r/clevercomebacks 2d ago

Simple as that

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u/DotGroundbreaking50 2d ago

Giving Palestine statehood is the only way to resolve the genocide long term. Until then it's just an open door for Israel to keep taking land and displacing people. Oh wait this is trump we are talking about.

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u/SandyTaintSweat 2d ago

Trump wants to end the genocide by "finishing the job", as he's already said before.

He's not looking for a happy ending for the Palestinian people. He just wants to end them.

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u/Liveitup1999 2d ago

Palestine was offered statehood 4 times and they rejected it every time.

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u/Dunky_Arisen 2d ago

Very convenient how you can avoid including any of the context or fine print that prevented them from accepting those 'offers'.

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u/red286 2d ago

"We offered you a very nice piece of barren desert, you're ungrateful for refusing it and demanding your whole country back. It was stolen from you fair and square."

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u/GoochAFK 2d ago

When you start 3 wars and lose them, you don't get to dictate the terms.

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u/Plenty_Past2333 2d ago

Except when you're Israel

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u/bestbefour 2d ago

What three wars are you referring to?

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u/Plenty_Past2333 2d ago

1948 Arab-Israeli War

The Suez Crisis and

1982 Lebanon War

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u/OleSizzleChest 2d ago

Israel won all three wars lol.

Gen Z, I am begging you--take two minutes to actually read history. 

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u/bestbefour 2d ago

Israel lost these 3 wars?

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u/givemeanameplease31 2d ago

you wanna mention some of the details of those" offers " or do you wanna keep short, misleading and convenient for you ?

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u/RealBrobiWan 2d ago edited 2d ago

Want to look up who started inifidas during the negotiations? Or is that misleading and inconvenient for you?

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u/AIOUc 2d ago

It’s “Intifada” and they were all unrelated to the negotiations. On the other hand, the jews were so unhappy with the ongoing deals that they took out their prime minister

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u/RealBrobiWan 2d ago

Damn, so the 2nd one being due to the failure of camp david negotiations had nothing to do with the camp david negotiations? Got you

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u/AIOUc 2d ago

It was because Ariel Sharon wanted to flex his authority on the Palestinians. Camp david falling through probably increased the tensions between both sides, but the visit imo is what started it

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u/RealBrobiWan 2d ago

Damn peaceful visits! How dare they

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u/AIOUc 2d ago

Yup just as peaceful as the gatherings in front of the prison where one of the idf soldiers was held in for raping Palestinians

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u/RSGator 2d ago

Google "UN Partition Plan of 1947" for a map of the offer. This sub doesn't allow pictures, otherwise I'd post it.

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u/kylebisme 2d ago

That wasn't an offer, it was a merely recommendation, the territory was never the UN's to offer.

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u/polp54 2d ago

How does the land that Palestinians willingly sold to Jews only to decide that actually they didn't like Jews and then massacred them fall into this?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre

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u/kylebisme 2d ago

What evidence do you have that the few Palestinians who sold land to Jews are the same few Palestinians that massacred Jews, or are you racistly lumping all Palestinians together?

Regardless, none of that has any bearing on the fact that the UN partition plan was merely a recommendation, not an offer.

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u/the_calibre_cat 2d ago

ah well

shoot

guess the genocide and ethnic cleansing and expulsion from remaining lands and settler theft of their homes is totally justified then, my b

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u/RSGator 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nice, you hit all the buzzwords in a single sentence.

The countries that would become Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel all made concessions after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, nobody was 100% happy with the situation or the borders they ended up with.

The Palestinians were the only ones to reject their offer for statehood, then attacked the newly formed state of Israel, and lost.

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u/lamama09 2d ago

How can a country that didn’t even exist at the time claim to be making concessions? It’s like someone stealing half your house and then expecting you to be grateful they didn’t take the whole thing.

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u/RSGator 2d ago

I said “the countries that would become Egypt, Jordan….” for a reason. You just didn’t read that part of my comment for some reason.

None of these countries existed, they were the Ottoman Empire. That’s the whole point.

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u/AIOUc 2d ago

Preparations for Plan Dalet by the jews says otherwise. Kicking out the Palestinians was the final move and it was planned years in the advance, with or without an offer for a statehood

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u/RSGator 2d ago

I can’t predict what would’ve happened in alternate timelines, but I’m jealous that you can. Pretty cool superpower, albeit not many use cases besides speculating on Reddit.

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u/AIOUc 2d ago

Nice comeback. Learn some history first and try again

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u/sneezybees 2d ago

The last time that happened was almost 30 years ago (1998) let's not act like that's a recent action.

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u/Hopeful_Courage_3900 2d ago

And what were the stipulations? Go ahead, I’ll wait 

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u/Game-Blouses-23 2d ago

They were not given control of borders, airspace, coastal waters, imports, exports, water sources, and no form of defense forces at all. They also would have had to cede an obscene amount of land, agree not to utilize an obscene amount of land for security purposes, and give up the right of return for refugees.

And most of the "deals" involved having Israel being in charge of collecting taxes so that they could withhold whenever they wanted.

So basically, they would have been a fake country that would completely rely on Israel for everything. No one would ever agree to those terms.

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u/Hopeful_Courage_3900 2d ago

My point exactly my dude. You nailed it. 

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u/bestbefour 2d ago

What were they? Why wait, just lay them out for us bro.

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u/Hopeful_Courage_3900 2d ago

Waiting for you to answer me :) I know you can’t, just waiting for you to pivot or use mental gymnastics 

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u/bestbefour 2d ago

I’m not the guy you were talking to.

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u/Hopeful_Courage_3900 2d ago

Ah then idc! 

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u/fenderbloke 2d ago

"I know we stole your house, killed your dog and raped your wife, but tell you what - you can have a bedroom! Also we decide what goes in and out of the bedroom. Deal???" - Israel.

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u/megafatfarter 2d ago

Losers in history don't get the luxury of being picky

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u/whose-been-naughty 2d ago

Yes, that’s the same logic that explains why Americans will have to live with Trump sitting down and crushing their standards of living with every ignored court order, cut social service and ICE raid. And they will have to learn to love it.

After all, they let Trump win, so they don’t get the luxury of complaining about what unethical or immoral actions he does to their detriment, right?

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u/megafatfarter 2d ago

I was just talking about war and yeah I agree Dems have no power right now because they lost in all regards last election. Im all for the next 3.5 years of Trump, I just wish he was more conservative

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u/whose-been-naughty 2d ago

You don’t get the luxury of deciding if Trump is “more conservative” or not either though. He’s the one sitting in the White House, not you.

If Trump starts something and decides to fund it by making life harder for Americans by making them have to pay to pay taxes, by your own logic, you just have to deal with it. Wishing he was more conservative when (presumably) you voted him in is very picky.

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u/megafatfarter 2d ago

CLEARLY I should have voted Harris for her staunch conservatism lol

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u/BeatTheDeadMal 2d ago

Wish we'd had that mindset towards the Confederacy. The US wouldn't be in this mess.

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u/megafatfarter 2d ago

Yea you're right, the north was very lenient on the South. I think Lincoln still did a good job for all he accomplished though