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I think unfortunately that is part of securing your land and claim to it now and in the future.
Indeed, oppression and genocide are an integral part of settler colonialism, just as in the settling of the US, Australia, and many other examples. 'Securing your land and claim' doing a lot of work here.
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I think being a European conscript gives you a different experience to being an Israeli conscript.
Actively being fired upon and being at a heightened level of military readiness would colour your experience.
I can understand the victim mentality that the Israeli government and many of their people might have. You were just earlier questioning whether Israel should exist, because they were placed somewhere where everyone didn’t want them. I think one of the problems was that post war, no one else wanted to take hundreds of thousands of Jewish displaced people.
If a country was created in Africa, I think the same thing would have happened, African nations are no less territorial or averse to dictatorships, war or genocide.
As it is, if you were given somewhere to live, particularly if you’d survived the Holocaust would you not have pretty strong opinions for protecting and keeping your new home?
On the other side, I don’t agree with the oppression and forced migration of Palestinians living in the same space, I think unfortunately that is part of securing your land and claim to it now and in the future.