• nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    In this case, ‘the West’ has been calling for a two state solution since the 1940’s…

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      10 months ago

      Though their actions haven’t ever actually supported it. If the US and EU had sanctioned Israel, for example after the land grab of 1967, they could have forced a state on 1967 borders, if not 1948 borders. But instead they’ve just been giving them weapons and cash that has fueled the genocide instead.

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        10 months ago

        You can look at it from the other side as well: if the US, Europe and the USSR had sanctioned the Arab neighbours around Israel instead of giving them weapons to attempt their genocides of '48, ‘67 and’ '73, we could ba a lot closer to a two-state solution

        But they didn’t so here we are