Am I understanding this: Israel was founded by people simply moving to an already inhabited place and declaring it to be theirs?

But only the Good Samaritans?

Correct, Israel was just plopped on the map by the west, like an accumulate-drag-and-drop digital mouse function.

"Turkey" didn't take "Armenia". The Turkish *state* was founded on an idea of ethnic purity-bigotry and hence cleansed itself of its historic populations of Armenians and Greeks.

Just part of the spirit of violence prejudice that infested the world as the idea of the nation-state merged the woo that is ethnicity/race with the capacity for genocidal violence that is the state.

Everything said about 'Islam" on this site is mistaken. Mainstream yes, but mistaken. There's no coherence across Islam, little solidarity even. Guys, the Yemen, its right there. Or consider, IDK, how Jordan, Syria, Egypt treat Palestinian refugees. Think about Western Sahara or the solidarity shown for Rohingya or Thai Muslims. Even now, the "support" lent to Palestinians is only so much theatre.

All talk of Islam is based on race-thinking, which far from being analysis, is superstition. Muslims like the rest of us, are taken with capitalism, nationalism, anxiety, greed, incapacity to process information or coordinate collective action.

It's the continuous 75 year long US genocide of innocent Palestinians that has 5 Billion people protesting against the US military and US government.

Uh....typical response of a white guy. Any reason to justify murder.

History threads are always started by those with the least understanding of it. They are usually looking for confirmation of their prejudices.

Someone doesn't know what the F they are talking about. The Palestinians were forceablly removed from their homes at gunpoint in 1948 and forced to live in the Gaza and West Bank. Israel has continued to settle the land that they forced them to live in. They have been taking land and killing Palestine for 75 years. Not to mention all the murders they committed during biblical times.

History major trying to sound relevant in the Starbucks parking lot 5 minutes before his shift starts:

Pretty sure this is the history of every square inch of land on the planet. Humans have fought over land since their existence. Animals fought over the territory before us as well.

The difference is that this one is a pet issue of the left, largely because Israel is a free market success story. If it were some poor sh!th0le like the neighboring countries no one would care:

How many threads have been started here about the war in Sudan?

Not a L or R issue. Most of the world are tired on supporting Israel. Fewer and fewer are volunteering to fight for Israel

Let them take care of their own problems.

The leftists are the ones who b!tch when they do.

It’s a pet cause on college campuses among dweebs whose majors have no market value.

There’s no logical reason for the left to give that much of a f when so many other groups have it way worse.

Just like... wait for it...

Every fvcking place on earth. There has never been a peaceful transfer of land. Everywhere has been conquered. You are dumber than originally anticipated.

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and Jewish Billionaires, have successfully quashed commentary on many U.S. media outlets regarding the genocide Israel is conducting in Gaza. LRC locked the primary thread to allow only registered names to post on it. That lock allows LRC to collect IP addresses and supply them to anyone that Jews are being defamed. It is best to stay out of that thread least someone decides your comments are anti-Semitic, and targets you.

In other Israel news, the country has decide that the Armenian genocide, that killed over one million Armenians during the Great War (WWI), was an unfortunate event, but was absolutely not a genocide, regardless of it targeting an ethnic group. The reason that Israel wants others to look the other way is that they want to reserve "genocide" as an act against Jews -- well, because a Polish Jew invented the term near the end of WWII. And never mind that some 80 million people "unfortunately" died as a result of WWII -- 50 million civilians--, the 6 million Jews who died are much more important to "history."

60% of Arabs living in Israel approve of the Israeli state. 37% of Americans approve of Joe Biden.

Seems many of the Israelis killed on 10/7 and 10/8 were killed by the Israeli military.

Per eyewitness testimony of survivors

mondoweiss.net

A growing number of reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths following October 7 attack

Anonymous Contributor

Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died were killed. A growing number of reports indicate the Israeli military was responsible for civilian an...

Link:mondoweiss.net/2023/10/a-growing-numbe...

From what I understand this recent escalation was because Hamas did a very large bombardment on Israel all in one day and killed roughly 1,200 people all at once. So then Israel responded in a similar or a little bit stronger way. Don't poke the bear. Also, you can see the borders of the surrounding countries, Israel is the majority of the land not claimed by the other countries, the size of Gaza and West Bank are not very big. I don't think they should be bombing the group that controls the majority of that area, it's not going to end well. Why are we supposed to feel bad for Gaza since they started this recent escalation?