If Free Palestine were to succeed and Israel were eliminated, it would be the worst thing that ever happened to the Palestinians.
First of all, let’s just be honest. Palestinians are not interested in democracy. They are Islamist extremists who openly executed and celebrated October 7. If they actually won, they would slaughter 7 millions Jews and 2 million Israeli Arabs and Palestinians they considered collaborators. That’s not remotely controversial if you’ve actually paid attention to what these groups say and do.
Then what? Gaza doesn’t have an economy. The West Bank is deeply dependent on Israel and international aid. They’ve spent generations fighting Israel instead of building the institutions of a functioning state. So after the evil Jews are finally gone, what exactly is the plan? What industry suddenly appears? What government? What economy?
The answer seems pretty obvious to me. Palestine would become an extremist Islamist state almost immediately. The violence wouldn’t stop. It would just find new targets.
Hezbollah would stop being an ally and start being a rival. Jordan would be next. Egypt would be next. Revolutionary movements don’t retire if they win, they look for another revolution.
People always ask why Egypt and Jordan don’t simply open their borders. They’ve already learned this lesson. Both have dealt with Palestinian militants destabilizing their own countries. They don’t want to do it again.
Then there’s the issue of how Palestinians don’t literally starve.
For decades Palestinians have survived on extraordinary levels of international aid. Does anyone seriously believe that continues after the destruction of Israel? I don’t. Western countries aren’t going to enthusiastically bankroll the state that just carried out one of the largest massacres in modern history. And Arab governments would have no political incentive to feed the people killing them (something Israel does.)
So what would the Palestinians be left with?
An impoverished Islamist state. Competing militias. Something much closer to Yemen than Singapore. Famine. Civil war. Religious extremism. The sane Palestinians trapped in the middle.
And for them, emigration would become impossible. Right now many countries accept Palestinian refugees because the story is they’re fleeing Israel. If Israel no longer exists because it was Holocausted, I have a hard time believing those same countries are going to welcome any refugees.
The uncomfortable truth is the current stalemate is almost certainly better for Palestinians than “victory.”
If you actually care about the future of the Palestinian people instead of chanting slogans, the only path that makes any sense is generations of deradicalization, building functioning institutions, developing a real economy, and eventually creating a state that defines itself by what it builds instead of what it wants to destroy.
It really just bums me out that we have the resources to fix our society, stop our reliance on fossil fuels, guarantee healthcare, house the homeless, and feed every person in the country, but doing so would be a bad time for like, 8 men, so we can’t do it.
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Why are we loadshedding? Because the corrupt ANC government pillaged and plundered the assets of the company. They have also stolen or wasted R1,500,000,000,000. Eskom is just the daily reminder of just how much the ANC has ruined the best electricity supply company in the world.
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The United Nations have concluded that Hamas raped and sexually tortured women on October 7th
They also raped corpses
They have been raping kidnapped girls
Some of you have disgraced yourselves for the rest of your lives by championing or justifying this terror group
I am reliably informed the man who got away with punching a woman in the face is Jack Hudner. He’s 22. Whilst he is solely responsible for his actions on that day, I’m aware he lives in a country that has politicians, the police, the judiciary, education system, health service and media that dismally fail the youth. Accountability for this environment rests upon many shoulders. It should have been unthinkable for a mob to bully and intimidate women who just wanted to speak. Violently punching a woman old enough to be his grandmother should have been beyond anything he would contemplate let alone do with vigour three times. But it wasn’t. It was encouraged.
24th March 2024 should have been a wake up call that the cult of transgenderism has poisoned the entire country.
Only the foolish would ignore such a warning.
Here’s a reminder of what the police, the politicians and the media whipped up.
https://t.co/MkDUKWgZU0
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“Wait, you’re trying to say White People were slaves?”
“Yes, that’s where the term ‘Slave’ comes from, the Slavic Region."
According to BBC: "The term slave has its origins in the word slav. The Slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD.”
And now you know...
Israel did not fire at an aid convoy.
There was a tragic mass casualty event because people were crushed in a stampede toward aid trucks, which then ran over people when they tried to get out.
I can't believe this lie is still circulating.
"Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play."
Guess who said this?
Tiger Woods... yes the posterchild of prodigies is telling you to chill out, let the kid cultivate their interest
African penguins will be functionally extinct by 2035. 🐧
This means the population will be so small that it won't be able to breed enough to increase numbers again. ❌
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A child who self-identifies as an adult isn’t allowed to vote in elections.
An unqualified person who self-identifies as a surgeon isn’t allowed to perform surgery on patients.
Yet, a man who self-identifies as a woman is allowed to enter women’s spaces.
Illogical and immoral.
"The hypocrisy is unbearable.
Arab tribes from Saudi Arabia colonized the Christian-majority Middle East and North Africa brutally killing or forcefully converting many of the legit indigenous population (Jews, Persians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, etc.) but now they pretend they are the oppressed and the survivors of their brutality are the colonial supremacist oppressors.
“Palestinians” who are actually Arabs falsely align themselves with Native Americans and call USA/Canada occupied Turtle Islands (see SJP website) while calling Israel Occupied “Palestinian” Territories. They call Jews who are by far the most oppressed group in history suffering many real genocides “white supremacist Europeans.” Marxist academic professors keep reinforcing this false narrative.
They praise death and martyrdom and brainwash their children that violence is good. Violence and terrorism is supposedly resistance. Over the past decades, Palestinians have kidnapped, hijacked airplanes, assassinated world leaders (RFK, King of Jordan) raped, killed, burned, taken hostages, beheaded babies. Now they and their supporters gaslight the world by denying the Hamas massacre even happened. Yesterday someone told me Hamas doesn’t have GoPro cameras so all the footage was made by Israel (total falsehood). Even though Hamas has released the footage and proudly claim they did it, they blatantly lie and claim Israel killed the music festival attendees. They make posts pretending hostages were treated with such love and empathy that they wrote thank you letters of their own volition. Meanwhile all evidence of torture and abuse that the hostages endured is buried. The children who were branded using burning pipes, the women who were raped and tortured, the hostages that were executed. They compare convicted terrorist prisoners serving time in prison to civilian hostages. The Hamas terrorists dress as civilians and make up fake numbers to gain world sympathy. See video from the son of Hamas leader about the number of deaths in Gaza.
And then Palestinians and their supporters go out and disrupt every country where they have been given a chance to build a life for themselves using violence and intimidation while pretending they are the victims. They heartlessly remove photos of children and adults taken hostage and call for genocide and violence against the Jews, shouting “From the River to the Sea,” and “intifada.”
They have been offered a state of their own 4 times which Israel accepted every time but they refused because they want all Jews dead and take the entire land and will not negotiate (see Hamas charter). As a result, third and fourth generations are still calling themselves refugees and collect the highest per capita aid than any other nation, yet continue to claim that they are oppressed and poor and can’t make ends meet, and continue blaming Israel and Jews for their sorrows.
When will the world wake up to this scam and say enough is enough?"
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