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0 pointsxg153d ago0 comments

> There are hardly any Jews in Europe after the Holocaust. They're a rounding error. The communities are small and vulnerable. The largest community in France is under strain with antisemitism and is moving to Israel. The 2nd largest in the UK is not far behind.

This honestly makes no sense for me. I live in Europe (Germany) and the discussion about antisemitism and Jewish life is front-and-center here. There are also several synagogues in my city. No one, not even the pro-Palestinian protesters wants them to go away - on the contrary, most protesters (from the left!) go out of their way to stress that their protest against the state of Israel is not hate against the Jewish people. In fact, lots of protesters are Jews themselves.

Who keeps conflating the two things and blurring the boundaries in public discussion are pro-Israel orgs.

Unfortunately, you're right that real antisemitism is rising. However all European states are taking a stance against that.

> There have been repeated attempts at peace...

You forgot the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.

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the_origami_fox3d ago· 1 in thread

There are ~100,000 German Jews, from a pre-WW2 population of 560,000 in a modern population of 83.6 million, 0.1%.

Yes, did forget that one. Reinstatement of the prohibition to Judaism's holy sites, expulsion of hundred thousands of Israelis from the West Bank, and unlimited Arab immigration to the Jewish state. But it was a peace plan.

Edit: I'm still in shock you argued that 100,000 people in a population of 83.6 million is a lot - front and centre - but hand waved the forced relocation 500,000 people in a population of 10 million in a much smaller country as just the cost of peace.

xg15OP3d ago

No one in Germany (except neo nazis) would object to more Jews settling here.

> but hand waved the forced relocation 500,000 people in a population of 10 million in a much smaller country as just the cost of peace.

The West Bank is not part of Israel. And evidently the Israelis expect the same of 7 million Palestinians (if they aren't trying to annihilate them outright - see OP link of this thread).

> But it was a peace plan.

It still is. It was offered again several times, last time I believe by Qatar during the Gaza war.

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