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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Because Germany didn't then exist under decades of apartheid where they were denied basic services just due to the accident of their birth. Even East Germans had it far, far better than Gazans.

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago

The Nazis played on Germans agrievement over how they were treated post WW1 to gain support, Gaza only ended up on the situation it is now because surrounding countries kept attacking Isreal over the last 70 years and lost land to them, then Hamas/the PLO/etc have played on similar agrievements to get themselves into the leadership position and have now lead them into a war.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Are you actually claiming Israel has no culpability when it comes to the suffering of the people of Gaza?

[-] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, and when you do that, no journalists will chase you to scream, "BUT DO YOU CONDEMN ISRAEL?"

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee -1 points 11 months ago

No, not no culpability, but understandable reasons for what they've had to do for their own safety over the years.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

One would think not escalating situations might be better for their own safety...

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Seems to be the escalation was Hamas invasion of their country on Saturday from where I'm sitting.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Gaza is not Hamas and Hamas is not Gaza. Those children are innocent and they're nearly half the population, as the post says. When you put a huge number of innocent people under siege, and kill more of them than were killed on your side, you're escalating.

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Like it or not, Hamas are the defacto leader of Gaza, voted for in 2006. You can make all sorts of arguments about what's happened after that, but if the people of Gaza have made no attempt to remove them from leadership since then this is the outcome.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

How many of those children voted for Hamas in 2006? Exactly how many?

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

How many children voted for various governments that lead their countries to war throughout history?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure how that justifies what is going on in Gaza. The claim was that Hamas and Gaza were interchangeable (thus justifying Israeli atrocities) because Gazans voted for Hamas in 2006. When almost half the population were, at best, toddlers in 2006.

[-] snek@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Hamas are the defacto leader of Gaza, voted for in 2006. You can make all sorts of arguments about what’s happened after that, but if the people of Gaza have made no attempt to remove them from leadership since then this is the outcome.

Sure, let's blame the civilian Palestinian deaths on the Israelis that voted this current gov't into power...

Oh wait, this isn't how it works

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

What? The Isrealis were moved out of Gaza before the 2006 elections.

[-] snek@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Gaza only ended up on the situation it is now because surrounding countries kept attacking Isreal over the last 70 years and lost land to them, then Hamas/the PLO/etc have played on similar agrievements to get themselves into the leadership position and have now lead them into a war.

Just FYI, Gazans are refugees who were forced to the Gaza strip by.... ISRAEL! Woohoo.

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago

Yes, war creates refugees, always has. Maybe all those surrounding nations that went to war with Isreal should have considered that.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Israel didn't exist there prior...

They took land (rather, were given land by western empires that wasn't there's to give) and kicked out and killed those who were there. Yeah, that's didn't create any resentment at all I'm sure and it's all the attacks that happened in response that caused it.

Someone else can always be blamed. To act like Israel doesn't share in the blame is probably one of the most ignorant statements I've heard.

[-] NuPNuA@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago

Actually, we did have the right to give out that land as we won it from the Ottomans.

[-] Arrakis@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

And the Ottomans had the right to the land because...

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