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OrangeJoe

(560 posts)
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:24 AM Jul 2025

You're casting a very wide net

Pulling Armenia into this is stretching things a bit. My comment was centered on the fact that historically there wasn't nearly as much the violence in Palestine between Jews & Arabs before 1948. Now is everybody there a bunch of peace loving hippies chanting the words "Give peace a chance", far from it, but the systematic theft of land, denial of human rights, crop destruction, murder and now genocide through starvation, that's all new.

To your statement about the Mazrahis I don't really know the actual breakdown in Israel. The google says it's about 50/50. All I know is there are a heck of a lot of settlers from Europe and the USA kicking Palestinians out of their homes all over the West Bank. I saw and listened to them when I was there (can't say I talked to them because none of them are what you would call a polite listener.)

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