RE: Why is ISIS Worse than the 1948 Israeli State?
August 13, 2016 at 8:35 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2016 at 8:36 am by Regina.)
(August 12, 2016 at 11:10 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Israel doesn't want to force me to live under a barbaric legal system or behead me and parade my body through the streets. I don't care what you think of Israel but comparing them to ISIS in anyway is fucking stupid.
I find myself agreeing with this sentiment, and that's why (while I have a lot of sympathy for Palestinians as a people) I'm not sypathetic to the idea of a Palestinian state. The Middle East doesn't need yet another Islamic fundamentalist shithole, got more than enough of those already. Israel is the lesser of two evils.
Overall I see the Israel/Palestine conflict as incredibly petty. This is how low religious conflict has sunk, we have two ideologies battling it out over a barren strip of desert. Label it "The Holy Land" though and suddenly everyone wants it.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
