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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Colonialists aping socialist lingo to create a bare-bones welfare system for poorer colonialists so the overall genocidal apartheid state could be sustained, it has more in common with gulf state welfare schemes than with American New Dealism

It was a project of creating "buy-in" with arriving settlers, so genuine socialist solidarity with indigenous Palestinians never materialized, frankly it was as the decades proved largely unnecessary considering how radically racist the settlers turned out to be

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

Useful idiots for the revisionists. The Ben Gurion/ Labor faction made Zionism palatable for Western democracies while the Irgun/Likud/Herut always really set the parameters of Israeli project.

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

israel: the country where communism works