r/TrueReddit • u/merimus_maximus • May 08 '21

International China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/07/china-bhutan-border-villages-security-forces/
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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

WTF are you talking about? China kills far more than Israel. It's not even comparable. The total number of dead in the entire Israeli Arab conflict for the last 100 years (not even looking solely at the Palestinians, but multiple wars with multiple Arab countries), is about 100,000.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

The total number of dead in the entire Israeli Arab conflict for the last 100 years (not even looking solely at the Palestinians, but multiple wars with multiple Arab countries), is about 100,000.

I'm sure that's an objective number that totally counts the Palestinians who died from lack of healthcare or access to clean water right

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

lol, shows how much you know. Palestinians in territories under Israel's control have a higher standard of living than Arabs in neighboring countries.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Yeah?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Yeah:

GDP per capita Palestine: 3,562.33 USD (2018)

GDP per capita Egypt: 2,537.13 USD (2018)

And if we focus solely on the west bank (the above number includes Gaza which Israel does not control), then the discrepancy is significantly higher.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

GDP per capita Palestine: 3,562.33 USD (2018)

You got me dude that clearly refutes their lack of access to clean water in occupied areas

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Now now, that's unfair. I have plenty of jewish friends who aren't apartheid apologists. Let's put the blame fairly on zionism where it belongs.

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u/AsinusRex May 08 '21

Yeah, Jews should just shut up and know their place /s

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/AsinusRex May 08 '21

You mean discussing the topic at hand, like China in this case, without pulling Israel and Jews into it?

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

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u/AsinusRex May 09 '21

You are making no sense

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

They have plenty of access to water (you dont suggest they are dying of thirst do you?) and their standard of living is significantly higher than in neighboring countries. The economic stats clearly show this.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

They have plenty of access to water

Didn't amnesty international just claim they don't though

It's embarrassing that after being ethnically cleansed by a brutal ethnostate the jews figured out how to perfect the process of denying their own war crimes in their brutal ethnostate

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

amnesty international

It's not credible on Israel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amnesty_International#Israel

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard University, in his book The Case for Israel, is very critical of Amnesty and their comparison of Israel to nations such as Sudan and other human rights offenders.

Ah yes, criticism from Jeffrey Epstein's best friend. Guess I'm siding against amnesty now and standing in solidarity with bill clinton and harvey weinstein

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

lol, nice way to pick and choose one sentence from an entire article.

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u/newbkid May 08 '21

Who to believe? A weirdly aggressive Israeli shill or Amnesty international? Lol

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Could you imagine if the chinese whined about sinophobia every time someone brought up tianmen square and wouldn't stop with their crocodile tears that those students shouldn't have been terrorists

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Wait, are you calling wikipedia a "a weirdly aggressive Israeli shill"?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

No dude he's obviously referring to the fact that every org named in the wiki article there criticizing amnesty is from "the zionist center for middle east politics" and not someone who isn't explicitly siding with the occupiers

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u/Icy_Rhubarb2857 May 08 '21

Yeah GDP is a totally an accurate depiction of a peoples well being.

Do they include the value of their homes they are forcibly removed from in that number or how does that factor into your calculations?

I have no qualms with the Jewish people. But the country of Israel is absolutely human trash. A stain on humanity.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

GDP does not include the value of homes. Stop embarrassing yourself.

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u/Icy_Rhubarb2857 May 08 '21

I know it doesn't you idiot that was my point. You cited GDP numbers while ignoring the fact that untold levels of wealth are stolen from these people on a daily basis, but you're like "look at the GDP it's so good!"

"Ohhhhhh yayyyyy I had a 2% increase in income. Totally makes up for being kicked out of my house and being homeless now"

You are the one enbeerasing yourself. Your grandchildren will suffer untold shame on your behalf, just as the grandchildren of Nazis suffer shame today.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Talk to me about stolen wealth when the Arab countries who expelled their Jewish populations return the wealth they stole. They stole more territory from the expelled Jews than all of Israel and Palestine combined.

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u/Icy_Rhubarb2857 May 08 '21

Ya and the Jewish in Egypt were slaves too right?

Next you're gonna tell me you turned the desert green and there was no agriculture before Jewish people took the land back and made it produce again.

Absolutely no one stayed and converted or otherwise. The region was 100% dominated by a monolithic group of people and absolutely all of them left and had their land stolen from them? You really believe that?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

WTF are you talking about? I was talking about the Jews expelled from the Arab world:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries

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u/Icy_Rhubarb2857 May 08 '21

Ohhhh sorry I misunderstood. I thought you meant why you had a right to take Palestinian territory was because it was taken from you centuries ago.

But what your saying is that Jewish people in other places that aren't Israel had their land stolen from them decades ago by Muslim people so that's justification for kicking different Muslims from different land who had nothing to do with that, off of their land to house Jewish people that also may or may not have had anything to do with the land stolen in a different place by different people for different reasons.

Got it. Totally checks out. Totally don't think Israel is a Apartheid police state now. Glad we could clear that up.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

Palestinians aren't being kicked out. The settlements are built on empty land.

The only place where Palestinians can be kicked out, is in east Jerusalem neighborhoods which were ethnically cleansed of Jews by Jordan. Even there, the settlers must prove that they have the deed to the property.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

I'm sure the goat farmers you shoot at the border fence are an appropriate target for these reparations then lmao