The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
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The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

Israel’s war in Gaza is chipping away at so much of what we – in the United States but also internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict. It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other.

  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Well, 19th century zionism was a different thing. Optionally but not necessarily evil. Sometimes it was as benign as ‘lets all go somewhere and join a community together ajd bring the ways that we’re cool to that community and even if they dont totally like us, they can’t hate us more than these assholes’.

    So it is fair to say that the idea of zionism that ‘won’, the genocidal theocratic ethnostate, is at least to some extent based on both the nazis, and some of the same esoteric bs the nazis were into.

    • rumimevlevi@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      59 minutes ago

      It was always about stealing local people land and displace them

      Herzl’s Diary, 12 June 1895

      The property owners will come over to our side. According to my conception, the majority of the local population will have to be transferred elsewhere.

      We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. - Herzl’s Diary, 12 June 1895

      Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly - Herzl’s Diary, 12 June 1895