I think we have to stop considering every human life as a precious treasure and every child as a miracle to be protected at all cost.
Instead we should consider picking sides like we choose a starter Pokémon. Who’s with me on team Bulbasaur-Palestine-Russia-Armenia, because I dig their super cool aesthetics?
More like Russia-Iran-North Korea. Palestine is just a convenient place for Iran to launch their missiles while claiming it’s not them. Armenia only fights because Russia bribes them.
You skipped the last one
Q: What lessons should I take from this conflict?
A: That dehumanization begets dehumanization, terror begets terror, and none of us will be free until all of us are free; or, you know, that it might be easier to just look away.
Not gonna lie. The last point got me. I just filter out gaza, Israel and Palestine now. There is no way for me to get non biased info about the history of the issue online.
Guilty of Killing civilians: Hamas, Israeli government.
Guilty of Genocide: Israeli government
People who don’t deserve to get killed: Palestine civilians, Israeli civilians.
People who have claims to the land: both Palestine civilians and Israeli civilians (sorry the situation is fucked).
Fascist and helping each other gain power: Hamas, Netanyahu
Probably, the best summary of this situation. May I steal this and use it when arguing with tankies and right wingers?
Israel is a colony invented by Western powers that at its creation committed a massive genocide against Palestinians to steal their land (see: the Nakba). Since then, Israel has consistently maintained a policy of ethnic cleansing to steal more Palestinian land by settling new areas, expelling the indigenous Palestinians, and only incorporating them into Israel once it meets demographic criteria.
The UN has called what Israel is doing apartheid, and fun fact when apartheid was a less bad word Israel knew it too – it was one of the closest allies with apartheid South Africa and they closely collaborated especially militarily on suppressing their respective indigenous liberation movements.
And by the way, Israel helped create Hamas as a way to undermine secular Palestinian resistance .
The current state of affairs is that millions of Palestinians are displaced from Palestine altogether, and millions more remain but cannot return to their homes in the occupied territories. Gaza is the world’s largest concentration camp with 2 million people trapped inside, half of them under the age of 18, with no ability to leave. Israel has regularly bombed hospitals, schools, mosques, and other humanitarian sites, is not allowing humanitarian aid in, and in the most recent escalations has shut off access to food and water.
These are children resisting a multi billion dollar nuclear military from stealing their home, there is no balanced two sides to this story
https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-casualties-by-in-gaza-and-the-west-bank/
Ah thanks. It’s more fucked up than I thought…which is sad as hell. And from my ‘not paying attention’ understanding, Western governments are supporting this shit? Something something US sending aid to Israel? Something something France not allowing pro Palestine riots? That’s when I tuned out, because I thought I must have really not understood the situation. But if that stuff is also true, shit is stomach curdlingly bleak.
well that’s just depressing
