r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • Oct 12 '24

Social Commentary Jason Hickel explains why a liberated Palestine threatens global capitalism: 'A liberated Palestine means a liberated Middle East. A liberated Middle East means capitalism really faces a crisis[...] & they're unleashing the full violence of their extraordinary power to ensure it doesn't.'

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u/Dry_Meringue_8016 Oct 13 '24

Yeah, Israel's creation was originally a British project that was intended to establish a beachhead amongst the Arabs to control the region and its resources.

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u/Beddingtonsquire Oct 13 '24

Jews existed there the whole time, those who had been historically driven out returned and and exercised the right to self-determination.

Even if I took your argument at face value, so what? It's now a state where people have lived for over 75 years, soon there will be no one alive from the region before it was Israel.

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u/Hungry-Square2148 Oct 14 '24

you idiots are just giving justifications to future hitlers

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u/Beddingtonsquire Oct 14 '24

It's insane that you and invoke Hitler when talking about the Jews, that's such grotesque antisemitism.

Are you denying that Jews exist in the Levant and have a history there going back thousands of years?

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u/Hungry-Square2148 Oct 14 '24

you know what's grotesque ? what jews are doing to Palestinians and Labanese.

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u/Beddingtonsquire Oct 14 '24

What's grotesque is what Hamas did to Jews, they are ensuring it can never happen again.

As for Hezbolla, they were a group of terrorists who have murdered thousands of civilians, and they are now substantially weakened.