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0 pointsngruhn9mo ago0 comments

They just want to annihilate the non-believers. If the Jews wouldn't have priority, they would probably bully the majority Sunni Palestinians themselves.

> Just work on improving your economy, educating your kids, building up your infrastructure

Who cares about all this secular nonsense. Killing Jews, that's what god wants you to do. Doesn't matter if you sacrifice a 100x your own muslim brothers in the process. They die as martyrs. That's an express ticket to paradise.

I think this makes a theocratic regime even more dangerous than a (more or less) secular autocrat like MBS. These guys ultimately want something that's not in this world. How can make a deal with that?

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nsingh29mo ago

The religious absolutism you criticize is present in Israel's current leadership. Smotrich and Ben Gvir call Gaza reconquest and West Bank annexation a religious duty, claim that it's a redemption. Justifying tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths and a war bill funded mostly by the US [1].

There is also hatred within the Israeli population against Arabs and Iranians in the region, and still that's no reason to justify continued aggression.

I'm seeing these no-nuance, dehumanizing, views everywhere on this thread, though I'm not sure why I expected better. Maybe because this "Iran big bad" rhetoric closely mirrors what happened during the Iraq war, and only helps justify further escalation.

[1] https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

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