• shplane@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Trying to prevent genocide isn’t political. Would you have said trying to stop Hitler from gassing the Jews in concentration camps was too political?

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        No it very much is political, political simply means ‘relating to govt. conduct/policy’.

        Eating grapes is political if the govt. decides that everyone needs to eat grapes and sets policies towards that end. Obviously speaking with hyperbole, but you understand my point.

        So yes, I would say it’s a political decision to decide to end a genocide - especially when the genocide is being carried out by local govt. The choice of whether or not to end a genocide should be obvious.

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          Spoken like someone who would have voted for McClellan during the civil war to make peace with the south.

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              14 hours ago

              Personally, I think the South African model.

              However, none of my family got sent to the torture-rape-death camp Sde Teimen to be raped to death, and none of my nieces or nephews were kidnapped by the IDF in the West Bank…

              I think the victims of genocide should be the ones that get to choose what happens to their slaughterers.

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              17 hours ago

              Make zionism as internationally illegal as Nazism, and stage a multinational intervention in the region to remove all traces of zionism while returning the two nations to 1967 borders while wider talks are discussed to create a single actual democratic state of Palestine encompassing the entirety (minus Syria) of Israel and Palestine current borders.