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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Dealing with this situation logically doesn’t work, because it’s not logic that got it started.

    Both sides have majority support for essentially exterminating the other side.

    Add to the fact that both sides are receiving massive external support in order for those external nations to wage a proxy war against each other, and it’s just a shit show all around.

    • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You’re right, logic didn’t start the current conflict. The British did when they disarmed Palestinians and armed and trained Zionist paramilitaries. This enabled the Zionists to forcibly evict hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign. The pace at which Palestinians are being displaced has slowed but it has never stopped. While Palestinian resistance movements have received outside support it pales in comparison to the military support Israel receives from the US and other western countries. This conflict is unfortunately very one sided.

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        If you think Arabs and Jews fighting started with the British, you’d be a thousand years late to the party.

        Changing the balance of the power did not start the conflict.

        • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Okay so you’re just going to ignore the hundreds of years of relative peace in the region under Ottoman rule immediately preceding WWI?

            • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              “Got control” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. You can’t just paper over British involvement and the hundreds of Palestinian villages that were destroyed in a mass ethnic cleansing campaign by Zionists. This was clearly a dramatic escalation in any religious or ethnic violence that occurred in the region as compared to years prior. You can’t just ignore that and expect anyone to think you’re discussing the issue in good faith.

              Speaking of which, Palestine under Ottoman rule was more peaceful. The wiki articles you linked don’t even reference massacres happening in Palestine. So your point is moot.

              • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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                1 year ago

                Yes they do…

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1660_destruction_of_Safed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1660_destruction_of_Tiberias

                The British didn’t start this shit. Not even close.

                Who started it is moot though, neither side wants to peacefully end this so they’re going to keep fighting.

                You think that if the west stops supporting Israel that Hamas is just going to stop attacking? That’s naïve as fuck. Hamas with Iran’s support will just push into Israel and the table will just be tilted the other way instead.

                • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  That’s all you can come up with? An event that happened 288 years before the events of 1948? That’s supposed to disprove what I said about relative peace in the region for hundreds of years? You have to be kidding me.

                  Also saying the British had no role to play is just an outright lie. Who controlled Palestine from 1920-1948 I wonder? Could it have been an empire know for stoking sectarian conflict in order to further their own agenda, most famously in 1947 with the partitioning of India? This isn’t rocket science. It’s historical fact.

                  That said, the war crimes Israel is committing, the children they are killing, the collective punishment they are enforcing right now are not a rational response to Hamas. You can’t tried to murder and ethnically cleanse a people from their land and expect them to not be radicalized in the process. What Israel has been doing, what it is currently doing, will only make things worse for everyone including their own citizens.

                  If you can’t see that then you’re either blinded by propaganda or your own bloodlust.

                  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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                    1 year ago

                    Whats the rational response to Hamas then? Overwhelm them with aid?

                    If either side eliminates the other, peace will happen. That’s generally how wars have worked through history. Even the ottomans didn’t expand without conquering.

                    We act all morally enlightened these days, but we really aren’t. We’re just talking from the comfort of far away.