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It appears that in Israel they believe that it's sufficient to attach the label "humanitarian" to convert every act into a legitimate one. Just like the term "the most moral army in the world", which is no longer connected to what IDF soldiers are doing, they're now trying to present a concentration camp to be used for the transfer of population as the most moral one in the world.

An Israeli source said Wednesday that "the plan is to move all civilian Gazans southward to a large tent city in Rafah, in which they'll have hospitals and plenty of food." He added: "Just like the prime minister said, as far as I'm concerned, they can be given Ben & Jerry's ice cream." A source of blue-and-white pride: In our concentration camp they have ice cream.

In Israel, you're not allowed to make comparisons, and when you do compare to benighted periods, something always "goes wrong in the translation." As long as the concentration camp isn't a waystation on the way to gas chambers, it's easy to refute the comparison and thereby normalize almost any evil. As long as it's not a Holocaust, everything's okay. Thus the historical comparison, which was meant to be cautionary, becomes a tool for muzzling critics and for normalizing the evil.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

How in the hell did Israel become the very thing they founded themselves against?

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Before the war, Europeans were obsessed with the Jewish question. The question was basically what to do with the jews who refuse to assimilate. The Germans came up with what they coined as the final solution to the Jewish question, which was of course the Holocaust.

Then, after the war, what do Europeans do? Do they accept that Jews can live among them as equals, even though they are different? Do we manage to leave this fucking Jewish question behind us?

Nah, we give them land where other people already live, so that they can have their own state and not bother us.

It's just another solution to the Jewish question, and it's rooted in the same fucked up belief that we simply cannot afford to coexist.

Israel was not founded against the Holocaust, it was founded with a basis in the same type of fucked up thinking as the Holocaust itself.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This.

If you read on zionisim there was several places that the zionist considered. They even asked the US if they'd give up new Mexico or airzona to it to be a state for them. Of course, we said no because who wants the Jews? Same with Europe, the solution was to throw them elsewhere despite ironically those jews having European DNA.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

and of course, those who happen to "give" (heh) up their land are brown people.

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