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US Politics 19w

george_carlin_

 Being a Zionist is honestly worse than MAGA. Like yeah MAGA is racist and all the things but at this point claiming Zionism is an explicit claim to love genocide and killing brown people point blank period
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Anonymous 19w

Being a Zionist doesn’t mean you support what’s happening to Palestinians!! Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self determination in their ancestral homeland, that’s it. It does NOT mean you don’t believe in rights of Palestinians or wanting a Palestinian state for them! It doesn’t mean you want war or to see people killed! Unfortunately the term has become politicized.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

TLDR all these things can be true: - Being a Zionist - Supporting a two state solution - Believing in Palestinian rights - Opposition to the Israeli gov and its policies - Opposition to so many innocent people dying

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

A two state solution is still colonial. All lands should be returned. Jews do not deserve their own state at the expense of others. Go to mars or Antarctica if you want that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

The term was always political. It was always about Jewish nationalism and vying for statehood somewhere from its inception in the 19th century. It came with the same wave of nationalism that swept Europe in the 19th century as monarchies were overthrown and modern nation states were established

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Anonymous replying to -> george_carlin_ 19w

How is a Palestinian state not also “colonial” as well then? Or do you prefer Jordan to have all of the land?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

Why is it not also colonial? Because Palestinians are indigenous to the land and have lived there continuously for thousands of years?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

Genetic studies show that despite speaking Arabic, Palestinians are genetically almost identical to the Levantines that lived there thousands of years ago. Mizrahim are also similar to the Canaanites but they are only a portion of the population. And they have the exact same rights to the land as the Palestinians.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

“Arabic colonialism” is only half true. What Muslim Arabs from the Arabian peninsula did from the 600s onward was spread their religion and language, but in many regions they did not replace the population genetically. At most they mixed. What they didn’t do was genocides.

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