I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth.

But now it’s like watching two children fighting over who’s sandcastles can be built in the sandbox. And what do we do if children can’t learn to share? You take away everything and no one is happy.

So is that what this is going to come to? Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?

  • Devi@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    This is a really patronising take.

    Imagine if your country was ‘donated’ to a whole other group of people, they took over, murdered people, took your home, tortured your grandparents, you’re going to be mad. It’s not ‘childish’, it’s reality.

    • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      The whole Levant area has seen so many blood-soaked conquests that any claim of ‘proper’ or ‘original’ owners is wilfully and maliciously ignorant. This is also the case for pretty much every bit of solid ground. Your desire to return things to “how they were” is just you picking your fave point on a timeline of history.

      • Devi@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        Not what I said in the slightest. Current residents were and still are being displaced.

        Take my own house as an example, who lived here originally? Probably some celts. Who lived here before me? Fuck knows, but they left and it tranferred to me.

        If someone decided to donate my house to someone else would I be mad? Fuck yes.

  • jarfil@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    it’s like watching two children fighting over who’s sandcastles can be built in the sandbox

    Welcome to war.

    And what do we do if children can’t learn to share? You take away everything and no one is happy.

    So is that what this is going to come to? Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?

    That would be nice… only there are no adults.

    PS: any adults 👽 out there… whenever you’re ready, we welcome you 🛸

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yep. OP is wanting other children to take things away from the children. I wonder how that’d turn out. Definitely not with just more children fighting over the sandbox, right?

  • blazera@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    A country with no involvement in world war 2 had its land taken as reparation for world war 2.

      • blazera@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        Yeah you lose me at stuff like ‘controlled the territory’. It was palestinians living there, not British.

          • blazera@kbin.social
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            9 months ago

            Youre making me hate your side more and more for the complete disregard of uprooting people that were already living there, guilty of nothing. Yes, they were there first, and then were exiled. You wanna get exiled from your own country? No fucking empathy

              • blazera@kbin.social
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                9 months ago

                Yeah, youre advocating that Palestinians could be uprooted because they were under british control. People not involved in WW2 were uprooted and their homes given to jewish refugees. That happened, thats why palestinians are pissed, and now israel is just perpetuating more of the same. It never should have happened, those refugees shouldve been returned home where they could, taken in by allies, or if they absolutely had to have their own country give them land from germany or any country responsible for exiling their jewish population.