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    10 days ago

    The world needs to take a good hard look at Israel and realize they are repeating history.

    I struggle to remember which series it was exactly (obviously prior to 2004). This is a memory I have etched in. My World History teacher in 10th grade gave an overview of the entire year’s curriculum on the first day. She had the class watch a large portion of what I believe was the last episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (possibly it was Victory Gundam; I only watched Fighter G Gundam). By the end she made it very clear that history repeats. That was the theme of her curriculum for the whole school year.

    Right now we are seeing history repeat. This time it is the formerly oppressed committing the crimes against humanity and being aided by the rest of the globe. What did Palestine ever do to Israel except seek statehood? Why can’t we leave them alone?

    On an unrelated note, that teacher was awesome. I remember the week leading into the lesson on World War I, they staged incidents where select students would pretend to misbehave and not be punished in any way by the teacher. These were elaborate scenes of shouting. The lesson you might ask? Secret alliances.

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      10 days ago

      You might appreciate an addition to the well known phrase:

      Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who know history are doomed to know that it’s repeating.

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    11 days ago

    I’m trying to decide if Netanyahu suggested this to him or if it’s a surprise? What’s more likely? On the one hand I can understand the idea that Netanyahu after committing genocide and wiping out as many Palestinians as he could is looking for a way to push the blame and the responsibility to someone else. I could absolutely see that. Especially the financial responsibility. On the other hand fascist strongman usually don’t like others coming in and getting the symbolic benefits of what they achieved. I really can’t decide.

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      Most likely Trump proposed the idea and it fit with Bibi’s plans to get rid of the Palestinians, he just doesn’t have to kill them. I’m sure some combination of Trump, Kushner and/or other developers made plans for this “Riviera of the Middle East”. Probably building models right now if they weren’t already.

      To Trump there are no negatives to this plan since the plan is to make money. All he has to do is strongarm another Middle Eastern country, or two or three, to take the Palestinians. He can’t conceive how this will affect the Middle East in general because he doesn’t understand or care.

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      It fits on with what I thought would happen when all the genocide Joe people were insisting things couldn’t get worse. Netanyahu has a direct interest in involving the US as deeply as possible into his conflict (yes it can get deeper) while maintaining a stranglehold on US politics . Ultimately this is a short term play. He helped Trump win , but Trump is destabilizing the US to the extent that long-term Israel is going to lose its one absolute ally.

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      I don’t think we need to listen to the political opinions of a party (or its base) so incompetent they lost to trump twice.

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        9 days ago

        But you did? How is actual ethnic cleansing better than what happened

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          9 days ago

          They were “actual” ethnic cleansing under Biden too, you were just a genocide denier when it was your team doing it.