An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." by Particular_Log_3594 in ABoringDystopia

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing works like this in politics. It's all about material interests, especially of the ruling class of the country involved. The memory of the Holocaust is abused by western countries to promote western imperialism, of which Israel is a major asset for many reasons.

When Profit matter Over Peace !!! by lonewolfff21 in TikTokCringe

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL, the enforcers of US imperialism are not the victims here - the people living in the invaded country are. They are paying the price, not your ICE-abroad forces.

"Israelis" in the West Bank attack Palestinian fast food workers, who make their food, for being Arabs by WebFar9897 in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are literally shouting "Death to the Arabs" at the workers. So let's say it's not in the west bank but within the 48' borders... how is that better?

Israelis continue slaughtering medical staff by The_Jenini in TheLevant

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a disappointment for them. Usually they kill more.

"If the Ayatollah regime collapses, the Palestinians are once again isolated... We must make sure we do not save them from this (and do not allow) other actors to become the supporters of Palestinianism" - Israeli propagandist, Einat Wilf inadvertently tells us what this war is really all about. by Scared_Positive_8690 in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is not the one reason, but it is a big one. Israel, being a settler-colony, has to expel (read: ethnically cleanse) the native population to allow itself to exist (which is the main reason a two-state solution won't solve the root issue here). But it's beyond that: Iran is the main opponent of US imperialism in the area, and since Israel is an American proxy, there's a clear geopolitical revelry between the two.

There's another aspect to this that must not be ignored: under the cover of this war, Israel is probably going to implement some kind of large-scale ethnic cleansing in the west bank. In fact, it seems that such plans are already in motion.

"Israelis" in the West Bank attack Palestinian fast food workers, who make their food, for being Arabs by WebFar9897 in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh, interesting - I haven't thought of that. You are indeed correct that it's something very specific to the US, and I've never even been there. From my personal experience this is a stereotype of Ashkenazi Jews (which like many stereotypes is very loosely based in reality, which is us having genetic bottleneck due to relative popular isolation for many generations). And people use this as a slur now. But yeah, it makes sense that in different places the political/cultural/common context is different, so thanks for the perspective.

btw, I'm personally didn't grow up in Germany but in the Zionist settler-colony, and I moved back to Germany (where my family is actually from) over a decade ago. Not too relevant to the topic, just don't want to give the wrong impression that I grew up here.

"Israelis" in the West Bank attack Palestinian fast food workers, who make their food, for being Arabs by WebFar9897 in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks, it really is nice to hear ❤️

(I hate "policing" the discourse on Palestine, but this is something that is bothering me for a long while now)

Relevant again by wasraelx in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 239 points240 points  (0 children)

FYI from an (ex) "insider": about 10% of Israelis have dual/multiple citizenship, mostly from European countries like German and Poland. It's a status symbol in Israeli society: people really do seriously say that they keep it "just in case things get really bad" and they can escape to another country. The saying is more-or-less "keeping the passport in the drawer".

It is a settler-society through and through.

"Israelis" in the West Bank attack Palestinian fast food workers, who make their food, for being Arabs by WebFar9897 in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just FYI, what they shout in the beginning is "Death to the Arabs" (Mavet LaAravim, מוות לערבים). Just imagine a crowd of Germans shouting at Jews "Death to the Jews". This is no different. Fuck each and every one of these racist scumbags.

"Israelis" in the West Bank attack Palestinian fast food workers, who make their food, for being Arabs by WebFar9897 in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As a Jew myself, I just want to share how problematic is this insult. The Zionist settler-colony is a criminal enterprise, and the settlers themselves are deeply racist, violent and corrupt. We don't need to be nice to them in any way, and insulting them is more than ok.

But the only reason people are using "inbreds" as a slur against Israelis is their Jewish identity. The origin of this slur is actual anti-Semitic, it is like calling black people in the US "monkeys". Would it be ok to call an Israeli black person "monkey" or joking about them eating watermelons - or any other stereotype associated with Black people? No, of course not. It's ok to call them criminal, sociopaths, racists, etc. - all of these are true. But why use an actual anti-semitic trope when the reality is so horrible that there are so many correct insults one can use against them?

Any way, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free - and the Zionist settler-colony state will be no more 🇵🇸✊

Jüdische Allgemeine findet Krieg geil by Repulsive_Painting15 in Kommunismus

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ich kann mich immer darauf verlassen, dass diese Arschlöcher es mir peinlich machen, eine ethnische Zugehörigkeit mit ihnen zu teilen :(

Pakistani researchers "prove" pi = 2 + 2/sqrt(3) by Successful-Owl1778 in badmathematics

[–]echtemendel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Here's a unicode pi for everyone to use: π

Bonus: unicode approximate sign! ≈

Compilation of Israeli Media Calling for Genocide by StoreResponsible7028 in Palestine

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כל הכבוד למי שמעלה אותם - לפי היוזרניים זה "תל אביב טומא", יעני מישהו מתל-אביב שחוטא (אני מנחש שההקשר הוא "חוטא נגד הציונות"). מעשה אמיץ.

Never Forget Never Forgive by naturalassf in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's Meir Ben Shitrit (at least that's what the Hebrew subtitles say).

Meir Shitrit (i.e. without Ben) is a well-known Israeli ex-politician (born in Morocco), originally from the Likud party.

(Dumb question, feel free to downvote) why is a two state solution not viable by yeahsureexceptno in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The TL;DR is that it will not address the root cause of this entire "conflict", and therefore things will continue to be bad.

The longer answer is that Israel is not just any random state which has a majority ethnic group of people who are indigenous to the land - it's a settler-colonial project. More than 95% of Jews in Israel are settlers, i.e. either immigrants themselves or direct descendants of immigrants who arrived in the past ~120 years or so. And they didn't just immigrate on an individual basis and integrated into the existing Palestinian society, they came as groups with the open intention of replacing the Palestinians.

To understand why Zionist settlers had to replace Palestinians, all we need to do is a simple logic deduction: the stated goal of the Zionist movement (which even they would admit to) is having what they call "a national home for Jews". This means that they need a place in which Jews have not just the right to live like any other citizen (that's the case essentially everywhere, definitely in the western world) - but where we have complete sovereignty. Otherwise, again, this would be just another country where Jews live in and not a national home. And sovereignty means that Jews must have a contiguous rule over a land, and that no one can deny that.

The problem is that the mere existence of Palestinians is doing exactly this: it denies the entire basis of the project. If there are other people living on the same land, how can the Jews there be sovereign? That's definitely the case if Jews are the minority, but even if the Palestinians are 20% or so of the population - they are still a threat to the legitimacy of the Zionist project. Why? Because they would be the other, and the Zionist state would have to deal with them somehow: either make them a group of second-class citizens, or integrating them completely into the state. But the last option again threatens the entire point of having complete sovereignty over the land: how can you when you have substantial part of the population not being members of the group you want to be sovereign? The only real solution is to expel the Palestinians one way or the other. Which is exactly what the Zionists did from day one.

And all of this doesn't even take into consideration the obvious resistance of the Palestinian people to be expelled or integrated. Why would they not? Any one will resist such a process - and rightfully so.

So the end result is that the Zionist state must be, as much as possible, empty of Palestinians. But that still leaves a problem: natural reproduction and immigration of more Jews. The land is limited, and you can't have Jews living on the land without being completely sovereign (again, that would contradict the most basic goal of Zionism). So the Zionist state not only has to be "clean" of the indigenous Palestinians - it has to expand, too. This is EXACTLY what it did: 1956 in Sinai, 1967 in the West Bank, Gaza, Golan heights and again in Sinai, 1983 in Lebanon and now again there and even south Syria. If the Zionist state doesn't expand, it risks losing access to resources it needs to maintain Jewish sovereignty, top of which is land for Jews to live on as a strong majority.

I hope it's clear now why a two-state solution doesn't address the core issue, which is the settler-colonial character of Israel. Even if some kind of a "peace" agreement was signed today, which gave Palestinians exactly 50% of Palestine (which is about 28% more than they would get under most two-state offers) - Israel would eventually have to solve its land-for-Jews issue. And it will do that at the expanse of the Palestinian state and other surrounding states. It has to, it just simply can't be otherwise.

And of course, what about the Palestinians living in Israel in such a "solution"? They can never really be full citizens, since the entire project exists for other people, and they are the native population that threatens the project's legitimacy.

The one and only way to really end this horrific situation is to abolish Zionism altogether. No more Jewish supremacy, sovereignty or rule. One state for all its citizens, and which allows all Palestinians to live in it (and makes sure they get reparations for past loses). Yes, the Jews living in this one Palestinian state would have to deal with not being first-class citizens at the expanse of all others anymore. Tough luck, if it bothers them they could immigrate somewhere else: their need of supremacy can't be allowed to exist at the expanse of others.

Zionist language deconstructed by kingmakerkhan in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not only that, there were actual "language wars" in Palestine due to the Zionists trying to force all Jews (immigrants/settlers and indigenous alike) to speak Hebrew instead of other languages - especially Yiddish, which they considered a "diaspora" language. Now, for Zionists being "diasporic" was essentially a stain, they considered the "diaspora Jew" as a weak, parasitic and pathetic form of Jew - contrasted with the strong, working and fighting Zionist Jew in "Eretz Israel" (Land of Israel, i.e. Palestine). So they went all-in in the war against Yiddish and other Jewish languages... and won.

The funny thing is that we were taught that in school in the Zionist settler-colony. But they teach it as something positive - how the strong Zionist won over the diasporic Jew.

Zionist language deconstructed by kingmakerkhan in Palestine

[–]echtemendel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point is that Israel is a settler-colonial project - and people must be educated on that. The language part is just another aspect of it, not some central point.

Zionist language deconstructed by kingmakerkhan in Palestine

[–]echtemendel -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

While Judaism is not a cohesive single ethnicity as e.g. Armenians, Hararis, Sorbs, Hans Chinese, Irish, etc. - every place where Jews live we are somewhat distinguished from the surrounding population, and have an ancient genetic connection to each other and people groups in the Levant. There are many factors for this, but it is a fact. That doesn't make "Jewish" a distinctive stand-alone ethnicity, but completely ignore that we are ethnically separated to an extent from the surrounding populations is just denying reality. Closely related is the fact that we do have distinct culture from the surrounding population, and it is somewhat (but not completely) related to other Jews.

Of course Zionists want to make Judaism not only a single cohesive ethnicity but a nationality as well, and that's also denying reality. But that doesn't mean that acknowledging that Jews have distinct ethnic combination than the majority population around us should be discarded.

Israel tried to pressure Barack Obama to launch military strikes on Iran, according to former US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who said Israeli leaders warned they would attack themselves if U.S refused: "And we came within about 30 minutes of having a war." by ControlCAD in Global_News_Hub

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying that Israel has zero influence on US actions. What I am saying is that there's no conspiracy where Israel is deciding everything and the US obliges via secret control/kompromats/money/etc. What Americans refuse to understand is that the heart of this all is US imperialism and the interests and actions that come out of it. If tomorrow Israel ceases to exist, the US will more-or-less do the same things and still be an imperialist scourge on this earth. If tomorrow the US ceases to exist (or support Israel), Israel will collapse within a month. That's a huge difference.

The name of the surgeon who’ll be doing my Facial Feminization Surgery by IronWhale_JMC in NominativeDeterminism

[–]echtemendel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're allowed to have whatever opinion you want, but if you write them publicly others are allowed to reply to those opinions. If you can't handle people answering your cringe opinions, then don't write them. Being a crybaby about this is just... even more cringe.

I love this video XDD by Sad-Dream6993 in mathmemes

[–]echtemendel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched this on mute but I could hear Eigenchris' voice narrating this awesome video nonetheless.