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TIL that during its founding, Israel conducted an operation called Cast Thy Bread, in which typhoid bacteria were used to poison drinking water wells

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Operation Cast Thy Bread - Wikipedia

“Operation Cast Thy Bread was a top-secret biological warfare operation conducted by the Haganah and later the Israel Defense Forces that began in April 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war. The Haganah used typhoid bacteria to contaminate drinking water wells in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol. Its objective was to frighten and prevent Palestinian Arabs from returning to villages captured by the Yishuv and make conditions difficult for Arab armies attempting to retake territories. The operation resulted in severe illness among local Palestinian citizens. In the final months of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel gave orders to expand the biological warfare campaign into neighboring Arab states such as Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria, but they were not carried out. Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion and IDF chief of general staff Yigael Yadin oversaw and approved the use of biological warfare.”

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The zionists were the original middle eastern terrorists.
- "But do you condemn Oct 7 and Hamas?!" As much as I condemn the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Jewish resistance under Nazi rule.
  
  I condone hummus, especially with a nice fresh piece of bread.
  
  I mean, Hamas is a Mossad asset who murders socialists, so I think it's justifiable to hate them.
- The region has be subject to terrorism for far longer than Israel has existed.
  Israel is just a new face on conflict that is ancient.
  
  Israel is just a new face on conflict that is ancient.
  No, that's a bullshit and an insidious myth used to justify and normalize the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
  The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan
  The Zionists not only sought to colonize Palestine but, as Pappe shows, “…it also hoped to secularize the Jewish people, to invent the ‘new Jew’ in antithesis to the religious Orthodox Jews of Europe… The Orthodox Jew was ridiculed by the Zionists, and was viewed as someone who could only be redeemed through hard work in Palestine… The role of the Bible within Jewish life offered one further clear difference between Judaism and Zionism… the Bible provided ‘the myth for our right over the land.’ It was in the Bible that they read stories about Hebrew farmers, shepherds, kings, and wars, which they appropriated as describing the ancient golden era of their nation’s birth. Returning to the land meant coming back to become farmers , shepherds and kings. Thus, they found themselves faced with a challenging paradox, for they wanted both to secularize Jewish life and to use the Bible as a publication for colonizing Palestine. In other words, though they did not believe in God, He had nonetheless promised them Palestine.”
  In reality, Pappe believes, “…the takeover of the West Bank in particular, with its ancient biblical sights, was a Zionist aim even before 1948 and it fitted the logic of the Zionist project as a whole. This logic can be summarized as the wish to take over as much of Palestine as possible with as few Palestinians as possible… After the occupation, the new ruler confined the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in an impossible limbo: they were neither refugees nor citizens—they were, and still are, citizenless inhabitants. They were inmates, and in many respects still are, of a huge prison in which they have no civil, and human rights and no impact on their future. The world tolerates this situation because Israel claims —and the claim was never challenged until recently—that the situation is temporary…Israel is still incarcerating a third generation of Palestinians…and depicting these mega-prisons as temporary…”
  10 myths of Israel by Ilan Pappe, summerized and full book
  
  That is literally untrue. There is no ancient conflict over Palestine, unless you count Europeans crying over having lost the holy land.
  
  Not really true of all of the Levant, but largely true for Acre for the last thousand years. First the crusaders killed everybody, then the mamluks killed everybody, then after being a fishing village for a time it became a port again, Napoleon bombed it, the British used it as their prison and port and it got targeted, and then you had this. It had it worse, historically, than post roman Jerusalem.
Western nations really need to teach their kids about colonialism. There needs to be an honest appraisal of the harm that went into creating the global imbalance we see today. Without it, the average person ends up cognitively deficient in discussions of global geopolitics (there are far too many that fit this bill).
I still meet too many people that hold onto a colonialism happened because we're awesome attitude with a profound knowledge deficit on the number of genocides that went into the process.
They argue on a Western technological advantage which can be a reasonable assertion but also Western moral superiority which is so laughably misinformed they might as well have not gone to grade school.
- Western nations do teach about colonialism.
  They teach that it was good, because they're colonizers.
  
  that, or they teach that it’s over, it’s in the past, we must turn the page now; nothing we can do, after all!
  or they’ll say that it was someone else’s fault. this is very popular in canada: the anglos blame the french and the francos blame the english
- Exactly, we should promote colonialism
  /s
What fucking scumbags.
nazis will nazi. who knew.
Israël being Israël?

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