As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.

  • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    2310 months ago

    It would be a victim complex if they actually believed their stance, but it’s really just a classic case of the abused becoming the abuser… or, more accurately, the genocided becoming the genocider.

    • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      910 months ago

      No one that was in the Holocaust is in any kind of position of power in Israel, which makes it even more pathologically disturbing.

      • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        710 months ago

        They were for most of Israels history, and they taught the current gen both nationalism, and how to treat the “others”.