cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/63262827

Chanting ‘from the river to the sea’ would be criminalised under proposed state law

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[–] 14 points 6 months ago*

Israel has a right to exist in it's original borders.

What "original" borders? The borders they established in 1948 by ethnically cleansing Palestinian land? The historical borders of Judea and Samaria? If so which ones? Are we going to rely on the historiagraphy of Israelis who determined those historical borders too? Why should we legitimize an explicitly settler colonial project who has only caused problems for an entire region since its inception? What even gives a state the "right to exist".

I agree that we need an organized international intervention but we should also seriously investigate the purpose of Israel. Who benefits from its continue existence and why is incredibly important to determining what to do going forward. I am of the opinion that a two state solution only leaves us where we were a few decades ago. It allows the settlers to bide their time.

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