he’s suuuuch a cutie - just - god. he’s so good and nice and never actively lies. worse case is he lies because he literally forgot. such a honest lil man.

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i’m FINALLY COUGHT UP with all the posts!!! doesn’t mean i’m done making them, but i’m finally back to being on track. so when tomorrows post will be number 70, it’ll actually be the 70th day of me making daily posts. that is good.

oh yea, this is totally not a political statement, i’d just really like this guy cuz he always seemed so honest. he’d slip on stuff sometimes but… how could you get mad at this shy llittle wittle guy??? impossible.

i wish you a wonderful day in which things turn to the better for you <3

  • Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

    They’re the same thing.

    If Israel is not #2, then what is it? A liberal democracy where all have equal rights? A country that allows Arabs to become the majority population? That allows them not just freedom of movement and basic human rights but also to hold positions of influence in government, industry, and culture?

    At that point a country that operates in that way might be called Isreal but has a fundamentally different identity and purpose from the country that exists today. At that point does it make sense for the flag to continue to have a Star of David on it?

    In what way does Israel preserve its “right to exist” if not through being an apartheid ethnostate?

      • Enkrod@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        Uhh oh, no, I haven’t answered within 9 hours, please excuse me for having a job and sleeping.

        I’m thinking dude. Fitz has made some good points and I don’t want to brush that off, so now I’m thinking about his arguments, formulating my own opinion, formulating and double-checking my own arguments and all that while I’m at my day job. So PISS OFF with that crickets shit back to the .ml-Sever you crawled from!

        Demanding a quick answer is not the measure of a great intellect OR of a good argument. People need to take their time and think instead of just screaming at each other.

        Edit: Sorry I snapped. Just… give me some time dude, life’s happening at the same time.

        • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          21 days ago

          sorry to cause you stress; i had checked and saw you posted several comments elsewhere well after it, so i assumed that you weren’t planning to reply to @Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone’ comment.

          i am glad to hear you’re actually considering the points in it, and i look forward to reading your reply if/when you have time to write one.

      • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Here is the Israel I support: https://youtu.be/GYr3hYjHlx8

        That is explicitly arguing for a “two-state solution” with 1967 borders. Is that really what you think can or should happen?

        Even if you do believe that having a colonial European ethnostate there is somehow a good idea if it was just limited to those borders, nobody in Israeli politics even pretends to be open to such a thing anymore so that idea is moot.

        The Israel you say that you support is a wholly imaginary one, while the one that exists is continuing to commit genocide every day.

        In a two state solution Israel would still be ~73% ethnically jewish

        Are you sure about that? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Definitions : among other things, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics’ definition of “Population of Israel” includes Israelis (and does not include non-Israeli-citizen Palestinians) in “Area C” (which fyi icymi is on the Palestinian side of those 1967 borders you said you support).

        Germany, which does have a special responsibility.

        Doesn’t it feel awkward as a German to be advocating for an ideology (Zionism) which has the core premise that… European Jews should not live in Europe?

        But I feel that responsibility extends to a free, equal, non-apartheid Israel and not the current course.

        How much do you know about the history of Zionism? I’m guessing not enough, because it certainly never involved any idea to have a “non-apartheid Israel”. See here and here for some previous posts of mine with some links you might benefit from reading.