[39] Among them, 70.3 percent were Sabras (born in Israel), mostly second- or third-generation Israelis, and the rest are olim (Jewish immigrants to Israel)—20.5 percent from Europe and the Americas, and 9.2 percent from Asia and Africa, including the Arab countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews says 3.2 million in Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel says Israels population is 9.8 million of which 73% are jewish. So 3.2 million Mizrahi Jews (oriental) of 5.8 Israel Jews. I presume the rest must be Ashkenazi Jews (european). All i'm saying is the categorization in indigeious and settlers isn't all that easy.

\edit: Sorry, You are not the person I replied to. So thank you for the facts-delivery!

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