Are we still pretending this all started Oct 7, and that Gaza has been a normal place to live for the last 50 years? With all the modern luxuries like, you know, drinking water? Electricity?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no that's an exaggeration. They've only not had drinking water and electricity for 17 years. Before that they were only being subjected to a slow-burn genocide like the West Bank. Smh ungrateful brown people.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 12 points 8 months ago

And that's so weird when people say "Hamas-run Gaza" but it's Israel that cuts power, water, controls the border, has a blockade on the territory (an act of war), controls the population database and ID cards, and even sells rights to extract natural gas from Gaza.

[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's popular in the social consciousness right now. So, governments and international organizations are scrambling to look like they are "doing something". Once the incredibly short attention span of the masses moves on to the Next Big Thing™, the Israeli Government can get back to building some Lebensraum for it's settlers, without the rest of the world throwing a performative fit about it.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit it's unreal how similar Israel is to Nazis. I'd never heard of lebensraum.

It stipulated that Germany required a Lebensraum necessary for its survival and that most of the populations of Central and Eastern Europe would have to be removed permanently (either through mass deportation to Siberia, extermination, or enslavement), including Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, and other Slavic nations considered non-Aryan. The Nazi government aimed at repopulating these lands with Germanic colonists in the name of Lebensraum during and following World War II.[6][7][8][9] Entire populations were ravaged by starvation; any agricultural surplus was used to feed Germany.[6] The Jewish population was exterminated outright.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah; we're not calling Israel a Nazi state for nothing.