76% of Brits support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Despite the leaders of both major parties supporting the invasion and almost none of our media called for a ceasefire.
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[quote]almost none of our media called for a ceasefire[/quote]
Why should media call for [i]anything[/i], one way or the other, rather than merely [i]report[/i] on and investigate events?
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In regards to the rest of it ...
Seeing as how external forces have been shaping this region ever since the Ottoman Empire I don't see why external forces can't just force (after securing Israel's nuclear weapons) both Jews and Muslims/Arabs to get along in a single, unified state, a democracy rather than some ethnosectarian apartheid nonsense. Muslims/Arabs in particular already have plenty of ethnosectarian states to choose from as it is, and going back to antiquity I believe what we consider Palestinians today (not necessarily in the sense of the original naming of "Palestine" by the Romans) are really just Arab immigrants to what was Canaan after the Muslim conquest of the region (in what, the 6th century CE I think?). There is no actual legitimate "Palestinian" claim to the area, any more than there really is any valid Jewish / Israeli claim to the area, and certainly no valid claim to existing Palestinian homes by rando Jews from Long island who decided to move and steal someone's home with the blessing of the Israeli government. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, both Jews and Arabs ethnically / genetically are descendants of Canaanites, so screw any unilateral claims to the region by either contemporary side.
At the same time it's really bonkers for anyone to live in the Levant / Mesopotamia / the Arabian peninsula, Arizona, et al., when it takes unnatural measures like desalination and irrigating literal deserts to even begin to make it habitable. Maybe external forces should just relocate EVERYBODY there to greener, more sustainable regions.
I think Zionists in particular are also unwittingly breeding more antisemitism, which is kind of ponderous for them to be doing, when considering how draconian antisemitism has been over the centuries without intentionally stirring it. And that will affect all Jews around the world, even those who are not on board with Zionism or the far-right, neo-ethnic cleansing extremists like Netanyahu.
Why should media call for [i]anything[/i], one way or the other, rather than merely [i]report[/i] on and investigate events?
[sep]
In regards to the rest of it ...
Seeing as how external forces have been shaping this region ever since the Ottoman Empire I don't see why external forces can't just force (after securing Israel's nuclear weapons) both Jews and Muslims/Arabs to get along in a single, unified state, a democracy rather than some ethnosectarian apartheid nonsense. Muslims/Arabs in particular already have plenty of ethnosectarian states to choose from as it is, and going back to antiquity I believe what we consider Palestinians today (not necessarily in the sense of the original naming of "Palestine" by the Romans) are really just Arab immigrants to what was Canaan after the Muslim conquest of the region (in what, the 6th century CE I think?). There is no actual legitimate "Palestinian" claim to the area, any more than there really is any valid Jewish / Israeli claim to the area, and certainly no valid claim to existing Palestinian homes by rando Jews from Long island who decided to move and steal someone's home with the blessing of the Israeli government. Moreover, if I'm not mistaken, both Jews and Arabs ethnically / genetically are descendants of Canaanites, so screw any unilateral claims to the region by either contemporary side.
At the same time it's really bonkers for anyone to live in the Levant / Mesopotamia / the Arabian peninsula, Arizona, et al., when it takes unnatural measures like desalination and irrigating literal deserts to even begin to make it habitable. Maybe external forces should just relocate EVERYBODY there to greener, more sustainable regions.
I think Zionists in particular are also unwittingly breeding more antisemitism, which is kind of ponderous for them to be doing, when considering how draconian antisemitism has been over the centuries without intentionally stirring it. And that will affect all Jews around the world, even those who are not on board with Zionism or the far-right, neo-ethnic cleansing extremists like Netanyahu.