Yes you are.
I wish my country wasn’t assisting and actively providing tools for this genocide. I also wish it wasn’t called antisemitism to criticize the Israeli government. I have no problem with Jewish people. I have a problem with a government killing innocent civilians in the name of “preemptive self-defense”.
Not in the eyes of the Israeli state, unfortunately.
No, you’re not special. The world has ignored every ethnic cleansing so far. Why would they change now?
Yes, people in Gaza are human. And like all humans, they have a responsibility for their actions. Hamas committed genocide on October 7 and are continuing to hold hostages. It’s almost a year now, isn’t it time for Palestinians to start admitting that Hamas is bad for them?
All we see is support for Hamas or excuses for their actions. Or just looking the other way. Can anyone point to any real protest against Hamas by Palestinians? I can understand people living in Gaza and the West Bank may be too afraid to speak out against Hamas, but people who have left the country? Where are the Palestinian voices denouncing Hamas?
When German cities were bombed to ruin in WWII, the German people realized the hateful movement they succumbed to was not good for them. Afterwards Germany was rebuilt into a peaceful prosperous country. When will Palestinians come to the same conclusion that Germans made?
All I see now is people painting Israel as evil for doing pretty much the same thing the Allies did to Germany in WWII. Being influenced into the hatred Hamas espouses. This conflict will not come to an end by promoting hatred of Israel. It can only end when people recognize their hatred is destroying themselves.
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Yes, because the extremist settlers exist in a void. Let us lay blame onto the resistance groups for not being perfect victims rather than the people that founded their state and continue to perpetuate it through the mass murder, theft, rape, torture, subjugation and oppression of the Palestinian people. All the citizens of Israel are free of guilt, responsibility, and consequence despite the fact that they are not only benefactors of their genocidal state but also overwhelmingly (~72% as of March) support Israel’s crimes against the people of Gaza.
Realistically speaking, if Israel was tried and given the same treatment as the Germans were in the Nuremberg trials, there would not be enough free Zionists to even put up a facade of a state.
With extremist settlers you are referring to the genocidal settler colonial apartheid entity as a whole, right?
Agree with the sentiment, but dang is that a bit of word salad. I’d have gone with genocidal settler or colonial apartheid but both together feels clunky.
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Everyone knows if you call out a crime enough times, it becomes lame and stops counting.
Every word they used is true and every one is written in the blood of ordinary people. Take your apologia for crimes against humanity back to Reddit.
The fact that you even took that as apologia says it all. There is just zero critical thinking left any more. It’s a postmodern meaningless world where we can go on social media and parade as if we’re marching with MLK in Memphis. It’s all roleplay. If people really cared about these issues the engagement would look a lot different. The conversation would be oriented towards solutions - - not flashy bingo buzzwords.
Role playing? Parading on social media?
I’m literally in Lebanon. My original hometown is being bombed, and might be annexed like in the 1980s. I’m helping the displaced folks in shelters every goddamn day. Our EMTs and their centers are being struck (100 of our medical staff killed so far). It’s an absolute apocalypse for many people, many of the most vulnerable here. Neighborhoods are gone, do you understand? One day we plan to help displaced friends get their valuable stuff out of their homes, the next day the homes are just gone. Ashes. No combatants or weapons, just homes turned to ashes. I’m lucky enough to only hear the bombs and sonic booms where I live, and to feel the occasional distant thud.
And what’s happening in Lebanon is only a fraction of the misery in Gaza.
When we see them drop a strike over the city, we don’t think “yay bingo buzzword”. We’re not selling you on feeling bad for us. Just because you live in a coddled country it doesn’t mean the real crimes happening elsewhere are buzzwords to annoy you. If there’s an absolute laundry list of crimes we are facing, how is it our fault?
If it makes you feel better, your marches in the west are what looks like role play to us. You ask your governments and supposed representatives too nicely to stop supporting these crimes and in return they make fun of you and ignore these urgent pleas. They dare you to not support them even when they do the opposite of what you want.
Don’t patronize me. I’m not the one who’s only angrily typing online. I’m blocking you.
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