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I agree with your conclusions but it’s an oversimplification to say

Israel is a state
Judaism is a religion

Those things are very tied together, partially because no, Judaism is not just a religion. It’s a culture and ethnicity as well. And given the history of how/why Israel exists, it’s in the unique position of not just being any ole state.

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man_in_space@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Palestine is also a state (of dubious status).

They are democratic.

Their constituents chose—chose—a party of genocidal antisemites to represent them. Hamas has been transparent about their claimed “struggle against the Jews” since day one. The people seem to want this.

The last two times the West had racists in power we got a Civil War and then a World War (the second being directly antisemitic).

The world said “never again”, and then when someone tried it again, they cheered them on.

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- BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Israel played a pretty heavy role in the creation of Hamas. It’s not that simple here
  
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  - man_in_space@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And the Founding Fathers in the United States created the situation of slavery in the South as a power play. Doesn’t make the South any less culpable for their misdeeds.
    
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    BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I see what you’re trying to do but that’s very much a false equivalence. It’s more akin to the US’ role in the creation of the Taliban (among many, many other orgs)
    
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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t see what any of this has to do with what I wrote
  
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