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1. Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 17:50:40 JST Dana Fried

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   If you want to know the root cause of any inter-ethnic strife or genocide in the modern world, "the British" is usually a pretty safe bet.

   • Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 17:50:41 JST Dana Fried

     In the 1940s the big debate in the West was whose weird, shitty colonial scheme all of the displaced Jews were going to be pawns in. The answer turned out to be "their own".

     (It's funny that the British thought they could use Jews as pawns to keep a permanent base on the Suez, but failed to realize the Zionists would have other ideas. The US plan of using them as human shields against the Soviets was also funny, and would have been equally disastrous.)

     Aral Balkan repeated this.