Palestine Has Exposed How Our Governments Work for Their Own Interests, Not Ours.
Palestine Has Exposed How Our Governments Work for Their Own Interests, Not Ours.
We cannot rely on political bodies whose material interests are at odds with revolution.
What an idiotic take on this situation.
Western governments understand that the choice isn't genocide vs no genocide, it's just which side is being genocided. Iran would happily take the opportunity a lack of support for Israel would provide to attack them.
This is a proxy war, not some sort of civil problem.
“We have to genocide the Palestinians to stop them from committing a genocide,“ is not a serious take.
I honestly can't grok the degree to which one must dehumanize a group to hold this position.
Are you truly this stupid? What do you think a war is?
The World Wars were Germany invading a bunch of countries, and the world telling them to go fuck themselves by killing over 10 million Germans between the two wars.... That's literally "to stop Germany from committing genocide, we committed genocide"
How young are you that you don't know this?
How has Israel been in a proxy conflict with Iran since before Iran's current government even existed? The civil conflict taking place in israel has been going on since the early 20th century, with the Nakba occurring in 1948. Contemporary Iran didn't exist until the '79.
Who said Iran is the only one involved, or that they've been doing it since 1948?
5 different Arab nations invaded Israel the day they declared independence. Gaza was specifically created from the area where Egypt invaded.
Iran is just one of the strongest military powers in the region, and wants to destroy Israel for both religious and political reasons.
Except Isreal’s actions in Gaza aren’t defending themselves against Hamas, are they? If they were targeting Hamas, half the Israeli munitions would not have been dumb bombs that are not physically accurate enough to target a spasific building. They would not be using their smart weapons to kill over two and a half times as many journalists as have died in Ukraine since that war started in 2014. They would condem the Israeli politicians who call for the elimination of every last Palestinian in Gaza.
The same party that currently holds office in Israel proudly and publicly funded the Hamas until 2019. They knew what the Hamas had planned for over a year, and did nothing, because an attack would be good for the prime minister’s numbers.
If Israel was focused on mearly defending itself, they would not be in front of a UN war crimes tribunal. If Israel was mearly defending itself, it would not be burning though its goodwill with the west. Instead its leaders have chosen to escalate and kill innocent people who have no connection to Hamas, and that has consequences on how much other nations donate to support it.
Israel literally spent billions of dollars building a wall, and even a missile defence system... How much more defensive do you want Israel to be before they get tired of getting punched and retaliate?
Palestinians got around them anyways and killed almost a thousand Israeli civilians.
Would you let you neighbor come over to your house every day and punch you without retaliation despite you installing a fence and an alarm system?
Hamas is hiding in the same buildings as civilians and using them as human shields, it's literally guerilla warfare 101. They are winning the propaganda war because of this, and they did it very intentionally.
The west is going to keep supporting Israel, and it has nothing to do with goodwill. Governments understand this isn't a civil war, this isn't even about Palestinians, it's part of a larger geopolitical battle between the west on one side, and Iran and other middle eastern nations on the other.
Yea it sucks that Palestinians are caught in the crossfire, but this could end very quickly if the supply of weapons being smuggled to Palestinians was cut off. Instead, Iran and others will keep building tunnels from Egypt and smuggling rockets and ammo in for them to keep the fighting going.
I don't understand this article or it's author. In my mind, the reaction to 9/11, the search for weapons of mass destruction, The quick disappearance in silencing of the occupy Wall Street movement, the quick disappearance and silencing of the Black lives matter movement....
Hell, let's go further back... The Vietnam war!
Sweet summer child... how are they just now figuring this out?
Not that I'm against the US action world war II, but even then the American populace needed some very strong convincing to become involved. Nobody wanted to touch it. The sentiment of the people then was that it was unimportant and distant and had no impact on the US.
I remember a history teacher pointing out that it was just a little bit odd, just a little bit unusual, that during such political unrest in the world that so many ships would be drydocked at Pearl harbor, just lined up all pretty.
To be clear, that war was a fully righteous cause but how we got there was... well, let's just say there's a lot of gray area.