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By MEE staff. Published date: 2 October 2024 11:34 BST

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What the fuck are you even talking about? What is Bibi, some pariah, some exception? In the 21st century, there are more years where Netanyahu has been PM of Israel than there are when he wasn't. Before him it was Ariel fucking Sharon. For the vast majority of time since Oslo, it's been either Likud or some Likud splinter in power. The basic outlines of the original Likud program are by now Israel's official policy. Fuck, they have been building "facts on the ground" for 30 years. The facts on the ground are now just the FACTS. Israel took a dump on Oslo, and its shit stinks.

And yea I know that other types of Zionism exist, and that "not all Zionists" are rabid genocidal lunatics. But for the last 30 years, the Israeli Right has DOMINATED what it means to be a zionist. The Sharon-Netanyahu style of Zionism, is the really existing Zionism that is in POWER. And fuck no, I don't need to be doing the "not all Israelis" dance, not any more than when the Greek government does shit. When Modi sends assassination squads to kill Sikhs in Canada, we don't say "not all Indians", we condemn Indian sponsorship of terror. I'm not going to give Israeli terrorism a pass just because it's Israeli. ISRAEL IS NOT SPECIAL. Israeli shit smells just as bad as Greek shit or Turkish shit or Lebanese shit.

That's why I'm saying that Israel the country, is a sponsor of settler terrorism. The country's army protects them. The country's government arms them and leaves them unpunished. The country's services over time legalize their land grabs and offer them amenities. THIS IS WHAT STATE SPONSORSHIP OF TERROR LOOKS LIKE. If you can't wrap your head around the fact that this does not constitute a condemnation of every israeli out there, or worse of every jew out there, that's a You problem. And if your feefees about what Zionism should be are hurt by the reality of what Really Existing Zionism actually does are hurt, too bad for your feefees.