• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s not like the Jews had a choice. They fled from persecution and Israel was the only place most of them could go to survive. It’s a state founded by refugees fleeing oppression, persecution, and genocide. That makes it fundamentally different from other settler countries like Australia, the USA, Canada, all Latin American countries, and many more.

    Most Israeli Jews didn’t even come there themselves, they were born in the land and have no other home.

    Yes, Palestinians also have a right to self determination. Two state solution is the best option for that. Sadly they refused several of the good offers they got, especially around the turn of the millennium.

    Of course there are racist and hateful Israelis as well. The overall society has understandably hardened their stance towards Palestinians since October 7th.

    inherently racist since it specifically calls for a race of Jews

    You could say that about any ethnic nationalist movement.

    chanting “death to Arabs”

    Similar chants are common in the other direction as well.

    A hundred years of conflict have taken their toll.

    • dastanktal@lemmy.ml
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      Nah this conflict’s a little over 200 years old since it comes directly from Theodore herzl’s work in 1850.

      Many Jewish people did have a choice and many specifically chose not to move there.

      The mass expulsions you’re talking about were Community Driven by those that Associated the Zionist actions of the nakba with the Jewish indigenous people. It’s unfortunate but that’s what happens when your group claims to be the sole voice of Jewish people.

      Hell there’s at least one terrorist attack that occurred in Iraq that we know was caused by Israeli terrorists. We don’t know if they actually work for the government but we do know they were Israeli and we do know they were Zionist. This was because not enough Jewish people were moving into Israel to make it a viable state.

      Let’s talk World War II. Obviously there’s the shoal. But what about the other 6 million people that were also killed that weren’t Jewish? You know the Kurds, Roma, disabled, lqbtq, mentally disabled, the Poles and other Slavic communities who all had a state that they belong to that we’re not defended by that state. Furthermore those people didn’t think they needed a state for self-determination.

      Don’t forget the total dead in the Holocaust is 11 million. There’s more that suffered in that period than just the Jewish people.

      I would love to talk about when the two State Solutions were going to become viable. Was it during the Oslo Accords when Israel refused to acknowledge a path to the two State solution? What about the abraham Accords? In fact name one time in a period of History where Israel has ever been okay with the two-state solution.

      I’m sure whatever you have to prove that Israel was okay with the two State solution will absolutely not be a piece of United States or Mossad propaganda not missing critical details or misrepresenting the situation.

      And furthermore as I said it’s not like the Jewish people could not have gone there they only had to integrate with the already existing Community rather than trying to supplant it with what they called their “Superior Jewish one”