• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I also don’t use Twitter, Instagram or TikTok because they’re terrible.

    I also don’t quite understand why a 20-year-old dating a 23-year-old is contentious. There’s no age gap at all. Who exactly is having a problem with this?

    He sounds like a perfectly normal person who just doesn’t read the news.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a pretty good Wikipedia article on it

      As mentioned, it’s the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. It’s been used by Palestians since at least the mid 60s in a number of different chants, e.g. “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free/Arab/Islamic” (technically, the latter two are “from the water to the water” because otherwise the Arabic doesn’t rhyme).

      Hamas’s charter says

      Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea

      While Netanyahu’s far-right Likud party’s 1977 manifesto says

      between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty

      It’s historically been somewhat controversial, with Zionists typically saying that it calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and/or the expulsion of Jews from the area. CNN fired a political commentator for saying it ~5 years back, and it’s regulated as hate speech in some places in Europe. Most pro Palestinian activists think that’s ridiculous, but it’s worth being aware of.

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        1 year ago

        I mean the original charter for Hamas also mentioned ‘killing the Jews’ but I’m sure it was a side point 🤔😅

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          The current charter specifically makes a point of saying that that’s not what they want though. Makes a point out of dragging a distinction between Jewish people (they don’t have a problem with) and the Zionist project (which they do have a problem with

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            1 year ago

            I’m pretty sure they took out the genocide part just because it is a bit derivative. They’re committed to peaceful protests I agree.

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      He said “you already know that bothers a subsection of the population”, not that it actually did, it just did in his imagination.

      I’ve literally never even once heard someone raise a fuss about an age gap that small. Dude sounds like an ass.