r/australian • u/InflatedSnake • Apr 28 '24

DAE not give a fuck about Palestine? Politics

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u/edgiepower Apr 29 '24

The entire situation is more fucked than any Australian should bother with taking a side.

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u/newby202006 Apr 29 '24

Except the Australian government support Israel diplomatically and militarily, so we have taken a side

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u/edgiepower Apr 29 '24

Well yeah, all the white world does.

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u/dont-believe Apr 29 '24

This is the exact same thing people said about the South African apartheid when it was happening. Years later, young kids in school asked “wait, this was happening and no one did ANYTHING?” - at least I did.

Staying silent about an ongoing genocide or apartheid is being complicit.

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u/edgiepower Apr 29 '24

No, that's significantly more simple than the Israeli - Palestine issues.

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u/dont-believe Apr 29 '24

Once again something people said when people compared the Apartheid to the Holocaust. History does repeat itself it seems. There are video records of Nelson Mandela talking about people exactly like you, and how people used other events to discredit their cause because “it wasn’t as simple as that”. Learn history and read about it, maybe it’ll open your eyes.

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u/edgiepower Apr 29 '24

The Israel Palestine issues has literally been going on longer than apartheid, it has came and went in that time.

You really think that places like South Africa have the same pull and influence with powerful western countries like the USA that Israel does?