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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians

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873 points helsinkiandrew | 2 comments | 25 Sep 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.493s | source
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sharpshadow ◴[25 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45374509[source]▶
It would be only just if the Palestinians would get their own state after this.
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lupusreal ◴[25 Sep 25 16:17 UTC] No.45374749[source]▶
Right of return for all Palestinians and their descendants, worldwide.
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vkou ◴[25 Sep 25 16:24 UTC] No.45374865[source]▶
Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves, here, that would have the stench of colonialism about it.

It's not their land to 'return to' - after all, people already live there and they have no moral right to displace them.

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lupusreal ◴[25 Sep 25 16:29 UTC] No.45374935[source]▶
They have been deliberately displaced by Israeli's apartheid government giving Jewish people around the world a "right to return" to Israel. Except unlike the Palestinians, they were never from Israel in the first place so the term "right to return" as used by Israel is nothing but colonialist propaganda.

Undoing colonialism isn't colonialism.

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nailer[dead post] ◴[25 Sep 25 17:09 UTC] No.45375651[source]▶
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1. Saline9515 ◴[25 Sep 25 20:01 UTC] No.45378187[source]▶
Judea became Palestine after the war in 115. Most of the population remained, stayed jewish, converted to christianism (which was just another jewish branch back then), or to one of the many other cults in the region. Their descendants are today's Palestinians. The fact that Samaritans, who are mentioned in the Bible, are still there is a good proof of this.
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2. nailer ◴[26 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45381620[source]▶
People didn’t refer to themselves as Palestinians until the 1960s. You can confirm this for yourself very easily.

The Arabs that lived in what is now Palestine simply called themselves Arabs, the same way that Arabs in Israel call themselves Arabs. British Palestine and Ottoman Palestine were multi ethnic states.