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TIL That each missile fired by Israels Iron Dome cost anywhere between 40k to 50k US per missile(wamu.org)

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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. It’s a messed up country, but it’s in an extremely messed up part of the world. All of their neighbors are nondemocratic ethnostates, and not even the apartheid kind, they’ve completely driven Jewish people out of their countries. I don’t think standing by and letting Isreal get overrun would be beneficial for the world. I don’t support their offensive military actions but that doesn’t mean I want to see what happens when Hamas/Hezbollah takes over their country.

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orrk@lemmy.world
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you know, leave it to the nazis to cut all that text down to just 14 words

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Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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There are plenty of places in the west where they would be safe, secure, and could flourish. Hell, many of them are citizens of these countries. My only concern would be letting such a large amount of fascists migrate when we’re already combating the rise of fascism in the west.

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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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That’s pretty unrealistic in my opinion. Jewish people see Isreal as their ancestral homeland and they are already risking their lives to stay there. Millions of people would likely die rather than leave.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. It was wrong to push out Palestinians, but now that Israeli people have been their for generations it would be wrong to push them out too. There arent many human settlements without a record of eviction and occupation. Even the native American tribes occupied, annexed, and eradicated each other for millenia before Europeans arrived. In my opinion, once you live somewhere for a few generations it’s your land and you can’t be kicked out- that just adds more suffering to the world.

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Oh yes, they’ve been there for generations so they get to just genocide the people that lives there because it’s their land. What the actual fuck?

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Madison420@lemmy.world
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Bro. If they take land they’re at war and invaders can be killed. I would suggest for kids sake they do not bring their children while hostily occupying a territory they have no legitimate claim to.

Moreover when the founding acts of your country are literal terrorist acts against civilians you lose the right to bitch when the same people slap back.

You’re suggesting that if I take your family house I should get to keep it so long as I use force long enough to have some kids.

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