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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Israel/Palestine situation feels a lot like the situation between Native Americans and European settlers. You can't move into an already occupied place and try to dominate or displace the native inhabitants without expecting violent resistance. (And go figure the British are largely to blame for this too).

[–] BunkerBusterKeaton@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yes, and fwiw this is still very much ONGOING for native americans today

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Absolutely. And the Native Americans stopped killing the settlers.

[–] BunkerBusterKeaton@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

what's your point?

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stop ignoring history Jews were living on that territory for thousands of years, unlike Europeans un America. You are conveniently ignoring facts which would immediately render your analogy completely bogus.

[–] Lurk99777@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And the native Americans weren't? You're the one ignoring history or intentionally misunderstanding the analogy.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Case A: population X came to a new land and killed almost all of population Y which lived there before.

Case B: population X came back to their homeland, got attacked by population Y, won the war, didn't not kill population Y, regularly tried to establish truce with population Y which continues to refuse the population X's right to exist.

[–] Lurk99777@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Their homeland? It wasn't their homeland for hundreds of years. The Zionist movement displaced people already living there who had nothing to do with a conflict that occurred hundreds of years prior. They didn't kill the Palestinians outright but they sure as hell did a good job of systematically stripping them of their rights to exist.

Their stated goal from the beginning was to invade and establish a religious state where people were already living similar to what Europeans did when they colonized the Americas.