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in reply to arafatknee

No matter if you say all germans are nazis, or all police are nazis, both is wrong.
in reply to Goldholz

Police in full riot gear beating up unarmed women is a pretty strong indicator though. Also German police has Nazi scandals every year. This goes from whatsapp chats, where they share "nazi jokes" and pedophilia, over stealing weapons and ammunition for nazi terror groups, to protecting nazi terror cells committing attacks on politicans to being involved in planning violent coups and mass murder of political enemies

Oh and of course there is a bunch of racist murders by the police, with one infamous police station still in operation, where a black men was set on fire by cops and a Chinese women was raped and murdered by the step-son of the former leader of the station and son of a policewomen there, who both likely helped cover up the crime.

In Germany, if you have a police interaction with a person that is deemed to be "non German" or that is deemed to be "lefty", the interaction will likely be racist or otherwise abusive.

EDIT: Oh and there was a recent case, where the police deported a non-binary German person to Hungary in June 2024 despite a court injunction that forbid the deportation. However the constitutional court ruling the action of the police to be unlawful recently doesn't change the fact that she is indeed abused and the police who deported her there did not face any consequences yet.

Fascism is epidemic inside the German police and Racism and Sexism are systematically protected by the administrative and political leaders.

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in reply to Saleh

Hi german here

Yes police in east germany has big nazi problems. Doesnt mean all are nazis -.-

They are in riot gears for their own protection. Especially after the happenings of last few months where people started driving into crows

While yes often there is racial profiling with police stops there is no such thing as higher stops for "looking left wing" and that they then are abusive to you

You are putting in all people under one blanket. You know who also does that? Racists, nazis, homophobes aso.
Your argument is:
Japan has nazis: all japanese are nazis
There are nazis that play video games: all that play video games are nazis
There are nazi Programmers: all nazi programmers are nazis.
Little tip:
There are also nazi woman! Guess all woman are nazis hmm?

Maybe instead of generalising, focus on the individuals, on the nazis not on those that dont do these adhorent crimes

in reply to Goldholz

I don't think Saleh is saying anything about all police being this way.

But the fact that any of them are like this, and that there are enough of them like this, is a genuine problem for the well-being of regular people.

This isn't an all-or-nothing situation. We can recognize that there are a significant number of police using violence to accomplish political ends without having to make a disclaimer about not all individual police being this way, because there are clearly enough of them behaving this way that there is real cause for concern.

Wouldn't you agree?

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in reply to clonedhuman

Clearly enought haha yeah...yeah...21%...

It is a big problem. I fully agree. A police in saxony had the german empire eagle stiched in the car seats. It is a problem, a huge problem.

Though this isnt because the police is inherently nazis, like its being put here and constantly yelled with ACAB.
I can say myself, having worked with the police in my city, Augsburg, and having had many encounters with them, these people do not represent the police all over.

Clear distinction is key. If one puts innocent people in the same pot as normal people you aggrovate them and push them into this problem group, thus making this problem even bigger.
One should never dehumanise. Never create this "us vs them" mentality". Doing this, you dont fight the problem, you radicalise yourself and this is a path that quickly only brings distruction.

in reply to Goldholz

That's true but the centerism of pretending that systemic behavior is the doing of a few black sheep also doesn't help to stop and make changes. Look at the West Bank, for years the European countries gave a free hand to Israel "oh but it is just a few settlers, Israelis want peace" and today? The whole places is riddled with colonies, stealing Palestinian land and making their lives unliveable. So yeah sure not all police are Nazis but when they behave like some or execute fascist laws then they are no better than the brown shirts of old.
London police stood up when a peaceful protest came under fire by politicians and upheld the citizens' right to protest. That's how police should behave, as the ultimate keeper of our rights, not to tear them away.
in reply to Goldholz

Sorry, to me their argument was the police are nazis, not all Germans. ACAB referrs to the institution, as yes there are there can't be good people being police, as they are corrupted, or forced out.
in reply to T00l_shed

So since i worked with the police, i am inherently corrupt and a bad person?
in reply to Goldholz

Did you actively speak out about police brutally and oppression? Did you effect change of the systematic injustices the police department commits?
in reply to T00l_shed

I wasnt a cop. I worked with them in the terms of cases that i was a witness plus did some IT work under contract. Not everyone that works for the police is a cop.
And yes i speak out against the wrong doing of everyone!
I went into politics to bring change! I am holding demonstrations and organize them. Against homophobia, transphobia, against the AfD, left extremists, against the actions the CDU does, against russia, that the police should not be the once investigating the cases that were done by them and that their body cams need to be on when ever out in uniform and more

What have you done so faar?

Edit: you said everyone in there is corrupt. No matter if they cant speak out because they cant afford to lose the job, no matter if they speak out but cant change it because they are a single office worker in the police. No you said all are corrupt

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in reply to T00l_shed

"I did some IT stuff for them under their contract" yes, i had a contract with them
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in reply to Goldholz

So you were part of the support structure. Gotcha. The institution of the police is corrupt, it doesn't have to be, it could be changed, however as it stands policing is authoritarian.
in reply to Goldholz

As i said it is epidemic and it is systematically protected. Does not mean "all of them". As an institution it is deeply riddled with these problems.

As for higher stops for "looking left wing" there was this thing in 2023 where police demanded the train conductors to report people with dreadlocks or "looking politically non-conformative" ("alternatives aussehen").

Police wearing Riot gear and escalating left wing demonstrations also has nothing to do with cars driving into crowds. it is not a recent event. Just put "police violence berlin" or "police violence germany" into your search engine and you will find many examples. you can see police officers in full riot gear throwing women to the ground last summer, despite them evidently not posing any threat to anyone. Here you can see two police officers torturing a detained climate activist in 2023 despite there being no threat from him or anyone around whatsoever. Note how you can hear the snap of his wrist. I could not find any article regarding the officers to have faced any consequences.

All of this would not be a problem if the "individuals" that act in such a way would face consequences. Instead they are protected by their colleagues and the institution at large, which makes them complicit.

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in reply to Goldholz

Not answering on the 'all nazis' point that just seems to be a wide misunderstanding and was already answered by others.

On the 'left wing' profiling though, I do think that there definitely exists something of the kind, at least in France. I experienced it multiple times, when being controlled on the streets. Each time, only people arrested were 'alternative' people (like with a punk look, tracksuits, looking homeless, or just fucked up clothes and long hairs like me). Most of us where white. And all people around with nice clothes and huge baggages were not even looked at. Maybe you don't see this as 'left wing' but that is kinda the only concept i see that could encompass all those groups.

And of course it is not such a problem as racial profiling, in impact on people and society as well as in numbers, but I really do think it exists.

in reply to Saleh

Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt -- both murders are connected to the Dessau police, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. You could add Hamburg to the list of forces with a definite racism problem (remember the emetics stuff?), and others, such as Bavaria, well not so much racism but general police state attitude. They're also pretty letter of the law, while the eastern cases are by and large egregious law breaches. Hamburg's police doesn't really fit the city, TBH, I blame Schill.

Painting all 16 state forces with the same brush is guaranteed to get you some blowback based on regional patriotism alone.

in reply to Saleh

Pro-Palestine protestors really seem to get the pigs into a rage. They must believe that they'll be able to get away with it.

And so far, it looks like they have. Right now, in the U.S., the Trumplicans (and Leon) are revoking the visas of international students who took part in protests to support Palestine. I'd guess for every couple we hear about there are a hundred more we don't.

It seems strange the countries all over the world are using similar violence against anyone protesting the Zionist genocide.

in reply to clonedhuman

From the article

Police intervened when the protesters allegedly violated the restriction, triggering a confrontation, Bild reported. As tensions escalated, demonstrators reportedly threw bottles and clashed with officers, leaving at least one officer injured. Berlin police confirmed the incident on their official X account, stating that 28 people were detained and insisting that the officers had no choice but to use force against protesters who they claim were acting violently.

in reply to jimmy90

And from the paragraph you cited: "Berlin police confirmed the incident on their official X account...insisting that the officers had no choice but to use force against protesters who they claim were acting violently."

They say shit like this even when there are hours of video demonstrating otherwise. I'm sure afterward they'll investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

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in reply to clonedhuman

They say shit like this

demonstrators reportedly threw bottles and clashed with officers, leaving at least one officer injured

before they violently arrest you

in reply to jimmy90

From the article it seems like bottles started flying after they started beating people. But of course it's the protestors' fault, always is
in reply to itslilith

nope, they started racist chants which meant the police attempted arrests which caused the projectiles
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in reply to jimmy90

Just so you know, "Bild" is a german right wing magazine. Imagine fox news as a newspaper. They are well known to report false information to smear left wing initiatives and further hurt victims if they are left wing. Since the victims of police brutality here are apparently pro-palastine, Bild cannot be trusted to report accurately
in reply to MissGutsy

was good enough for dailytelegraph.co.nz (the linked source) but if you find any other sources please link
in reply to jimmy90

You might want to be careful trusting that site:

webworm.co/p/badnews

in reply to madjo

i'm happy to shit on that site and take it all back if it turns out to be junk reporting

it was just the article posted by the OP

in reply to jimmy90

"The restriction" being: speaking any language other than german or english at a protest.

I think this should be spelled out. That's how nazi this is

in reply to febra

The demonstration, which took place at Oranienplatz, reportedly remained peaceful until some began chanting anti-Israel slogans in Arabic, which is banned in Berlin.


the interpretations from the first poster of this article to everyone that has replied is so wildly incorrectly biassed against the german authorities and police to the extent that you compare them to nazis is astonishing

i think the violent fundamentalists are obviously yourselves

in reply to jimmy90

All languages other than German and English are banned at these protests in Berlin. It's not only Arabic. Irish is also banned (see link below). Same goes for Hebrew (as per Hebrew speaking pro Palestine activists). And most likely any other language other than German or English would get instantly banned. This isn't normal in a democracy. But sure, go find more excuses for the egregious attacks on our freedom of speech and assembly.

theleftberlin.com/dangerous-la…

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in reply to febra

the languages are banned only if they cannot monitor hate speech, which they are very tough on in germany and happens to be all too common at these protests

you can still express yourself freely in german or english

in reply to febra

Is there any reason for protesters to use a language other than German to make their opinion heard? It's even extended to include English to be inclusive of foreigners who do not have a constitutionally protected right to protest in Germany in the first place. (In case you don't believe me, Article 8 GG says "all Germans", not "everyone").

You know what the German left would do when he police tried to outlaw Italian at protests? a) challenge it in court because banning "alerta, alerta, antifascista" has no warrant, everyone knows what it means and it's not like anyone would know any more Itanian to chant (short of "latte machiato spaghetti stronzo basta") and b) not use it while that thing is in the courts. Choose your battles.

I cannot explain the ignorance of local mores that certain pro-Palestine groups are displaying in Germany as anything else but a false flag attack on the Palestinian cause. Because there's no way in hell people can be so willfully dense, be so unable to work within the local conditions. Conditions which offer plenty of freedom if you don't, at every opportunity, try to piss people off for no gain whatsoever. I'm trying to employ "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity" but it's getting damn hard the more those certain groups steadfastly refuse to learn, and even refuse advise regarding their tactics.

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in reply to Saleh

Tagging hendrik@palaver.p3x.de who believes german police is super chill
in reply to index

If you want to tag a user you have to start with an @ symbol. You just posted an invalid e-mail.
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in reply to remon

thanks, i sent him a manual message anyway @remon@ani.social
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in reply to Saleh

Just as a side note, when I'm at a demonstration where people are throwing bottles at cops, I'm leaving. Demonstration over. New! Improved! Riot beginning.
in reply to Optional

If bottles were thrown it was in reaction to the police hitting the demonstratos with batons and punching peaceful participants holding a banner, you can see the videos in the article. As to what triggered the punching? A chant in Arabic condemning Israel.
Your comment makes it sound like things turned into a "riot" for no reason and that the repression was justified.
in reply to Optional

What if you demonstrate against the growing authoritarian and fascist regimes? The ones that have power over the police?

My opinion is that in such cases bottles are ok, but they should contain a flammable liquid and an accompanying flame.

in reply to Optional

Usually bottles are thrown after the cops start attacking and by this point you might not be able to leave easily anymore as you are probably surrounded.
in reply to Saleh

Watch germans scramble to take the side of cops, as usual. I've heard boots are a speciality this season.
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in reply to febra

Nah, our police has a well known issue with brutality, every leftist already experienced that. But our conservatives are always talking it down as "Einzelfälle" but everyone else knows its a systemic issue.
Unknown parent

lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
jimmy90

the palestinian "protest" has been injected into everything possible to influence a lot of things

courtesy of one of their sponsors; a mr putin from moscow, who ironically is best friends with a mr trump from NY - one of their worst enemies

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in reply to Saleh

Hey OP, get better news sources, DailyTelegraph.co.nz is Russian junk news.

webworm.co/p/badnews

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in reply to madjo

Thank you, good to know. I was looking for English articles after reading it in German articles. IIRC i also saw it on TRT but avoided it because TRT is a Turkish outlet under the influence of Erdogan.

Police repression has been escalating in Germany and particularly in Berlin over the past years and both German and international media are not addressing the issue with the attention it deserves. Germany is taking more and more steps to become an authoritarian democracy. If the trend isn't stopped, it will look like Hungary or Turkiye in some years.

Unknown parent

Israel is a fascist apartheid state committing genocide. Police violently cracking down on anti-israel / anti-zionist speech is also fascist. You are conflating anti-zionism with anti-semitism, which is genuine anti-semitism. Anti-zionism calls for the end to genocide and for Palestinians emancipation.

Zionism is about Settler Colonialism and Ethnic Cleansing of native Palestinians, it is not reflective of Judaism nor is it representative of Jewish people. Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. The conflation of the two is genuinely antisemitic, as it falsely attributes the actions of Israel to all Jewish people.

Zionism is anti-Semitic at it's core, it other-izes Jewish people, and justifies the violent settler colonialim of Israel as in the defense of all Jewish people, which only serves to further fuel genuine Antisemitism at the expense of Jewish people globally. Zionism is also an inherently fascist ideology. The ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine has always been fundamental since it's inception as a colonialist movement.

Adi Callai, an Israeli, does a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history.

in reply to Keeponstalin

depends on the kind of anti-zionism

"destroy israel" for example is genocidal

palestinians and israeli's have been trying to genocide eachother for about a hundred years

Unknown parent

lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
jimmy90

here's a video on the history of palestine, you can decide for yourself if the jews have a right to live in palestine, have a right to a state in palestine, have a right to return to palestine and how long the conflict has been going on

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in reply to Keeponstalin

here's a video on the history of palestine, you can decide for yourself if the jews have a right to live in palestine, have a right to a state in palestine, have a right to return to palestine and how long the conflict has been going on

in reply to jimmy90

palestinians and israeli's have been trying to genocide eachother for about a hundred years


That's completely false and a common hasbara talking point to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

::: spoiler The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought goes back to 1882

Zionism’s aims in Palestine, its deeply-held conviction
that the Land of Israel belonged exclusively to the Jewish people as a whole, and the idea of Palestine’s “civilizational barrenness" or “emptiness” against the background of European imperialist ideologies all converged in the logical conclusion that the native population should make way for thenewcomers.

The idea that the Palestinian Arabs must find a place for themselves elsewhere was articulated early on. Indeed, the founder of the movement, Theodor Herzl, provided an early reference to transfer even before he formally outlined his theory of Zionist rebirth in his Judenstat.

An 1895 entry in his diary provides in embryonic form many of the elements that were to be demonstrated repeatedly in the Zionist quest for solutions to the “Arab problem ”-the idea of dealing with state governments over the heads of the indigenous population, Jewish acquisition of property that would be inalienable, “Hebrew Land" and “Hebrew Labor,” and the removal of the native population.


:::

::: spoiler Partition

The Zionists were tireless in their efforts to shape the Commission's proposals, meeting not only with the Com­ mission members themselves, but with statesmen, cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and senior officials at the Foreign and Colonial Office with whom the Commission members were likely to consult before formulating their recommendations.15 At these meetings the idea of a popu­lation transfer was promoted in conjunction with the parti­tion of the country, the partition idea apparently was first suggested by a member of the Commission itself. Professor Reginald Coupland, during a private meeting with Weizmann in Palestine. The prospect of official British recognition- hitherto steadfastly denied-of Jewish sovereignty and state­ hood, even in only part of Palestine, represented a tremen­ dous, and at that stage unhoped for, advance for the Zionist movement.
Given the demographic realities at the time, whatever boundaries might be devised for partition would inevitably result in large numbers of Arabs and even greater expanses of Arab-owned land becoming part of whatever Jewish state would be carved out. Thus, the notion of transfer was a natural concommitant to the partition idea. Evidence sug­ gests that the proposal of Arab transfer that was ultimately made by the Royal Commission originated from, and had been secretly conveyed by, top Jewish Agency leaders, including Ben-Gurion, Shertok, and weizmann. As early as the Jewish Agency Executive meeting in October, Ben- Gurion had indicated his intention to raise the issue: “if the Peel Commission and the London government accept [the idea of transfer to Transjordan], we will remove the land problem from the agenda.’


  • Simha Flapan - The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities


Morris asserted that the onset of the fighting between Israel and the Arab armies that entered the country on the day the British Mandate ended, May 15, 1948, was the main reason for what he called the “Birth of the Palestinian refugee problem.” I have argued that it was not the war itself, since half of those who became refugees—hundreds of thousands of Palestinians—had been expelled before it had even commenced. Moreover, I claimed that the war was initiated by Israel in order to secure the historical opportunity to expel the Palestinians.19
The idea that the Palestinians left voluntarily is not the only false assumption associated with the 1948 war. There are three others that are often aired to explain away the events of that year. The first is that the Palestinians are to be blamed for what happened to them since they rejected the UN partition plan of November 1947. This allegation ignores the colonialist nature of the Zionist movement. What is clear is that the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians can in no way be justified as a “punishment” for their rejecting a UN peace plan that was devised without any consultation with the Palestinians themselves.


  • Ilan Pappe - Ten Myths About Israel - Ch 5

:::

::: spoiler Under Occupation

Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid.

Hamas 1988 Charter and Revised 2017 Charter

The 1988 Charter, which is certainly unreasonable in its fundamentalism with Sharia Law and is antisemitic, does not call for the extermination of all Jewish People. Hamas wants an end to Israel as an Apartheid State, not an extermination of all Israelis. Under Ahmed Yassin in the 1990's, truces were offered in exchange for Israeli to withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank to the 1967 borders. The 2017 Revised charter explicitly accepts a Two-State Solution of the 1967 Borders. Check Article 7 and 13 of the 1988 Charter to see yourself, compare it to Article 20 and 24-26 in the revised charter.

The slogan From the River to the Sea is about Palestinian liberation that started in the 60s by the PLO for a democratic secular state, not Genocide. The Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad in 1966 maybe, but he's not Palestinian.

History of Hamas supported by Netanyahu since 2012

:::

in reply to jimmy90

Benny Morris is a Zionist who justifies and supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. If you are genuinely interested in the full story, you should at the least read the works of anti-zionist Historians as well

::: spoiler Gaza Infographics

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::: spoiler Historian Works on the History

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::: spoiler Documentaries

A shocking insight into Israel's Apartheid | Roadmap to Apartheid | Full Film

Palestine 101 with Abby Martin

Life in Occupied PALESTINE by Anna Baltzer

How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising

Anti-Semitism, Weaponized.

One year of Israel’s war on Gaza: Al Jazeera special coverage

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary

:::

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in reply to Keeponstalin

Benny Morris is a Zionist who justifies and supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. If you are genuinely interested in the full story, you should at the least read the works of anti-zionist Historians as well


any proof he's a zionist, or just doesn't agree with you

in reply to Keeponstalin

morris doesn't say that palestine belongs to the jews, he quite clearly states lots of people have lived there over the years mostly under muslim empires but also a jewish country that was ethnically cleansed by the romans

oh and hamas started with the aim of destroying israel. genocide

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in reply to jimmy90

Did you not even bother to read the paragraphs I quoted? You have no clue what you're talking about

But in an astonishing recent Ha’aretz interview, after summarizing his new research, Morris proceeds to argue for the necessity of ethnic cleansing in 1948. He faults David Ben-Gurion for failing to expel all Arab Israelis, and hints that it may be necessary to finish the job in the future. Though he calls himself a left-wing Zionist, he invokes and praises the fascist Vladimir Jabotinsky in calling for an “iron wall” solution to the current crisis. Referring to Sharon’s Security Wall, he says, “Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another.” He calls the conflict between Israelis and Arabs a struggle between civilization and barbarism, and suggests an analogy frequently drawn by Palestinians, though from the other side of the Winchester: “Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians.”


in reply to jimmy90

Like I said, he is a Zionist who justifies the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, as you can clearly see in both the previous quote and the one I just sent to your other comment.

oh and hamas started with the aim of destroying israel. genocide


Again, as I pointed out in the last section of the previous reply, "destroying Israel" has always meant ending the Apartheid and Settler Colonialist Occupation of Zionism. It has never meant the Genocide of Jewish people nor Israelis. That is complete projection from the mentality of the occupiers who have been ethnically cleansing Palestinians for more than 76 years.

in reply to Keeponstalin

lol from the Hamas Covenant 1988

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it


destroy and obliterate could easily be interpreted as defensive, progressive action, let's all just get along, right?

in reply to Keeponstalin

honestly don't see this in all that stuff you copy pasted

you conflate zionist with the mania of this last war, zionist used to just mean jews that want their own country

morris acknowledges the bad that was done in the war that led to the naqba, but saw it as the only option where the palestinians would never settle for peace and hadn't done for 20 years

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in reply to jimmy90

JFC, that's discussed at length in the section you didn't read twice
in reply to jimmy90

No it doesn't, as discussed at length in the first section you didn't read twice. You have no clue what you're talking about. It's not a copypasta if I'm the one who read all the sources I sourced and provided relevant paragraphs and links all of which I've personally read, genius.
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in reply to jimmy90

Maybe read it before you try to argue stuff that's already within the damn reply

lemmy.world/comment/15619463



palestinians and israeli's have been trying to genocide eachother for about a hundred years


That's completely false and a common hasbara talking point to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

::: spoiler The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought goes back to 1882

Zionism’s aims in Palestine, its deeply-held conviction
that the Land of Israel belonged exclusively to the Jewish people as a whole, and the idea of Palestine’s “civilizational barrenness" or “emptiness” against the background of European imperialist ideologies all converged in the logical conclusion that the native population should make way for thenewcomers.

The idea that the Palestinian Arabs must find a place for themselves elsewhere was articulated early on. Indeed, the founder of the movement, Theodor Herzl, provided an early reference to transfer even before he formally outlined his theory of Zionist rebirth in his Judenstat.

An 1895 entry in his diary provides in embryonic form many of the elements that were to be demonstrated repeatedly in the Zionist quest for solutions to the “Arab problem ”-the idea of dealing with state governments over the heads of the indigenous population, Jewish acquisition of property that would be inalienable, “Hebrew Land" and “Hebrew Labor,” and the removal of the native population.


:::

::: spoiler Partition

The Zionists were tireless in their efforts to shape the Commission's proposals, meeting not only with the Com­ mission members themselves, but with statesmen, cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and senior officials at the Foreign and Colonial Office with whom the Commission members were likely to consult before formulating their recommendations.15 At these meetings the idea of a popu­lation transfer was promoted in conjunction with the parti­tion of the country, the partition idea apparently was first suggested by a member of the Commission itself. Professor Reginald Coupland, during a private meeting with Weizmann in Palestine. The prospect of official British recognition- hitherto steadfastly denied-of Jewish sovereignty and state­ hood, even in only part of Palestine, represented a tremen­ dous, and at that stage unhoped for, advance for the Zionist movement.
Given the demographic realities at the time, whatever boundaries might be devised for partition would inevitably result in large numbers of Arabs and even greater expanses of Arab-owned land becoming part of whatever Jewish state would be carved out. Thus, the notion of transfer was a natural concommitant to the partition idea. Evidence sug­ gests that the proposal of Arab transfer that was ultimately made by the Royal Commission originated from, and had been secretly conveyed by, top Jewish Agency leaders, including Ben-Gurion, Shertok, and weizmann. As early as the Jewish Agency Executive meeting in October, Ben- Gurion had indicated his intention to raise the issue: “if the Peel Commission and the London government accept [the idea of transfer to Transjordan], we will remove the land problem from the agenda.’


  • Simha Flapan - The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities


Morris asserted that the onset of the fighting between Israel and the Arab armies that entered the country on the day the British Mandate ended, May 15, 1948, was the main reason for what he called the “Birth of the Palestinian refugee problem.” I have argued that it was not the war itself, since half of those who became refugees—hundreds of thousands of Palestinians—had been expelled before it had even commenced. Moreover, I claimed that the war was initiated by Israel in order to secure the historical opportunity to expel the Palestinians.19
The idea that the Palestinians left voluntarily is not the only false assumption associated with the 1948 war. There are three others that are often aired to explain away the events of that year. The first is that the Palestinians are to be blamed for what happened to them since they rejected the UN partition plan of November 1947. This allegation ignores the colonialist nature of the Zionist movement. What is clear is that the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians can in no way be justified as a “punishment” for their rejecting a UN peace plan that was devised without any consultation with the Palestinians themselves.


  • Ilan Pappe - Ten Myths About Israel - Ch 5

:::

::: spoiler Under Occupation

Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid.

Hamas 1988 Charter and Revised 2017 Charter

The 1988 Charter, which is certainly unreasonable in its fundamentalism with Sharia Law and is antisemitic, does not call for the extermination of all Jewish People. Hamas wants an end to Israel as an Apartheid State, not an extermination of all Israelis. Under Ahmed Yassin in the 1990's, truces were offered in exchange for Israeli to withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank to the 1967 borders. The 2017 Revised charter explicitly accepts a Two-State Solution of the 1967 Borders. Check Article 7 and 13 of the 1988 Charter to see yourself, compare it to Article 20 and 24-26 in the revised charter.

The slogan From the River to the Sea is about Palestinian liberation that started in the 60s by the PLO for a democratic secular state, not Genocide. The Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad in 1966 maybe, but he's not Palestinian.

History of Hamas supported by Netanyahu since 2012

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in reply to Keeponstalin

so they took the obliteration thing out and accepted the 1967 borders in 2017

congratulations, only 50 years too late, after 50 years of attacks

and then went mental in 2023

these guys really have peace in mind

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in reply to jimmy90

they completely reject the israeli state and expect palestine to cover the whole land

that isn't happening

no peace as usual

in reply to jimmy90

zionist used to just mean jews that want their own country morris acknowledges the bad that was done in the war that led to the naqba, but saw it as the only option where the palestinians would never settle for peace and hadn't done for 20 years


No, Zionism has always been about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since it's inception. Partition was a deliberate tactic to set the stage for plan dalet which was also planned. You keep repeating these myths. Section 2, Partition, shows how the Nakba was not "the only option" it was intentional. I provided multiple books that go into depth exactly how these myths are untrue and don't reflect the reality of the history.

in reply to Keeponstalin

when the ottoman empire was defeated both the arabs and the jews suddenly realised they had a chance of their own state

the arabs started attacking the british and the jews and the jews started attacking the british and the arabs

finally the british left and it was the arabs vs the jews

the arabs lost, big time, and kept losing for the next 80 years

i'm sure i can find a couple of books that say that as well

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in reply to jimmy90

The Israeli state is and has always been about the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Of course Palestinians aren't going to accept being ethnically cleansed from their homes. Palestinians want emancipation and equal rights. Israel has never wanted peace. You're clearly a Zionist, which is fascist, since you keep repeating their propaganda even in the face of evidence that debunks it completely.

::: spoiler Settlements and Occupation

Israel justifies the settlements and military bases in the West Bank in the name of Security. However, the reality of the settlements on-the-ground has been the cause of violent resistance and a significant obstacle to peace, as it has been for decades.

This type of settlement, where the native population gets 'Transferred' to make room for the settlers, is a long standing practice.

The mass ethnic cleansing campaign of 1948:
- Plan Dalet
- Declassified Massacres of 1948
- Details of Plan C (May 1946) and Plan D (March 1948) .

Further, declassified Israeli documents show that the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip were deliberately planned before being executed in 1967:

While the peace process was exploited to continue de-facto annexation of the West Bank via Settlements

The settlements are maintained through a violent apartheid that routinely employs violence towards Palestinians and denies human rights like water access, civil rights, etc. This kind of control gives rise to violent resistance to the Apartheid occupation, jeopardizing the safety of Israeli civilians.

The apartheid regime is based on organized, systemic violence against Palestinians, which is carried out by numerous agents: the government, the military, the Civil Administration, the Supreme Court, the Israel Police, the Israel Security Agency, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and others. Settlers are another item on this list, and the state incorporates their violence into its own official acts of violence. Settler violence sometimes precedes instances of official violence by Israeli authorities, and at other times is incorporated into them. Like state violence, settler violence is organized, institutionalized, well-equipped and implemented in order to achieve a defined strategic goal.


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::: spoiler Apartheid Evidence

Amnesty Report

Human Rights Watch Report

B'TSelem Report with quick Explainer

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::: spoiler Visualizing the Ethnic Cleansing

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in reply to jimmy90

Sure, books written by Zionists who see Palestinians as subhuman. Good for you. Enjoy justifying ethnic cleansing and genocide. You clearly have no interest in human rights or the reality of Israel Palestine.
in reply to Keeponstalin

quite the opposite; there's lots of non-genocidal zionists that wish october 7th had never happened and the war had never happened and wish the settlers in the west bank were in jail

but they are also sick and tired of the palestinian militant zealots pretending they and the surrounding arab states are just the victims for 100 years

for peace to happen both sides need to dig deep into reality

in reply to Keeponstalin

your brain will never be able to conceive of peace because anyone that disagrees with you is immediately a nazi

and what would you do with your day without the struggle, comrade

in reply to jimmy90

Walk like a duck, quack like a duck. There is no way to justify the Fascism that is Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide that isn't fascist.
in reply to jimmy90

No, there isn't. All zionists support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. If they didn't, they would be anti-zionists. Of which there are a few hundred of within Israel. If they genuinely wanted peace and an end to the anti-apartheid resistance, they would end the fucking apartheid.
in reply to Keeponstalin

a few hundred, lol, that's very accurate!

neither side genuinely wants peace, they're still at war, there are still hostages

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in reply to Keeponstalin

and how do you justify the international terrorism, suicide bombings, rocket attacks?

what word is burned into your brain for that?

in reply to jimmy90

I don't justify it. I understand that it comes from having no options available in the face of extermination. You have no conception of anti-colonial violence. I understand that to end anti-colonial violence requires an end to the colonial violence.

I could much more easily call Israel a terrorist state, and by looking at cases of actual acts of terror, it's clear that Israel does magnitudes more. But while acknowledging acts of terrorism is important, giving the label of terrorist to an entire group is not really useful. It's mostly use to de-legitimize acts of resistance against colonialism and occupations. Such is the case with Ireland, Vietnam, Algeria, South Africa, and many more.

Both the Occupier and the Occupied can and do use acts of terrorism to further their aims, but the aims are diametrically opposed. The aim of the occupier is to continue the occupation, that requires violence to maintain, and ethnic cleansing. The aim of the occupied is to end the occupation, by any means possible, and gain emancipation. We see that one is a reaction to the other, Israel's perpetual violence towards native peoples is the underlying cause of these conflicts. Solutions to ending the violence of anti-colonialism can only come from ending the underlying violence of the colonialism.

We see that permanent occupation develops into an Apartheid, as the settlers / occupiers have rights upheld by the State and Military, while the natives / occupied have no rights and subjected to violence from both the Settlers and Military. The State, who holds the monopoly on power, uses terrorism to suppress resistance to the occupation in order to maintain it. The occupied, having no power, uses terrorism as a means to resist the occupation.

Israel has no interest in peace, it has interest in land grabbing, which is in complete opposition to peace. This is fundamental to Zionism. Which is why an end to Zionism and a regime change, where a Secular Bi-National One-State that gives equal rights to Palestinians and Israelis is the only way for the conflict to really end. Not only with Palestinian resistance, but with all resistance groups that were created by Israeli occupation.

The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It's impossible to understand their existence if you don't understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?

In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

Adi Callai has also done a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history, as well as an analysis of Franz Fanon and Identity Politics in the context of Colonialism and Anti-colonialism.

Watch those videos before you respond

in reply to jimmy90

Hamas proposed a full prisoner swap as early as Oct 8th, and agreed to the US proposed UN Permanent Ceasefire Resolution. Additionally, Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.

Israel has never had interest in peace, you fail to comprehend that.

in reply to Keeponstalin

you really can't get it into your head that the jews lived there for thousands of years and still lived there at the beginning of this century

you're so antisemitic

they are not colonisers

in reply to Keeponstalin

they better update that charter again to catch up with whatever they made up this week

i'm guessing you want the struggle to carry on because daddy putin needs it to use antisemitism to his advantage around the world

in reply to jimmy90

you really can't get it into your head that the jews lived there for thousands of years and still lived there at the beginning of this century you're so antisemitic


I, nor Palestinians have any problems with Jewish people living in Palestine. You continue to conflate Jewish people in general with Zionists. The problem is with the Settler Colonialism, the cornerstone of Zionism. Read the book by Nur Masalha, which details the history of Palestine in the past 4000 years.

they are not colonisers


You can't be fucking serious. Zionism was explicitly started as a settler Colonialist project. It began with settlements that displaced Palestinians, it has never stopped settling and displacing Palestinians, neither within Israel prior to 1967 or the West Bank after 1967. Which you would have picked up if you engaged with the damn sources instead of acting confidently incorrect because you're terrified that you may be wrong.

in reply to Keeponstalin

oh congratulations you appear to have some principles

unlike hamas who like to pop over to russia from time to time for a nice chat

and a few in the past had dalliances with a mr hitler, the enemy of my enemy as they say

in reply to Keeponstalin

come now you can't fool me

it's obvious that anyone against your palestinian cause immediately becomes a zionist and genocider

including surely all the jews living in palestine in the early 20th century and any jew or other human even vaguely supporting them including myself

how can a settler colonialist project be started by natives

the problem is you're antisemitic and pro the genicidal philospphy that the arabs have had for over 100 years

it's only now that the attacks on israel have made the situation so bad that peace is even considered

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in reply to jimmy90

Read the books and watch the videos if you're so interested. I'm done talking with you. You ignore every source provided. You are either a troll or so willfully ignorant that you can't bring yourself to take a serious look at the sources that contradict your personal world view.
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in reply to Keeponstalin

i'm confident the neither of us trust each-others sources

the only way forward to peace is to agree on a shared reality of the region's history and work from there

i hope you can deprogram your fundamentalist left-wing fantasies soon

best of luck

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in reply to jimmy90

You're one source is Benny Morris, which I've already read and cross referenced with numerous other historians. You haven't read a single book I mentioned. Don't trust, verify. If you're so confident, go ahead and try to prove yourself wrong. It's all readily available, you can find all the books mentioned on Anna's Archive for free, but you won't.
in reply to Keeponstalin

you're very keen on sources i notice, i guess it lends itself to a air of arcane legitimacy

but sources don't matter to the obvious paradox i've been highlighting that you've studiously been ignoring

i think the jews are native to the land of palestine whereas you think they are zionist colonial genocidal invaders

by the way when egypt jordan et al invaded were they being arabic colonial empirical invaders or just good buddies to their arab chums?

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in reply to jimmy90

Go read Expulsion of the Palestinians The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought 1882-1948 by Nur Masalha Chapter 1
in reply to Keeponstalin

when you've trained to believe something for so long and it starts to fracture it must be a little unsettling
in reply to Keeponstalin

I wasn't so much talking to you as talking through you

I mean you've already admitted it's a civil war and not colonial

By the way did you copy and paste the info dumps from previous discussions or are they prepared for you