I have not said Israel shouldn’t exist. I’ve said it shouldn’t be an ethnostate. That’s all. While you’re trying to tar anyone against the idea of an ethnostate as an antisemite, I might point out that the most vociferous advocates for ethnostates in America are white nationalists such as the KKK. So maybe we should keep this converation between you and I rather than slandering each other based on who is standing on our side, because you’ll find you have your own pretty unsavory types standing with you. Including, ironically, ardent antisemites.
You can call yourself pragmatic, but supporting the genocide or apartheid of a people because the people doing the genociding were themselves once genocided seems pretty ideological rather than pragmatic. I don’t think this puts you in a very good position to finger wag others for their views on racism, cowboy.
I think the lesson of the 20th century is very, very clearly that ethnostates only lead to genocide and war. They almost have to by definition… the story of the Balkans and central Africa for the past century has been one of attempting to establish borders based on race and then humanitarian disasters followed as people who didn’t fit into those borders were either forcibly expelled or killed. This can’t really be denied, can it? And aren’t we seeing this exact thing play out in Israel?
Can you explain to me how it is possible to have an ethnostate without engaging in either genocide or apartheid? Because I can’t see how that’s possible.
I think we also need to acknowledge there’s a pretty big difference in a people currently or within a few generations culturally connected to a land, and people who have been displaced for literal centuries. Do we give Britain back to the Gaelic peoples that were displaced by Saxons? They can both claim a cultural connection and have been present the entire time, as with Jews in the area around Israel. How far back do we go?
In any case, no, even in the case of indigenous peoples, I absolutely do not support ethnostates because of the above… they invariably and always lead to genocide and apartheid, which I feel should be avoided at all costs. Do you not?
I have not said Israel shouldn’t exist. I’ve said it shouldn’t be an ethnostate. That’s all. While you’re trying to tar anyone against the idea of an ethnostate as an antisemite, I might point out that the most vociferous advocates for ethnostates in America are white nationalists such as the KKK. So maybe we should keep this converation between you and I rather than slandering each other based on who is standing on our side, because you’ll find you have your own pretty unsavory types standing with you. Including, ironically, ardent antisemites.
You can call yourself pragmatic, but supporting the genocide or apartheid of a people because the people doing the genociding were themselves once genocided seems pretty ideological rather than pragmatic. I don’t think this puts you in a very good position to finger wag others for their views on racism, cowboy.
I think the lesson of the 20th century is very, very clearly that ethnostates only lead to genocide and war. They almost have to by definition… the story of the Balkans and central Africa for the past century has been one of attempting to establish borders based on race and then humanitarian disasters followed as people who didn’t fit into those borders were either forcibly expelled or killed. This can’t really be denied, can it? And aren’t we seeing this exact thing play out in Israel?
Can you explain to me how it is possible to have an ethnostate without engaging in either genocide or apartheid? Because I can’t see how that’s possible.
I think we also need to acknowledge there’s a pretty big difference in a people currently or within a few generations culturally connected to a land, and people who have been displaced for literal centuries. Do we give Britain back to the Gaelic peoples that were displaced by Saxons? They can both claim a cultural connection and have been present the entire time, as with Jews in the area around Israel. How far back do we go?
In any case, no, even in the case of indigenous peoples, I absolutely do not support ethnostates because of the above… they invariably and always lead to genocide and apartheid, which I feel should be avoided at all costs. Do you not?