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Only Israel could say they’re acting in a “defensive manner” while literally occupying another nation’s sovereign territory
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Anonymous 20w

That’s pretty much the rhetoric from apartheid South Africa during the Angolan Bush War. Indigenous Namibians were fighting for independence, and used Angola as a base of operations. South Africa engaged in war against these indigenous Namibian forces, portraying them as foreign communists trying to destroy South Africa. South Africa was supposed to just watch over Namibia for a time after it was taken from the Germans, but they instead choose to annex it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

South Africa ended up occupying large portions of Angola in support of their Angolan proxy forces the UNITA. It’s similarly to the previous Israeli occupation of Lebanon in support of Maronite militias.

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