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am_Unition  ·  271 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Palestine and the power of language

Yeah well BIden's not Zionist enough for the Christian Zionists, because that's not a threshold that exists. He still hasn't figured out that MAGA will hate him regardless of what he does, and on any issue whatsoever.

    sneaky realpolitik to end Netanyahu

If part of a long-term plan includes being on the wrong side of history in the moment that it mattered, the plan sucks. It looks like this is a personal issue for Biden, to me. Yeah, he is some degree of Zionist, for sure. And I do think that he's built the type of white house where people don't typically challenge him, but for different reasons than why Trump's underlings wouldn't buck Trump.

I should also just say that I absolutely do think Israel should exist, but I think the way it was brought into existence and the way that it operates is a disgrace. The holocaust was real, and it was maybe the most morally reprehensible thing in human history, but there were ways to better get along with the people whose land they invaded, and just about all of those ways were carefully avoided.





kleinbl00  ·  271 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I should also just say that I absolutely do think Israel should exist,

Congratulations you're a Zionist.

am_Unition  ·  271 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Actually, I think the True Zionists typically decide who is and is not welcome to identify with them, and it's pretty obvious that they'd have no place for me.

Literally any criticism of the Israeli gov't is all that it takes to be disqualified.

Congrats, you're not really a Zionist.

kleinbl00  ·  271 days ago  ·  link  ·  

lol "true zionists" is anyone the Zoomers hate

am_Unition  ·  271 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is actually really funny. A Southern Baptist telling a Jew that the Jew is not a Zionist, after the Jew tells the Southern Baptist that the Southern Baptist is a Zionist. Are we inside of a joke? Maybe we just walked into a bar.

kleinbl00  ·  271 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Power of language, man.