Comment on Israel has gone beyond self-defence in Gaza, Tory MP Alicia Kearns says

NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The 30s? 17 years before the state was even established?

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  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep. Israeli militias used terrorism against Palestinians and the British at least that early.

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    • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m guessing you’re referring to Irgub, so please remind me when we started conflating the actions of historic terrorist organisations with current governments?

      There is enough to criticise the current regime about without needing to skirt awfully close to white nationalist talking points.

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      • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No no. Irgub and crew then went on to create Likud and their ilk. They are the current government. Anyway I guess if you wanna only count the actions of the modern Israeli state, it went beyond self-defense in 1948 with Israeli massacres like Deir Yassin.

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