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Former German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger says Western leaders should be making more threats and be willing to follow them through.

The West should spend less time fretting about Russian President Vladimir Putin's red lines and set its own, says veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger. 

“Russia keeps saying, if you do this, if you cross this or that red line, we might escalate,” said the 78-year-old onetime chairman of the Munich Security Conference. “Why don't we turn this thing around and say to them: ‘We have lines and if you bomb one more civilian building, then you shouldn't be surprised if, say, we deliver Taurus cruise missiles or America allows Ukraine to strike military targets inside Russia’?”

 That way the onus will be on Moscow to decide whether to cross the red lines — or face the consequences.

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They have that right tough

hard disagree. Maybe if a foreign country wanted to create a Jewish ethnostate it should have set the borders inside its own sovereign lands instead of displacing 300k people it didn't give a shit about and causing an immediate regional war and decades of ongoing conflict?

Maybe then we could consider Israel a real country. Seeing how it didn't go that way? What israel deserves is to dissolve

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

And in your suggested dissolution of the state of Israel, what happens then? And what happens to the Jews that now live there?

I think if we're following history and making a point we should put new israel on top of your home. No problem right?

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

That's not an answer to the question though, you are advocating for the dissolution, so let's put it on the table...

If your question wasn't a flippant and dismissive response to my position, then neither was my answer.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No, you made a statement that required a follow up question.. requiring you to elaborate. But I have the feeling that you are answering like this cause you simply refuse to say the quiet part out loud, or are to cowardly to come out and say it. But that's OK. I think most people reading your response get what you mean.

But I have the feeling that you are answering like this cause you simply refuse to say the quiet part out loud, or are to cowardly to come out and say it

Every accusation is a confession

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sure.. you still are dancing around specifying what your dissolution of the state of Israel would look like.

I'd personally like to see Netanyahu in a small concrete cell in Scheveningen.. just so we're clear.

Im dancing around what i hoped youd eventually figure out: to be clear, i really don't respect your ridiculous red herring)

Go look up red herring, realize how silly you just looked and improve your debate skills.

Elsewhere.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My red herring? You open by making a statement that could easily mean eliminating all Jews and when asked what you mean you refuse to specify (or concoct some kumbaya alternate reality fiction). Instead you blurt that the question is flippant. And now you say red herring as if that somehow absolves you of taking a position that has no basis in reality or a position that just wishes all Jews to dissapear.

The situation in Israël is neither clear cut nor easy. And since one side (Israël) holds all the power I would expect that side to come up with a just and equitable solution that works for Palestinians too.. and that is not what they are currently doing... We see war mongering genocidal idealogs run their campaign of destruction simply because Bibi needs war to stay out of jail. The reason why these right wing extremist settlers are in the Israeli government in turn has its basis in constant shelling of Israel proper. Which continue because Israël refuses to provide their neighbors with an equitable solution and not keep settling the west bank.

Incorrect. Israel should cease to exist ==mean jew elimination no matter how hard or often you say it. Its frankly appalling you dont get this.

Israel should cease to exist. It never should have existed, and what it deserves is dissolution. Your insulting followup "questions" are based on your personal feelings and are a red herring no matter how strong your feelings are.

Seriously, go look up red herring before you forget.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No I'm asking, then what. You throw your red herring around as if that means something.

here is a nice writeup on red herring and even tips on how to use it more effectively than you've been. The first important thing is understanding the term.

I'll help you over this hill youre lyin' on... Your actual argument from the beginning is that "Israel as a state entity should continue to exist."

Your "red herring's" purpose is to obfuscate your final position (Israel as a state should continue, simply because it's already there.)

By diverting attention towards how difficult it could be logistically, you hide from the immorality of israel's existence.

My OG reply simultaneously dismisses your "ok but how?" argument as fallacious and addresses your real point, "israel should exist". If you actually think israel should exist as an ethnostate someplace, i actually think your country should host them and you should move out so they can have it.

You have not done anything since except complain how its not fair i ignored your bad faith.

Can you please take a little more care in your next response?

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You can take your strawman and stick it. In the mean time the whole middle east has been building to this and egged on by people like you we will see it get a lot worse.

I'll bet all those Palestinians are very comforted by knowing people like you have their backs. "No no.. you need to stay in your refugee camps because else the evil Jews won"... 70 years down and people like you helped 300k people kicked from their lands back then, become 5 million people in perpetual misery... But you can rest smuggly that you took the moral high ground.. but then it does not cost you anything.. so there.

But you can rest smuggly

Finally getting you drop your red herring and fall back on your modus operandi of ad hominem was honestly the best outcome i could ask for on the Internet, yes.

[-] eacapesamsara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The same thing that happened to the Jews that lived there for millenia before Israel was created, the become normal citizens with no special rights or mandates, and are actually subject to laws intended on keeping all people safe, not just Jews. It worked continuously for millenia through dozens of different ruling states with a half dozen ruling religions, the state of Israel and it's fascism utilizing ng Jewish supremacy as a base ideology fucked that up.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Well, that looks like it ignores reality a bit. That the current state of Israel is doing fucked up stuff atm gets no arguement from me, but it did not happen in a vacuum.

Spouting revisionist nonsense about how equal the Jews where treated all over the world also does not help the situation either. Nor does ignoring the current situation and how if the state where to be dissolved and a new state created in its place that would give all people of the region equal rights and protections.. they would magically all get along.

So again.. what then? What would you suggest?

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

Spouting revisionist nonsense about how equal the Jews where treated all over the world also does not help the situation either.

I mean in many places they were. Raging antisemitism was mostly a European problem. That's why they kept fleeing to Muslim lands.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Uhm.. what? Kept fleeing to Muslim lands? Antisemitism a European thing.. wow.. someone did a number on you man.. I'd suggest you ask for a refund from school.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

Uh... What? Yes they kept fleeing to Muslim lands at least learn the history of the people whose Apartheid you're rooting for (not that Israel represents Jews as a whole I know that's not the case). A large fraction of Egyptian Jews, for example, were originally from Spain and were expelled due to the Reconquista, and the first two Aliyahs were European Jews escaping from pogroms to the more tolerant Ottoman empire. Also modern Muslim anti-semitism was, in fact, imported from Europe in the 19th century and strongly intensified due to the conflict with Zionists. Again, learn the history of the people whose Apartheid you're rooting for and the people whose oppression you're rooting for before you make ignorant statements again.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

Nothing??? Just put them and Palestinians in the same place and make them create the equal multiethnic democracy Israel said it would but didn't become.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah, we tried that. With the neighboring countries intervening and waging war, and the following wars we ended up here. But this time it will be different.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago

Uh... What? Israel is, and has always been from the planning phase, a Jewish-dominated settler colony. This is literally why they caused the Nakba. How does that sound like a multiethnic democracy?

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The original plans where also a lot smaller and entitled Palestinians to a lot of land and their own state. Neighboring countries and Palestinians would not have it. The region was english ruled because the ottomans sided with Germany in ww1.. they where by definition the baddies. Then WW2 happened. You seem to be cherry picking a lot of stuff that happened over the course of the last 120 years or so for that area.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

The original plans where also a lot smaller and entitled Palestinians to a lot of land and their own state.

A lot smaller, but with a lot of the better land and half the Palestinian population. Would you agree to half the people of your country being ruled by an explicitly hostile, foreign people?

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Way to move the goalposts... It's a series of own goals compounded by "help" from their friends that landed the Palestinians in this horror. In Turn the current horror now has 3 revisionist antisemites in a trenchcoat using the poor Palestinians as a beard to practice their antisemitism out in the open.

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