• freeman@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    How is Israel that high? Considering the military threat of all the countries around them and their own military efforts/genocide/disrespectful behaviour against palestinians and lebanon and all that with obligatory military service for almost everyone iirc. Me personally, I would be very unhappy in Israel.

    • Melchior@feddit.org
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      Because complaining is seen as a betrayal to the Zionist project. If Israel is not seen as a positive country from the outside, then support for Israel is in trouble. They do not need everybody on their side, but especially American Jews are critical. So Israel build up this facade of a high tech democracy in the Middle East to show how they are working on some sort of Jewish paradise.

      At the same time Israelis are turning towards hard core Zionism, because a lot of them have actually experienced violence against them. The idea of fighting back is very human, but obviously Palestinians also have very similar if not worse experiences with Israelis. So yeah big problem.

      • The Galactic Janitor@hostux.social
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        2 days ago

        @Melchior @freeman

        I couldn’t agree more. I left Israel in 2014 for a variety of reasons, a short list of which would include:

        1. Bibi as PM
        2. The whole society becoming a nickel and dime internet seedy place
        3. Religious people everywhere
        4. Russians who brutalized the entire culture into something it never was like before.

        Saying you’re not happy is equivalent there of saying you’re “yored”. Israel has become a cult. It should still exist, but it needs to drastically change.

    • Dr_Uggs@piefed.social
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      2 days ago

      maybe they are happy that lately israel killed +70000 civilians, that turns them on…