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Maybe you missed the sarcasm. Btw the descendants of the people there 2000 years ago are the current Palestinians; the current Israelis are mostly the descendants of West European colonizers from the 1948 invasion.

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> the current Israelis are mostly the descendants of West European colonizers from the 1948 invasion.

This is just factually inaccurate, Mizrahi Jews in Israel today outnumber the Ashkenazi.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Jews

You can take that or leave my feedback, but your comment didn't come across as sarcasm to me until I read this comment.

Poes law or something.

I agree with your position, but it didn't read as sarcasm to me.

> those ones don't count because uh, we said so

wasn't a dead giveaway?

I read your full comment and got the sarcasm, but I don't blame people who read the first line and tuned out the rest because it was such a perfect example of the genocide apologia that we've seen so much of already.

I get that in this case the rest of the comment was short and the obvious indicator of sarcasm came quickly, but it's all too common for this to devolve into paragraphs of repetitive, uncreative slopaganda, which has resulted in many who disagree just tuning out early.

Well, like I said, no. And to be clear, you're free to ignore that. But, of course, that's exactly what I wrote and you managed to miss that, so I suppose none of us are communicating very well.

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