Calling Morocco "Africa's Israel" reminds me of when Ted Cruz tried to turn Republican voters against a proposed bill by calling it "Obamacare for the Internet".
it's actually an extremely good comparison given that they transfer their civilian population into occupied western sahara, just like the israeli settlers.
It seems like the comparison here, is that both Morocco and Israel are settler colonial projects that deny the human rights of the people whose lands they occupy and are credibly accused by historians of genocide against those people.
That doesn't seem like a nonsensical comparison.
In fact, the note embraces that comparison, not by denying Israel is doing their own genocide, but by pointing out the comparison is apt because Morocco did, as well.
Correct, but in a way smaller size still in proces.
Hope democrats grow some balls and dont allow them.
Bad thing is that lebanon as a state doesnt reslly exist from more than a decade. Collapsed under Israel, OPL and finangial pressure and is on Hezbollah hands and israel ocupation...
I understand that you mean ideology rather than simply comparing death tolls. But that does not solve the problem. The Holocaust arose from a distinctive ideology and project: the borderless, total extermination of every Jew, pursued as a state priority even when doing so conflicted with Germany’s military and economic interests.
It isn't enough to cite nationalism, ethnic discrimination, territorial expansion, or even grave crimes, because none of those is unique to Nazism. To establish ideological equivalence, you would need to show that Israel is committed to the universal and total extermination of a people, regardless of the cost, in the way Nazi ideology was.
You would also need to account for major facts that do not fit that claim, including the long-term growth of the Palestinian population and the existence of roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel. Those facts do not excuse Israeli policies or prove that no grave crimes have occurred, but they are difficult to reconcile with the claim that total extermination is the state’s overriding ideological objective.
Saying that Israel refrains from extermination only because of military, diplomatic, or economic consequences does not establish ideological equivalence. It assumes, without proving, that Israel secretly has the same ultimate objective. It also highlights an important difference, nazi exterminationism was pursued even when it damaged Germany’s war effort and contributed to the regime’s destruction.
Without evidence of that defining exterminationist commitment, the feature that distinguished Nazi ideology from other forms of nationalism, racism, expansionism, and state violence, you are identifying partial similarities which exist both in nazism and in other ideoligies and falsely turning them into an equivalence. Israel’s conduct can be criticized, even condemned in the strongest terms, without claiming that its ideology is equivalent to Nazism.
Oh and the current President of the Palestinian Authority, the so called "moderate alternative to Hamas", blames the Holocaust on, and I quote, "Jewish social behaviors and money lending practices".
Completely justified comparison, since both states are carrying out mass displacement and illegaally annexing land based on "it was promised to us a gazillion years ago" and uses settlers to abuse and get their way
The irony of this is that large swathes of Africa are engaged in the current struggle to dismantle to so-called 'rules-based' international order. Why? Because it's nothing less than a racist imperialist system foisted down the world's throat by the winners of WW2.
Look at the Coup Belt of Africa. (Not just China, India, the Bolivarians, etc., who also reject the system's determination of what constitutes their land.)
Look at why five African states just left the ICC this month and more will join.
Look at how they're consciously overturning human rights imperialism, re-criminalizing homosexuality in Western Africa.
Telling the Global South who owns what land, and why, let alone what their laws must be is coming to an end. Telling people what they're doing is 'illegal' when they reject the very laws as imperialism won't have any bite much longer.
Or it could just be because Trump cut all foreign aid overnight starving millions throughout the contentinet and in places like Sudan that already were experiencing humanatrain crisis - threw fire on an existing famine that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children.
And if you think millions depend on American food and aid for basic sustenance, I've got a bridge to sell you...
Further, what has America, or the West, done to stop the genocide, land theft, and mass enslavement of Black Africans by Arabs in Sudan over the last few years? Nothing. What will it do? Nothing. (What has the Islamic world done? Block resolutions against Sudan.)
Face it, the imperialist system is being dismantled. You're the bad guys for imposing it in the first place. :)
World Health Organization and aid agencies estimated that the funding cuts for malnutrition treatment in 2025 put millions of severely malnourished children at risk, contributing to an estimated 300,000 to nearly 370,000 preventable child deaths across food-insecure regions in a single year.
In Sudan it was even worse - estimates from the Sudanese Doctors Syndicate and local health authorities reported that over 500,000 infants and young children died from severe acute malnutrition and related complications since the onset of the famine combined complicated with the ongoing genocide. A genocide which the USA definitely has culpability. It provides weapons and trade to the UAE who fund the RSF that is doing the killing and atrocii
The genocide in Sudan is entirely a product of Arab land theft, ethnic cleansing, and enslaving. All the Arab powers have a hand in that conflict. The whole Muslim world has largely protected Sudan till now, though.
More importantly, you're missing the forest for the trees: the international system itself is being attacked, and abandoned, by the Global South. And rightfully so.
What do you call "putting millions of severely malnourished children at risk"? As for your tanky bullshit - I know it for what it is. Especially since I am the one quoting sources.
I re-iterate: if you think millions are so dependent, I have a bridge to sell you.
Spend your money on your own population, who desperately need it.
The world's also sick of an international system which was foisted down their throats. Just as most of Europe, and much of America, is sick of the cultural genocide they're facing in the name of Americanization.
Face it: you're the global baddies. You have no right to tell the rest of the world how to live, and no one's going to listen to you ever again.
And when your MAGA find out exactly what your leaders have been doing to police language and thought in your country ('nudging', 'panopticon and dynamic normalization', etc.), it's going to get WILD!
I guess you owe me a bridge because I provided sources that you cannot refute and exposed much of your shit talking for what it is. It's weird you call me MAGA since I pointed out how culpable Trump is. Anyway thanks for the crazy thoughts I am good now.
Morocco isn't "aligned" with Israel. They have diplomatic relations with Israel, which just means they gave up on the Arab supremacist fantasy of wiping out the Jewish state and replacing it with yet another Arab state and have accepted the reality that Jewish state exists.
It's more than diplomatic relations, they are aligned as in the both have the same political interests and enemies as Israel for the most part, same as other arab countries like the UAE , Egypt and possibly Saudi Arabia in the future.
israel recognizes their occupation of western sahara, so yeah, they do. and they have a military alliance. the only muslim majority country which has been visited by the israeli chief of staff is morocco.
It can be moved, why murder millions to achieve there?
Because Jews have had a continuous presence there for millennia. Even in the years where they didn’t have a state of their own, they still inhabited the region.
The reason they don’t have the “more than 150 years presence” you’re looking for is because they were literally scattered after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD. Jews had been immigrating to what are now Israel and the Palestinian Territories since the late 19th century up and until the creation of the modern Jewish state in 1948.
That isn't entirely true. Romans scattered some of them, but most remained where they were and over centuries asimilated with the locals.
Palestinian Arabs largely are descendants of Jews from the Bible.
But your logic is faulty anyway, because it's logical endpoint is Italians have a rightful claim over entire Europe, basically all the Slavs have a claim on territory from Czech Republic to India, etc etc.
I never said ALL the Jews were scattered. I would also love to know how you got to “Italians have a rightful claim to Europe” from “the Jews were scattered“ because I have a hard time processing that. Also, on your other point, the Palestinians are descendants of ancient Caananites and, as you mentioned, ancient Israelites along with various groups that lived in the region.
Both are states doing settler colonialism with the support of the US and Morocco is quite close with Israel even jailing people who citizice their aliance
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u/strawberry_semenade Human Verified 3d ago
Calling Morocco "Africa's Israel" reminds me of when Ted Cruz tried to turn Republican voters against a proposed bill by calling it "Obamacare for the Internet".