American Dr Mark Perlmutter, who has volunteered in Gaza, says one of his Palestinian colleagues was taken by Israeli occupation forces, had his fingers shattered and was told to confess to being a member of Hamas or have his wife gang raped in front of him.

Soldiers ‘crushed’ his fingers, Perlmutter explains, adding that they also threatened to ‘send a drone to your bedroom window and incinerate your children.’ The doctor did not confess and spent 11 months being tortured in Israeli detention.

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    I think you’re getting into dangerous territory with that thinking. People are not a monolith, even when an outspoken and visible portion of the population are monsters. Secondly, you say “Nazi germany has no right to exist,” but Germany does. Painting with that broad a brush and speaking in such absolutes opens the door to horrible acts. Because the zionists speak the exact same way about Palestine. That’s where that thinking and language can lead you.

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      There is no equation of victimhood here. Zionists have stolen Palestinian houses and land.

      There were Nazi Germans occupying houses in Poland which they stole from Jews. After the Holocaust those Nazis were expelled back to where they came from. In this case from Nazi Germany (which included Poland) to Germany (without Poland)

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      My dude, the whole thing is a settler colonialist project. It has no right to exist, and no word salad attempting to introduce nuance into a black and white situation is convincing anyone otherwise. This isn’t Reddit.

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        The fact that you think no nuance exists in the Israel Palestine conflict is genuinely insane.

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          The only nuance there is to be had is for Israelis born there who are advocating for complete integration and reparations under a one state solution. Bar that, they can fuck right off.

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          there’s plenty of nuance, and it’s all fractal horrors of zio atrocities. there can be no mercy for these inhuman monsters. not if you want a future.

          edit: also the one time a palestinian girl said something mean to a zio that had just mudered her family and burned her village, then it got its buddies and raped her to death, then kept going until she started to rot too much to be useful. very morally complicated situation there; she shouldn’t have hurt the zio’s feelings like that.

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            The Palestine-Israel conflict is famous for people assuming there is a clear solution, and then later admitting they were wrong.

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              There is only one clear solution but people don’t like it, it’s the elimination of all Zionists by all means necessary

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                it’s famous for shit libs who do not want to actually fix anything half assing solutions and those half assed solutions not working because one of the parties is a bad actor, who will only accept extermination.

                and that is the solution. every zio needs to die. their children need to die. their pets need to die. that is the solution. that is how you open the possibility of peace.

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                  Genocide is not the answer. Assuming “zionist” includes “any jew living in Israel,” I hope for humanity’s sake that you are trolling.

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                  The children need to be reeducated as I will not cross that line (which makes me morally superior to every Zionist) but otherwise I agree.

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                    nah. they need to be killed as an example to anyone else who would do this. you want to do a genocide and fetishize your genes? your blood line needs to fucking end. you have a breeding fetish, you do it by being slutty or doing sex work. nothing else.

                    I could settle for THOROUGH re-education, but they would need to be watched close, and if one goes even a little fasch, it needs to be popped. no questions, no equivocations.

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      Germany does not have the right to exist. The German people have a right to self determination, like any people in the world does. This right is not tied to any specific state.

      It is also completely absurd to define such rights to a specific state. Any specific state needs a specific government, a specific territory and a specific people. The only thing that carried over from the Nazi era was the people. A different government was formed on a very different territory. If you claim “Germany has a right to exist” in connection with the Nazi Reich, that Germany would have to include large swaths of what is todays Poland and Czech Republic.

      Meanwhile there was no Israel in 1947. There was no Israeli people in 1947. The entire people is a construct, that only started to become a reality through 80 years of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people. Now that they are a people is a reality. That this people thus has the right to form a fascist state and deny the rights to the people who they have uprooted is nonsense.

      If the US was to invade Canada, drive the Canadians north of the arctic circle and then claim this is US-Canada now because the filled it with millions of their own settlers, that does not create a “right to exist” for US-Canada.

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        Theoretically, of course I agree with you.

        But saying an existing country has no right to exist, while discussing the very real problems of said country, while said country does, in fact, exist, is treading on incredibly dangerous, straight up genocidal ground.

        How can you guys not see the problems inherent in that, while half of the people are arguing against the existence of fucking nuance? You all can’t be that dense.

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          while said country does, in fact, exist

          Irrelevant in whether or not it has the right to do so

          straight up genocidal ground

          Don’t be an idiot, it’s nowhere near the same thing

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            If that’s what you think, extend the thought experiment. Say you get what you want, Israel stops existing tomorrow. What happens to everyone there?

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              Say you get what you want, Israel stops existing tomorrow

              Easy: that’s not what I want

              What happens to everyone there?

              A different government rules over them

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          The state does exist. The state is inherently built on crimes. Saying this state must cease to exist does not mean that the people should cease to exist.

          Again taking Nazi Germany as an example. The German Reich ceased to exist. There is no Führer, no Reichschancellor, Reichsgovernment… Incidently there is a movement called “Reichsbürger” (citizens of the Reich) that proclaim the Federal Republic of Germany is a company and not a sovereign nation, so instead they claim the Reich to still exist. But it does not.

          There was no genocide against Germans to make the Reich cease to exist and while there were ample use of strategies that by todays standards are war crimes against the Reich, the responsibility for starting the war laid with the Germans.

          If we apply this to the state of Israel. Israel started to ethnically cleanse the area. Israel is inherently an Apartheid regime and the current state would never obey by international law, end the illegal occupation, give back stolen land, recompense the victims, punish the criminals and give equal rights to Palestinians living inside the internationally recognized borders of the state of Israel. The Israeli constitution itself says that Israel is a Jewish ethnostate, thus by the constitution Israel is a racist and criminal state in violation of international law.

          You cannot reform this state like you couldn’t reform the German Reich. The state and all of its institutions need to be rebuild from the ground up. And then in a way that grants equal rights and justice for all living between the river and the sea.

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      oskar schindler existed, so it’s bad to say we should kill nazis!

      nah. these fuckers will not stop killing until they’re dead. there’s nothing else to them but killing. they are monsters.

      fascists accuse their enemies of their own crimes, and I really hate libs buying into it like this.

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        It’s unclassy to reinterpretively paraphrase someone with a block quote like that.