• mindlight@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Hezbollah attacked Israel on the 8th of October and supported Hamas attacking and kidnapping civilians on the 7th October.

    Iran is actively supporting conflicts in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. So either we start talking about the religious fanatics or we just accept the USA as the world police and we should just do as they tell us to do.

    I’d personally prefer the former…

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      3 months ago

      What you fail to understand is that Israel is a foreign colonial force and therefore has no right to self defense or to even exist. The only religious fanatics are the Zionist invaders who are trying to fulfill Iron Age mythologies about a Promised Land.

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        3 months ago

        “The only religious fanatics are the Zionist…”

        Yeah, I’m pretty sure millions of women in Iran beg to differ.

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      3 months ago

      I don’t want Israel and Hezbollah to go to war, but what will ‘talking about the religious fanatics’ achieve?

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        3 months ago

        Nothing except for deflection of blame for the many war crimes of the fascist apartheid regime of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich.

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          3 months ago

          I agree that’s where the blame lies, but even if they were right and the problem was religious fanaticism, talking about it achieves nothing.

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            3 months ago

            It does for the genocide denying Zionists whose ONLY goal is to convince people that the actions of the Israeli government are justified. I suspect that the one you originally addressed was one of them, if not just a thoroughly gaslighted useful idiot 🤷

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              3 months ago

              Again, I agree with you. But OP made the implication that if we just talked this out, then there would be no war there and I wanted to nip that in the bud from the source before we even got into whether or not the OP was being disingenuous.

              I feel like the best way to attack such things is by talking about how they are illogical or irrational arguments irrespective of the intentions of the person making them.

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      3 months ago

      Thank you for this comprehensive account of all the events that have led to the current situation and for presenting us with the only two options available.