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Israel's government has approved a plan to expand settlements in the occupied Golan Heights, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Sunday.

The statement said that Netanyahu acted "in light of the war and the new front facing Syria", as well as a desire to double the population of the Golan Heights.

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[–] PoopSpiderman 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Israel. Apartheid state bastards.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder why all their neighbours hate them? Must be antisemitism! /s

[–] PoopSpiderman 6 points 2 days ago

I think you’ve cracked it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Nah must be religious feud

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Obviously this is all just to cripple Hamas

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's an amazing coincidence that everyone they dislike is hamas

[–] Maggoty 6 points 2 days ago

They already started calling HTS the next Hamas.

[–] Jaderick 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah this will definitely lead to peace in the Middle East. Israel big brained as always.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like their long-term strategy for peace is to deport, imprison or exterminate the (uncivilized, jihadist, subhuman) locals and re-settle with (civilized, devoted, master-race) Israelis. Now, where have I heard this idea before...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TBH I think it goes back way further than that: US expansion started of as part of the British expansion, who were probably inspired by Romans. I'm sure there are examples further back in history as well. It's a pretty easy general idea to come up with if you are unburdened by ethics, empathy or humanity and your only motivation is greed and/or religious zealotry. But yes, parallels with Lebensraum specifically are especially potent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Actually, I'm not so sure of this. Part of the drive for the revolution was to allow colonists to 'settle' (steal) land that Britain had signed treaties over.

The British empire was evil beyond description. The one thing they were good at that wasn't fully evil was environmental stewardship where that was required for profit. And the British empire viewed the unsettled lands as being a great source of beaver pelts.

[–] Maggoty 8 points 2 days ago

I was reading an article that was quoting the settler leaders. They want to go all the way to the Euphrates River. That's half of Iraq.

These people are not dealing with the world in good faith.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

When people show you who they are…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Ah A Strong political leader commiting genocide and striving for Lebensraum, why don't you see those more often?

[–] EisFrei 8 points 2 days ago

"Buffer zone"