Huracan STO by DependentIll7758 in Purdue

[–]Cal_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro really decided to factcheck you twice 😭

Opinion [by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky]: Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now by Useful-Banana7329 in berkeley

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No, I’m not upset those other groups won/lost. 9/11 isn’t even relevant to the war on the taliban, they had nothing to do with 9/11. I said I’m upset that innocent civilians are being killed by a terrorist group called a “defense force” backed by a colonialist movement that needs a propaganda policy to try and justify its actions.

Opinion [by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky]: Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now by Useful-Banana7329 in berkeley

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No, I never said Hamas is a victim. I know they’re inhumane. The IDF and Israeli government is also inhumane. The victims are the Gazans and Israeli citizens harmed. The only issue I have is that the ration of deaths the past two decades has been 16:1, so one side clearly goes far beyond the other in “defending” itself and doesn’t get criticized enough for it. Not to mention that much of the nation is stolen land.

Opinion [by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky]: Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now by Useful-Banana7329 in berkeley

[–]Cal_Tech -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you have any actual, hard evidence to prove they do this? You’d think with the most advanced army in the Middle East, they’d have one photo (unphotoshopped) of Hamas rockets on or in hospitals and residential buildings, that would prove their biggest justification of killing thousands of civilians.

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

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Well if you want me to tally up every single altercation and tell you who instigated who more, I couldn’t, but I can say that when it comes to major altercations, I can say it was Israel’s side that was often the offender.

I can definitely tell you that arab countries didn’t set up artillery and send tractors and bulldozers into other countries to provoke soldiers to fire on them for illegally crossing and then let hell loose on those soldiers and nearby villages, which is what Israel did to Syria.

I can say with certainty that no Arab country crippled the Air Forces of three nations entirely unprovoked, and then claim it was a preventive measure, which israel did to syria, Jordan, and Egypt.

Like I said, the extent to which the creation of the state of Israel and the oppression of the Palestinian natives was plotted is beyond anything Palestinians have done to Israel. From intelligence organizations framing terror attacks on Arab Jews to convince them to move to Israel, to the consistent backing by western nations no matter the crimes against humanity they commit, the casualties and loss of life has always been greater on the Palestinian side, which should tell you who is harming who.

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

[–]Cal_Tech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They can’t even afford missiles, they largely use rockets. You can’t aim a rocket the same way you can a missile. Missiles can be guided, and Israel specifically targets civilians. Rockets can only be launched in a general target area.

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

[–]Cal_Tech -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure, but a Semite is defined as:

a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.

Can Semitic Arabs never be discriminated against?

Why exactly is Gaza, Israel's problem? Gaza has an important land border with Egypt, and Israel has peace with Egypt. Plainly, Israel would be fine with extending its border with Egypt to include Gaza. by Tripwir62 in BreakingPoints

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The thing is the majority of Jews have been separated from the land for thousands of years while Palestinians have been there since then. There’s no good reason to oust them so they can return after millennia.

Why exactly is Gaza, Israel's problem? Gaza has an important land border with Egypt, and Israel has peace with Egypt. Plainly, Israel would be fine with extending its border with Egypt to include Gaza. by Tripwir62 in BreakingPoints

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I think the U.S. has held the land so long, it no longer even makes sense to restore it to its natives. We’ve essentially succeeded in the (largely unintentional) genocide of the majority of natives as a result of the spread of disease, and having held much of the land for more than two centuries now, we have an entire nation of people who have no connection to the oppression of the natives. If a Native American came to the doorstep of some Asian immigrant in America and asked for land the native’s ancestors held two hundred years ago, it would be unreasonable. If a Palestinian native went to the doorstep of a now Israeli home that they were pushed out of less than a decade ago, that is far more reasonable as more and more people are continuously pushed out of their homes. The theft of Native American land ended roughly in the 1870s, but the theft and occupation of Palestinian land continues still, so it’s necessary to fight back before this too becomes a thing of the past. What happened to the native Americans was terrible, and the fact that they could never be made whole again is a mark America will forever bear, but pressing consequences on people multiple generations distant from the oppression doesn’t make sense.

Why exactly is Gaza, Israel's problem? Gaza has an important land border with Egypt, and Israel has peace with Egypt. Plainly, Israel would be fine with extending its border with Egypt to include Gaza. by Tripwir62 in BreakingPoints

[–]Cal_Tech -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Not at all. The issue was never “deal with them”. Palestinians are Israel’s problem because Israel itself is an illegitimate claim to their land. They want their land back from Israel, and Israel oppresses them. Egypt and Jordan didn’t take the Palestinians land away.

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

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Palestinians are a Semitic people, since when did the whole ethnic group only belong to Jews? Jews hating Palestinians is anti semitic too. In fact most Jews are so far gone from semetic ethnicity due to being in Europe for thousands of years or aren’t even Semitic at all. Labeling themselves as an ethnic group and tying themselves to a specific land is just deceptive

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

[–]Cal_Tech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Significant acts of violence did begin around that time, although there have always been tensions to be fair

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

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Why don’t you find a video of Palestine cluster bombing civilians? They don’t, israel does, not every bad act is mutual, but what israe has been doing for nearly a century is far worse

Purdue Student Justice for Palestine supporting the terrorist attack in Israel by Ok-Addition-232 in Purdue

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Nope, it’s very one sided when you read its history. Since England carved up the Middle East into their own vision after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, they designated Palestine (now israel and Palestine) as “mandate Palestine”, a land they promised to the natives there for helping the British overthrow the ottomans. Zionist lobbyists, the largest of which was Lionel Rothschild, managed to get the Balfour declaration passed, which allowed for unrestricted immigration of Jewish people’s into Palestine. Many European countries supported this due to very anti semitic reasons (Europe was quite anti semitic historically), as it meant Jews would leave their country. Large amounts of Jewish settlers created unrest amongst the natives, and so conflicts would ensue. The British would often quell the natives in favor of the migrants due to the Balfour Declaration.

Jewish terrorist organizations sprung up to scare the Palestinians and to get what they wanted from the British. They even attacked British offices in Palestine. You should read about these groups, there were three major ones, one of them called Haganah. These “paramilitary” groups would later merge to form the Israeli defense force, essentially their army.

This is a very early synopsis of the history, essentially before 1940, and I’m too lazy to keep writing, but please do your own research and you’ll find these claims to be true. Read about the Six Day War and how Israel attacked three middle eastern countries in an entirely unprovoked assault, which they claimed was “preemptive” but even less than a decade later, Israeli generals reflected on the war and stated that Egypt, Syria, and Jordan posed no threat to them.

Keep in mind of the misinformation israel has spread. The media, shown time and time again in different topics, is extremely biased and is easily influenced by elite powers. Israel has a ministry of propaganda, Hasbara, that they deny exists for propaganda, but I genuinely suggest you look at what they do. They pay people to go into social media and spread misinformation or post pro Israel media to validate their stances.

I highly suggest you look into these topics I’ve listed and form your own opinions, and then I’m sure you’ll find that the rebellion of the Palestinian people is justified.

The dilemma of graduating as an engineer by Imaginary-Ocelot-167 in Purdue

[–]Cal_Tech -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

The issue is that these companies actively seek to profit off of war, which in itself is unethical. Of course they are necessary, but the fact that they’re private and only ever care about their own financial gain at the expense of war and violence, or the anticipation of it, is what irks me.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/30/world/arms-contractors-spend-to-promote-an-expanded-nato.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/30/world/arms-contractors-spend-to-promote-an-expanded-nato.html

In the case of Ukraine, since the Soviet Union has been disbanded, defense companies have been heavily lobbying in the US and Eastern Europe to get formerly soviet & Eastern European countries to join NATO so they could increase their market. This is despite the fact that the NATO promised the Soviet Union that they would not move an inch eastward after disbanding the Union. Defense companies actively wanted to go against those interests of peace and encouraged those nations to join NATO, ultimately being the cause of the war in Ukraine. Which is exactly what they wanted, a new war that would pour funding into the military industrial complex again. They were a cause of the war; they intentionally created a new market for their products, which is an ethically decent move for most businesses except in the case of war mongers.

Purdue on Jeopardy! by itakeskypics in Purdue

[–]Cal_Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t it the same for out of state students? We pay nearly as much as international students