Interestingly enough, the current Iranian government is a direct result of the US overthrowing Iran’s democratically elected and progressive government and installing a US puppet. And Iran is feeling the ramifications of the US invasion of their sovereignty until today.

So i still maintain that the best way to protect yourself from US neo colonialism is to get nukes.

I’m not saying it’s great for the stability of the world, but how else to protect your country from the genocidal US regime

Good. It looks like the only way to prevent serious meddling from the genocidal USA seems to be if you have nukes

Im sorry, but fuck blinken and his war mongering cohorts.

Why should we take anything they say as even a morsel of truth, why should we even listen to them, when they refuse to even acknowledge israel’s genocide against Palestinians. They’re actively funding genocide and now want to cry crocodile tears about anything relating to China

I sincerely hope you dropped the /s

Yes, i actaully didn’t know about this.

I suppose that’s one of the reasons why the Namibian president rebuked Germany for it’s stance on Israel in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.

That’s why it’s doubly shameful of Germany to have this stance, and also a great pity. Germany calling out Israel for it’s genocide would be as strong a rebuke as South Africa calling out Israel for Apartheid.

Truly, it’s as if Germany has learnt absolutely nothing from it’s past.

Will definitely have a look at those content creators. I usually donate locally, but I’ll have a look.

Talking about the Israeli propaganda machine; in South Africa you have the South African Jewish Board of Deputies. An absolutely disgusting openly pro zionist and israeli organisation. They’re super rich so they always try to influence law or policy so that anything pro palestinian isn’t heard and that pro israeli messages must remain loud and clear.

They lobby the national government, but especially the DA led Western Cape government the way that people describe the US lobbies do to the US government.

Some people in Cape Town had the back of their houses facing the main roads and highways. So these residents decided to paint the Palestinian flag on those parts of their houses to show support.

The DA government promptly sent police and public works councellors to force the residents to paint over the flag. Which was absolutely illegal of the government to do because it was private property. But because these people weren’t that well off they couldn’t fight back because law enforcement was there as well.

@Linkerbaan just want to say that i admire your perseverance. Explaining, with sources, to some of the same users everyday on different posts, and having to take their shitty insults everytime.

I don’t think i could do it, but i appreciate that you do. Because I, and I’m sure many others, have learnt a lot from the information you provide.

Yes, but many posters have been telling other posters and mods on lemmy.world that mediabiasfactcheck site shouldn’t even be a consideration when checking for media bias.

The mods know this, most users probably know this, but they still punish you for not using that method.

One openly zionazi user even unbelievably and unironically said that mediabiasfactcheck is the gold standard.

So if the mods and admins at lemmy.world don’t care or change then most users definitely won’t.

As someone from the “third world”, you’re absolutely spot on.

And thank you for putting into words what so many think, i don’t think i could have done it as well as you did.

Classic US, once again “not escalating” tensions.

Hey China bad, Russia bad! You can’t bring reason into this. You especially can’t bring facts into this /s

But thanks for the resources though. Was a very interesting read.

And Israel accused South Africa of being the legal arm of Hamas lol. Israel is really a joke of country right now. A genocidal joke of a country, to be sure, but still a joke.

The US: " we don’t want an escalation of tensions in the middle east." The US then proceeds to escalate tensions in the middle east.

It’s one of the most glaring examples of disconnect between what they’re saying and what they’re doing that I’ve seen.

The US is lying about their intent again to no one’s surprise.

It’s no problem. Maybe i can also be more clear too in the future when replying.

It’s true that the Israeli citizens and the Palestinian citizens will have to be involved in a common solution. It will be very bitter, especially for the Palestinians, but one has to move forward

The settlers (aka colonolialist thieves and murderers) are literally killing, maiming, torturing Palestinians on their own land in the West Bank. Driving them out of their own houses, lands and farms. The Israeli army stands by and watches this. If any Palestinian tries to fight back against the settlers in the process of stealing their land they are maimed and/or murdered. And this is only in the West Bank where land theft and murder by the Israelis is still happening to this day. It doesn’t include any of the other clear land theft that had taken place in historic Palestine by the Israelis.

Now tell me that is not similar to the Apartheid police force breaking into houses in your area and telling you to move or be murdered, because your property now belongs the Apartheid state that is going to parcel it out to the white Apartheid supporting citizens.

Finding similarities between the atrocities commited by the Apartheid South African government and the Apartheid Israeli government is not adding my country’s baggage to a complex reality. A lot can be learnt by looking back at similar atrocities commited in the past and the repercussions of that, whay was learnt, etc.

Also an important point is that because of experiencing a similar repression of my people, parents, grandparents, and living through the tail end of that repression, i have empathy and some understanding of what the Palestinians are going through. I can’t claim to know exactly how they’re feeling but i do have some idea.

I have been campaigning in South Africa for Palestinian rights and self determination since i was a young teenager with my peers and my parents. I have been aware of the history, geopolitics and reality of the situation of the Palestinians since then. I have a pretty decent understanding of what is going on over there.

True. But i would add the extra detail that all the land stolen from Palestinians by Israel should be returned.

In South Africa that wasn’t done. We had land and a house that my grandfather built up by himself in what is now one the most expensive suburbs in Cape Town. That land was stolen from us and never returned.

And it hurts so much everytime we have to go past there because there are rich white folks living there now. And we know we’ll never be able to afford that land now no matter how hard we work. Now we struggle to even leave a home for our children to inherit.

I don’t want that happening to the Palestinians again.

A Theocracy and an Ethnostate are two different things. If he meant theocracy he would have used the word theocracy, but he didn’t. He used the word ethnostate

Exactly. It like watching the US back in the 2000’s constantly talk about WMDs as a pretext to attack and destabilise the middle east once again.