Vegas » 01 Mar 2024, 10:18 am » wrote: ↑
The logic and facts just aren't on Israel's side. Sorry...Not sorry.
- Claim: Jews have historical claim on that land.
- Two problems: 1) Irrelevant. That was history, this is now. If we are going to go off that logic, then shouldn't America be given back to the Native Americans? 2) A good percentage of Jews in Israel don't even have a pure lineage to their ancestors. A huge chunk of their population are not full on Jews. They are muts like everyone else. Hell, I can convert to Judaism. So, if I convert, then move to Israel, that magically means I have historical claim to that land?
2. Claim: Israel are the victims.
- How come people never ask why the Palis shoot rockets at them? They always step ahead and look at how Israel got rockets up their ***, as if it was for no reason whatsoever. I guess the Palis are just bored, so to pass the time, over the past several decades, they shoot rockets over there. Palis are the ones retaliating, not Israel. Israel drew first blood the moment they were handed land with a big bow on top. Since then, Israel has been stealing the Pali's land through all sorts of different illegal tactics. You just don't see it, because their sleazy tactics don't involve the military. But they steal it.
German memory culture, anti-Semitic Zionists and Palestinian liberation
Germany’s much lauded ‘memory culture’ is pure, empty, self-congratulatory propaganda.
I am a Jewish pro-Palestine solidarity activist originally from the New York area and now based in Berlin. My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor from Cologne who fled to the United States during the Second World War at the age of 16. Her parents and much of her family were murdered during the Holocaust. I came “back” to Germany about five years ago, a decision born largely out of the desire for intergenerational healing for me and for my grandmother, who was alive at the time. I learned German and was able to speak to her in her native language in the last few years of her life. I told her stories about living in Germany, she met some of my friends and she was grateful for the ways in which the country and its people had apparently evolved and atoned for their ugly history.I am glad she died before I had the opportunity to recognise what a naive, idealistic delusion this was.
In the past few years as I have educated myself, become active in the movement for Palestinian liberation and extracted myself from the extreme Zionist conditioning and brainwashing baked into the fabric of my upbringing, my appreciation for German “Erinnerungskultur” (“memory culture”) has steeply devolved into the realisation that the entire concept is pure, empty, self-congratulatory propaganda. It is grounded in the intentional, racist displacement of anti-Semitism and responsibility for the Holocaust from the Germans who perpetuated it to the Arabs, Muslims and, above all, the Palestinians, who they now demonise and scapegoat as a deflection and distraction.A documentary from 1985, Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction, provides an account of the destruction of entire villages during the 1948 Nakba. In it, an interviewer says to a Palestinian man who was displaced: “But they killed six million Jews.” His rightful response is, “Did I kill them? Those who killed them must be held accountable. I haven’t hurt a fly.” The fact that a truth this fundamental has been so deeply buried in the language of “complexity” and “conflict” is a testament to the commitment and breadth of the imperialist narrative disseminated by Israel, the US and Germany (and the West in general).
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024 ... liberation
This is the same problem here in Zio/America .....