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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be clear, I support a free Palestine and condemn Israel’s actions.

But, something that you, and most people I see discussing this, are missing is that this isn’t just a political or land issue. This is a fundamentalist religious issue too. Both parties believe they have a sacred right to the land and that the other does not. The two parties ideologies are fundamentally incompatible with anything other than the removal of the other party. There is not, and never has been, a road to a two state solution and the actions we’re seeing now have likely always been the plan for Israel. Israel has squeezed and squeezed the Palestinians until, surprise!, they (or at the very least a subset of them) decide it’s time to fight back. That’s the excuse Israel has been looking for, an event large and egregious enough for an all out assault and to ultimately push the Palestinians into the ocean and remove them from the equation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's like calling the Russian invasion of Ukraine a holy Christian war.

The Zionists very clearly do not have any right to Palestine and the Palestinians very clearly do have the right to their land.

The fact that israel has been committing genocide for over 75 years there doesn't magically give them the right to anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You’ll notice, I don’t support either’s religious claim in my comment. I’m conveying what they believe and why it’s an untenable situation. It is, in fact, a religious war.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a political war. They are not the same.