- we were here once before, then we scattered
- we've been persecuted throughout history (but so have many other peoples)
- Nazi Germany committed genocide upon us (but they also committed a genocide upon Romanis, communists, gays, artists, the disabled, etc; also, many other oppressive regimes committed genocides against other peoples, such as the Europeans against the American First Nations Peoples)
- a literalist reading of some old religious texts is interpreted by some in the dominant positions of power to mean Israel must become a state in order to fulfill some sort of divine plan (these powerful people use the same texts to justify oppression, exploitation, and ecological destruction).
Israel is stolen land. There must be a one-state solution: Palestine.
I am not anti-Semitic. Anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism. I love Jewish people as much as any other people, for we are all one family. However, governments are not the same as the people. Wrongful actions by powerful people and government actions are not shielded from criticism by threats of being falsely accused of anti-Semitism.
Speaking of which, the post-colonial borders of the world should be redrawn according to ethnic, linguistic, and geographic boundaries. (And Korea and India-Pakistan should be reunited). These lands were intentionally divided in ways that would cause the most chaos and violence. The post-colonial powers simply sought to dominate through capitalism, and they needed to ensure vulnerabilities and dependencies. Too often, religions and welfare do the same thing, offering only enough assistance to create dependents, but not enough to liberate.
Wise leaders will redraw their borders for the sake of the people, putting egos aside. Rise up!
The transnational corporation overlords, oligarchs, and authoritarians must be destroyed, along with their mass surveillance program.
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