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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nope.

Don't get me wrong, they're both genocides.

But America just kept pushing the survivors west a couple thousand miles at a time, and at least they got some land. Even if there was no where to displace them to, America would have just killed them all.

Israel is compacting people in a box, physically and psychologically it's torture. Then, when some snap and do some crazy shit, they kill a bunch of people and make the box smaller

They've been doing it for the whole 70 years Israel has existed.

And it gives right wing extremist politicians a constant Boogeyman and without any real threat to themselves, and keeps them in power. So its never going to change.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's an analysis I hadn't considered. I was thinking about instances like Wounded Knee, the 1862 Sioux Uprising, etc and the aftermath of US colonialism that resulted in the small plots of land they were forcibly exiled to.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Well it seems like they're trying to push Gaza's refugees into Egypt, so they might have a final solution to the Palestinian question.