@flying_rodent It’s not immediately obvious to me that rule by priests with endless PhDs in philosophy yet free from American vassalage is inferior to rule by extreme right wing nutters serving their foreign billionaire masters (Murdoch, Rothermere, Springer, Bloomberg etc).
Here's a suggestion: We make the IDF a proscribed terrorist organisation. Anyone who joins in with their genocide gets arrested as soon as they return to Britain. Job done.
@Whatsthehapp5@WR4NYGov@MairavZ Apartheid South Africa also gave some limited rights to “coloureds”. This is no different. Israel controls all the land between the river and the sea. In that area there is an Arab majority, so Israel applies apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide to maintain its power.
There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children.
Call it what it is: GENOCIDE.
@SimonInmania@NoJusticeMTG@IwanDoherty98 Because it forces up the price of land—it means that land values rise without development so investors buy up land as an asset class and hoard it. That means supply is out of balance with demand and excess lending to consumers mean prices are bid upwards as demand exceeds supply.
Do you not see the basic problem with a Jewish state in land where the majority of people are not Jewish?
If I said “I believe in a Roman state in England” would there not be an obvious problem with that?
I am a Zionist. Many people out there don’t seem to understand what a Zionist is - and what it isn’t - so here you go.
I believe in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel, in the land of Judea, where it currently is.
As a Zionist, I do not automatically agree with or support everything the country does, nor do I automatically agree with every government, every politician, every decision.
As a Zionist, I am free to criticize policies and governments of Israel, just the same as I am to criticize the Canadian government or the American government or any other government.
I can believe that the Israelis who spit on Christians should be charged, and I do.
I can believe that the violence in Judea and Samaria needs to be stopped, and I do.
I can believe that every single Israeli, regardless of religion, who commits rape, should be tried and should face the harshest punishments, and I do.
I can believe that every single war crime committed by an Israeli should be prosecuted, and I do.
I can believe that Israel should be held to the same standards of every other nation, and I do.
The only things I don’t do, because I’m a Zionist?
Call for the destruction of the only Jewish nation in the world.
Hold them to a far higher standard than everyone else, just because they’re Jewish.
Spread false propaganda about them, just because they’re Jewish.
Because even though you pretend that’s “antizionism”, it’s just masking your true motives.
Jew hatred.