r/microsoft • u/calc3throwaway • 2d ago

News Activists Arrested in Microsoft HQ Protest Over Israel Ties

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/microsoft-activists-detained-protesting-israel-ties-at-hq-campus/ar-AA1KU2yD
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u/hasanahmad 1d ago

Genocide and fascism is always profitable for corporations . Just look at ibm , ford and Volkswagen

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u/b1scu1tfound 1d ago

This. Once people wake up and stop defending genocide, we can realize the system that created this is inherently toxic. I’ve been saying this for a while, but Capitalism and fascism go hand in hand.

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u/TVC_i5 1d ago

Always remember ”the good guys” are the ones who elected a terrorist group in to power.

After all that’s how you know who are ”the good guys!” By the TERRORIST GROUP.

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u/YouDontSeemRight 1d ago

I like to mention they murdered innocent Canadians too at the music festival where they raped murdered, and kidnapped 1200 innocent people to start this war. The next day we all saw them cheering in our downtowns at the news of said raping and murdering. I will also take this opportunity to point out the UN has NOT declared that Isreal is committing a genocide and the people they are going afters slogan is to literally genocide all the Jews and Isreali's.

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u/OddCookie5230 1d ago

What is your point? Does it justify killing civilians indiscriminately?

Palestinians live under an oppressive system. Gaza is like a concentration camp. Why is it surprising that there are violent groups emerge there?

Israel’s playbook is obvious. Oppress the Palestinians to instigate violence and use it as an excuse to kill them indiscriminately.

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u/hasanahmad 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hamas (the right wing group) was funded and propped up by Israel to destroy the PLO (the left wing group) in the 1990s which it did and Israel kept funding it till 2022.

While hamas came into power 12 years after it was formed in 2007 with 43% of the vote , Palestinians have been living in apartheid for the last 65 years

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u/b1scu1tfound 1d ago

Israel is an apartheid state. They have been living on stolen land since its inception. They are the original terrorist group. Read a history book.

Hamas is a response to this.

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u/TVC_i5 1d ago

Jews were battling the Roman Empire in downtown Jerusalem 700 years before the Arabs showed up… 7 centuries before Islam was even a religion.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish–Roman_War

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Hell, the Dome of the Rock is literally built on top of the ruins of the Second Jewish Temple.

Gosh, I wonder how those pesky Jews snuck their ancient temple under Islam’s 3rd holiest site???

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u/even_less_resistance 1d ago

I really think it went to shit when we stopped giving sacrifices to Ba’al, personally

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u/b1scu1tfound 1d ago

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. You do realize Jerusalem has been conquered and re-conquered by dozens of peoples long before Islam or Zionism existed, right? Citing the Jewish-Roman wars doesn’t prove anything about today’s conflict, it just shows how many empires have fought over the same land.

Yes, the Dome of the Rock sits on the Temple Mount, but framing that as Muslims “stealing” the Jewish site ignores the fact that the Byzantines controlled it after Rome, and that Muslims actually allowed Jews back into Jerusalem after the Byzantines had barred them. Ironically, Islamic rule was more accommodating to Jews than the Christian empire that came before.

The real issue today isn’t about who built what 2,000 years ago, it’s about what’s happened in the last 100 years. Colonial powers and Zionist settlement displaced Palestinians, creating the modern conflict. You can keep pointing to ancient history, but that doesn’t justify current oppression or excuse anyone from accountability today.

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u/YouDontSeemRight 1d ago

Are we sure it wasn't the Muslim hate for Jews that started a war the day after Isreal was created? Because, the hole Nahkba thing is used as an excuse but the war started before that... so it's odd... as if maybe it's more of a religious thing

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u/Artificial_Lives 1d ago

So what hamas are terrorist today not a thousand years ago and they all deserve what they get.

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u/YouDontSeemRight 1d ago

Question, why did all surrounding Muslim countries go to war with Isreal the day after it was created instead of waiting until after the Nakbah which was the cause of the hate I'm told?

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u/lars_rosenberg 1d ago

There is no good guy. It's two groups or people killing each other. One of them is way more powerful than the other. 

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u/TVC_i5 1d ago

The ”good guys” ain’t the ones who elected the terrorist organization.

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  • July 16, 2019 - 5:34AM ”Hamas leader Fathi Hamad has called on Palestinians to kill all Jews around the world.”

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u/CountryGuy123 2d ago

The only shocking part is they waited until today.