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Im not jewish and visited Israel recently for several weeks. Despite thinking I had a pretty good knowledge base of the situation beforehand, actually being there, and talking to people with actual stake in the region it became obvious that the opinions of people who have never been to Israel and dont have any skin in the game (95% of this thread) are completely off base, un-nuanced and literally worthless.
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So the US can just declare the black hoods as external terretories and then the South could have continued as they were in the 60s. Amazing what you can achieve by some legal shananigens. Fact is, Israel is in controll of those terretories, these people are suject to the Israeli state.
Israel controls, to only a limited extent, their international borders until a final peace deal is signed because there is a constant missile smuggling operations going on, with those missile being fired across the "border" into Israeli cities.
People need to start advocating for a peace deal, and stop taking "sides".
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies... https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-... https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is...
Israel has repeatedly said that Gaza can be free and independent if they would just stop firing missile over the border into Israel and sign a peace agreement.
It's insane that people here are taking sides, including the above linked organizations, instead of pressuring Hamas (which controls Gaza) to accept a peace deal.
There are not settlements in Gaza. There are no Israeli soldiers in Gaza. It's the simplest easiest peace deal - stop shooting missiles at Israeli cities.
...and for those who don't understand why they do not do this incredibly easy thing - it is because Hamas is entirely funded and owned by Iran, who specifically forbids any peace with Israel.
With journalists who ought to be well-informed, I cannot chalk it up to incompetence - it's anti-semitism, pure and simple.
ADDED oh and, having been an immigrant to both Canada and US, all this kind of stuff is relatively normal. By relatively I mean given the relative security situation. Especially on family visas (not my case) where the US literally checks on your private life to ensure it's not fraud. On non-immigrant visa they grill you about potential jobs you might have lined up, or any relationships you might have, in case you are lying about your intent. Or, you could try to check out the medical restrictions that (used to?) exist when immigrating to Canada. Of course just like with the history, half-truths are necessary here to create the correct narrative that this is somehow abnormal.
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So the US can just declare the black hoods as external terretories and then the South could have continued as they were in the 60s. Amazing what you can achieve by some legal shananigens. Fact is, Israel is in controll of those terretories, these people are suject to the Israeli state.
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Their unwillingness to surrender ever more (litterally less every year) territory and and water rights to colonial settlers. Their inwillingeness accept that refugees have no right to return. Yeah they would have "sovereignty", just without most of the rights of a real state.
Should the English GTFO to Denmark/Normandy/... and give the island back to the Welsh/etc.?
What about Turks, should they move back to Central Asia and give Anatolia back to Greece?
If those are not your proposals, perhaps we can just chill for a few hundred years until Israelis living where they have built a state is old enough for you to accept? :D
Oh yeah for extra credit, do the facts that Crimea, definitely, and Eastern regions, arguably, were transferred to Ukraine very recently; and then Ukraine supposedly "oppressed" them by revoking some status from Russian language, etc., justify the annexation of Crimea and/or the invasion by Russia? Cause, you know, "history", and "oppression"!
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/27/abusive-israeli-policies... https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-... https://www.btselem.org/publications/fulltext/202101_this_is...
Strange then that Gaza is firing missiles into Israel rather than negotiating for peace and independence. Israel has repeatedly said that Gaza can be free and independent if they would just stop firing missile over the border into Israel and sign a peace agreement. It's insane that people here are taking sides, including the above linked organizations, instead of pressuring Hamas (which controls Gaza) to accept a pea…
Im not jewish and visited Israel recently for several weeks. Despite thinking I had a pretty good knowledge base of the situation beforehand, actually being there, and talking to people with actual stake in the region it became obvious that the opinions of people who have never been to Israel and dont have any skin in the game (95% of this thread) are completely off base, un-nuanced and literally worthless.
Perhaps you can tell us how it was different?