r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • Aug 10 '24

Social Commentary Egyptian comedian & political satirist Bassem Youssef explains why people talk about the Israel/Palestine issue so much.

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u/GreatGregGravy Aug 10 '24

When they quit launching rockets from schools, they will quit exploding. Not until then, though.

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u/Bigbadbobbyc Aug 11 '24

Isreal has apparently one of the best special forces competitive to the US and UK yet they can't use said forces for precision attacks and instead rely on bombing, because what?

Simple fact isreal wants to wipe out a whole country, the US and UK and most of Europe agree with killing a whole country because it gets rid of the fact this problem was caused by them, Muslims are fair game, killing all of them is a OK, but telling a jew they are wrong is a big problem

Look at a goddamn map of Palestine and isreal over the years and you can see exactly why Palestinians are terrorists, nobody could tell me if another country did to them what isreal has done they wouldn't become terrorists, you all think it's OK for an opposing nation to run up on your land, kill your family, rape your wives and daughters, burn your crops, destroy your religious symbols, it's OK as long as is its Jewish folk doing it, but soon as Muslims demand some humanity thats a problem, you're fucking surprised Muslims are becoming terrorists, i mean all we did was slaughter their people take their land, enslave them, rape them, why are they getting mad at us

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u/GreatGregGravy Aug 11 '24

The arabs started this. They started it in 48. They started it again in 67. And again, on Oct 7th. They made their beds.

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u/Bigbadbobbyc Aug 11 '24

The West started it by cutting a country in two and giving it to people who wanted more, you can see the expansion before 48, isrealies just didn't consider Arabs as people

Just run up on land shooting at people, well they ran away so this land is now empty so we can take it since nobody lives here

There is video documenting over even the past few years of the same damn thing constantly happening, it was only a few months ago isrealies ran up and burned down an ancient farm and took it because the people ran away from getting shot, but yay to the isrealies getting more land, those Arabs looking after a bunch of trees sure had it coming

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u/GreatGregGravy Aug 11 '24

So you view Pakistan in the same light correct, it was created at the same time, by the same people, for the same reasons. The biggest difference is that the creation of Pakistan resulted in 1.5 million deaths and 15 million displaced.

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u/Bigbadbobbyc Aug 11 '24

Yes and no, the world is complecated, I can be pissed at shit of the past but I can't do anything about them

Things that are happening now I can protest, isreal now has destroyed a country that used to exist during my lifetime

I'm being told by the world that it's not a genocide, while I'm watching this country get smaller, I'm watching the news with cities being bombed and I'm told by isreal that they aren't really people, just animals that look like people so it's not really a big deal, I'm seeing that isreal is breaking humanitarian laws but the US and other countries that have to uphold those laws are deciding isreal should have some leeway when every other country on earth is not allowed

It's about allies and enemies, we are supposed to expect the worst from enemies and the best from allies, yet isreal is showing the worst of the worst while being a close ally, yet we are told they have special exemption to be the worst and why is the question

The thing that pissed people off the most, you can complain about the Iraq war and every other middle Easter war and you are OK, but say anything about isreal and your an antisemite, regardless of the fact that semites are people from a specific region and currently the complaint is against two semites people but complaining against one is antisemite (if they are Jewish) while it's encouraged to hate the other because they are Muslim

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u/GreatGregGravy Aug 11 '24

What country that existed in your lifetime has Israel destroyed?

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u/Mysterious_Post_8765 Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24

No country, but a genocide. Almost half of the Palestinian people live in diaspora & more than 100.000 Palestinians have been killed (mainly civilians) since 1948. Radical scum of the earth orthodox assholes stealing land in the Westbank from innocent Palestinians on a daily basis. Israel treats its Muslim inhabitants like second class people & created an apartheid state.

I'm German & I learned a lot about the horrible deeds of my Nazi ancestors at school. I am ashamed of what happened to innocent Jewish people in my country more than 80 years ago. I hope there will also be a historical reappraisal of the heinous acts against the Palestinians in Israel one day & that the Zionazis will get punished for what they've been doing to innocent people.

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u/GreatGregGravy Aug 11 '24

Almost half of what country? Egypt? Jordan?