• Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I grew up hearing that the middle east was a tinderbox of conflict due to bloodthirsty war hungry Muslim Arabs. These uncivilised swine are incapable of governing themselves, look at them! I now realise the brainwashing and manufacturing of consent regarding Arab Muslims that has been fed to me all my life, ramped up to the extreme following September 11 2001.

    When I got older and wiser I realised that none of what I’d heard of the area added up. I learned how the Europeans, the British and the French drew lines in the sand to facilitate resource extraction, betraying the Arabs who fought bravely against the Ottoman’s rule. These lines were also drawn in such a way as to place warring tribes in the same areas so none gets strong enough to challenge colonial rule. Divide and conquer.

    Britain along with the Zionists were happy to import European Jews into Palestine for the same reason. Since Israel was brought into existence in 1948 as an official settler colony state, they have been at the heart of every single conflict in the area. The mess in the middle east is entirely the fault of the colonial European powers, Israel and latterly the USA.

    What has happened to and is happening to Palestine is a stain on the soul of humanity. Those in power in the USA and the EU have the power to stop this but don’t share Israel’s guilt for the genocide. I have seen enough pictures of burnt, shot and mutilated children to last a lifetime. Fuck Israel, death to the IDF and free Palestine.