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[–] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Britain and their drawing of lines in the sand is absolutely responsible for plenty of the shittiness we see around us in the world today. Total coward power move by Britain to try and weasel out of all of the trouble their colonialism has caused.

Without the Balfour declaration we would not have had the Zionist colonial settling of mandatory Palestine. The local Arabs fought for their freedom from the Ottoman empire during WW2 and were double crossed by the British who wanted the land for themselves and a little bit for the French for some reason. The British know more than anyone how the process of colonialism works being the best in the world at it. They were also aware how viciously settler colonials tend to treat the native people when settling a new land, they just didn't care because they had their own greedy motivations.

Britain had a huge part to play in stoking tensions between the local Palestinian communities and the newly arrived settler Jews using their time honoured "divide and conquer" strategy.

Britain and their colonial fuckery is a huge part of the Israel story.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 3 points 15 hours ago

I don't dispute any of that

But I will repeat, we aren't making them commit war crimes.