• mayonaise_met@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    You would have to define what a real country is, and how it is not the same as the geopolitical status quo of Israel. By any useful contemporary definition Israel is a country.

    Claims in religious texts don’t mean anything if you cannot independently verify them. What matters is what people (with some power) believe, and a lot of people do believe it does and ought to exist. Enough for it to exist anyway.

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      1 year ago

      israel is not a country it’s an American military base. If the only people who recognize a colony as a “country” are other countries that are halfway across the globe it’s not a country.

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        1 year ago

        That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve read today. The majority of countries on earth are former colonies whose borders were drawn up by Europeans thousands of kilometers away. Not only that, Israel is a self governing geopolitical entity that has formal relations with the majority of countries in the world and can defend itself fairly well.

        The US is a country despite the fact that the colonisation of North America was a net wrong.