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[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Good. We have seen with apartheid South Africa that isolation of a rogue terrorist nation is the only non military way of returning it to the community of somewhat lawful nations. No surprise that Israel was a close ally of apartheid South Africa

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, you can't become a citizen in Maldives unless you are Muslim. Hypocritical fucks

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (10 children)

holy shit the difference in comments between here and reddit's world news on the same post is insane. Everyone there is a zionist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Everyone there is a bot.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (13 children)

What’s the vibe in there? Cause I don’t like the idea of punishing regular civilians for the government’s actions, so I’m not a fan of this decision. But I’m not gonna come in here and say something like “omg why though, Israel’s the victim!!!1”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Reddit just banned everyone commenting negatively about Israel or its inhabitants

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Reddit is mostly literal bots. Not figurative ones, literal ZionistGPT bots jerking eachother off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

And I was only coming to say that the bloke in the thumbnail looks like he's in one of those cardboard cutouts that kids stick their faces through to get their photo taken

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Worldnews really is overrun by Zionist bots. If you go to some other subreddits a lot of them seem to still have real humans who are saying so. But it seems like a lot of other subreddits are being taken over by bots at this point too.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Nearly 11,000 Israelis visited Maldives last year, which was 0.6% of the total tourist arrivals.

Very nice. It's not just a symbolic boycot

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A symbolic boycott is important. They still picked a side in this mess.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Surprisingly high.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

All Israeli’s have to do military service and they get a bonus afterwards that they often use for travel. Thailand was full of Israeli kids when I went. Would be awesome if Thailand did the same.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Some of them come to India too and from what I've heard, they're pieces of shits.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (10 children)

wp:Human rights in the Maldives

The constitution declares Islam as the state religion of the Maldives and states that all Maldivian nationals are required to be Sunni Muslims.[13] It is illegal in the country to proselytize any religion other than Islam, and advocate for secularism or the separation of church and state. Apostasy and atheism are also outlawed and those who identify as or accused of being apostates or atheists are punishable by death by Maldivian law (though unenforced) and are often subject to vigilante violence or attacks with little or no consequences for perpetrators by the authorities.

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Defamation and Speech "contrary to the tenets of Islam" is illegal.

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As the state partially practices Sharia law in some matters, homosexuality is illegal. The punishment for men is nine months to one year imprisonment, or 10 to 30 lashes. The punishment for women is nine months to one year of house arrest.[3]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Can they block Americans as well?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Have they banned Russians?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately not.

I say that not because I hate Russians.

I hate the Russians that fly to Maldives and act like they own the place and are constantly rude to Maldivians, other tourists and leave trash behind when they leave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Funny thing, I made the same question in reverse once, and the crowd on here descended on me for "whataboutism".

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