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Israel wasn't popular with the other countries in the region before October, most of it's neighbors have called for it's destruction, US support is basically what keeps them in check.
Israel is not popular in the region BECAUSE of the US.
False. Israel isn't popular in the region because of israel.
More like the US is not popular in the region because of Israel.
Israel is not popular in the region because the others are extremely antisemitic. Let's stop pretending like the others are saints, please?
An old Zionist lie, conflate opposition to zionism with antisemitism
Nah the Houthis do seem pretty antisemitic, straight up.
You are trying to conflate antisemitism with being antizionist, perpetuating the Zionist lie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan_of_the_Houthi_movement
"God Is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam"
Why exactly do they explicitly refer to Israel and "the Jews" separately if their issue is with Zionist Israel?
And then Al-Houthi had this to say through his fascicles: “Arab countries and all Islamic countries will not be safe from Jews except through their eradication and the elimination of their entity.”
You know what helps Zionists? Not condemning actual antisemitism, because it lets them continue the lie that anti Zionism is the same as anti semitism.
Unless, of course, you have a good explanation for how wishing a curse on Jews, distinctly from death to Israel, isn't antisemitic?
A new Antisemitic lie, conflate Jewish people's desire to exist with Zionism.
Im no historian but i figured Israel wasn't popular in the region because the country of irael used to be the country of Palestine until another country decided to put israel there. I bet Egypt hated having a lot of its territory held for a long time as well after that one war but like i said I'm no history doctor
There's never been a country of Palestine, but you're right about not being a historian.....
damn, really? Why did something like a million people get displaced when israels borders for drawn in 1950 or whatever? I can't remember the details. Why did all those people get forced from their homes?
Because they chose war rather than the deal the ruling power offered is the short answer.
Many of those people also left willingly at the direction of the Arab Nations surrounding Israel with the understanding they'd get to return after Israel lost the war. That obviously didn't happen because Israel won the wars.
Many were also just kicked out because this new nation had just been attacked and they wanted control over the disputed lands that they had won. It's not a clean situation but nation building rarely is.
Nearly one million Jews were also kicked out of their homes in the surrounding Arab Nations.
Im really going to have to look this up again and knock off the rust. Wasn't the newly created state of Israel supposed to be ethnically Jewish? Was this not originally the intent? Could anyone live there? When did that change? I do remember the countries previously bordering the british territory almost immediately attacked once it declared itself a state, (like only days/weeks later) maybe im thinking of all the people fleeing the battle. There was a war at its inception then israel got a little pieces of egypt, syria and (i think) lebanon that they've still got.
I know there was immigration of jews to Israel from the Arab states pretty soon after its creation. Did the Arab states kick Jews out like the us did with Japanese during ww2? Which nation did it first? Man there's too much shit to look at
The goal of Israel was a Jewish homeland but it's never been only for Jews. Arabs have always lived there and always will. The Arab population of Israel has grown faster than the Jewish one too.
Look up Jewish exodus of the Arab world, the wiki is pretty informative. The war of independence would be key words to lead to information about the attacks when they were first granted nationhood.
Get multiple sources and double check those sources. lots of newly invented stories are flying around these days.
Israel isn't a perfect democracy but it's far and away the best option for the citizens in the region and they're not genocidal monsters although I'm sure some of them are horrid people, it seems you can't form a government without some of those making a part of it.
Israel isn't popular because the region wants a Pan Arabian state and having a Jewish one right in the middle doesn't allow them the caliphate they're going for.