I understand and agree with your overall points, especially your last!

The Brits may be regarded as colonizers by the people who blame everyone else for their problems (and have not ruled the land for over 900 years, and were foreign conquerors themselves before that), but 0% of their problems are the fault of people who occupied the land for <30 years.

Spot on, Dude.

And the Romans, the Babylonians, etc. Technically the Brits weren’t colonizing Palestine, but they were known as a colonizing force in the world while they occupied the area. And they apparently did overstay their welcome. Jewish terrorists were bombing them toward the end. The Jews getting Israel was actually a case of the natives sending the colonizers packing, which was my point, though not articulated well. Getting Israel back was a win against the (usual) colonizers. You would think the “anti-colonizers” would appreciate that.

The history-illiterate lefty protestors don’t understand that because they don’t want to understand it. That colonizer-oppressor language is nothing more than Marxist class struggle language. Marxism has morphed into an identity struggle. Lighter skinned = colonizer. Darker skinned = oppressed. Because Israel is a much nicer place to be than say, the West Bank, then Israel must be oppressing the Palestinians. It can’t possibly be that the Palestinians elected terrorists to rule over them. It can’t possibly be that Palestinian leaders have profited (think billionaires) from this struggle, thus have zero incentive to change anything. And we keep sending them more “aid” money. If we actually loved them, then we would allow them to suffer the consequences of their choices. That’s called tough love. That’s the only way they’ll ever begin to make different choices.

The colonizers were the Ottoman Empire (whose own homeland is thousands of miles away in Central Asia, and who also colonized parts of Europe). The British held a League of Nations (UN-equivalent) mandate for a few decades, acting as a peacekeeping force in certain former provinces following the Ottomans’ defeat and dissolution.

P.S. The British were the colonizers in Palestine. These people don’t even understand history. When the Brits left, there was a fight for control, just as there has been in just about every country on the planet. The Palestinian Arabs have been hateful losers ever since, passing on their hatred to their children and grandchildren. Why didn’t they turn their existing territories into patches of paradise instead of third world hell holes? Answer: their existence isn’t consumed with making things better for their own people. It’s consumed with hatred of their neighbors.

I agree about the standing army. But these were guards, not cops. You need to think before bloviating.

I am not a leftist, but I wholeheartedly hope there are copycats.

“Reckless lefties celebrate Aaron Bushnell’s suicide — and don’t care if it prompts copycats”

The good news is, if there are copycats, they won’t be Trump supporters… 🙂

It’s a stark reminder of how intoxicating the Kool-Aid is of the supposedly-‘Woke’. That a supposedly-sane individual would self-immolate in a ‘protest’ supporting a proven genocidal state… 🙁

This video sums things up :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4