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Does Israel have the right to exist? (lemmygrad.ml)

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The American media loves saying that, but does it really have a right to exist? Does an apartheid colonizing regime have the right to exist in someone else’s land?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that last bits fine. But land ownership seems a bit extreme, again, just owning land doesn’t signify anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

owning land in a settler-colonial slave society sure fucking signifies something. holy shit dude

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No it fucking doesn’t? A random ass ancestor owning land isn’t something you can pin on a random person in the modern day.

What does that signify? Plus like I mentioned before, the vast majority are dirt poor subsistence farmers playing with second rate dirt while mega plantations owned by the bourgeoisie hog hundreds of square miles of prime land that’s operated by literal slaves. Those subsistence farmers aren’t really the vanguard of the settler colonial force.

But imagine someone came up to you today and said, “Well it seems like one of your ancestors 250 years ago simply existed in a settler colonial area, even though they were dirt fucking poor, and we don’t have any evidence or documentation. Prepare for reeducation!” I’m sure you’d love that?