dlatch

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[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In truth, it was a political decision to appease members of the public who hate Israel based on misinformation and biased media coverage of the war.

I don't hate Israel. I do hate that they use organisations such as UK Lawyers for Israel to manipulate foreign policies of other nations to support their crimes

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Stopped using it the moment it became "X". Realized a few weeks ago that I still had an account and that I hadn't missed it once. Deleted the account and now happily live in a Twitter free bubble.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There's no way it can get anywhere near that range at full speed. Fighters need to use afterburners to get up to max speed, and F16s run out of fuel in about 10 minutes when using afterburner.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Israel wants the land without the people, both in Gaza and the West Bank. Everything they do is to achieve that goal, whichever way.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What does it matter? Anyone with the power to do something against them, doesn't care about their lies and supports them unconditionally. All they need to do is control their internal media cycle so that the "wins", no matter how fake, are present enough that the Israeli citizens don't care about the correction a week later, because there's a new lie to get behind.

They're taking a page out of Russia's playbook and it's working.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

How can the Oslo accords be used as an argument against Israeli prosecution if Israel has done exactly nothing to uphold them? What in the dystopian fuck is this?

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”

This is the working definition of antisemitism as per the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Criticising the Israeli government for behaviour they exhibit does not fall under this definition, and therefore we can't be "antisemitic as hell. By definition".

Stop equating Israel to the Jewish people, they are not the same.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

The Palestinian state is recognised by the majority of countries in the world (currently 145 out of 193, and growing, like recently by Spain, Norway, Slovenia and Ireland).

I suggest you look up UN resolution 181 and see what parts of "The British Mandate for Palestina" (interesting last word in that name) were actually given to Israel, and which parts were left to the "Palestinian arab population". You'll find that Israel is occupying large areas of land that the British did not actually give to them.

Just because Israels propaganda does not want a Palestinian state to exist, does not make it so.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Always fun how Israel apologists fall back to "you're an antisemite" once they know they have no valid argument left.

You're devaluating "anti-Semitism" by misusing it, and as a result you are hurting Jewish people. Furthermore, by equating Israel to Judaism, you're propagating that any misbehaviour by the Israeli government reflects the will of the Jewish people, further damaging the Jewish people worldwide.

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So you blame Palestina for existing and being constantly under attack by terrorists... "how dare you fight back!" man cant make this shit up

That argument works both ways

(Even if you oppose the classification of Israel as "terrorists" - although fair given the definition - replace terrorist in that sentence with "Israel" and the sentiment is exactly the same)

[–] dlatch@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Lol what? I'm clearly not saying that, I'm arguing Israeli lives are not worth more than Palestinian. My whole point is that a life is a life, I don't give a rats ass what side of an imaginary line on a map that person was born.

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