• BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      And there it is - the holocaust, an all-purpose shield and sword.

      I stand by my statement and I doubt anyone honored via that program would endorse Israel today.

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        8 months ago

        Look mate I agree that Israel is probably committing genocide against the Palestinians. But that doesn’t mean that everyone that Israel has ever liked is tainted, that’s idiotic.

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          8 months ago

          The Nazis tainted everything they touched, I don’t see why this should be any different. And yes, the comparison is apt.

          Very few things in life are black and white - this is.

          You either support genocide or you don’t. You either support an increasingly fascistic apartheid ethnostate or you don’t. Lines are notoriously difficult to draw but they’re extremely clear cut here.

          Israel and the Zionist project gains legitimacy by proximity to genuinely honorable people like the ones you brought up - it’s rhetorical propaganda.

          I appreciate I’m taking a strong stance in my wording here but for gods sake, man - look at the whole thing. A dying empire is dusting off old world colonialism, complete with unabashed ethnic cleansing and the entire Western world is to-the-hilt complicit. History and systemic decline is being written. I don’t consider my language an overreaction - at all.