I am not excusing what is being done to Palestinians. I strive for peace, and Israel is showing no signs of it anymore, though it absolutely did just a few decades ago. But no one is saying all of Russia doesn't have a right to exist because it attacked Ukraine. No one is saying USA or Canada don't have a right to exist because of how they historically treated and are still treating native Americans. And no one should be saying that Israel doesn't have a right to exist.

Coexistence is the only solution. It seems impossible today, but it's the only possible solution that could possibly work. Anything else is even more detached from reality.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 25 points 9 months ago

"No country is fully independent" says nothing about whether Israel is properly classified as a colony. It's a platitude.

a right to exist

Another platitude. What do you mean by this? Israel's current actions are indefensible. Many of its past actions are indefensible. Its policy of neither recognizing a Palestinian state nor granting equal citizenship to Palestinians is indefensible. It must either fundamentally change or be replaced by a government worth supporting, like South Africa before it.

It certainly does not have a right to continue existing in its current form, no more than Nazi Germany did.

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

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