Context (for those who don’t know): Israel and Palestine
One group was actually living there and the other group moved in and literally ripped people from their homes.
That’s been happening for the last 5,000 years in that region though, since the Canaanites.
It’s not like the Palestinians were the first there.
The Palestinians are descendants of the ancient canaanites. Most of the people in that region never left they just changed their religion at some point. This hasn’t always been happening, in Ottoman times Christians Jews and Muslims peacefully coexisted in the region.
I mean, kinda? They’re also heavily descended from 7th Century AD Arabic conquerors, but yes, many other natives may have adopted Arabic culture, language and religion at that time.
But Jewish culture is also derived from the Canaanite culture, with arguably more overlap. Jewish culture in the region can be traced back to at least the 9th Century BC, with the literal Kingdom of Israel. So the argument of “Well who was there first?” does not necessarily favor the Palestinians over the Israelis.
This has always been happening though. It’s not like the Ottomans took over the region peacefully. It’s been conquered and re-conquered by Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans…
6 people deny history.
One group took 2 years to organize an attack on civilians, the other didnt…
The other has been attacking them for decades…
This was on a different level though. Taking civilian hostages? Launching rockets with the target being a music festival?
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights press release outlining large scale targeting of peaceful protesters, women, children, people with disabilities, paramedics and journalists by Israeli snipers: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2019/02/no-justification-israel-shoot-protesters-live-ammunition
BBC report on the killing of Christian American-Palestinian journalist and subsequent attack of her funeral: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y11CVGz7toM
BBC article about the Human Rights Watch report detailing Israel’s crimes of apartheid: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56898864
The majority of Gaza children suffer from PTSD caused by the constant conditions of warfare, psychological study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00004/full
Human Rights Watch report on “indiscriminate” bombing of schools by IDF forces: https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/09/11/israel-depth-look-gaza-school-attacks
Al Jazeera article about Israel bombing a refugee camp housing refugees of Israel’s air strikes: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/14/israels-bombardment-of-gaza-continues-live
Amnesty International—Israeli airstrikes targeting civilian housing constitute war crimes https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/05/israelopt-pattern-of-israeli-attacks-on-residential-homes-in-gaza-must-be-investigated-as-war-crimes/
Article by the Intercept about Israeli airstrikes targeting medical facilities: https://theintercept.com/2021/05/21/gaza-bombing-hospital-israel/
IDF snipers intentionally targeting civilians including children
when did Israel specifucally taregt civilians?
They do it often. Here’s a particularly nasty one from 2009, there are plenty more if you care to look.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza
Also Britain: Oh good, the UN voted in favor of splitting up the land except the entire Arab League voting against the plan? Ok, sounds good, bye guys, have fun!
This war really makes you hate Britain (and possibly France) for causing unrest in the first place
Yeah it was a land of peace with no unrest until the British came.
Compared to now it was a utopia.
I do hope the Israel and Palestine Wikipedia pages are doing ok.
FINE YOU WEIRDO ZEALOTS:
I do hope the Palestine and Israel Wikipedia pages are doing ok.
wut
He posted the same message but swapped the order so that both sides would be happy-ish.
both sides would be happy-ish
LOL
Alternate caption: “Zionists smuggling in settlers before the British mandate ended to have enough votes to create a State of Israel as a safe haven for Holocaust refugees, then getting populated mostly by Jews fleeing Arab countries out of fear of retaliation for having created the State of Israel a day early and having pushed most Palestinians out by force”
You realize that most Israelis came from Europe after WW2?
or do you think Liebermann, Herzog, Weitzmann, Goldberg, Weinstein etc. are Arabic names?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelis 33 % are ethnic Europeans as opposed to 12% from asia and 15% from Africa
Britain has planted the seeds of hatred and bloodshed in the middle east and is now acting as if it has no responsibility towards resolving the conflict.
It is hard to watch the British media coverage of this war acting all outraged and surprised by the violence while being proud of their historical imperial inheritance .
Palestinians also contain Christians. Its just the modern term for gentiles in Israel now.
“promising to give two different groups”? You mean the natives and the colonisers? Tf is this “meme”?
It worked so well when they did the same thing for themselves and Ireland.
Also that whole India/Pakistan thing. And I seem to remember some stuff happening in Africa.
The secret ingredient is running the fuck away before either of them notice.
It always works out fine for them. I don’t know why anybody says imperialism or colonialism are bad or destructive, seems to me that Britain and France and Spain and Portugal and the Dutch are all doing fine. Really weird how maps of their empires seem to overlap a lot with parts of the world that currently or recently experienced a lot of, idk let’s call it “troubles?” They must be dumb or smth
Well, since those former colonies can’t quite work it out on their own, maybe they should just be brought back into their respective empires again? 🤔
It’s not a religious conflict. It’s an imperialistic conflict.
The fact that you think there’s a difference is sad.
Borders are violence.
Borders areviolence.Religion is violence
Someone’s parents never taught them to share.
Obligatory fuck religion.
Palestine is not a religious entity, and have been in favor of religious coexistence since the very beginning. It is the Zionist state that is exclusive of other religions by design.
So then, why is their official goal to destroy Israel? Thats 100% a religious war
Israel is by its own definition the Zionist state founded on religious exclusivism. An ethnocentric state in a land inhabited by other religions and ethnicities. It should absolutely be taken down.
religious war
Israel is not Judaism.
An ethnocentric state in a land inhabited by other religions and ethnicities.
- In land bordering the lands of lther religions and ethnicities.
What exactly justifies the takedown of Israel? That its religion is different or what? Thats none of ghe other countries business.
as I already said above, it is because it is an ethnoreligious state that excludes people of other ethnicities (Arabs, Africans, etc) and other religions (Muslims, Christians, etc). It has engaged in massacre and forced expulsion of those people, so it must be taken down and the genocide must cease.
ethnoreligious state that excludes people of other ethnicities (Arabs, Africans, etc) and other religions (Muslims, Christians, etc)
So what? Thats their business what rules they want to have inside their country. Thats nl reason to attack them.
forced expulsion of those people, so it must be taken down and the genocide must cease.
Forced expulsion is dtill inside their own country. So you take them down with a genocide yourself? Fight fire with fire?
Wan’t that WW1?
Lol at all of the wannabe thirteen year old edgleords on lemmy who are so confident that they understand this extremely complicated and protracted conflict such that they can reduce it to a single generic cause but can’t even be bothered to look up which of the two world wars is the correct one to reference for their edgy meme.
It’s not that complicated, the land in question has been owned by a conquering empire for the better part of two millenia. After WWII and emipres falling out of favor, splitting it up was decided. The locals didn’t like the jews getting a country and attacked, they lost. They mobilized for round two, and Israel hit first and won again. Since then Israel started giving back land it seized to the respective countries, in exchange for not attacking again. The region has been at an uneasy truce for 50ish years other than Palestine launching terrorist attacks every few years.
Can we just glass Isreal and Palestine both?
