• lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    As someone from Germany, reading this makes me angry.

    I don’t have the solution for this conflict, but when seeing the concentration camps in my country and understanding how much they must have hated Jews that they aimed to kill EVERYONE of them…

    This is not the same! We all know that Israel did not even want to be there until Hamas butchered and kidnapped Israelis last year. Otherwise, they could have stayed there during the last invasion.

    The holocaust comparison does not help anyone.

    Edit: Very nice… Downvoting different views on this comparison without sharing arguments… Closing the door for discourse is always very useful!!!111 There is actually much we could agree on regarding this war, but yeah, go ahead and dislike me for not sharing your view that this is like the Holocaust. I’m from Germany where we visited tge remains of concentration camps twice during school time… What do I know…? :/

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      9 months ago

      Germany’s role as a moral shield for Israel’s genocide is the most disgusting part of this whole ordeal.

      I’ve read about the Staatsräson with some bemusement. It seems that Germany’s lesson from the Holocaust is not that there should be no more genocide but that Zionist Jews can do whatever they want.

      Germany is always on the wrong side of history it seems.

      If you want Germany to atone for Nazism, give Israel your country rather than making the Palestinians pay for your crimes for the last 75 years.

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        9 months ago

        If you want Germany to atone for Nazism, give Israel your country

        Sounds fancy, but this is as realistic as a permanent peace with Gaza as long as it is controlled by the Hamas terrorists that have the main goal to destroy Israel.

        Staatsräson

        In Germany, the word is criticised, because of the “Interpretationsspielraum” (“wiggle room”).

        but that Zionist Jews can do whatever they want.

        There are multiple German politicians warning about a disaster in Rafah, about flooding tunnels with sea water, etc. Acting like Germany is cheering “Well done, go on!!!” is far away from the truth.

        Germany is always on the wrong side of history it seems.

        Interesting, because Germany was and is kind of well aligned with the Western World for the last decades…

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          I don’t necessarily agree with every point from the previous poster, but saying Germany is in line with the western world isn’t exactly a defense because the western world hasn’t exactly been above reproach for the last 25 years. There is a lot of Muslim blood on several countries hands. I understand that you argued that the Palestinians struck first, but when you look at the overall death toll, it’s pretty clear that it isn’t the west getting slaughtered on a regular basis in the last decades.

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            I don’t necessarily agree with every point from the previous poster, but saying Germany is in line with the western world isn’t exactly a defense because the western world hasn’t exactly been above reproach for the last 25 years.

            I did not see it as a defense… More like a “Maybe, you are on the wrong side, too”…

            I understand that you argued that the Palestinians struck first, but when you look at the overall death toll, it’s pretty clear that it isn’t the west getting slaughtered on a regular basis in the last decades.

            The numbers were always like that. Hamas kills X Israelis, Israel reacts and kill X * 10 Palestinians.

            Thus, Hamas knew how bad the consequences of the latest massacre could be. I think, Hamas wanted all this. They wanted these pictures. They wanted to separate Israel and some Muslim-countries. One more reason to make sure, they lose power.

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              9 months ago

              Whether they wanted it or not, they aren’t the ones personally pulling the trigger on Palestinians. The Israelis still have a choice about how they respond, and they’ve chosen utter annihilation. Just because you are baited doesn’t mean you have to take the bait.

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                Just because you are baited doesn’t mean you have to take the bait.

                Sure. But what’s the alternative? Relaxing and waiting for the next attack?

                Hamas’ primary goal is to destroy Israel. If they stay in power, there will be a next time…

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                  9 months ago

                  A measured response. Tactical assimilation of the population until they are united. Education measures to show that historically they are the same people originating from the same region, and they can coexist together rather than enforce an apartheid.

                  Those are just a few alternatives to wholesale slaughter of an entire region, and Israel has the available resources to do it.