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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago (6 children)
[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking psychos. Even at their peak, the biblical Israel was never that expansive. What farcical claim do they even attempt to make to this?

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Their farcical claim has been pretty visible for a while now: they need not only the land they consider sacred and theirs but also a security buffer around it. If pressed, they will explain how a security buffer is not just an arbitrary distance of land but possession of key surrounding geographic positions. And that requires them to go all the way to THIS map.

Their acquisition of the Golan Heights set the template for this. Israel used to enjoy saying that they never started any of the conflicts, but even then they would admit that they annexed the Golan proactively because of its strategic positioning and key water sources in the area.

Clearly they won’t be talking about how they never started any of the conflicts anymore. They think they have more to gain than lose by letting that claim go.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, well in that case all their neighbors need a security buffer too, which includes the key geographic position of their entire country.

See how easy it is to make bullshit claims when you're a fucking sociopathic narcissist who doesn't understand or care that other people's needs are just as valid as your own, and that you can't just take things that aren't yours just because you want it?

Children understand this, but apparently the knesset doesn't. It would be pathetic if it wasn't so close to getting the entire world blown up...

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I hope I made clear that while I know what they will say, I am not agreeing with it or justifying.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh I know what you meant, it wasn't trying to accuse you. I was just venting my frustrations

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

Just making sure. Cheers

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

100% chance that if they did this, they'd find a reason to invade the squishy but obscenely rich Gulf to the east as well.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago

Hard to imagine only half of the Arabian Peninsula or just a minor sliver of the Levant would be enough. "We're here, why isn't it ours" seems like the Israeli motto.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ah yes just casually taking the bulk of the fucking Nile…

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might as well clean up the rest of Egypt as well at that point.

[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

They're salty about...

...being let go by the pharaoh? After writing silly stories claiming credit for natural disasters ruining Egypt? Such salty crybabies.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The amount of cultural squashing that would need to happen to make this possible is just ridiculous lol.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Nothing like a long, cool ethnically cleansing glass of cultural squash!

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There aren’t enough Jews in the world to genocide that many Arabs+Turks though. Israel would just become the Jewish-Ottoman-Empire-lite

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

All that's needed is military supremacy.