cross-posted from: https://lemmy.crimedad.work/post/138601

“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If you think what’s happening in Gaza is purely religious in nature

    I argue it couldn’t happen WITHOUT the influence of monotheistic madness.

    Pray tell, without the religious fervor on all sides, how long would any of it last? for fucks sake, be realistic

    edit: and your thesis, that Palestine is fighting a purely secular battle - is absolutely absurd. Explain the atrocities on oct 6 without theology, it doesn’t make you seem better, it’s damning.

    ffs people, stop with the silly fucking excuses

    • leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      You’re building a straw man, you’re the one asserting that religion is solely to blame when it’s just a tool that’s being applied as part of a larger more complex problem.

      This situation could just as easily have a secular socialist resistance fighting the colonizer, similar to some of the Kurdish resistance groups fighting ISIS and in Syria.

      The reason for the conflict is that a colonizing state operating an apartheid government is committing genocide on the people living there to expand their control and territory. Illegal settlements aren’t there because of Judaism they’re there because of imperialism.

      Religion is being exploited on both sides as an excuse and to motivate the people, but it’s not the root cause.