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Biden said something like: "If there was no Israel, we'd have to invent it."

The US loves having a highly militarized, violent, totally amoral and 100% US-dependent proxy next to all those oil fields. The last thing the US wants is peace in the middle east. This is just divide-and-conquer 101.

UN says Gaza Health Ministry death tolls in previous wars ‘credible’:

The Health Ministry, which utilises data from morgues and hospitals to reach its figures, released a 212-page document on Thursday with names and identity numbers of those killed.

Israel says they dropped 6000 bombs in the first 6 days (that was two weeks ago) on one of the most densely populated areas in the world, on people that are not allowed to leave. They said the "emphasis is on damage, not accuracy".

Here's the latest update from the UN human rights commissioner were they again allege Israel bombing civilian buildings.

Pretty much everything that's coming out of there from civilians themselves, from journalists, the UN and even Israel paints a pretty clear picture of the IDF dropping thousands of bombs on civilians. But I guess you'd rather pretend that there's some uncertainty and doubt about this.

Das hat im Kern nicht so viel mit Religion zu tun. Religion ist sekundär.

Der Zionismus kommt ursprünglich aus der säkularen Ecke, und ist ein koloniales Siedlungsprojekt vergleichbar mit der Besiedlung Nordamerikas. Für die Palästinenser, die auf dem Siedlungsgebiet lebten bzw. noch leben, wurden und werden systematisch vertrieben und diskriminiert, da sie nicht zur Vorstellung eines exklusiv jüdischen Ethnostaates passen. Dabei werden Juden nicht religiös definiert, sondern als Volk.

Im palästinensischen Widerstand spielten Islamisten vor ein paar Jahrzehnten noch keine große Rolle. Die Gruppen waren eher links und/oder nationalistisch, beeinflusst durch anti-kolonialistische Theorien z.B. von Marxisten. Die Islamisten wie z.B. die Hamas sind quasi eine Antwort auf das Scheitern dieser Gruppen (die im übrigen ebenfalls Zivilisten getötet und Geiseln genommen haben). Der Islamismus hat dabei den Vorteil, dass der Islam dort eine lange Tradition hat und es in den Köpfen der Leute viele Möglichkeiten gibt, daran anzuknüpfen. Mit Marxismus können weite Teile der Bevölkerung eher nicht so viel anfangen, weil das für die neu ist. Außerdem wurden Kommunisten usw. im kalten Krieg vom Westen deutlich stärker bekämpft als Islamisten. Tatsächlich wurde Islamismus sogar oft gefördert.

China is exertng their economic power in Africa nation building all the time.

Exerting? How? Are they threatening sanctions like the US? Are they forcing "structural reforms" on them like the IMF?

Their nuclear arms stockpile is fastest growing.

Says who? Last time I checked the US stockpile is more than 10x larger still.

China make a habit of stealing IP so much [...]

Does this comment have a point or are you just collecting random brainworms?

The roofs of pretty much all the cars are dented inwards. If you search for images of burned out cars, you can see that fire doesn't usually cause dented-in roofs. This means the center of the explosion was above the cars, in the air, and was probably much bigger than the small crater would indicate.

Yes. You can make an argument that some of the land was legally purchased, but even at the time, this was part of a plan of colonization and ethnic cleansing, so it's essentially property owned by a criminal enterprise or its members. Palestinians also deserve restitution for decades of oppression. So IMHO all property owned by Israel, any Zionist institution, or any Israeli found guilty of taking part in the oppression may be seized.

Israeli settlers need to give back the land they stole.

Imagine what a court in your country would decide in this case:

A man breaks into a house, kills some of the residents, and locks the rest in the basement. He then lives there and raises a family in this house. Decades later, his children still live there, and there are still prisoners in the basement, and they are routinely abused. The children obviously know all this.

• Would the court expel the children from the house and give it back to the original owners or their descendants?
• Would the court find the children guilty of crimes?

What's more strange is that 5 people today commented on this 4 month old post.

"Both sides"

https://medium.com/@chrisjeffrieshomelessromantic/israeli-palestinian-conflict-96-of-deaths-since-2005-have-been-palestinian-according-to-un-data-6023f6093a78

However, recent data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) shows that since 2005, 96% of deaths have been Palestinian.

Every time the oppressed fight back, libs immediately start to create a false equivalence with the oppressors.

Greens now to the right Merkel on this. I'm making the Green-voting libs among my friends and family uncomfortable by pointing this out. The Greens have dropped every issue they ever pretended to care about. Main reason I hear for why people still want to vote for them is lesser-evil-ism or because they feel protective of them against far-right rhetoric. No matter that the Greens are also a nationalist, neoliberal, racist, imperialist, militarist, green-washed ghouls. Main difference between them and straight up conservatives is in rhetoric: the Greens will cry and moan about "having to do" this stuff, and how that's actually good for you. Except with the imperialism, they did the crying and moaning already during Kosovo, now they're on a straight up mission to spread freedom and democracy to the backwards people like they're channeling George W. Bush.

Ah you're right, there were also conscripts in some Waffen-SS units. Looks like this guy volunteered though, as it says in the article:

A blog by an association of its veterans, called “Combatant News” in Ukrainian, includes an autobiographical entry by a Yaroslav Hunka that says he volunteered to join the division in 1943 and several photographs of him during the war. The captions say the pictures show Hunka during SS artillery training in Munich in December 1943 and in Neuhammer (now Świętoszów), Poland, the site of Himmler’s visit.

In posts to the blog dated 2011 and 2010, Hunka describes 1941 to 1943 as the happiest years of his life and compares the veterans of his unit, who were scattered across the world, to Jews.

I guess they couldn't confirm that this is definitely that same Yaroslav Hunka, though that would be some coincidence. Not only did he volunteer, he loved it. And what even is that comparison? That doesn't sound like a person who has learned anything.

Their values and goals didn’t necessarily align with those of the Nazis, other than they had a common enemy.

You call it "not necessarily aligned, other than". I call it very much aligned. The difference in opinion can't be that big or important if they're willing to kill and die under Nazi orders.

Many peoples were forced by circumstances to fight alongside people they didn’t like.

He volunteered to join the SS. Nobody was forced to join the fucking SS. Did you mean to say "really wanted to fight alongside", and what's your evidence for "people they didn't like"?