• @merthyr1831@lemmy.world
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    158 months ago

    We are watching millions of lives being asphyxiated between the ocean and barbed wire fences, all to appease a people who have spent their lives waiting for this moment with bated breath.

      • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        “A people” is a way of referring to a group of people, a society. You could be more specific and say “the Jewish people” but it’s the same usage.

        Someone in fact called Palestine “A land without a people for a people without a land.”

        Is it making more sense now?

        *fixed autocorrect error

        • Quokka
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          108 months ago

          You couldn’t say that.

          You could say “the Israeli people”. What is going on here is not the actions of Jewish people.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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          118 months ago

          Do you think disagreeing with Israeli committing genocide on Palestine because of the atrocities of Hamas means you’re an antisemite?

          • @photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            58 months ago

            Of course not, but when someone says that “a people has waited with bated breath for this moment” it sounds a lot like you’re insinuating that jews wanted all of this to happen.

            • @Wilzax@lemmy.world
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              78 months ago

              A specific subset of jews, the Zionists, did. But the average Jew definitely condemns the violence and killing, even if not all of them do