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“This is the danger of reading the ceasefire as an event rather than as a phase: it allows the slow violence of fortification, encroachment, and engineered uninhabitability to proceed under the cover of a word that promises its end,” Abdaljawad Omar, an assistant professor at Birzeit university in the West Bank, told Drop Site News.

“This is the whole grammar of settler-colonial space in miniature,” Omar added. “The line is never where the line is said to be. The ‘yellow line,’ like the Green Line before it, like every cartographic fiction Israel has authored, exists in order to be exceeded. It is drawn not to mark a limit but to generate the next transgression of that limit—control of 53% becomes control of 60% becomes the buffer that eats 300 meters more.

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[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Israel loves bantustans.

[-] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I remember Israel bein so small growing up, shame they can't remember ww2 and what the Germans did to them, maybe time to relocate the roudy ones back there? Not that I'm saying Hitler's good, far from it look at the orange dingleberry. Seriously fuck isreal

[-] adb@lemmy.ml 0 points 27 minutes ago

What a weird comment. You do realize that death camps do not exist anymore in Germany? Or are you suggesting they open them back up again? Should we also send some of the local Jews, leftists, “deviants” and Roma for good measure? I mean, the more, the merrier…

[-] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

Kinda shitty response and take on you, aren't roundin mofos on in the usa right now? Lmao home of the free my ass

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 2 hours ago

shame they can't remember ww2 and what the Germans did to them,

They don't remember it because it more or less didn't happen (dw this is not Holocaust denial); Israelis predominantly descend from Middle Eastern Jews and Eastern European Jews. Now both of these groups experienced plenty of persecution in their own right, but still, the Holocaust had nothing to do with Israel. In fact Holocaust survivors that went to Israel were persecuted and had their reparation money stolen.

I wasn't aware of this, makes sense, but I'm not religious nor studied any of them. I am and since a youth atheist, parents tried but, I either freaked out until they had to pick me up. Then religion class later, locked them out of the car when they tried to walk me in.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I think the reason this feels so incomprehensible is it is a situation orchestrated and supercharged by western colonialism and this current moment is a convergence of many of these forces that have been acting internationally for decades.

Which doesn't excuse Israel one bit, but it allows a nuanced conversation instead of the rising rightwing antisemitic response which involves throwing up your hands as someone from the US and saying "The jews betrayed us! We never wanted this!".

"Western" nations have a far more vital role in all of this then the centrists of those countries seem equipped to grapple with, which worries me deeply.

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