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Israel’s Knesset passed a resolution rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state on Thursday.

The bill, co-sponsored by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition along with right-wing parties in the opposition, was passed by an overwhelming majority of 68 votes, with only nine MKs voting against it.

Benny Gantz, seen by many leaders in the West as a more moderate figure than Netanyahu, voted in favour of the bill, along with his party.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 months ago (48 children)

China: land grab by claiming the sea and Taiwan is theirs = bad guy

Russia: land grab by invade Ukraine claiming Ukraine is theirs = bad guy

Israel: land grab by invade West Bank and Gaza, saying Palestine shouldn't exists and claiming both land is theirs

Guys, i might risk getting called antisemite but...i think Israel is the bad guy here?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sometimes i really fucking hate being Jewish.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago

Don't let israel guilt trip you into thinking their white ethnostate is part of Judaism. You are not responsible for anything they do.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

I'm part jewish myself. Israel doesn't represent me and never has, nor has it represented my ancestors. I see a clear difference between Judaism and Israel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No one blames you. I certainly don’t.

Thank you for speaking up and your words do matter. I learned the horrors of what’s going on years ago from Jewish and Israeli authors such as Ilan Pappe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

why, did you vote for any of those guys?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I’m not an Israeli citizen. But I tell you, it’s a drag being Jewish. There’s the legit antisemitism, which I experienced primarily in my youth, and then the guilt by association because Israel is an asshole country. Oh yeah, then there’s the insufferable idiots who will call me an antisemite because I don’t believe in oppressing Palestinians.

It’s just kind of proper fucked being Jewish. I guess we get some cool shit though, like space lasers, controlling world politics, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If it helps - although I'm sure you're not hearing anything new here - plenty of people understand that Israel doesn't represent the Jewish people. Much as Israel likes to pretend they do, and much as politicians agree because it suits their geopolitical goals, it's not true.

Edit: I know for a fact this isnt new info because two other people said the same thing in this thread. Oh well, I'll just add my voice to theirs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm an atheist but find religions fascinating as a concept. From what I understand about Judaism,

It’s just kind of proper fucked being Jewish.

Is the essential Jewish experience that has been passed down to you by your ancestors for millenia, so at least you have that going for you?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Guys why don't those Palestinians just do a two state solution? Those israelis really want it right?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Who the actual fuck thinks Gantz is a moderate? The dude is more extreme than Ben-Gvir.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Anyone can seem like a moderate when they're standing next to someone whose a bigger extremist than themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Can we stop sending military aid to the obviously evil country yet?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They hadn't already done that years ago?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Israel was pretending that it was the Palestinians that refused to compromise for a 2 state solution. With all the heaps of carefully crafted Hasbara and liberals selling people on israeli white nationalism, nobody took the time to figure out the real story.

Now that everyone knows that israel is the aggressor they have no valid defense left to not recognize a Palestinian state. Especially in the West Bank.

So israel now goes mask off and reveals their very obvious initial position: they want to expand their Lebensraum and exterminate all Palestinians. And israel hopes that if they scream "self defense" hard enough while bribing politicians everyone will keep supporting their Genocide.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

they scream "self defense" hard enough while bribing politicians everyone will keep supporting their Genocide.

And should you happen to be a supporter of human rights and international law they will scream "antisemitism" hard enough until you lose your job.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How will Blinken spin this?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

He wil smirk really hard and say something about Hamas bad.

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