I’ve read plenty. In fact, growing up in the middle east and doing a literature degree meant there was a post colonial reading of everything. Still doesn’t justify further displacement of more communities. Palestinians can have their lands restored in fair ways and also allow Jewish people to stay (I am excluding illegal settler communities here). Both things can happen at the same time. Palestinians don’t want people’s apartments! They want to be able to get permits and move where they want without prejudice, and in some cases even restore ownership of their family move (if any of it is standing) and be compensated fairly and be given opportunities to resettle without having to make the current inhabitants leave. Those in diaspora don’t want someone’s garden! They want the ability to get a nationality and be able to settle there if they want. The fight is more about freedom than land. There is plenty to do to make it right to Palestinians but forced displacement of an ethnic group isn’t one of them.

I’m aware of this, hence the last sentence.

Can you really say that though with enough to back it up? Some are born there and unhappy with how things are. Some stay to help Palestinians. A big chunk are colonial fucks. But there isn’t anything that can justify dehoming more people. Palestinian should be compensated for their lost land fairy, in every way, but that does not mean it’s okay to displace people yet again. I really don’t see why Palestine should also become an ethnostate where swarms of people are forced out in terror yet again… rather than instead being a homogenous society that can restore Palestinians’ rights in legal and fair ways that also ensure human rights for everyone else no matter who they are.

And I’m not talking about far right lunatics in Israel, but rather Israeli society at large.

If it’s wrong when the IDF does it (to tell people to evacuate and clear their responsibility for any civilian casualties), then why isn’t it wrong if Hezbollah does it? They can both be wrong.

Honestly it sounds to me like Hezbollah is just mirroring IDF tactics (maybe to make a political point). It’s absolutely no different from Lebanese people being told to evacuate by Israel. Except for that one part where Israel gives you less than 10 minutes to grab your cat and daughter.

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I wonder if much of Israel underwent a moral drain (kinda like a brain drain but a lot of those “not evil” people made the good decision to stop being part of an apartheid state), and young people are immediately indoctrinated either by their parents/schools at an early age or by the state (via military service) at 18. I am beginning to see how skewed and ugly the current ideological composition of Israel is.

Some articles on Haaretz just sound like Israelis just now beginning to understand the possibility that Palestinians are human beings.

True.

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The “Gaza Arabs”, classic erasure of the indigenous identity.

It’s okay to be Jewish in Palestine. The problem is when the genociding starts. No, that asshole should stay put and be tried for their crimes one day in democratic Palestine.

I like IGF. My grandma who was a Nakba survivor always called them “Azrael” as in the angel of death. Can’t blame her, she only saw murser, pain, and forced displacement from them.

So fragile, men like that.

I appreciate the sentiment behind saying IOF or even IAF (attack instead of defencec not to be confused with the Israeli Air Forces) and I agree that they occupy and attack more than any defence they have ever done. But, ironically, it makes it hard to search and find information on IDF crimes…

Ah and I was wondering why my 23andme always states I’m ever so slightly Italian next to my Levantine genes.