• dumdum666
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    -21 year ago

    That’s far from the only interpretation.

    What is the explanation then?

    • @CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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      1 year ago

      Free in both Gaza and the West Bank is the main one. “From the river to the sea excluding a 40 km gap roughly in the middle” just doesn’t have the same ring. There’s also the one-state interpretation, where the Jews are still there but living alongside Palestinians as equals (nice but currently implausible IMO).

      Taken without any context, it actually says nothing about Israel at all, or the exact nature of said Palestinian freedom somewhere between those two landmarks. With context it means more, but the context varies considerably depending on whether it’s, say, a peace-loving Jew or Hamas saying it.

      • dumdum666
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        -21 year ago

        I understand that there actually might be some people that mean it in the ways you are explaining.

        Since Hamas has adopted it more than 10 years ago, it is at least (!) a dogwhistle by now. The whole phrase is burned for a peaceful message because of this.

        • @CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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          -11 year ago

          I wish there was a way to actually measure what people mean. As far as I can tell, there’s a lot of people just like me who think the Palestinians have gotten an unfair shake, but have nothing against Jews, or in some cases actually are Jews. The actual antisemites are also quietly in the same spaces. I really don’t think hate is the main motivator overall, but I can’t prove it either.

          Sadly, that particular chant is probably going to have even more staying power now that it’s under attack.

    • AngrilyEatingMuffins
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      41 year ago

      It means free Palestine.

      If it’s a cry for genocide what is it that’s in the Israeli constitution about that same area being an inextricable part of a Jewish state?

      • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        -41 year ago

        Isn’t Israel in the way?

        Palestine isn’t a country

        It’s be like the Cree claiming all of Canada vs Canada claiming all of Canada

        Please argue in good faith, you don’t help us when you take such bad stances

        • AngrilyEatingMuffins
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          11 year ago

          The key word there would be Jewish. If it’s genocidal to say from the river to the sea Israel will be Arab (which isn’t even what people say in English!) how is it not genocidal to say from the river to the sea Israel will be Jewish? How is that bad faith?