Israel's religious right has a clear plan for Gaza: 'We are occupying, deporting and settling'
Israel's religious right has a clear plan for Gaza: 'We are occupying, deporting and settling'
Religious Zionists, most believing in a divine right to govern, now have outsize influence in Israel. The war in the Gaza Strip is energizing their settlement push.
Oh? God told you to take their homes away? With violence?
That changes everything! Please continue.
For those not in the know, this is literally the founding story of Israel - God told them to genocide the Canaanites and steal their land. What we’re seeing here is violence that continues to be perpetuated by religious traditions (about events which never really happened, according to biblical scholars).
But I was emphatically told this was not what they were doing by several apologists! They wouldn't have lied, would they?!
Maybe not the apologists, they're just drinking the piss flavored Kool aid.
Those making the piss punch could use another type of punch. All the propagandists, everywhere.
A lot of focus on lemmy is on billionaires and not nearly enough on propagandists. It's the propagandists that enable the billionaires to continue, and in this case it's the propagandists that "allow" for arguments over reality to exist.
I wish hell were real, it would be full to the brim with propagandists, billionaires, and fundamental religious nutters. And who am I kidding, probably me too lol
They have been doing this for more than 70 years. Israel exists on stolen Palestinian land.
That's not what deport means. That's displace.
At this scale that's Ethnic Cleansing.
I mean they also need Lebensraum.
"Nonono, I was told it was Hamas!" 😐
what the fuck is wrong with humans
We're greedy fucks and vulnerable to bubbles. There's a concept that humans have a strong internal moral compass and some of us might. Most people though, just go with the flow, and let the people around them guide their morals - this seems to happen especially awfully in religious communities. Weirdly enough a fair number of awful religious people seem aware of how immoral they are and repeat the thought "Without God's guidance we'd be animals" which just highlights how awful they actually are.
They will openly say this and still the US does nothing to stop it
Where did I hear that before?
Just like North America, when the British sent their religious fanatics to colonize their new colonies.
Religious Zionists, who believe the Jewish people have divine authority to rule from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, make up only around 14% of Israel's population. But in recent years they have greatly expanded their influence in the military, the government and society at large,
"In recent years..." What? Israel itself is a Zionist project since the beginning, from Hovevei Zion to Herzl to Haganah to Ben-Gurion to Sharon and Netanyahu.