Israel/Palestine thread

Israel/Palestine thread

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07 October 2023 at 09:33 PM
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by Bill Haywood P

^^^Source?

I've seen it worded 3 different ways

As part of its proposal, Hamas said it wanted influence over protocols allowing Jewish entry into the Temple Mount complex, a contested holy site in Jerusalem that includes Al-Aqsa mosque, an official familiar with the deal told Haaretz

Everyone understands that to be deciding Jews can't get in. But you can play word gymnastics all over that. I've seen a few Hebrew versions where it's a bit more clearly defined.

To be clear Bill, it's not a real consideration anyway, in the sense that they knew when they sent it that it was a no. They didn't think anyone would take that seriously. Same as nobody took "10 years" seriously.



by 57 On Red P

It's mainly just 'land'. The Palestinians had been living there, like they always had, for over 1800 years after the Roman deportation of the Jews, long before the invention of Islam, and then in the 20th century they abruptly got told to get out, and occasionally massacred, by a bunch of aggressive and well-financed European settlers. The religious fetishisation of the land has rather more to do with Zionism (an ideology constructed by for

I have said this before, but you really need to update your software. It isn't 1960 and Sinwar isn't Nasser.

Palestinian society has been heavily radicalized along fundamentalist Islamic lines in the last 80 years, and fundamentalist religion is very much an important aspect of their identity, culture and their current understanding of the conflict with the Yahood.

You attributing religious fetish to Israel, and completely hand waiving away the obvious reality that Palestinian society in 2024 is one of the most fundamentalist religious societies in the world today is frankly comical, and says a lot about your own deep seated prejudices.


Also, there have been many waves of immigration and emigration in the Levant over the last 1800 years (like much of the rest of the world). The idea there has been some fixed "Palestinian people" native to the land that have been there 2000 years, and that the Muslim Arabs living in Gaza and the West Bank, are the descendants of those people is not supported by historical or genetic evidence at all. Genetic records indicate that Christian Arabs and Beduins are the groups most indigenous to the region. And you are more likely to find one of them running a gas station in Chicago as you are living in Gaza or the West Bank.

Most of the Muslim Arab population has lots of gene flow from more recent waves of immigration from Egypt, Arabia and Iran.


by Dunyain P

And you are more likely to find one of them running a gas station in Chicago as you are living in Gaza or the West Bank.

What an interesting bedfellow, rafiki et al


Hey cool the race science guy is back.


by Crossnerd P

What an interesting bedfellow, rafiki et al

I am not aure you understood that line, it means there are more Palestinians outside Palestine than in Palestine


rumours that qatar, at the insistence of the united states, are about to send a polite request to the hamas leadership - that they check out of their nice hotels and go on a permanent holiday. yemen is nice this time of year.

another terrible day for hamas and their supporters itt


by BOIDS P

rumours that qatar, at the insistence of the united states, are about to send a polite request to the hamas leadership - that they check out of their nice hotels and go on a permanent holiday. yemen is nice this time of year.

another terrible day for hamas and their supporters itt

Would be a shame if they had some kind of accident while in transit to their new accommodations. Cruise missiles are in the forecast this time of year.



by BOIDS P

rumours that qatar, at the insistence of the united states, are about to send a polite request to the hamas leadership - that they check out of their nice hotels and go on a permanent holiday. yemen is nice this time of year.

another terrible day for hamas and their supporters itt

Word is Hamas’ proposal was so insulting the Egyptians and Qataris both felt embarrassed and pissed off.


by grizy P

Word is Hamas’ proposal was so insulting the Egyptians and Qataris both felt embarrassed and pissed off.

Yeah

Qatar wants a deal and wants to be a hero.

Egypt just wants the war to stop

Hamas ... still wants no Israel


https://forward.com/fast-forward/580923/...

Since there are people itt calling Israel white colonizers and claiming they can tell an Israeli from a Palestinian...


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea...

Israel-Gaza war: US says it will not back unplanned Rafah offensive


by metsandfinsfan P

https://forward.com/fast-forward/580923/...

Since there are people itt calling Israel white colonizers and claiming they can tell an Israeli from a Palestinian...

I'd say the ratio of the white looking Israeli's to non-white looking Israeli's in my travels (having never been to Israel but Israelis travel latin America well) is about 3:2.

*Maybe 3:1 I'm forgetting some white ones


by metsandfinsfan P

Since there are people itt calling Israel white colonizers and claiming they can tell an Israeli from a Palestinian...

Who is saying this? You keep bringing it up once a week and I have no clue where you get it from.


by Trolly McTrollson P

Who is saying this? You keep bringing it up once a week and I have no clue where you get it from.

I believe it's pointlesswords or whatever their names were


Since you think I'm making it up Trolly

by PointlessWords P

Doesn’t mean it isn’t a war of white against brown people.

Like I said 100 random Israeli photos vs 100 random Palestinian

You’re saying you won’t be able to tell the difference

Wanna bet?

by PointlessWords P

I think we can examine 100 random media images of Israeli people vs 100 random images of Palestinian people and we can judge for ourselves


Are any of you guys brown? I don’t mean white with brown features, I mean brown like you can’t check white on the census

by metsandfinsfan P

You are a disgusting racist and you should be ashamed

But no it's very dutifully to Palestinians from jews

by metsandfinsfan P

Palestinians are not being killed because they are brown

by PointlessWords P

Ok but it is a conflict where one side has lighter whiter features than the other

by PointlessWords P


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by PointlessWords P

Are you brown yes or no

Is your skin brown

The census asks if you’re black or white but not brown. Maybe not even black but I believe so

by PointlessWords P

I don’t think a professional or high level sports team showing brown people means anything when discussing if the Israel/Palestinian conflict is brown vs white people

by PointlessWords P

Great. We can take 200 pics and you won’t be able to decipher which side is which, but I’ll be able to

How much would you like to bet ?

And please stop lying. I didn’t say anything about black


Israel is full of white people, Gaza is not. Let’s do a bet! Should be super easy for you to beat me.


by Bluegrassplayer P

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea...

Israel-Gaza war: US says it will not back unplanned Rafah offensive

They won't stop it though


by Luckbox Inc P

I'd say the ratio of the white looking Israeli's to non-white looking Israeli's in my travels (having never been to Israel but Israelis travel latin America well) is about 3:2.

*Maybe 3:1 I'm forgetting some white ones

What about Italians? Just to understand what your threshold is for "white looking"


by metsandfinsfan P

Since you think I'm making it up Trolly

Fine, one guy is saying this, can you put him on ignore or something?


by Trolly McTrollson P

Fine, one guy is saying this, can you put him on ignore or something?

I did

But this article came up to show how stupid his comments were and I'm not allowed to post it?

You have posted 1000 times asking how many Palestinians have to die but i can't beat a dead horse?


by metsandfinsfan P

But this article came up to show how stupid his comments were and I'm not allowed to post it?


I guess you're allowed to nurse this grievance as long as you please.


by metsandfinsfan P

https://forward.com/fast-forward/580923/...

Since there are people itt calling Israel white colonizers and claiming they can tell an Israeli from a Palestinian...

What is Italy became a Muslim dominated country for 1,000 years and then some Italians from around the world came and took over the Vatican and returned catholism to be the dominate religion and made their own state. Would that simply be conquerers or recolonized or what?


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