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Medium-Magician9186 t1_j9l1mgw wrote

Reply to comment by chyko9 in Israeli West Bank raid kills 10 Palestinians and hurts more than 100 others. by CrackHeadRodeo

Occupied peoples have a moral obligation to fight against their occupiers. You can call them terrorists all you want, but because they are under racist belligerent occupation, they have to fight, they do not have a choice, the only people with choices are the occupiers.

The only way for the violence to end in Palestine is for Israel to stop causing it. That is the objective truth.

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chyko9 t1_j9l3cu3 wrote

>Occupied peoples have a moral obligation to fight against their occupiers.

The problem here is that Palestinian fundamentalist militants are not just fighting to end the occupation of the West Bank - they are fighting to end Israel as a state, because they believe de jure Israeli territory is just as much "occupied land" as the West Bank is.

>The only way for the violence to end in Palestine is for Israel to stop causing it. That is the objective truth.

The objective truth is that Israel could withdraw to the 1967 or even the 1948 borders, and Palestinian militants would only consider it a "partial success", because they view all of Israel as "occupied territory" that needs to be "liberated". There is no evidence that the violence would stop if Israel withdrew from the West Bank - why? Because when the Israelis withdrew from Gaza, the violence did not stop, and only increased. This is the only data point that we, and the Israelis, have with which to reasonably predict what would happen if they end the occupation of the West Bank. No state in existence can reasonably expected to undertake an action like that, which it believes will place potentially tens of thousands of its civilians at risk.

There aren't really any concessions that Israel can offer to these militant groups, besides its own destruction, that will satisfy them. This is a serious problem and a major obstacle to peace.

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chyko9 t1_j9ljv75 wrote

>it’s all stolen land

Aside from this being both a falsification of geopolitical history and an abject denial of Jewish history & identity, as well as a tacit endorsement of ethnic cleansing, it is a completely politically insolvent sentiment today as well.

There are no concessions that Israel can offer people like you, aside from its own destruction, that will be satisfactory. So, why would Israel listen to people like you when you demand a withdrawal from the West Bank? It isn’t like you’d actually be satisfied if they did that; you want them to cease to exist.

This is just one reason why there is no benefit to listening to or paying even the slightest lip service to zero-sum sentiments like yours.

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Medium-Magician9186 t1_j9lhomn wrote

I spoke no lie. your cut and paste defamation is as pitiful as it is stupid.

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Medium-Magician9186 t1_j9ln9gw wrote

shame to racism, shame to occupation, shame to genocide, and shame to all the pitiful and stupid people who encourage such depravity.

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varsity14 t1_j9l6flz wrote

>objective truth.

I don't think you understand what either of those words mean.

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Medium-Magician9186 t1_j9la9ik wrote

Again, because they are under racist belligerent occupation, they have an obligation to fight against the racist belligerent occupation they suffer under. This is a object truth of humanity. There is no honest way to spin it in any other light.

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