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The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by austin-cheney »

amendegree wrote: post #924
austin-cheney wrote: post #915

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> Illegal according to who? Everyone else in the world. I can use terms like complete eradication . What percentage of buildings in Gaza remain in safe enough conditions for people to live in? The entire strip looks like a flattened dust pile. Yes, killing civilians is bad regardless of their identity. It seems like you are trying to shift ground to something unrelated because you have nothing of actual substance. No…

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Maybe I misunderstand your position. Are you ok with children starving to death in Gaza for any reason?

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by lbrito »

amendegree wrote: post #924
austin-cheney wrote: post #915

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Illegal according to who? Everyone else in the world. I can use terms like complete eradication . What percentage of buildings in Gaza remain in safe enough conditions for people to live in? The entire strip looks like a flattened dust pile. Yes, killing civilians is bad regardless of their identity. It seems like you are trying to shift ground to something unrelated because you have nothing of actual substance. No…

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Why is being against mass murder "vile rhetoric"?

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by austin-cheney »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #917
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #847

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The major difference is Israel is one of the only modern states that cannot and will not extend citizenship and property rights to the majority of people under their control who existed there when the nation was founded because it would upend the ethnic makeup of the country. They will also not allow the creation of a state for those people, forcing them to be stateless. None of that applies in Serbia / Bosnia / Koso…

27% of Israeli citizens are not Jews, but Arabs. They have full citizenship, vote, hold office, etc. Gaza is a competely separate country/territory. They have no connection to the modern Israeli state. If anything they should be asking for Egyptian or Jordanian citizenship since the majority have kin relationships and history from there.

If Gaza were a separate country then why would Israel restrict and regulate access to Gaza without an international embargo? For all practical considerations Gaza looks like a territory fully controlled by Israel. That begs the further question that if Gaza is controlled by Israel why is Israel so opposed to treating these people more equitably?

The reason this looks like some tribal/racial/dominance thing is because these questions and conditions apply almost equally to the West Bank. There is video evidence of multiple settler pogroms in the West Bank.

All of the rest of the world sees basically the same violent conclusions. The only people making excuses for it are some Israelis the rest of the world refers to as extremists.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by yencabulator »

nsypteras wrote: post #295

1984: U.S. withdraws. 2003: U.S. rejoins. 2011: U.S. stops paying dues after Palestine joins. 2017: U.S. announces withdrawal (effective end of 2018). 2023: U.S. rejoins, pledges to repay dues. 2025: U.S announces withdrawal Seems to be a revolving door

  1984 withdraw Reagan
  2003 rejoin   Bush
  2011 protest  Obama (forced by law)
  2017 withdraw Trump
  2023 rejoin   Biden
  2025 withdraw Trump
Kinda tracks, except for the Bush one.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by amendegree »

lbrito wrote: post #932
amendegree wrote: post #924

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Why is being against mass murder "vile rhetoric"?

Yes it’s difficult to understand why someone would be for mass murder and yet many in these comments support the wholesale slaughter of Jews.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by lbrito »

amendegree wrote: post #935
lbrito wrote: post #932

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is being against mass murder "vile rhetoric"?

Yes it’s difficult to understand why someone would be for mass murder and yet many in these comments support the wholesale slaughter of Jews.

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Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by amendegree »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #930
amendegree wrote: post #904

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You’re not the first person in history to blame the joos for all the world’s ills and unfortunately you probably won’t be the last. But hopefully here on HN such rhetoric will be unwelcome. Nothing I wrote is untrue or even remotely eye opening. It’s all just plain facts, that the Palestinians themselves admit as supported by the sibling comment quoting from a book written by one of them.

“Modern-day Israel caused the deaths and displacement of hundreds of thousands who had lived there for centuries, all so a group exiled 400 years earlier could barge in, kill the occupants, and drive out the survivors.” “Oh, you always just blame the joos!” Sure, buddy lmao

So you’re for colonization then? Fascinating.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Post by amendegree »

lbrito wrote: post #937
amendegree wrote: post #935

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Yes it’s difficult to understand why someone would be for mass murder and yet many in these comments support the wholesale slaughter of Jews.

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You appear to be supporting the mass murder of Jews.
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