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right guys, it’s only like 80% of that population that has the ideology we don’t like

and in the other 20%, many of them don’t get conscripted due to a religious exemption that includes being in a totally different ideology that has always disagreed with the other

odds not looking good, speaking as a betting man, not one with any actual opinion just need my prediction market bet to hit

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What is the ideology we don’t like? I think it is easy to throw stones when the reality is that if your nation suffered a similar attack, many many people would get swept up in anger and outrage and retaliatory madness.

What Israel is doing is wrong, but I don’t think it would be unique among developed states experiencing something similar.

Yes most people would fight back against foreign occupation

Zionism and violence against Palestineans predates the October attacks by a couple of decades.

More like a century.

Zionism, as in the belief that Jews deserve self-determination as a nation?

Zionism is the belief that there should be a Jewish ethnostate, it should be called Israel, and it should go in the geographic location where Israel now is.

That definition would exclude half of the early Zionist conference attendees, who would have accepted any region where refugees could gather, and seriously considered multiple locations.

Guess what - political movements change over time. We don't define left and right depending on where a party sits in the French parliament either.

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