• jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org
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    4 hours ago

    It’s also not easy to uproot your entire living, let alone rapidly fled amidst the war.

    Agreed. I don’t have sympathy for the Israeli citizens because they caused others to experience this in order to steal the land.

    It’s a LOT easier for the Israelis to leave than it is for the people whose land they steal.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      2 hours ago

      One thing many people have surprisingly low comprehension of is that people ≠ government.

      Regular Israeli civilians did not partake in the war, did not cause the apartheid, and did not steal the land. They were born there, or went there on a promise of entering a friendly Jewish community - not of murdering people.

      When the latest Hamas strike happened, this has played into the hands of Israeli government and military command. They got yet another excuse to bomb the hell out of Palestine. Some civilians were scared enough to support the “retaliation”, many others vehemently opposed and denounced it.

      In any case, deporting all Israelis is clearly not a solution now. Israel is their home. Imagine that your birthplace originally belonged to another country, and they wanted to take it back, sending you out wherever. Would it be reasonable to oblige, to leave your home and your entire life behind, forever?

      This is catastrophic when it happens to Palestinians, and not much better should it happen to Israelis.