• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is an unacceptable or inadvisable thing to say in the midst of a genocide of the Palestinian people, because it suggests that the state responsible for the genocide shouldn’t exist?

    Uh… yes. Germany exists. Turkey exists. Russia exists. Unless there’s something about Israel in particular that you especially don’t like but aren’t willing to say in public?

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      Unless there’s something about Israel in particular that you especially don’t like

      Not a big fan of the genocide.

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      Nazi Germany didn’t have a right to exist, nor did Apartheid South Africa, nor Rhodesia.

      People have a right to exist.

      Apartheid has no right to exist. Genocide has no right to exist. Ethnic cleansing has no right to exist.

      You can either prioritize that people have a right to exist, or that an ethnosupremacist state committed to ethnic cleansing of native populations has the right to exist.

      That is the situation. You are clearly choosing the latter. Maybe because there’s something in particular about the people being exterminated that you especially don’t like but aren’t willing to say in public?