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Captured by whom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
You mean the lobby that was outspent by Hungary last year?
Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
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Not a party to the conflict? Are you joking? Don’t focus on what the US says. Focus on what it does.
Yea, that user made the most ridiculous statement. I think the Onion did a piece saying something like "Netanyahu dead, Trump must go back to being the only president of the United States", and while satire, is a bit enlightening of the actual situation here.
In the case of the "Gulf of America" thing there was a clear and open statement by the executive that they wanted the maps changed (note that even in the US the name is still legally "Gulf of Mexico"). Apple and Google both decided to acquiesce to curry favor.
TMK there is no current government order to eliminate large swaths of Lebanon from maps. So the fact that Apple is doing this (seemingly on its own, despite all other mapping services reflecting the original place names) is the thing I'm explicitly calling out as being weird.
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Let’s put it this way. I’d rather send money to North Korea than give a cent to an Israeli business. I wish they’d get served the same dose of humility that made Germany ashamed to make any display of national pride, such as openly waving the flag, for many decades.
But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward.
All my solidarity to the Jewish people that disavow any connection with the state of Israel. Your voices aren’t loud enough.
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This kind of innuendo adds nothing of value to the conversation. Either say what you intend to say, or just don't post. The coy "I know something but can't say it" is silly and just sounds like you have a persecution complex.
Say that to Brits who can be arrested for saying “I support Palestine Action”.
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Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders. Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.
Israel and the US are the number one terrorists on the planet. Israel started this fight and continues to fan the flames of war in the region. Israel instead should be a democracy with equal rights for all subject to its rule instead of an oppressive, expansionist, Jewish-supremacist state. Israel’s existence by violence is the source of the problem. Israel’s dismantlement is the answer. So, which reply will you go w…
Like lebanon was dismantled (it was a christian nation in the 1960s) solved all its problems? Giving in to the islamo supremacists just migrates the problem. If israel ends you will have dhjihad in cyprus, greek, al andaluz and africa. They dont give a fuck about that worthless strip of dessert beach, except for the fact that unsupressed dhimi thrive in it.
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So does Israel, it’s not even a war with Lebanon it’s just happening there but the Lebanese government and armed are not participating in it
They hardly have electricity so there's nobody to fight back really. The international community left them to die after that big explosion and the country has been scraping by ever since.
It descended into the same malaise as every other islamic country without oil aka wealth transfer by the worlds economy?
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Let’s put it this way. I’d rather send money to North Korea than give a cent to an Israeli business. I wish they’d get served the same dose of humility that made Germany ashamed to make any display of national pride, such as openly waving the flag, for many decades. But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward. All my solidarity to the Je…
Our voices aren’t loud enough because we are fucking terrified.
Look through this thread and see how many people broadly label Jews - not Israelis, not Zionists, but Jews - as the problem.
I am incredibly opposed to Israel’s evil actions, but I can’t stand to be part of the conversation because of the profound Jewish hate. Opposing Israel is not antisemitic, but these things I have seen written or heard stated, from left leaning Americans, in the last several years definitely are:
> Free Palestine, Kill all Jews
> Save a life, kill a local colonizer
> Hitler should have killed them all when he had the chance
> Zionist propaganda (in response to me saying the above occurred)
> Jewish people in this country (US) should be afraid
I’m not going to come back and read this comment, because I have utter certainty that in spite of vocally denouncing Israel’s violence, I will either be: accused of being a Zionist, talked down to about how this actually is Jews’ fault, or just straight up responded to with hate.
To be clear you aren’t the problem, what you have said is fine. Someone else is going to respond hatefully though.
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Let’s put it this way. I’d rather send money to North Korea than give a cent to an Israeli business. I wish they’d get served the same dose of humility that made Germany ashamed to make any display of national pride, such as openly waving the flag, for many decades. But given who their closest ally is, many more people have to die before that wretched country finds a healthier way forward. All my solidarity to the Je…
The majority of the population in Israel supports this. And the horrifying and surprising thing to me is that a number of my American Jewish friends will just say "they feel conflicted", while their parents (in their 60s by now) overwhelmingly support Israel. Obviously this is anecdotal but I still found it shocking. The scary thing is that this unhinged behavior will only lead to more antisemitism and violence directed back at them. It's so obviously counterproductive from my perspective as someone who hasn't had Israeli indoctrination. We're in a seriously dangerous moment but of course this has been building since the 40s when the country was founded on brutal dispossession and racial superiority.
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Israel is done being on the receiving end of the Iranian octopus. No more Iranian missiles, rockets, drones, or Iranian funded and directed Islamist terrorists on its borders. Only Syria is an exception: there, it was internal Druze pressure on the Israeli government to act to protect their brothers in Syria.
Israel apologists always conveniently forget that Israel is ALWAYS the agressor.