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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Gaza Strip is just Canadian Indian Reservation 2.0

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, I didn't realize Gaza was in Canada

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

They have a point, though, we are apologizing for the crimes our colonial-era ancestors committed against the First Nations of Canada and its prolonging effects, while at the very same time watching a modern version of a similar ruthless colonization in Gaza. In the future, we will all be very sorry for failing to intervene. By our and our leaders' inaction, we are failing to show that we learned from our past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If you want to know why nobody helps Gazan refugees theres a good history of places like Lebanon and Kuwait who let them in and ultimately banished them. Theres even some theories that keeping them stateless as they are is all part of the plan to keep them poor and helpless, to prevent further political extremism.

In the 1960s Lebanon was relatively calm, but this soon changed. Fatah and other Palestinian Liberation Organization factions had long been active among the 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanese camps. Throughout the 1960s, the center for armed Palestinian activities had been in Jordan. They were forced to relocate after being evicted by King Hussein during the 1970 Black September in Jordan. Fatah and other Palestinian groups attempted to mount a coup in Jordan by incentivizing a split in the Jordanian army, something that the ANM had attempted to do a decade earlier by Nasser's bidding. Jordan responded, and expelled the Palestinian forces into Lebanon. When they arrived, they created "a State within the State". This action was not welcomed by the Lebanese government, and this shook Lebanon's fragile sectarian balance.

Solidarity with the Palestinians was expressed by the Lebanese Sunni Muslims, with the aim to change the political system from one of consensus amongst different sects, towards one where their power share would increase. Certain groups in the Lebanese National Movement wished to bring about a more secular and democratic order, but as this group increasingly included Islamist groups, encouraged to join by the PLO, the more progressive demands of the initial agenda was dropped by January 1976. Islamists did not support a secular order in Lebanon and wished to bring about rule by Muslim clerics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhDGfctSTfI

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

Thing is, punishing children for stuff their grandparents and great-grandparents did ~50 years ago isn't a good look either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

eh. theres plenty of bloodlust in the current generation. of all parties involved. the grandparents might be the ones out there waving their fists at cameras, and making bold speeches in parliaments and assemblies

but its the grandkids bombing hospitals, taking and killing hostages, and shooting random people to get a body count.