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Comments off post rejected But I think Israel is actually very pretty for being so tiny. They have the Dead Sea, lots of cool middle eastern style cities, beaches, ancient architecture, etc
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Anonymous 7w

Unfortunately the government has done a lot to destroy its cultural heritage. During the 50s, the government damaged or destroyed many important archaeological sites as part of an effort to eliminate the visible evidence of Palestinian villages. This even included the destruction of historic Arab Jewish synagogues that existed within Palestinian settlements.

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Anonymous 7w

I’ve been there it’s lovely. It’s such a shame that their govt is Nazis

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Anonymous 7w

its so sad the dead sea is going away at a rapid pace

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Anonymous 7w

I call Waze IsraelMaps since it used to be call freemap Israel

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

If they actually gave Palestinians full rights and integrated fully into the regional system, Israel could be a cultural and economic powerhouse

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Anonymous 7w

Easy to negotiate with Iran just stop attacking Lebanon In some specific ways non-Israeli jews have more rights than non-Jewish Israelis which is wacky

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Anonymous 7w

The framework has been in place for decades. All that needs to happen is for both sides to stop putzing around and get serious. And that means getting rid of the Israeli far-right and Hamas somehow

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Anonymous 7w

Hamas dissolved its government in preparation to transfer control to a UN-backed coalition; regardless though it’s kinda ridiculous to say that those committing a genocide aren’t able to stop until the ones they’re oppressing (at least a subset who militarized) must disarm. the simplest way out is for Israel to obey international law

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 7w

I think Israel’s ethnic diversity as a country is really interesting. But again, the government is taking efforts to reduce that. The primary threat to the Armenian community of Jerusalem is continued encroachment by Jewish development firms, and an inability to maintain their community under strict Israeli rules. Minority languages are persecuted in favor of Hebrew. Plus there’s the ethnic cleansing of numerous Palestinian Muslim, Christian, Bedouin, Circassian, Druze, Metouali communities.

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Anonymous 7w

Israel got Hamas in power intentionally. Their continued encroachment in the West Bank undermined Palestinian faith in the PLO, leading to more radical groups to gain power. Israel then propped up Hamas after it took power, because radicals allow a great excuse for military expansion. Israel had a Gaza without Hamas for years. It changed that.

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Anonymous 7w

My point is that the disarming of Hamas isn’t going to stop Israel. Peace would mean they couldn’t expand, and that’s not what Likud wants. Israel is at peace with the PLO in the West Bank. And yet the IDF and settlers are still killing people there and stealing more land. Hamas disarming wouldn’t create peace because the current Israeli government doesn’t want peace. Netanyahu was one of many calling for Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination because he moved towards peace.

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Anonymous 7w

Stopping them by helping them attack villages and murder Palestinians? Or stopping them by protecting the illegal West Bank settlements? The Likud government is retroactively legalizing the settlements illegal even under Israel’s bullshit rules. (In reality they’re all illegal)

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Anonymous 7w

And you know who is annexing new land for “military purposes” and then constructing condos on them? That’s the Israeli government itself, not just the vigilante settlers it protects and encourages.

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Anonymous 7w

How exactly were those mortal bullet wounds in two Palestinians “protection”

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It’s the same playbook used in the western USA. Settlers move in and are free to commit violence against the native population. The military forces either make paltry efforts to stop it, or they look away, or they actively participate in the violence. But as soon as the native population retaliates, that is a brutal unprovoked attack which justifies massacres and further colonial encroachment.

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Anonymous 7w

Oh no! How dare I pull up things like evidence instead of pretending the occupying military force known for shooting children are pewfect little angels

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Anonymous 7w

it’s crazy how you’re literally only capable of resorting to projection and petty little quips; as you sit there defending an ongoing genocide.

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