@kierkegaard: I also noticed this on my recent Legendary Edition playthrough. However, I see more the Geth as the Palestines in how they were voiceless and treated as second class citizens before they rebelled as the Quarians tried to wipe them out. And how they are viewed as extreme like a Hamas. It's like what if the Palestinians were able to oust the Israelis and the Israelis are trying, fiercely to reclaim (maybe wrongly) their homeworld.
Even this read doesn't map one to one but the similarities are definitely there. There's even question later on if it's possible for the two groups to cohabitate.
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