Re:On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World
by homo_ergaster on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:14AM
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I don’t think anyone denies that Israel is building settlements in internationally recognized Palestinian and Syrian land. They don’t hide it, there’s a lot of very recent news online about it e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/world/middleeast/israel-s...
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Re:On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World
by tome on Saturday December 04, 2021 @10:12AM
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Yes, I know what the "international community" thinks about that. I'm asking why that makes Israel a settler colony, as you claimed. Do you consider Tel Aviv a "settlement", for example?
Re:On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World
by homo_ergaster on Saturday December 04, 2021 @10:57AM
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Why is a state that builds settlements in other countries’ land a settler colony? Seems very obvious, I don’t really understand your point?
Re:On Pegasus – NSO, Israel, and the World
by tome on Saturday December 04, 2021 @03:39PM
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Perhaps it's a simple misunderstanding around terminology. I certainly wouldn't say that Britain at the height of empire was a "settler colony". I would reserve that description for the colonies themselves, i.e. those settlements outside Britain itself! Likewise I wouldn't describe Israel as a "settler colony" simply because it has (perceived) colonies outside its borders. I would only say that if I believe that Israel had no right to exist within any borders. But perhaps that's not what you meant and I just misunderstood you.