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They thrive in the poison generated by a conflict over possession of the land that started more than a century ago.
✏️ Propaganda in the sense that calling it a “conflict over possession of land” omits the fact that one country invaded the other. It’s not a 50/50 culpability issue here.. it’s an invader and defender dynamic. 👓 propaganda 🔗 View Highlight
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Israel was born out of an explicitly colonial project that aimed to build an ethnically Jewish state in a land that was majority non-Jewish. This necessarily involved force and displacement
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In 1905, Hillel Zeitlin wrote that Zionist plans for settlement “forget, mistakenly or maliciously … that Palestine belongs to others, and it is totally settled.”
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Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, was blunt: Palestinians opposed Zionism, he said, because “they understand as well as we what is not good for them”:
“They look upon Palestine with the same instinctive love and true fervor that any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux looked upon his prairie…Every indigenous people will resist alien settlers as long as they see any hope of ridding themselves of the danger of foreign settlement. … That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the ‘Land of Israel.’”
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an occupying power cannot claim mere “self-defense” when those they oppress resist them with force.
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The seemingly inconsistent stance taken toward Ukraine and Palestine is actually quite consistent, if we understand that the operative principle is “we help our geopolitical allies against our geopolitical adversaries.”