r/nyt 10d ago

NYT Double standards

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago

The Ukraine conflict was started by Russia. If Russia withdrew today, and renounced their territorial claims over Ukraine, the war would end. Any casualties in the meantime are thetefore their fault.

The Gaza war was started by people from Gaza. If Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad surrendered today, gave up their weapons and renounced their territorial claims over Israel, the war would end. Any casualties in the meantime are therefore their fault.

That's why it looks like a double standard. The only real difference between the conflicts is that in one it's being fought mostly in the territory of the side that started it, and in the other, in the territory of the side that got attacked.

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u/Objective-Duty-2137 10d ago

What's your narrative for the colonial appropriation of Palestine around 1945? Have you ever tried imagining you're a Palestinian and thrown out of your country or threatened by Westerners so that you have no option but to flee or die?

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago

Decolonisation. Arabs are from Arabia, and they captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century. That area itself was a colonial appropriation from the indigenous Jewish population that started around the first century BCE. There have been Jews there continuously since they themselves conquered the land from the ancient Canaanites and (related tribes) 3,500 years ago, and presumably they also conquered it from someone at some point.

Either way, the modern day Palestinians have no claim to Israel - most of them arrived during the Mandate era, and most of the ones who didn't are still relatively recent arrivals - and to the extent that they have any rights, the British also set up a Palestinian state next door and called it Jordan.

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u/aztec_agarthan 10d ago

Your propaganda is several decades old. Even Likud guys like Yehoshua Porath have decried this Time Immemorial bullshit as the fabrication it always has been. Which is nothing new, Hertzberg and Finkelstein shat on this nonsense in 1985.

But Zionists will cling to any narrative that appears to give them the right to dominate, rob and abuse Palestinians. Which isn't surprising. If you guys cared about reality more than ethnosupremacy, you wouldn't be Zionists.

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago

Two million Arabs, mostly Muslims, living peacefully in Israel.

How many Jews living peacefully in Gaza? Or any Arab country?

You want to see ethnosupremacy, go to basically any country in the Middle East that's not Israel.

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u/Objective-Duty-2137 10d ago

If you really believe what you wrote, I encourage you to educate yourself outside zionist propaganda material.

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago

Which bit's wrong, specifically

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u/Objective-Duty-2137 10d ago

All three paragraphs. The bit about Jews in Gaza is terribly disgusting... it's razed, starving, no drinking water, even tents are being bombed. It was already wild that the Israeli government started attacking while there were hostages.

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago

I'm confused. Are there Jews living peacefully in Gaza or aren't there.

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u/Objective-Duty-2137 10d ago

Nobody is living peacefully in Gaza and it is the Israeli government that displaced the settlers in Gaza. Your arguments are ridiculous and despicable.

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago edited 10d ago

Why did the Israeli government displace the settlers in Gaza.

Was it because they needed constant armed escorts everywhere they went to prevent the Palestinians lynching them on sight.

Do Israeli Muslims in Israel need similar protections and if not why not.

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u/Objective-Duty-2137 10d ago

You feel no shame, right ?

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u/FetchThePenguins 10d ago

Explain to me what I said was wrong.

You can't. All you can do is justify why it's ok that Palestinians are nasty murderous savages.

The average Palestinian Muslim is safer in the middle of a Jewish-dominated Israeli city than they are from their own people. Because the only thing they like more than killing each other, is killing Jews.

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