• Mr. w00t@lemmy.ml
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    Longbottom, who attended the Hiroshima peace ceremony, told reporters on Aug. 6 that unlike Russia, which invaded Ukraine, and Belarus, which cooperated in the invasion, Israel is exercising its right to self-defense

    Words like this is a spit in the face of humanity. Yet it will humbly accept it and continue the day as usual.

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      Words like this is a spit in the face of humanity.

      was Israel not attacked?

      I genuinely have issues trying to discern the propaganda from the facts.

      from what I gathered, I believed that Israel just took some land on which other people were living ~70 years ago, displacing these people.
      Those peoples didn’t like being displaced and tensions grew, until attacks happened on Israel, to which Israel had mixed responses with violence and suppression, rinse, repeat and escalate for decades.

      Now Israel had it with attacks from Palestine, and is going with the only chance it sees at maybe stopping it, which is a very violent war, presumably with the target of breaking the hope of resistance for Palestine (probably with lessons from the US interventions of the last 50-ish years where more civilized approaches failed)

      If this (very simplified) view were correct, it seems that they are acting out of self defense, at least if you accept the existence of Israel, because if not they are the aggressors for occupying the space in the first place.

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        from what I gathered, I believed that Israel just took some land on which other people were living ~70 years ago, displacing these people. Those peoples didn’t like being displaced and tensions grew, until attacks happened on Israel, to which Israel had mixed responses with violence and suppression, rinse, repeat and escalate for decades.

        Uh… You’re forgetting the Apartheid, brutal military occupation, massacres, ethnic cleansing via settlers and every other injustice Palestinians have faced for the past 70 years.

        Now Israel had it with attacks from Palestine

        You do realize Israel is the occupier here, right? Setting aside whether Israel has a right to exist (it doesn’t; Apartheid ethnostates have no place in the 21st century), they absolutely have no right to keep killing Palestinians and stealing their land, yet they’ve been doing it for more than 70 years.

        and is going with the only chance it sees at maybe stopping it, which is a very violent war,

        Even if that was true, collective punishment is a war crime and Israel cleared that bar even before they bombed half of Gaza into oblivion. Even if Israel’s goals were justified, their conduct during this “war” is absolutely unacceptable.

        at least if you accept the existence of Israel, because if not they are the aggressors for occupying the space in the first place.

        At this point it’s not a problem of “in the first place”. Israel is an occupier because they keep militarily occupying Palestine. Gaza and the West Bank are still considered as militarily occupied by the UN.

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        And Hamas is the logical response of decades of Israeli policies. Have you asked yourself why in prosperous countries terrorism is non existent?

        Do you think that Israel didn’t create more terrorists than they killed? They completely destroyed Gaza, have a proven track record of killing journalists, humanitarian workers, medical personnel, kids and well documented war crimes and torturing their prisoners of war.

        Not to mention that since the 7th of October there was an increased settler violence and pogroms all across West bank and their government approved the biggest land grab from the West bank.

        Do you truly believe that the 7th of October attack really justifies all of the above? And all of this is coming from a “so called” democracy. Seriously

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          Hamas is the logical response of decades of Israeli policies

          It would be bad enough if that were all. But it’s actually even worse. Israel directly aided Hamas because it helped destabilise Palestine’s more moderate leadership.

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        was Israel not attacked?

        If you’re attacked, you don’t have the right to escalate the situation however you please, especially if it’s against international law.

        I genuinely have issues trying to discern the propaganda from the facts.

        Sure, it’s hard. It isn’t easy sometimes for me either. You just have to take in information and draw your own conclusions. Of course, depending on the information you get your view will ve skewed. In my opinion it’s impossible to be biased, but you have to at least try to siniff out the propaganda and lies, which I commend you for doing.

        from what I gathered, I believed that Israel just took some land on which other people were living ~70 years ago, displacing these people.

        That’s true, sort of. Israel was given part of the land after WWII by the UN as a result of wellmeaning intentions. However, a conflict arose, culminating in the First Arab-Israeli war. Next was the Six-day war some 20 years later, followed by other conflicts. Then 5 years later, the Yom Kippur war. Other than that there have been other conflicts with the Palestinians, notably in 2007, 2012, 2014 and 2021. Finally there’s the current conflict which started last year.

        Of course, some of this was justifiable by Israel, but the problem is the way Israel treats Palestinians. There’s a good chance that if they weren’t treated as 2nd class citizens none of the later conflicts would’ve happened.

        Most notably, Palestinians were rsther explicitly forced out of Israel during the Nakba, itself a breach of International law. Nowadays, Palestinians are living under an apartheid regime: they are scrutinised much more closely during security checks, thir homes are appropriated by Israeli settlers, mkre often than not under the protection of the Israeli government. They don’t have the same civil rights as Palestinians are tried in miliary and Israeli citizens in civil courts. Military courts generally don’t offer the same legal or human rights protections, punishments are mlre severe, there’s limited legal representation of the defendant and no confidential communication with lawyers, and Israel isn’t an exception to this.

        Regarding escalation: the Palestinians are rutinely, and often violently opressed in a systemic manner.

        They can’t get building permits. They get kicked off their land by settlers. They get retaliated against indiscriminately.

        If you systematically opress someone like this, of course the desperate people will fight back in their desperation. What is unnecessary escalation is the disproportionate response of mass murder via starvation and bombing, as well as the systematic opression during the 70 years you mentioned.

        None of this would’ve happened if Israel just came to some land, holy or otherwise, planted a flag and fairly enforced their laws according to basic principles of human rights

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    British Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom explained that her decision was because the city did not invite Israel to attend. Longbottom told reporters that unlike Russia, which invaded Ukraine, and Belarus, which cooperated in the invasion, Israel is exercising its right to self-defense. So, treating Israel in the same manner would be misleading, she said

    U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will also skip the Nagasaki peace ceremony. According to the U.S. Embassy, Emanuel does not want to politicize the Nagasaki event.

    the envoys of Group of Seven nations, except for Japan, and the European Union said that if Israel was excluded from the invited countries, it would be difficult to send high-ranking officials to attend the ceremony.

    Totally not politicized. I guess supporting Israel is a better look than opposing nuclear warfare.

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      opposing nuclear warfare.

      Especially bad look considering who dropped that bomb and who remains the sole party to ever used nuclear weapon against humans.

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      the envoys of Group of Seven nations, except for Japan, and the European Union said that if Israel was excluded from the invited countries, it would be difficult to send high-ranking officials to attend the ceremony.

      Difficult != impossible. It’s like they think they can’t simply make a good choice. That kind of thinking keeps us in perpetual conflict.

      This country (the US) is messed up. Watching the events in Gaza since last October only solidifies my opinion.

      Before Biden got Covid this last time, I sent a message to the White House about the Israel/Gaza conflict. I was pefectly reasonable. Just this morning I finally got a reply. They mentioned the 1300 dead in Israel on Oct 7th, but no mention of the countless dead in Gaza since then. They talked about Hamas in the context of terrorism, but not the IDF. They talked about doing this or that to help Palestinians, but I know it’s all bullshit. I guess I was hoping my letter might actually reach people who matter, and possibly ignite a spark of conscience behind their dead eyes, but it seems there is no stopping the machine of death.

      One of these days this country will have its own Hiroshima/Nagasaki moment, and I wonder: how many - if any - will watch the fall of the US without some measure of relief?

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    British Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom explained that her decision was because the city did not invite Israel to attend. Longbottom told reporters that unlike Russia, which invaded Ukraine, and Belarus, which cooperated in the invasion, Israel is exercising its right to self-defense. So, treating Israel in the same manner would be misleading, she said

    U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel will also skip the Nagasaki peace ceremony. According to the U.S. Embassy, Emanuel does not want to politicize the Nagasaki event.

    the envoys of Group of Seven nations, except for Japan, and the European Union said that if Israel was excluded from the invited countries, it would be difficult to send high-ranking officials to attend the ceremony.

    Totally not politicized. I guess supporting Israel is a better look than opposing nuclear warfare.

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    ‘Sorry but we are not sorry anymore for nuking the shit out of your grandparents.’

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    WTF why does this little country with a bunch of trash from various space ghost worshippers have so much damn power over the largest countries in the world??? I know it’s a mess we (US/UK) created but holy shit after a certain time we should just let go.

    There’s nothing but a net negative to supporting a government that cheerfully slaughters refugees. Does it really take them cleansing 7 million people for us to treat them like we did the Nazis??? It’s really not hard to see the writing on the wall because we’re selling them the fucking paint.