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Landru's avatar

My friend, you and Peter both speak the truth. The israeli's may have moved far to late to make this move of Genocide. They waited until we were all connected to the live Genocide seen by the world. 15 years ago, I doubt most of the world would have seen any of this. As the u.s. Empire dies waiting another five/ten years and it would never have happened?

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Landru, the ethnic cleansing and Genocide of Palestinians has been going on for over 75 years now...

It was inevitable, given the fact that settler-colonialism ends in only 2 ways -> (1) Genocide and ethnic cleansing (as we see from history about North America), or (2) the colonizers are driven out (as France was in Algeria).

It would have happened (at some point in history or later) regardless of technology or other factors. If you study colonialism (and particularly settler-colonialism), then you would realize that there are only certain trajectories such scenarios can follow.

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Landru's avatar

Interesting. The first time (I'm old) I had heard of Palestine was a neighbor of my Grandmother that I stayed with over the summer. Buzz was the local Post Master who had served in WW2. Buzz showed me the rifle bullet hole in his lower leg. Then began to talk of the current event in Palestine. 1967 war , the israeli war on Palestine. Buzz was most likely unusual understanding the colonization of Palestine by the u.k./u.s. Buzz most likely suffering from PTSD looking back on it was overwhelmed by the horror being committed by israel. My Uncles both served after WW2 in Berlin. They were teachers so accurate history was important as well as teaching me to play chess ha. I am grateful to them for showing me mass media didn't always tell the truth and to question what you read and hear. Thank you my friend. As people walk back their Pro Genocide scrubbing their hate and evil comments from history will anything change? The Billionaires I think use israel as their personal money laundering/child rape/weapons dealing empire, with the newly added surveillance data control. I wrote a story my editor thought was a bit anti-Semitic title (being Jewish) Night of the Cold Knives. Yes a bit of appropriation but.... The 13th Great Grandson of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, Maz invents a cryogenic guillotine. Max understanding the world slipped past the tipping point of non-violent change. Max uses his skills to assemble an organization like his Great Grandfather was part of and................................. : )

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"The Billionaires I think use israel as their personal money laundering/child rape/weapons dealing empire, with the newly added surveillance data control."

That is ONE of the IMPORTANT connections that people seem to miss (or more likely not know about) - how Israel plays an integral role in Capitalism and money/finances for the U.S. Empire.

Someone needs to write an exhaustive book on this (but they'll likely get assassinated before they can complete it though...)

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Nick Douglas's avatar

Many people saw genocide as it was from early on. But yes, the political climate was different, and the West was still regarded by most as a beacon of democracy and human rights (which it never was).

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