Neither did majority of football fans
This is unfortunately not true. Qatar had record numbers for attendance and viewership - average attendance was 96.3% of stadium capacity, with 5 billion total viewers worldwide.
There was a tiny dip in numbers for 2018 compared with 2014, but they were still very high.
I don’t think there’s much chance of it being any different next year sadly.
There are a lot of countries that absolutely would arrest him. Unfortunately close to none of them are the ones touting international human rights.
Here are a couple of his past flight paths:
Wheezing even
A much happier ending than I expected.
I wouldn’t usually continue to engage, but you don’t actually come across as a hasbarist. I do agree with quite a few of the things you’ve said, but the conclusions you seem to come to regarding modern Israel are, at the very least, confusing.
If you understand Zionism’s history then you must understand that the modern state of Israel would not exist without Zionism. One of Zionism’s core principles is colonisation^. Therefore, Israel is a settler-colonial state. The circumstances and motivations of the individual settlers are irrelevant when the outcome is the same. Knowing this yet still claiming that Israel is not a settler-colonial state is deceitful.
^Wikipedia is not an ideal source of information, but that particular page cites more than enough quality sources that clearly show this to be the case.
The views I have expressed are mostly directed specifically at the state, not every single individual. Anyone with any sense understands that no group of people consists of identical individuals. You have made a lot of assumptions about my views. Just because I can see why something happened does not mean that I agree with it.
These issues and events existed well before Netanyahu, and whether or not the citizens like him is largely irrelevant when polls repeatedly show that the vast majority approve of the general treatment of Palestinians.
While my comment about Australia was facetious, the intent was to point out that, regardless of the history, the treatment of the local populations in both situations is wrong, but in Australia amends are slowly being made. I don’t think the comment you’re referring to meant “peaceful coexistence” in the sense that there was absolutely no conflict (they did say “no major conflict”), but were more likely thinking along the lines of “peaceful enough to coexist”, whereas that is not how I would describe the current situation at all.
You demonstrate a good enough understanding of the history that you clearly know that you are being deceitful.
While some elements of Israel’s establishment can be classified as settler colonialism, it’s not accurate to say that all of it is.
Is there any colonised country that this doesn’t apply to? Colonisation is a core principle of Zionism. It’s so central to Zionism that it’s in the introductory paragraph on it’s Wikipedia page. Many of the early Zionist leaders said that their goals could only be achieved through the displacement of Arabs, and the migration of Jews was, and still is, strongly encouraged by Zionists.
For example, when Israel was established. The muslim world started committing pogroms in mass against their Jewish communities even though they had nothing to do with Israel.
Gosh, I wonder if that was in response to the treatment of Arabs in Palestine.
These people who been living in their communities for hundreds, and for some, thousands, of years were forced to abandon everything, including their citizenship, and flee to Israel because that’s the only place that took them in.
And they had no problem pushing out the Arabs (who had been living in their communities for hundreds, and for some, thousands, of years) on their way in.
The total number of people from the exodus total around 1 million people. These people and their descendants now make up a very large chunk of the Israeli population, if not an outright majority.
Before they started settling in Palestine it used to be that less than 5% of the population were Jewish.
A majority of Australian colonists were sent there for committing petty crimes, such as theft. The industrial revolution left much of the working class without work, so theft in Britain rose rapidly. For the crime of trying to fees their family, over 100,000 people were forcibly transported to Australia. Their descendants now make up a very large chunk of the Australian population.
It is, though I believe the shooter was Australian, which may have been what the previous commenter was confused about.
Not quite Wolfenstein, but this already exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fursan_al-Aqsa:_The_Knights_of_the_Al-Aqsa_Mosque
we need to challenge this idea that violence done by the state is automatically legitimate
That is exactly what the top-level comment was doing.
It’s still important to not conflate the two.
While most legal systems are far from ideal, a lot of people appreciate having some semblance of law and order.
An arrest is made when someone is believed to have committed a crime. A kidnapping is the unlawful capturing of an individual.
Enforcers of the legal system (police, ICE, and other 3 letter agencies) carry out both legal arrests and unlawful kidnappings, the latter of which is what’s being discussed here.
The fact that “the world will pretend otherwise” is exactly why it is so important to emphasise the difference between the 2 words.
Oslo was a complete farce, just like any other “deal” Israel was willing to accept.
Not that I necessarily agree with their methods, but Hamas were doing their part to actually represent the large number of Palestinians who were against the Oslo Accords, using the only means at their disposal, unlike the corrupt PLO.
We have always been at war with Eastasia Canada
I’m not going to argue about what @CluckN@sh.itjust.works meant, but it seemed pretty clear to me that the problem is all of the countries who aren’t doing anything.
I don’t think the previous comment was directed at the commission.
The world has been watching the genocide for nearly 2 years now and no meaningful action has been taken to stop it by any country.
I think the point that was being made is that the UN appears to be completely powerless as long as the US continues to back Israel (and still has veto power in the security council).
Only 86%? Clearly there’s a lot of doubt among these genocide scholars. It would be rash to stop the bombing of hospitals and civilians and to allow food and aid to enter. The last functional hospital in southern Gaza that was recently bombed might still have a Hamas inside.
/s
What I meant was the difference in who was targeted. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that specific groups (and more specifically, their leaders) were primarily targeted by the operations carried out back then, whereas today they are also detaining/deporting etc people who genuinely have no offenses or ties to such groups. Even Trump supporters and their family members are being persecuted. I think it’s these seemingly indiscriminate actions that make the average person less willing to take a stand, especially if they don’t feel as though they’ve been affected badly enough yet to risk sticking their neck out.
In any case it’s a terrifying and truly fucked situation.
I don’t know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though. The government has been detaining regular protestors alongside movement leaders/organisers to scare people into thinking that nobody is safe. The Trump administration has even been targeting people for deportation based on the fucking Canary Mission.
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
It’s worse in the eyes of conservatives. They want their leader to be a strong man.