For a while it puzzled me why Israelis are so unapologetic and blatantly defensive when people criticize Israel. Their callousness to what they have done to Palestinians to the point of even denying the existence of the Palestinians as a people does make the Israelis look like straight up Nazi bad guys, but I recently realized that there is a better way to think of modern Israel. It is the last gasp of European imperialism of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Whereas the rest of the West at least officially renounced that brand of racist and unabashed imperialism, modern Israel is an unreconstructed version of the days of White Man’s Burden. Modern Israelis are not 21st century people at all but more like the Belgians of the Congo or Rudyard Kipling. Think British imperialist in a white pith helmet rampaging through Africa or starving Indians with an absolute conviction that he is civilized and in the right. Due to the depredations of the Holocaust, Zionists who created modern Israel believe that they are excused from having to adhere to modern standards of conduct. Instead, they at their core believe that if other Europeans got to have their colonies why can’t Jews as well?
that is way worst. Imperialism was about greed, justified by racism. What Israel is doing is all about racism, hate. Hence the comparison with Nazi
Please keep learning - it's not that straightforward, are innocent civilians impacted on both sides ? Yes , please ask an Israeli and not just Jews, even Muslims will tell you that they have been terrorised by a certain small fraction of extremists. It is a difficult situation all around. There are a lot of innocent casualties unfortunately but why do you think Iran is joining the war because Hamas is getting stronger . There has to be an intelligent way if anything to take down a terrorist group without harming innocent people - if not they get way too strong and you will have suicide bombers going after every major city as they are literally thought from when they are young kids to convert the whole world to Islam and everyone other then Muslims are "Haram" (unholy) The ignorance is everywhere. This is a war against ignorance- please always empathise with both sides when thinking of a solution to a problem and then intelligent decisions should be taken humanely. I am not a Muslim or a Jew but I currently pity both sides. What You Need to Know About the Iran-backed Terror Group Hamas ... https://www.ajc.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-iran-backed-terror-group-hamas-and-its-attack-on-israel
There’s no justification for what innocent killing the IDF does just as there is no justification for what innocent killing Hamas does, end of story
One can condemn some of the actions of various Palestinian groups without denying that Israel is 19th century European imperialism imposed on the 21st century. Even during the 19th century, there were unethical things done by indigenous peoples (eg scalping) which one can condemn but it doesn’t make European imperialism right by any stretch of the imagination.
Muslims and Jews not getting on pre-dates any notion of 'Western' society by several thousand years. So yeah, no. This take is Western-European-centric. Why aren't Egypt taking any refugees?
Because they are literally in the midst of an economic crisis and signed a deal with the US to not get in the way of Israel. The real question you should be asking is why would they have to in the first place? Why are people becoming refugees in their own homes, with their women and children being killed mercilessly?
Large swathes of US society are also experiencing economic crisis. Why, in your view, are these people morally obligated to accommodate refugees from Palestine, but the people of Egypt affected by economic crisis are not? I do not disagree with you that Palestinian women and children are suffering as a result of this instance of war and militarization. But ask yourself. What was life like for (especially) women living in Palestine before 1948? Before this instance of conflict? Hardly a bed of roses. It's important to note that Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has full legal rights for women.
I’m frankly tired of the anti-semitism police. Ask a question and you’re labeled anti-semite.
Wyte guilt is gonna kill us all. Judging by how obsessed you are with anti-imperialism, I bet your skin is translucent. I bet 15 years ago, you used to argue that racism doesnt exist, and now you feel bad about it because of social media. So you overcompensate by attaching yourself to a cause that you are so desperate to have that you have made it your entire personally. How sad and weak. I know this comment will attract a lot of hate, because that's all you are good at, finding something to passionately hate as a collective. Just an angry mob of self-righteous, pseudo-intellectual haters who are currently fixated on belittling Jews. Soon it’ll be cool to be outraged by another group, and you will put down this fixation and join that mob of haters. Were your parents huge racists? Is that what triggers your guilt? Did mommy and daddy say the en word a lot while watching television? Is that why you are like this? Because that is what anyone with a full working brain sees when you people “other” a group with so much passion. If you can do it to Israel, you WILL do it to another group. That's what you people are best at, hating everyone else that you deem beneath you. Today it's Israel, who will you hate tomorrow?
Shut up you fool. Not everyone who criticize Israel and is anti-imperialism is a self hating white/jew
Not all of them are, just most of them. You will be angry forever. 😂
That sounds like G E N O C I D E to me. I thought you people are against bombing countries. Interesting...
In an era when many countries were gaining independence and freedom from colonists, Israel decided to do the wrong thing
There was an Israeli woman on tik tok Eve Cohen who mocked dead Palestinian children by smashing pumpkins and laughing over them. This was in October and I was shocked as to how an educated normal woman could mock a mother crying over her dead child. She was also pregnant at that time. I then realised how sick that society is. I doubt even western imperialists were evil enough to mock dead children and laugh at amputated babies.....
Listening to Jewish Israelis is like sitting across from a first date telling you how all their exes were crazy. The common denominator isn’t the exes. But you still wanna smash so you don’t challenge their worldview. Many jewish people really believe people innately hate them, as opposed to there being a reaction to something about their culture. 1000 years of this in every society they’ve settled in, and there’s still zero introspection.
Yup the world we live in