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communistkenobi · 1 year ago

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I’m watching a documentary my friend recommended to me called the law in these parts, which is about the history of israeli military law in palestine, and like. jesus christ they were literally just doing lebensraum. the same low density suburban development that plagues north america, the same plan of fascist expansion eastward done by nazi germany was done in palestine, with the justification that these residential settlements built for settler civilians were actually military outposts and therefore legal under international law. it’s literally just lebensraum

#I wonder about the context of the justification as like a strategic exception to international law #like is this an essential strategy of fascism (/colonialism) or rather one we see emerge through the context of history #the nazis obviously did this prior to international law but those laws were written in response to nazi strategies iirc #I’ve seen people make the connection that suburban development in settler colonial states in general is a fascist practice #and like I was inclined to agree but didn’t fully get the scope of the argument #but this is making it click into place for me #again premised on the foundational argument that fascism and colonialism are synonymous processes that cannot be separated from one another #which is the strongest definition of fascism I’ve encountered so far in all of my readings

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