He dehumanizes them literally just as the Nazis did to the Jews. “They’re not even people,” he says.
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That's the general attitude of a majority of Israelis, not just the Far Right.
If you sit at a hipster café in Tel Aviv and start talking to a random person, 20 minutes later, this person, drinking a matcha latte and speaking perfect English, will start explaining to you that those [Palestinian] children will grow up to be terrorists, so it's okay to kill them.
Andrey X Independent journalist and activist in Palestine
Sure, but it's a timing issue. Just need to wait until the land is usurped and taken over by the invading forces. Then thirty to forty per night is acceptable. /s
Religion is evil
Mischaracterizing this as religious fervor ignores reality. These people are power-hungry nationalists at best.
I hate how people try to paint it as "both sides fighting for their religion and holy land, look at these silly people" when in reality it's palestinians trying to defend themselves from fascist murderers backed by US government.
Your dismissal is empathetic but inaccurate.
These people literally believe they’ve retaken the “holy land” (when Britain helped them invade Palestine in the mid 1900s).
Many abrahamic worshippers believe these are the prophesized end times, especially in Israel.
Religion is at the core of many conflicts in the Middle East, especially in the levant.
When it’s not at the core, it’s still is in a way — because it tells people sacrificing their life is just a temporary speed bump in their existence, one which will make the road after it way more pleasant and rewarding.
You must be from the US applying that lens and reducing the topic to such a simplistic lens that has been propagated by both the US and Israeli governments only.
Many abrahamic worshippers believe these are the prophesized end times, especially in Israel.
Nope, only US Evangelicalism specifically preaches this ridiculous type of world-ending prophecy.
Zionism was an inherently secular movement, but to align all of the other Jewish organizations under their movement with a stronger argument, they've defined their goals to be "jewish" in identity AND religion. Otherwise an African location would have been a more serious option.
It's not religious belief that is driving conflict in the middle east, it is religious tribalism (and of course imperialism). And there's a world of difference.
Because someone could be secular and of that religion, but it doesn't mean that they would escape harm from other tribes or not have some patronage and loyalty to their tribe. Like Al-Assad in Syria, which as a country was religiously secular by law but was heavily biased towards the Aalawites.
“It’s not religious belief it’s religious tribalism”
Ahh yes, religious tribalism. Famously able to exist without religious belief.
Yes, tribalism can exist without belief and can even be described as an ethnicity in itself (like Judaism). Unless you willingly glossed over the fact that someone can be secular but still have cultural/familial ties towards the tribe.
It's not a very smart thing to oversimplify with thought terminating exercises.
You’re oversimplifying commitment.
Religious belief is required for religious tribalism, otherwise it’s not religious tribalism, it’s some other form of tribalism.
You said it was religious tribalism.
And he did it in an environment where he expected it to be recorded and released to the general public. Basically indistinguishable from a Nazi.
Does it occur to these people that if they weren’t killing civilians with such glee, terrorist organisations might not want to kill them with so much passion
Wow! THAT type of Language makes it REALLY HARD to CONTINUE giving them Billions of Dollars in US Taxmoney!
-Hakeem Jeffries!
Lovely how the Jews in the end turned into Nazis... I guess it says something about humanity, moreso about religion and dogmatic thinking
Doubt. He's killed many more.
When I was a kid, I had no idea how someone like Erik Lensherr could become the kind of person he was. But now I think I know what this scene was talking about. And it makes my guts twist.
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