• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    My support for Palestine includes being extra nice to Jews in my country to prove there is no need for an Israel.

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      Israel’s (over)reaction to the hostage crisis has been very harmful for the diaspora, and sometimes I think that’s by design. Basically ensuring that Israel is the only “safe” place for Jews by encouraging anti-Semitism abroad.

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      Seriously. Bring them over to the US! We have plenty of room in states like Wyoming, which has enough space to fit 11 Israels but currently has only 1/16th of the population! And that’s just one state.

      Israel: 22,145 sqkm, 9.3 million people

      Wyoming: 253,600 sqkm, 580,000 people

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        If they come to the US, they are most likely to settle in the NY/NJ area or Florida because these locations already have large (relatively speaking) Jewish populations and institutions.

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        No no. We need to better recreate the climate of Palestine if we’re going to ask millions of Israelis to relocate. You need a warm, coastal and arid Mediterranean climate. And we need an area that’s currently largely underpopulated.

        Thus, we must…REUNIFY CALIFORNIA! For too long have Baja and Alta been disunited. It is time to annex Baja California, to reunify it with its Northern neighbor! Then we will offer large stretches of land in Baja California for Israeli Jews to settle in. That way they can have a homeland without oppressing the native Muslim population.

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      4 days ago

      I mean yes, absolutely, it’s always good to welcome people leaving a bad government behind.

      But…

      Do we have any statistics on who is leaving? Are jewish people over- or underrepresented? Maybe it’s mostly palestinian citizens of Israel or maybe it’s a lot of hardcore conservative jews who support the war, but are fleeing conscription? Maybe it’s secular leftist jewish people? My point is: Apart from some cherry-picked, non-representative interviews, we don’t know who is leaving and why.

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        4 days ago

        I don’t care, actually. Any Jewish person who is comfortable in Canada is not doing aliyah to Palestine. Good enough for me.