Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Ben Shapiro Accuses HIMSELF Of Being A Fascist u0026 Needing Safe Spaces!" video.
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Shapiro's a Zionist. No doubt. His reason (and scholarship) go out the window when it comes to Israel. The history of the last few hundred years is ignored. No, I don't think Hamas is all rainbows and unicorns. But the elephant in the room is the (re-)creation of the state of Israel, by force, in 1948, by a bunch of arrogant and deluded evangelicals in partnership with the worst kind of what we now call "neocons" of that era.
Israel's been locked in a never-ending war for its survival ever since, and it's been our loyal proxy and we've been ITS loyal proxy, ever since 1948.
Must we live in a state of forever war, pursuing a sunk-cost fallacy in perpetuity, or do we admit we had no right to genocide the people in the region and carve out a nation by force that hadn't existed for centuries? The blowback from our actions in 1948 is ongoing and will never end.
Who the hell was Balfour to dictate national boundaries in 1914? Who the hell are we to follow along and impose his vision, by force, forever, against the wishes of virtually every nation in the region?
I say we give up some desert in the American West, if everybody supports a Jewish homeland enough to wreak destruction around the world for its preservation. Give the Jews a section of desert, somewhere, and in one generation, it'll be an oasis, a land of plenty, for all who live there. I'll chip in.
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