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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Right but this is a separate issue. My original comment was about Israelis whose families have been living in that region of the world for millennia. They have a right to be there. They are not equivalent to colonists from Europe arriving in the Americas.

The Israeli government uses antisemitism as a weapon to attack their critics. They conflate criticism of the Israeli government with attacks on Jews. It’s bullshit, duplicitous rhetoric.

But here we are conflating Israelis who can trace their ancestry to that region for millennia with (a minority of) European Jews who moved there during/after WW2, and calling all of them colonists. Now we are being duplicitous!

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It sounds like you're describing a Secular One-State Solution with equal rights for both Israeli and Palestinian people, in the sense that both have the right to live there

One or Two State Solution

The settlements represent land-grabbing, and land-grabbing and peace-making don’t go together, it is one or the other. By its actions, if not always in its rhetoric, Israel has opted for land-grabbing and as we speak Israel is expanding settlements. So, Israel has been systematically destroying the basis for a viable Palestinian state and this is the declared objective of the Likud and Netanyahu who used to pretend to accept a two-state solution. In the lead up to the last election, he said there will be no Palestinian state on his watch. The expansion of settlements and the wall mean that there cannot be a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity. The most that the Palestinians can hope for is Bantustans, a series of enclaves surrounded by Israeli settlements and Israeli military bases.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I’m not describing any state solution!

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nobody's right to be anywhere supercedes other people's, nor justifies killing.