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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (19 children)

They've been there for thousands of years. Nobody gives a shit what happened thousands of years ago.

And the "doesn't exist" thing makes no sense. Why would you shoot at something that doesn't exist? Of course they know Israel exists. They don't recognize it's legitimacy.

Finally, repeating something doesn't make it any more true. In fact repeating things that aren't true is a propaganda technique to stick it in people's heads.

[–] TruthSandwich@fedi.truth-sandwich.com -1 points 4 days ago (18 children)

@Maggoty

Yeah, and the Jews were there before that. Welcome to history, where the people owning a land can change.

Fact is, Israel was formed on top of land owned by the Ottoman Empire, not the Palestinians. Britain won it as spoils of war, just like the Palestinians did long ago. Then the Palestinians went to war and lost again. It's just not their land anymore.

If war is a legitimate way to gain land, then Israel legitimately exists and it legitimately owns Palestine.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Again, nobody cares where the jews were when the Roman Empire existed. In that logic we need to roll back the entirety of the last several hundred years. That's patently ridiculous.

It's also ridiculous to say Britain won it so now Isreal gets to exist, when the Irgun drove the British out. It's doubly ridiculous because all of the other colonial projects from the early 1900's have been devolved to the indigenous people. And no, you're not indigenous to an area after living abroad for 2000 years. What makes this slice of the Ottoman empire special?

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

@Maggoty
@TruthSandwich is a well-known troll. It proved so obnoxious that no other Mastodon instance would put up with it. It had to start its own instance. The fact that it could do that implies financial (and probably political) backing. I've blocked that domain, so I can't see what you're responding to.

#Palestine
#Israel
#genocide
#hasbara
#zionism
#CrimesAgainstHumanity

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah I picked that up a while ago, I like to draw their logic out so people can see how absurd it is. Although not the whole, own instance thing. Thank you though.

@DropBear @Maggoty

"Anyone who calls me out for my antisemitism is a troll." - some Australian antisemite

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