• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It’s a race war if anything. Religion is used to fuel it. But Israel doesn’t care about its gods. It only cares about people within its tribe controlling its country. Eventually Israel will have to choose between being Jewish controlled and being democratic, even. Because demographics are trending against there being a Jewish majority forever. They will ditch democracy. I mean, they already have by deliberately disenfranchising millions of Arabs from it. An apartheid democracy isn’t a democracy, it’s an oligarchy. Anyway, no, it’s not about the Jewish god. If you think Judaism is a religion, straight up, you don’t understand it. The Arabs also cling to their religion because it’s the one thing no one can take away from them. It’s also very effective at controlling people.

    • Pipoca@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Hamas is literally an offshoot of the Muslim brotherhood.

      Fatah is reasonably secular. But Hamas is fighting a literal jihad against Jews. To Hamas, this is very much a religious war to establish a Muslim theocracracy over all of Israel.

      • WhatTrees@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        You’re still confusing the pretext with the actual reason. Hamas and the Zionists both say they are doing this for religious reasons, but the actual reasons are much more complex and almost entirely political and social. You’re buying into the propaganda from both sides of you really think the root of this catastrophe is religion.

        Hamas only exists because of the occupation and oppression caused by the state of Israel.

        • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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          11 months ago

          Groups against Jews have existed in the area before Israel and Palestine were established.

          People blissfully forget that when they believe defending yourself justifies all means.