Time to get rid of all sports, esp. Golf.

It's way more complicated than that. Jews have been living in the WB constantly for thousands of years until 1948, when 99% of their communities were ethnically cleansed from there following Israel's independence war and Jordan's control over the area.

I mean, Israel let hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to stay in it's territory and receive equal rights and citizenship (Today they number 2M people, about 20% of Israel). But the Palestinians murdered or expelled all the Jews.

Not that I'm in favor of the settlements, but the situation is complex with good arguments on all sides. redditors are just usually ignorant and see everything through a black and white lens.

Edit: The guy who commented under me apparently blocked me so I can't reply to his factually wrong comment.

Someone should explain to him that his claim that Israel "Couldn't completely ethnic cleanse the land" is incompatible with reality. As the truth is the other way around, and Israel offered the Palestinians sovereignty over the WB and Gaza 5 different times. All refused in favor of an attempt to "Free Palestine from river to sea".

That's not pretty fair; settling in occupied land is a war crime.

The West Bank is a bit of a clusterfuck. Palestine launched attacks from there and Israel took it over. Israel gave it back and Palestine went back to launching attacks from it. So now Israel isn't necessarily against it's people moving in. Which honestly is pretty fair as they tried to be nice and give it back, and now they may as well claim it as their own.

Settlers (often very religious, right wing) view all of historic Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as their rightful land, regardless of actual borders. In their mind, they are reclaiming the homeland of the Jewish people. International law, Palestinians, and many Israelis, however, disagree with that take.

Can someone please ELI5? Israelis and Palestinians. Cousins separated by 2000 years of time, religion and diaspora. There's a line, right, separating Israelis and Palestinians? Or is it "lines?" What's with the "settlements?" That's somebody else's land, so why build there? Scope creep, but orders of magnitude more than that. The whole thing gives me a headache.

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That's correct, but it takes two to make an agreement, and much of the LDP's leadership is likely to pander to the uyokus. Consider that initially, Korea considered both Kono and Kishida as terrible options, in regards to their relationship, with Kishida being the worst option.

So yeah, I'm impressed that he managed to do so many positive things, given the expectation.

I suppose I should've prefaced it as "For a Japanese politician", and qualified is as "exceeded my exceptionally low expectations. Pretty much all of post 2000's major politicians have been ineffective at best, if not downright incompetent.

If people actually expect someone to be able to turn around the dumpster fire that is the Japanese economy in just a few years, they're highly delusional. Much of the fault lies with the mentality in companies. I believe some PMs actually raised this point, but companies either ignored it, or entrenched their positions. I suppose one thing they could do more is encourage startups, as many of those have been performing quite well, but still..

Yes, but those are not two countries singled out. This is a whole continent full of countries. If you want to make a somewhat similar comparison you could take England and France. Even then, there was no genocide between those two and no enslaving each other so it's not really the same situation.

Sure, then you've got hundreds of years of wars in europe to choose from besides napoleon, from hundred year war, thirty year war, ottoman-byzantine wars, russia-swedish wars, russia-polish wars, anglo-french wars, anglo-spanish wars, belgian wars, saxon wars, war of the roses etc.

There was several hundred years of hatred in europe too.

Yoon had been pushing for it, yes; the agreements (as in, concrete steps having been taken) were announced bilaterally so I don't think that none of it was Kishida, especially as this happened extremely close to Kishida's announcement regarding Japan's defense budget. Either way, my original response will be edited to reflect this.

You can't compare 15 years of Napoleonic regime to several hundred years of hatred.

So this waste of oxygen killed a guy, got of with 20 years, is released early, jumps on the woke bandwagon and is now complaining about injustice, institutional racism, trauma etc. because he doesn´t like the Jamaican sleeping conditions? Oh wait, it´s the Guardian

Aren’t most if not all of these a result of Yoon pushing these things, not Kishida

Just a heads up everybody in Japan hates this guy because he increased a bunch of taxes and cut a bunch of subsidies, especially for younger people.

He has: agrred to Improved relations, begin lifting trade restrictions placed by previous administrations, help increase military cooperation between Japan, South Korea, and the United States, including overseeing the first military drills held trilaterally with all three countries, and to share all military intelligence bilaterally with South Korea.

You said, they are all the same, I said, there are a lot of different factions, which you just agreed on it seems as the far-right and the moderate are very far apart and Kishidas opponents in the "faction wars" last time were a far right Abe favorite and a guy with quite progressive views even, who I favored.

The discussion about vote choice is a quite different one from what you were claiming.

Japanese politics has been decided by one party for 70 years. Their factions range from far-right to conservative to moderate.

Wow. What a great choice a lot of people have.

invade Vladivostok or the Kuril Islands

I mean, most young people in every country, even china and japan, hold positive views of each other. And this is especially true for asia, where invasion wars haven't existed for decades.

But that doesn't really change what I said

It's actually only China and Old Koreans. Most countries in Asia and the young Korean population hold positive views of Japan.

Nice try though

We need Tekkaden

You could use that analogy for every single country lmao.

France and the rest of europe all hate each other due to napoleon, there's no way the european union will last! /s

It's japan's actions in the first sino-japanese war(pre ww1) and ww2 that make them disliked by china and other asian countries.

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