U.N. Investigator Accuses Israel of Apartheid
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What I hate most is that you can't say anything to Israel without being pointed as anti zionist.
I think the word “took” is a bit misleading here. The region was split and Jews were “given” the land by the UN to begin after UK’s colonial charter ended in 1948. You can certainly blame expansionist policies on Israel after that resolution 181, but that initial establishment of Israel was wholly a function of the established world governance of the time.
They may not have “taken” the land, but they happily received it knowing it had been robbed from the inhabitants. They could have tried to make things right, but instead the Israeli government went all in on apartheid and right wing and religious extremism. The Israeli government now spends considerable amounts of money doing to Palestinians what they accuse other countries of doing to Jews.
It’s also well established that knowingly taking possession of stolen property makes you a criminal participant in the theft.
It’s telling that even Jews outside of Israel frequently do not like Israel despite it ostensibly being the “Jewish state”
Sure…they happily received it right after Adolf Hitler decided to try and rid the world of the Jewish people and managed to kill more than a third of all Jews and 2/3 of the Jews in Europe. So having a Jewish state seemed like that might make the likelihood of some other bad actor finishing the genocide a bit less likely.
Then, literally before the ink was dry the rhetoric started and the bullets started flying and the nations around that Jewish state made it their stated mission to finish off the remaining Jewish people.
I’m not Jewish, but it’s not hard to imagine they might be inclined to take a bit of a hard survival stance considering their history of now multiple nations and people hellbent on your genocide for the last 90 years.
No one offered, and too late now.
> The bulk of the anti-semitic drive in modern Middle East is a result of the creation of Israel and the way the Israeli government treats Palestinians
Doesn't really make it OK, racism is racism. I can sort of get anti Israel sentiments, why hate all Jews? We can always find excuses for blind hatred but we usually have names for it (white supremacism for instance), when Muslims do it it's cool though. Hatred to Jews goes far beyond the middle east btw.
Like I said, established world governance chose a specific direction in 1948, in part because there was established historical roots of the Jewish people in the region. As you said, that decision created anti-Semitic attitudes among the neighboring nations in the region. Those anti-Semitic attitudes in some part fuels Israel’s actions today, which fuels more anti-Semitism, and so on, and so on…
Vicious circle and likely never to be solved in our lifetime. It can’t, especially when one side demands genocide and annihilation of the stronger side as the only acceptable solution.