I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I’m an idiot.

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    Every person I’ve talked to that had some real qualifications on that topic says that Israel are the good guys and the people of Palestine are caught in the crossfire of the war.

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      Every “qualified” person you talked to says the ethnic supremacist apartheid settler colonists are the good guys?

      Which Nazi bars do you hang out in?

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        Funny you call me “Nazi” when you’re apparently the antisemite who wants to see the state of Israel destroyed.

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          The state of Israel is an apartheid ethnostate. No apartheid ethnostate should exist, just like it is good that apartheid South Africa no longer exists and was displaced through armed resistance, negotiations, and a plebiscite.

          So, tell me which Nazi bars you hang out in where the only “qualified” people are pro-ethnostate.

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      Are the real qualifications a caliper set and an unwillingness to talk about what they used to do before they got a position in the west German military?

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        No, the qualifications are people who have studied that conflict for decades and journalists that have been to Gaza and Israel themselves.

        I value their opinion significantly higher than the opinion of people on Lemmy that haven’t taken 5 minutes out of their day to read up on the conflict.

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          And all these people think Israel are the good guys? I wonder what their opinions about apartheid South Africa were at the time.

          Israel was explicitly founded as a settler-colonial project, you can look up quotes from famous founding zionists.

          “You are being invited to help make history … it doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen, but Jews … How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial.”

          Theodore Herzl to a Rhodesian representative