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Re: I figured out the Israeli position on Palestine [Re: meltdowner] 2
#26482792 - 02/12/20 09:10 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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meltdowner said: What do you do if 30% of your country wants to start killing people?
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Re: I figured out the Israeli position on Palestine [Re: Falcon91Wolvrn03]
#26482797 - 02/12/20 09:13 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Well Mr Falcon?!
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Re: I figured out the Israeli position on Palestine [Re: meltdowner] 2
#26482901 - 02/12/20 10:39 PM (4 years, 3 months ago) |
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Can you show the % of people that just "wants to start killing people"?
I'll agree 30% may be pro-war, but there's no way 30% want to "kill other countrymen" or "kill each other".
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it looks like it might be a little higher than he thought. this poll says it's about 36% https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israeli-polls-regarding-peace-with-the-palestinians January, 2020
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If Israel indeed annexes Area C, what should be done with the Palestinians who live there? (Israel Democracy Institute, August 25-August 29, 2019)
Israeli Jews
Israeli Arabs
Transfer them to concentration camps
Jews: 36%
Arabs: 5%
Allow those Palestinians who want to remain in the area to be annexed to do so, but without granting them rights (for ex ample, the right to buy land)
Jews: 11%
Arabs: 8%
Allow those Palestinians who want to remain in the area to be annexed to do so, while granting them residency rights but not full citizenship rights (for example, without the right to vote in Knesset elections)
Jews: 19%
Arabs: 12%
Grant the Palestinians who want to remain full citizenship rights, like those of the Jews who live there
Jews: 16%
Arabs: 46%
Don't know
Jews: 19%
Arabs: 29%
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well i could mumble to myself about this in my own thread but dicksauce closed it. asshole. id go make another but you'd probably close it because you're an asshole.
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what gets me is how people that are anti everything and will endlessly bash muslims, christians, hindus, mystics, etc will bend over backward to argue for a people whos only claim to that land is that they are God's chosen people and God gave it to them. the zionist jews are genocidal they believe they are a supreme race. everyone else is scum
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hell yes this is truly relevant
free palestine
As part of the COVID-19 response, the Israeli regime has imposed even more measures restricting Palestinian movement. The city of Bethlehem has been put under lockdown, while crossings into Gaza and the West Bank have been shut down. Palestinian labourers working in Israel have also been told to either stay for an unknown period of time in shoddy and unsanitary accommodation or give up work and stay in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority has imposed a curfew and set up checkpoints between villages and towns to limit the movement of people. Businesses have been shut down, except for supermarkets and pharmacies.
Meanwhile, Israel is continuing its practices of removing Palestinians from their land, even exploiting the lockdown amid the pandemic to do so. In Jerusalem, where there is a concerted effort to Judaise neighbourhoods and reduce the number of Palestinian inhabitants, the demolitions of Palestinian homes continue, despite the outbreak. The Israeli regime claims these buildings are illegal in order to justify demolishing them, yet Palestinians are consistently denied building permits.
Demolitions are also used as a method of collective punishment of the families of Palestinian political prisoners particularly in the West Bank. In the midst of this pandemic, this continuing cruel practice renders calls by Israeli authorities to "stay at home" absurd.
Similarly the construction of illegal settlements across the West Bank has not halted and there are fears that de jure annexation of many areas will be expediated under these circumstances, particularly as Benjamin Netanyahu is once again set to lead the next government.
Already, last week there were three cases in which illegal Israeli settlements razed Palestinian land and there has been an overall rise in attacks against Palestinian properties.
Earlier this month, Palestinians from Beita village near Nablus held a sit-in to try and protect land from being stolen by settlers. The Israeli security forces came out in full force to give cover to the settlers and in the process shot 15-year-old Mohammed Hammayel in the head killing him instantly.
Many in historic Palestine are worried that Israel will use the COVID-19 outbreak as an excuse to leave in place new restrictive measures even after the pandemic is over and will also prevent Palestinians from resisting its land grabs. At a time when the world is focused solely on the pandemic and the Israeli regime has the full support of the US administration to do as it pleases, Israeli aggressive expansionism seems inevitable.
Yet over the decades, Palestinians have shown incredible strength, courage and sumud (steadfastness) in the face of great adversity. While Israeli settler colonial expansionism does not rest, neither does Palestinian perseverance. As the Palestinian poet Tawfiq Ziyad wrote:
In Lidda, in Ramla, in the Galilee, we shall remain like a wall upon your chest, and in your throat like a shard of glass, a cactus thorn, and in your eyes a sandstorm.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
by Yara Hawari
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/celebrating-land-day-lockdown-palestine-200329162501923.html
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MadMuncher said: what gets me is how people that are anti everything and will endlessly bash muslims, christians, hindus, mystics, etc will bend over backward to argue for a people whos only claim to that land is that they are God's chosen people and God gave it to them. the zionist jews are genocidal they believe they are a supreme race. everyone else is scum
christians do it all the time too it's gross. fuck israel
https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/coronavirus-israel-palestine-police-raid-middle-east-cases-pandemic-a9430216.html
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-palestine-israel-settlers-exploit-lockdown-annex-land
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There is no good solution for the current state of the middle east.
No peaceful solution is possible because there is an 80 year memory of direct ongoing conflict, which means that almost nobody alive can remember anything but war against the other. There is no possible two state solution, because they hate each other. not because of reasons, but because of tradition. They hate each other because their fathers hated each other. They fight the enemy because that's just what they do. You wake up, you make coffee, you shoot a jew/arab, you sit down with some toast, go to work, dodge a retaliatory RPG, put in your 8 hours, go home, fuck your wife, and count how many limbs your family has left before passing out to the sound of gunfire, waiting to do the same thing tomorrow. That's just life.
Now add religious fanaticism from both sides to the mix, it's like that Pennsylvania coal mine fire that's been burning for 40 years and will burn for another few decades at least. You can't fix it, you just get the fuck out of the way. Which is what the surrounding town of around a thousand people did. They just left.
Now we have the choice of bad solutions: I see two.
First, we could support one side against the other, hoping it absolutely massacres the others, cleansing them off the face of the earth in a biblical holocaust and establishing the our guys as the One True Religion that can keep their shitty little piece of desert as long as they keep the oil flowing.
Second, we could have a biblical event that results in mass death, but not complete annihilation, and have it be relatively evenly distributed from a neutral third party. Covid-19 fits this description pretty well, except for disease has a tendency to bring out the racism in people (and fear of disease is the current theory for the psychological existence of racism), which will have the opposite effect. Which leaves more...complicated means, like, say, NK firing off a nuke wildly off course and blowing the shit out of the area. That provides a common enemy that they can fight together while killing off enough to disrupt generational animosity. Covid could, potentially, fill this role if the area gets hit last, and the rest of the world absolutely *suffers* first. The capitulation of the US, as the untouchable "fuck you" army in the area, could provoke such fear. Could also lead to another six day war. Basically, they need a third party that is capable of disrupting generational memory and generate enough fear and hatred to overcome that which is already there.
Whole thing's fucked.
Edit: Holy shit, that fire caught 60 years ago. Makes ya feel old.
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Re: Free Palestine! [Re: Kryptos]
#26573477 - 04/02/20 02:57 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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"complacency killed the cat." -some guy named madmuncher
good post.
i think you are partly wrong, in that the palestinians have never really had a chance to be a sovereign nation or govern themselves in recent times. also, the jews have no valid claim to that land. i had a pretty good idea of how to solve this problem but balls shot me off the soapbox when I tried to tell you guys about it. https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26464350/page/3
we are being governed by corrupt and secretive machines designed to serve israeli billionaires and their corporations. we should stop funding them. if we're going to act as isolated pacifists we can at least do it fairly.
boycott ben & jerrys, caterpillar, and anywhere staffed with G4S security services, then write to the businesses that are being avoided for offering those brands and tell them why
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MadMuncher said: i think you are partly wrong, in that the palestinians have never really had a chance to be a sovereign nation or govern themselves in recent times. also, the jews have no valid claim to that land.
Neither of those things are important. Borders, states, those don't matter. The middle east is a perfect example of this. This is why I think nationalism is conceptually stupid: You can have American pride or whatever and always buy American, and the only result is that I will always have nicer shoes than you, because I buy Corinthian leather. Funny part is that we're probably going to be paying roughly the same price, because humans have figured out logistics pretty damn well. Matter of fact, one of the biggest differences between modern humans and neanderthals is that there is absolutely no archaeological evidence that neanderthals engaged in trade. Otherwise, neanderthals were objectively better suited for ancient survival.
Borders, flags, nations, that's all shiny distractions for the gullible.
This is why the middle east can become one state, two states, or thirty-seven states. It doesn't really matter. Jews and Arabs will still continue killing each other.
Thing is, the religion doesn't even matter either. Same as borders, that's just a shiny for the gullible. A little fig leaf of modesty to hide behind.
The reality is that they will continue killing each other because that's what a generational conflict looks like. Neither Jews nor Arabs can even conceptualize peace with each other. Because killing each other is just what they do. It's like the family business. Peace would be a rejection of their ancestors, and an acknowledgement that their elders were fucking stupid.
Nobody likes being wrong. It takes some serious balls to step forward and admit a mistake. For many people, they'd rather die than admit being wrong. So that's what they do. Strap on a bomb or pick up a Tavor, and die.
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Re: Free Palestine! [Re: Kryptos]
#26573708 - 04/02/20 05:32 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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you are using extremist minorities, secret government funded chaos and powerful ruling families with ancient power money control to generalize entire races, religions and societies. pretty sure the majority of jews and arabs have never killed anyone. that image of the middle east sounds like rupert murdochs wet dream though. also the quran is a great book, extremely interesting and highly recommended read. torah too
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the pacifist philosophy "whole things fucked, there is no solution" is just as dangerous as the extremist "just fucking nuke em" idea, because the extremist view can be debated, but the pacifist really doesn't say anything other than, "well, that's just the status quo. just keep on doing the same thing"
love your neighbors, attack hatred, oppression and tyranny. stand up for silenced human beings, not sit down because it's more convenient that's how holocausts happen
Edit: boycott israel for palestinian freedom
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MadMuncher said: you are using extremist minorities, secret government funded chaos and powerful ruling families with ancient power money control to generalize entire races, religions and societies. pretty sure the majority of jews and arabs have never killed anyone. that image of the middle east sounds like rupert murdochs wet dream though. also the quran is a great book, extremely interesting and highly recommended read. torah too
Not quite.
As I argued earlier, the type of people that can get out generally do. This is why refugees are generally more skilled than the average person. Not only do they recognize the situation, they also formulate a plan to GTFO.
You aren't wrong in that I'm generalizing somewhat. The thing is that in certain environments, especially ones involving combat, the extremists tend to be the ones in power. Because they're fucked in the head and want power the most, compared to the regular dude who just wants to live and let live. Given that power, they criminalize dissent, to the point where regular Joes go through the motions of hate just to keep up appearances and avoid social repercussions. Which also gets normalized and internalized. Ever read 1984? Remember that one passage about the two minutes' hate? Winston doesn't believe it, but he still find himself caught up in the energy of the situation, and for a bit there he realizes he isn't faking it anymore. If he doesn't act, then his neighbors might think he's a sympathizer. If he does act...he slips further down the hole, while *also* being part of the social pressure that keeps everybody else in line.
That's the danger, and that's also the problem. Add in a draft, and my (extreme) post involving casually shooting/blowing people up on the way to work might only apply to 1-2% of the true believers, but is forced upon the entire drafted portion of society, and they fall in line because door number two is to disappear.
If I had to pick between the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran...I'd have to recommend the Quran because they have laws of warfare, and theirs are the most generous. I think the treatment of enemies/opponents is a good gauge of a society, and only one of the three bans poisoning wells, killing livestock, and burning fields. Me, I'm not much of a fighter. Just like anything else, one day you run into somebody that's good at what they do. Most people hate their jobs, they just want to do their time, collect their paycheck, and go home. Fear the people that do their jobs for fun. Seems like under the Quran, I'd be mostly left alone as long as I paid my atheist tax and kept to myself. The bit about free housing and free food guaranteed by the government is nice as well. I don't like seeing homeless people, they spoil my vibe. I'd rather they had a place to live and something to eat. Maybe they'd do something with their free time.
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Re: Free Palestine! [Re: Kryptos] 2
#26573922 - 04/02/20 07:55 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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in the case of the palestinians, and many millions of local people all over the middle east like right now in yemen and syria, most have nowhere to GTFOut to. there is nowhere to go. they shouldn't have to leave anyway, that is their land. the israelis are plowing over ancient family homesteads and villages to build ethnically segregated military base neighborhoods. that is evil. so it becomes survival. most of the individuals in regional militia groups probably feel like they are fighting for survival and have no other choice. all the while they are set up and funded by corrupt groups and nations to fulfill secret agendas; weakening groups and regions for eventual control. puppet governments and proxy armies everywhere. the people have nowhere to go
edit: added link: National Geographic June 1992 and somehow the jews get more money power every step of the way check the shareholders
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That's the danger, and that's also the problem. Add in a draft, and my (extreme) post involving casually shooting/blowing people up on the way to work might only apply to 1-2% of the true believers, but is forced upon the entire drafted portion of society, and they fall in line because door number two is to disappear.
to me, this post describes the state of israel in the present and recent history. i think the usa has been close to this point for awhile too.
all great books mentioned there. much of those masonic novels will come to light this year. we are getting close to 451' F too most of the christians, muslims, and jews i have met do not try to practice the teachings unless someone is watching and they'll feel rewarded. the power hungry sociopaths you mentioned make very good preachers and dictators. it's a shame. we are fucking everything up. the only law is love
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MadMuncher said: all great books mentioned there. much of those masonic novels will come to light this year. we are getting close to 451' F too
Been there, done that. We aren't just getting close, we're getting close again. One of the most vivid memories of my childhood in the USSR was watching a guy disappear into a black car and being hurried inside, because that was dangerous to see. Even though I was on a fifth floor balcony across the...not really an alley, or a street...like a plaza with a playground. Little park type thing.
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MadMuncher said: the only law is love
There is no Law except mathematics, and even then that's only an interpretation of the Law that's useful for human cognition. There is no plan. There is no secret. There is only a bunch of monkeys bumbling around in the dark for a few minutes before the curtains are drawn. And that's the scariest thing. We are equal not because we are humans with rights, we are equal because we are equally nothing. No matter what we do or accomplish. We dance our jig, maybe we even end up the star of the show during our time on stage. But the stage doesn't matter, and there is no audience. No plot. No show. Only the void. Not just darkness, but chaos. And not violent chaos. Random chaos. Chaotic chaos. The void giveth and the void taketh away.
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Re: Free Palestine! [Re: Kryptos]
#26574008 - 04/02/20 08:57 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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i guess my philosophy on that thought is that ones existence should not be detrimental to another's existence. our comfortable lifestyles come at an enormous price and that is wrong.
help those people in darfur if you can too
to me, everyone has the right to do whatever doesn't impede another's right to whatever. conflict is inevitable, that's why we usually instantly ask the kids "who had it first?" and teach them rock paper scissors. our job as citizens is to parent our little governments and make sure they don't set everything on fire and set them up decently to serve us when we need it
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My philosophy is RNGesus.
Also, I hate kids. They're inexplicably sticky.
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Re: Free Palestine! [Re: Kryptos]
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damn. that's too bad. don't have kids. im interested in making the world a better place
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RNGesus is not exclusive to trying to make the world a better place. Personally, I compost and am trying to convince the HOA to let me get a beehive.
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