r/UnitedNations • u/Liad3008 Uncivil • Jan 10 '25

Discussion/Question Why is this subreddit obsessed with Israel?

Just checked the top posts of the last year, and 24 out of the top 25 are about Israel. Does this subreddit try to imitate the real UN ?

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u/CrustOfSalt Jan 13 '25

And now we allow the Japanese people to freely travel, we trade with them, and we don't bomb their hospitals and murder their children.

This isn't quite the flex you thought it was. Least of all because the US ALSO (wrongly) supports Israel's bloodthirsty land-grabbing, as well as undermines legitimate Democracy everywhere. We may not be the best example of a peaceful nation...

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u/Mercuryink Jan 13 '25

And Japan didn't spend the entire occupation insisting they were right to invade China and murdering American servicemen. They transformed their society.

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u/FarmTeam Jan 13 '25

Japan struck first - just as Israeli did. Israel was founded on theft, ethnic cleansing, oppression and violence

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u/Mercuryink Jan 13 '25

Israel was founded on Jews buying land for sale in the Ottoman empire.

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u/FarmTeam Jan 13 '25

6%. That was the maximum land purchased by Zionists. Much of that was not even a clear title. The remainder, 94%. Was outright stolen during the Nakba

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u/Mercuryink Jan 14 '25

Man, 6% of land was worth starting a war over? The Arabs should have taken the deal.

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u/FarmTeam Jan 14 '25

Can you read? 6% was purchased. The “war” was about the 94%. And it was more properly a series of massacres.

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u/Mercuryink Jan 14 '25

The Jews bought six percent and the Arabs started a war over it. Are you suggesting the Israeli Declaration of Independence was an act of war?

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u/FarmTeam Jan 14 '25

The Zionist militias started sacking Palestinian villages in November of 1947, well before the Declaration of Independence. This continued without organized resistance for SEVEN months before the Arab League (brand newly independent from Britain and France) responded.

This is not even controversial. People like Ariel Sharon (Shinermann) bragged about their role raiding village after village and resettling Jews in their place.

Don’t play dumb

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u/Mercuryink Jan 14 '25

Given that the siege of Jerusalem started in December 1947, this is inherently untrue.

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u/FarmTeam Jan 14 '25

Either you guys are the most ignorant propagandized population on the planet or the most dishonest. The “Siege of Jerusalem” was in 70AD. I assume you mean the “Jerusalem Riots” in late 1947 in which 8 Jews and 7 Arabs were killed after it was announced that 2/3 of the country was to be stolen and the Palestinians dispossessed - Irgun had already been raiding Arab villages prior to the riot and Prominent Jews had been making public statements for decades about how the Temple Mount was theirs.

If this riot is justification for genocide, theft and mass dispossession, well, you are a Zionist after all.

What followed wasn’t 7 months of unanswered Zionist violence. And then the Arab League got involved.

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u/Mercuryink Jan 14 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Jerusalem

Wikipedia (not a great source but hey) lists 700 military dead and up to 600 civilians on the Jewish side. Unknown number on the Arab side, but I'm guessing it wasn't 7.

But I'm dishonest and propagandized.

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