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[–] 168 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Israel is literally waging a war to expand borders, so yeah, maybe they want to be left alone in the sense that they won't accept any state other than Israel existing in the end.

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  • [–] 63 points 5 months ago (14 children)

    It’s … wild because this is part of the roots of the Jewish people being chased from their lands.

    In a world where folks accepted other peoples gods but revered their own … the monotheistic Abrahamic religions fucked all that up.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Have you ever heard of this social experiment that was done a long time ago.?

    A teacher in 1968, following days after MLK was murdered, decided to teach kids about racism. It ended up becoming a famous experiment about how people who are discriminated against will often do the same back to others. And that we are all equally capable of being taught to discriminate even when we ourselves have faced discrimination and know what it's like.

    Here is the premise. (All kids were white, I believe)

    The teacher told the students that blue eye color students were smarter than brown eye color students because the pigment in brown eyes was related to lower intelligence.

    Here is the rest copied from Wikipedia

    "Initially, there was resistance among the students in the minority group to the idea that blue-eyed children were better than brown-eyed children. To counter this, Elliott led the children to believe the false premise that melanin was linked to their higher intelligence and learning ability. Shortly thereafter, the initial resistance fell away. Those who were deemed "superior" became arrogant, bossy, and otherwise unpleasant to their "inferior" classmates. Their grades on simple tests improved, and they completed mathematical and reading tasks that had seemed outside their ability before. The "inferior" classmates also transformed – into timid and subservient children who scored more poorly on tests, and even during recess isolated themselves, including those who had previously been dominant in the class. These children's academic performance suffered, even with tasks that had been simple before.[10]

    The next Monday, Elliott reversed the exercise, making the brown-eyed children superior. While the brown-eyed children did taunt the blue-eyed children in ways similar to what had occurred the previous day, Elliott reports it was much less intense. To reflect on the experience, she asked the children to write down what they had learned.[6]"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott

    Here is an in-depth article by PBS on it. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/introduction-2/

    Here is a documentary about it , also made by PBS. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE

    It's a fascinating experiment into human behavior and self reflection. And how superiority complex changes performance and personality.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (28 children)

    The problem with believing in gods is that you think you are right. That makes other people wrong. And so it begins...

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    [–] 143 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What do Israelis want?

    It's to be able to commit genocide in peace.

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    Nah, it's overwhelmingly unpopular in America but the Israeli polls are overwhelmingly popular

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    [–] 84 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    And you just start beating the shit out of your smallest neighbour while occupying their house

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why do these screenshots always show the comments in the wrong order? Is twitter really set up like that?

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    [–] 34 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Israel is a failed experiment in statehood. It's about motherfucking time for every decision maker in virtually every government in the world to acknowledge that - and correct course.

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    [–] 32 points 5 months ago

    What they want is no resistance to their colonial expansion.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago*

    "When I wanna be left alone, I just kill my neighbors. 🤷‍♂️"

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    stay there

    after they locked the doors, killed you dog and wife, tortured your brother and starved you children while withholding them medical aid

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    Withdraw to your 1967 borders. Then we talk.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago

    I agree with Eylon. No more subsidies, no more outside anything. Thirsty? There's no water? Talk to your imaginary god. Hungry? Food doesn't grow? Same thing.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago

    And to have every other country fund it. 

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    ... And murder half of their children as well.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Sometimes as Palestine would say, I just want my grandma’s house that the government stole from her and kicked her naked into the street. I miss the good memories.

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    [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Why won't somebody think about the poor land-thieving child-murdering Israelis...

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago*

    When your persecution complex is so robust you reanimate the Old Testament as a "defense" strategy despite being a "secular" nation.

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