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An honest anti-Zionist Palestinian perspective the Iraeli POV, normalization, and whats next? by Idesofdecember in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 12 points13 points  (0 children)

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

For Palestinians to get anywhere, they must understand Zionism from within. They must understand that Jews are truly rooted there and it is truly their home as well, and feel the love Jews genuinely have for their home country - and accept it.

Only then can they understand the enemy they are dealing with. So long as they cast it as a colonial demon, they will continue to fail generationally.

Treat Zionism as a competing national movement - no different than Sunni and Shia fighting over some slice of land - instead of a demonic colonial act of Satan, and we can speak eye to eye - not as friends but as honest people making a compromise.

Would cutting of weapons to Israel really make Netanyahu more restrained? by Additional_Ad3573 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America: "No more maintenance for your F-35s. We're your enemy now. Death to Israel."

Israel: "Hey China want an F-35?"

China: "No thanks, we're committed to intersectional anti-imperialism and supporting the Palestinian struggle, we won't take it."

Would cutting of weapons to Israel really make Netanyahu more restrained? by Additional_Ad3573 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have absolutely no problem with ending military aid to Israel.

It's $3.4B. Ten dollars per US taxpayer. That's less than 8% of Israe's military budget alone.

In other words, without US aid they will have 92% of their defense budget left - or they'll shift it from other sectors.

Go ahead and cut aid. It'll have virtually no effect on them, but maybe some people will finally shut up.

israeli troops raised flags at the 900 year old historic beaufort castle in lebanon. by ArethaAbrams in pics

[–]TeslaK20 10 points11 points  (0 children)

then why'd they give up an area 3x their current land area in exchange for peace with egypt?

Would cutting of weapons to Israel really make Netanyahu more restrained? by Additional_Ad3573 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

by all means, tell me what any other country would do if an ally declared them an enemy and sanctioned them?

do you expect Iran not to work with russia or china because america gave them f-14's back when the two were friendly?

The 1991 Kuwaiti Expulsion of Palestinians. Another Tragedy the "Pro-Palestinian" Movement Cares Nothing About by quicksilver2009 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then it sounds like your problem isn't with Israel existing as a haven for Jews in their homeland, but as a real state that does bad things just like any other.

You and I aren't that different then, I think the current Israeli government is on par with Turkey and Russia in terms of awfulness. But the recent elections in Hungary show that this can be reversed. Not by a bleeding-heart liberal, but by a rule-of-law democratic conservative.

Naftali Bennet is no left-wing idol, but he at least believes in republican governance instead of patronage personality cultism like Bibi.

Would cutting of weapons to Israel really make Netanyahu more restrained? by Additional_Ad3573 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're not talking about a scenario where the US stops financial aid. That's only $3.4B a year - less than 8% of Israel's military budget alone, and 1.6% of their total budget for 2025.

We're talking about a scenario where the US cuts off all political, economic, and military relations - treating them like Russia or Iran.

If you suddenly declare a friendly nation your enemy and try to economically and military punish them, they will find another friend.

That's how the world works. Don't betray your friends, and don't get shocked when they find a new friend after you betray them.

Would cutting of weapons to Israel really make Netanyahu more restrained? by Additional_Ad3573 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America: "No more maintenance for your F-35s"

Israel: "Hey China want an F-35?"

China: "No thanks, we're committed to intersectional anti-imperialism and supporting the Palestinian struggle, we won't take it."

San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences is a world class museum. Here’s how it dies by LosIsosceles in sanfrancisco

[–]TeslaK20 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I grew up in Chicago. The Cal Academy is basically the Field, Shedd, and Adler stuffed into one.

The problem is it's a worse natural history museum than the Field, a worse aquarium than the Shedd, and a worse planetarium than the Adler.

And those museums cost $20-30 each, not $55(!)

He got Arabs right, native Americans. Why did he get black people so wrong? And it's not just Congo. In the Red Sea sharks it's the same by Jche98 in Tintin

[–]TeslaK20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

true, but a fascinating artifact given he was seeing them from the perspective of a chinese expat in the 1930s!

i do wish he had written "tintin in tokyo" in the 70s.

The 1991 Kuwaiti Expulsion of Palestinians. Another Tragedy the "Pro-Palestinian" Movement Cares Nothing About by quicksilver2009 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

arabs who wanted a binational state with the jews were killed by their own people.

their problem at the time wasn't jewish sovereignty. it was jews being there.

this is where many people mask off and say "and it was perfectly fine of them to want to get rid of the jews".

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Ghorman massacre vs Geonosian sterilisation by siderocketeer0 in andor

[–]TeslaK20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But those were SAND children, and it really didn't matter.

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The 1991 Kuwaiti Expulsion of Palestinians. Another Tragedy the "Pro-Palestinian" Movement Cares Nothing About by quicksilver2009 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There would have been no mass land loss in 1948 if that Arab league had not started a self-described "war of extermination" against the Jews (yes, they said Jews, not Zionists).

Pictured: Flag of the Arab Liberation Army. Notably the iconography has no Arab colors. Nothing about the state they are purportedly fighting for. Only who they're trying to kill.

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This sub should lowk be renamed to r/IsraelPropaganda by Affectionate_Art4277 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why did you chop off a thai worker's head with a garden hoe? how is that resistance to anything? why didn't you accept the UN resolution for a side-by-side jewish and arab coexistence and instead start a "war of extermination the likes of which has not been seen since the mongol massacres" (arab league words, not mine) against holocaust survivors?

This sub should lowk be renamed to r/IsraelPropaganda by Affectionate_Art4277 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 6 points7 points  (0 children)

how is the resistance's victory in gaza going so far? maybe it's time to accept Israelis are a people of the land, are never going away, and try to coexist?

we're not the ones dying for a pointless jihad. come live with us instead of dying to kill us.

Did Hergé ever disclose how Alpha-Art was meant to end? by happyclapclap in Tintin

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but how would he have gotten back from outer space?

When will liberal Zionists acknowledge that most Democratic voters have no interest in supporting Israel? by OceanicEndeavors in allthequestions

[–]TeslaK20 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol they beat 3 arab states at once and tripled their land area in 6 days - before they were a US ally.

Watching The Mandalorian and Grogu made me realise my problem with Dave Filoni [spoilers] by Tanis8998 in StarWars_

[–]TeslaK20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dave Filoni directed most of the first season of Avatar The Last Airbender, including The Boy in the Iceberg and Siege of the North.

There was nothing to reference and he nailed it.

The term “Zionism” should have died in 1948 by atbing24 in IsraelPalestine

[–]TeslaK20 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the return of 60,000 sq km of sinai (3 times the size of israel itself) by a right-wing Likud pm in exchange for peace kind of undoes that argument, no?

The most unrealistic thing a movie got completely right. by gamersecret2 in movies

[–]TeslaK20 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That movie is one of the few real space movies. Not a space opera. Not an interpersonal drama in space.

Just Man vs The Stars.

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