• NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Israel has gone from apartheid to genocide, within living memory (there are very few left alive, but still living memory) of the genocide the founders of Israel went through themselves.

    Israel has been genocidal from the start. It’s just faster now; in 1949 there was the Nakba and then there was the whole settlement business.

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          11 months ago

          Ya got the date wrong. Nakba happened in 1948 when multiple Arabic nations declared war on Israel after they announced their independence.

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            11 months ago

            Setting aside the legitimacy of Israel as a state, why does that mean they get to ethnically cleanse half the Palestinian population?

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                11 months ago

                That’s the implication, at least. Because “they declared war first so they deserved it” is a popular position among Zionists.

                If that’s not what you meant, then while the war was declared in 1948, the Nakba started in earnest when Israel started beating back the Arab states in 1949.

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                  11 months ago

                  If you declare war and lose, you can’t just go “lol oopsie we didn’t really mean it” and expect nothing to happen. When has the loser in any war not experienced repercussions?