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The morality of torturing children cause they're not from the chosen people.

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[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

It's just splendid that world gets to watch a genocidal colonial settler project akin to what European colonial powers were up to two hundred years ago all because Britain promised land to a group of people one hundred years ago. For an empire that loved beuraucracy how were they such absolute shit at drawing borders? I mean we know they believed in a global race based caste system (they believed white people were born superior) and were antisemitic enough to be excited at the prospect of Jewish people leaving their country but how do you fuck up the world this bad? Major skill issue in my opinion.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 30 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Blaming Israel's current shittiness on some lines we drew in the sand 70 odd years ago is a bit weak mate.

We aren't telling them to torture kids or bomb civilians, they're doing that all on their own.

[–] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Britain and their drawing of lines in the sand is absolutely responsible for plenty of the shittiness we see around us in the world today. Total coward power move by Britain to try and weasel out of all of the trouble their colonialism has caused.

Without the Balfour declaration we would not have had the Zionist colonial settling of mandatory Palestine. The local Arabs fought for their freedom from the Ottoman empire during WW2 and were double crossed by the British who wanted the land for themselves and a little bit for the French for some reason. The British know more than anyone how the process of colonialism works being the best in the world at it. They were also aware how viciously settler colonials tend to treat the native people when settling a new land, they just didn't care because they had their own greedy motivations.

Britain had a huge part to play in stoking tensions between the local Palestinian communities and the newly arrived settler Jews using their time honoured "divide and conquer" strategy.

Britain and their colonial fuckery is a huge part of the Israel story.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

I don't dispute any of that

But I will repeat, we aren't making them commit war crimes.

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