Jack Albrecht
2 min readJul 5, 2024

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First I would ask you to define the "majority" since 1/2 of Palestinians living in Gaza (where Hamas is in power) are children.

Second I would note that Israel is an occupying power (according to the UN) in both Gaza and the West Bank, so I can understand the sentiment of why a people being occupied and ethnically cleansed from their land - and in Gaza are under siege and being starved and bombed 24/7 - would want to end Israel.

Israel just wants peace? Have you turned on the news in the last 75 years? When has Israel EVER wanted peace with the Palestinians - unless you defined peace as the US defined peace with its own indigenous population where "peace" means the end of any resistance to the dominant group taking whatever they want from the indigenous people?

Zelenskyy being a (secular) Jew doesn't mean Ukraine can't have a Nazi problem. That would be as ridiculous as claiming that there can't be racism in the US anymore because we elected a black president.

Prior to Russia's invasion there were numerous articles in the main stream Western press (e.g. The Guardian) talking openly about Ukraine's Nazi problem. There were also articles after 2019 (less widely known) of how the far right explicitly threatened to kill Zelenskyy if he made good on his campaign promise to make peace with Russia (that was the #1 reason he was elected).

How many members of the Waffen SS were there compared to Wehrmacht in WWII Germany? Groups like the Nazis in Germany (who never had a political majority before taking power) and in Ukraine hold far more power than the % of the population or the government reflect, for the simple reason that they are VERY willing to use extreme violence to get what they want. Again, prior to Russia's invasion this was openly discussed in Western media.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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