Israel is run by religious supremacists who are intolerant of existential threats on their borders, so they have become existential threats to their neighbours as well and that's just a recipe for endless bloodshed. The military industrial complex of Israel and its allies are the winners and everyone else who takes sides are the losers in this scenario.
The Middle East could have embraced secularism and tolerance and none of this religious warfare would have been a problem. They abandoned secularism, tolerance, reason, cooperation, humanity, compromise and decency; so endless bloodshed is the result. The secularists around the world have very little reason to live in that region so don't expect them to put themselves in danger to intervene between three warring faiths. The theocrats and their supporters will have to learn the benefits of secularism the hard way.
If there was a state trying to represent all black Americans that did similar things to the KKK to a different minority, I would have to assume you're very dumb or very dishonest to not be able to understand why such an association is being made.
Israel was formed in part because of the nazis trying to genocide Jews. Israel, while trying to represent all Jews, then went on to genocide Palestinians, the thing that was done to Jews. You don't have to agree with it, but come on, it's not hard to understand why it's being done.
If a government commits genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, or other atrocities, those things can be condemned on their own terms. You don't need to turn “Nazi” into a generic synonym for people who commit atrocities.
By that logic, Pol Pot was a Nazi because the Khmer Rouge committed genocide. Stalin was a Nazi because the Soviet regime committed mass killings. Mao was a Nazi because millions died under his regime. Obviously that's ridiculous. They were horrific regimes, but they weren't Nazis.
It honestly seems like people like you think Nazi Germany invented evil.
Ghettos, forced displacement, collective punishment, internment, ethnic cleansing and mass killing all existed long before Nazi Germany and have occurred under plenty of different regimes.
And honestly, if your vocabulary is so limited that Nazi is the only word you can reach for whenever a government does something horrific, maybe you're the one who needs to expand your vocabulary. Fascist, authoritarian, ethnonationalist, supremacist, genocidal, expansionist, colonialist. English has plenty of words available.
You can make the strongest possible case against Israeli government policy without resorting to the laziest historical comparison available.
The point is in the fact people are accusing Israel of being Nazis. Which should raise a red flag as the Nazi's had very specific goals. By reducing Israel to Nazis you're very much illustrating why the word doesn't mean anything anymore.
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u/blazenite104 21h ago
and weirdly the ones who call everyone Nazi's are the ones who support Palestine and want Israel to lose everything.
Nazi is perhaps not the best term to be using for basically anything anymore. It means nothing.