SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "Look at the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil…" As if listing other settler-colonial crimes somehow absolves Israel.

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Yaron, let’s get something straight. You didn’t refute my point. You confirmed it. You said, "Look at the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil…" As if listing other settler-colonial crimes somehow absolves Israel. But that’s not a defense. That’s a confession. Yes—those countries were built on genocide, dispossession, and the erasure of indigenous peoples. And we condemn that. We don’t recycle it. We don’t use old crimes to justify new ones. But here’s the difference: They aren’t still doing it. They aren’t bulldozing homes in real time. They aren’t turning cities into rubble with U.S.-made bombs. They aren’t live-streaming airstrikes on refugee camps and calling it "self-defense." They aren’t locking entire nations in open-air prisons, starving them, bombing their hospitals, and then crying antisemitism when the world calls it out. Israel is. You say, "Why don’t those countries face the same outrage?" Simple. Their crimes were committed in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries—before international law, before the UN, before "human rights" were written into global conscience. Israel’s founding crime took place in 1948. And it never ended. You mention Palestinians rejected "six offers." Let’s translate that: They rejected a series of bantustans, military zones, and broken promises—offered under occupation, at gunpoint, with no sovereignty, no borders, no army, no control of airspace or water, and no right of return for the very people expelled to make "Israel" Jewish in the first place. What you call "offers" were ultimatums from a colonizer to the colonized: Accept your cage, or die in it. And still, Palestinians have survived. You complain their population "has grown sixfold." You know who else grew while being enslaved, exiled, and brutalized? Every indigenous people on Earth that refused to vanish. Growth is not a rebuttal to genocide. It’s a miracle in spite of it. And you think demographics cancel out war crimes? What next—will you say Black Americans aren’t oppressed because there are more of them now than in 1865? Do you hear yourself? And then you reach for the last refuge of propaganda: "They teach their children to hate." As if the child under rubble should've sent flowers to the pilot. As if trauma from occupation, checkpoints, exile, and mass graves is a choice. Israel didn’t produce peace. It engineered desperation. You think people are born wanting to resist? They’re born behind fences, under drones, in camps their grandparents were forced into. You want to talk about radicalization? Start with the bulldozer. Start with the sniper. Start with the siege that starves a people, then blames them for the scream. And you end with the last, tired fallback: "People just hate Jews." No, Yaron. People don’t hate Jews. They hate apartheid. They hate ethnic cleansing. They hate watching a state built on trauma use that trauma to inflict it on others. Stop hiding behind Judaism to shield a settler project that desecrates its own ethics. Zionism is not Judaism. And opposing mass murder is not antisemitism. It’s called being human. You want to know why Israel is "singled out"? Because it is not a relic of the past. It is a live wire of atrocity, playing out in front of our eyes, funded by empires, shielded by lies, and broadcast with pride. We’re not watching history. We’re watching it repeat. And this time, we refuse to look away.

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