• amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    That just isn’t true, the majority of the population of American Indians died via disease without ever meeting a European. Also, Americans on many occaisons had virtually no qualms with just committing outright genocide, whereas Israel actually needs “tactics” to try to cover it up.

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      11 months ago

      via disease

      That doesn’t really change the main point though.

      If the rest of your family dies and you live alone in your house, then I come and force you out and steal your house. I still stole it.

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      11 months ago

      Israel doesn’t have qualms about committing genocide, they just don’t want to piss off their neighbors or make their allies uncomfortable.

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      11 months ago

      I agree, but just for clarity’s sake most of the deaths due to disease weren’t strictly intentional until long after we were genociding them. I’m not saying it’s a mirror image of the US genocides, I’m saying that the Israeli government is modeling their methods after the US, and playing politics about their genocide.