• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    This actually happened before the current conflict, it’s a good read, it tell one small part of a story on how Israel have a tight grip toward any conversation toward the state.

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      1 year ago

      I know, but apartheid in Israel did not just start now. It’s been going on since forever. They can deny all they want, but they keep telling on themselves. Mostly unintentional of course, but admitting regardless.

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        1 year ago

        It’s been going on since forever.

        Not really tho, as Israel as a nation didn’t exist until 1948 … a mere 75 years ago. And in the beginning it was not powerful, nor able to withstand incursions from surrounding nations who didn’t want Israel to exist.

        Since then it has garnered the unwaivering support of the most powerful nation on earth and has become like the brutal spoiled child, demanding everything and doing whatever it must to get it.

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          1 year ago

          Of course, yes. But for most people on here ~75 yrs = forever. It was well before most of us were born. But you’re right, it started mostly in 1948.

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            1 year ago

            … it started mostly in 1948

            Not to be pedantic here, but it did start in 1948 … because before that there had been no Jewish state for almost 2000 years, after Rome destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD and the Diaspora began.

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              1 year ago

              It started before 1948 even, because although Israel was officially not a state until then, there was turmoil because of people moving there and wanting to start their state on occupied land. If you look at the history there was unrest around WWI already. It just escalated after 1948 because the west legitimized the existence of Israel.