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 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?