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  • blterrible@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    “European settlers” in the sense that they hadn’t been in Israel since the Romans kicked them out in '65 for causing too much trouble with all their messiahs and religious zealotry.

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      3 years ago

      2000 years!

      They hadn’t ever been in Israel, they were born and raised in Europe by parents that were born and raised in Europe by grandparents that were born and raise in Europe etc. etc. They were Europeans, complete with white skin and European culture and European language.

      This wasn’t refugees returning to their home. It was settlers invading nonwhite people’s land and stealing it for themselves.

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        3 years ago

        Yes, the vague equivalent would be for the Native Americans to reclaim the United States via superior force ~1800 years from now.

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          Not even Native Americans!

          It would be the equivalent of people with extremely diluted ancestry and no connection to any tribe, white people who practice a Native religion and speak an extremely deformed English dialect of some Native language but are otherwise just US Americans.

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          3 years ago

          racism, forced displacement and oppression

          HMM WHY DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?!

          capped off with one of the most horrific genocides in the history of the world.

          History repeats, I guess.

          Keep screeching for nuance while Israel bombs evacuation routes and refugee camps with the full throated support of Europe and America.

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          2000 years of racism, forced displacement and oppression, capped off with one of the most horrific genocides in the history of the world.

          And who is responsible for that, eh? The same “western civilization” that is now using Israel as a kapo state to do it’s dirty work in the middle-east, perhaps?