oh yes, very powerful Hamas, leader of an open air prison
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Someone was getting upset over my completely wrong use of the word genocide.Modern liberal
regarding the use and execution of violence is perhaps the single greatest hurdle that has to be overcome if liberation is to be reached.Israel pushed for the foundation of Hamas so they can justify genocide (harder to do with secular movements). They're getting it completely backward.
Can you put an /s in that title please, oof
Ok
Thanks, you did nothing wrong just had a strong emotional reaction to that before I got context
another way to go would be sPoNgEbOb cAsE, tips you off immediately
Unironically if I could push the genocide button on every numbskull that writes these idiotic takes I would
I’m sure it’d be like 100,000 people
(Presumably) White moderates. I can see why every revolutionary hated them
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I imagine success looks like the destruction of the state. But that’s very difficult. The world is caught off guard because of the toll and efficiency of the attack, but Israel is still very advanced and has the US as the main benefactor. We’ve seen scrappy guerrillas take down advanced countries before, but it’s likely to happen in this case. But I’m hoping for a miracle
The strategy so far seems to be to take prisoners and use them as leverage, while shattering the myth of Israeli military invincibility and jeopardizing the top-down campaign of Israeli normalization across the Arab world
Really its the Jews fault for peeving off Hitler so much - Joseph Sugarman
They're only committing war crimes so all is well - liberalism distilled
Not to defend either side, but to spill so much blood for your holy land seems a bit off. Assuming both sides believe in a loving god I can't help be think that maybe they'd rather you compromise and share the land rather than lie and kill. Yeah, saying that it hit home that this has nothing to do with religion anymore and is just powerful people wanting to keep or gain more power. Fluffing messed up part is those in power live in safety while the everyday person has to fear retaliation for a leaders slight against another.Behind The Bastards has a great episode on it.
Where did you get this idea that blood is being spilt for a "Holy Land."
This is not a war between different religions. There are Palestinian Jews who are just as oppressed under Israel's apartheid regime as Palestinian Muslims are.
Palestinian armed resistance is an entirely justified response to a settler-colonial regime occupying Palestinian territory, tearing native Palestinians out of their homes so that they could be given to colonizers, massacring the native population and stripping them of rights in an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing and genocide over the last ~75 years. Nothing about this is a holy war, Israel is a settler-colonial state that has been militarily occupying Palestinian land, relegating Palestinians into a status of second class citizens in their own homes and ushering them into what are effectively open air prisons in places like the Gaza Strip where they are unable to leave from, all while their labor is exploited to make the lives of the Zionist colonizers more comfortable.
This war is a response to decades of extreme oppression. This is not two groups of roughly equal standing bickering with each other, this is is a brutal military occupation financed by the largest military empire in the history of the world so that the US military can have a technologically advanced military ally in the middle east, fighting against the people who have had their land stolen and lives torn apart who are trying to mount an armed resistance to the injustice they have been forced to live under for generations.
There is absolutely no possible world where this is an issue where "both sides" are at fault. Different religious factions will be able to co-exist when it is Palestinian land once again. There is no co-existence with a settler-colonial state whose existence is predicated on the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the native population, theft of their land, and exploitation of their labor as colonial subjects/second-class citizens living under and apartheid regime.
this has nothing to do with religion anymore
it literally never did. the "thousand year holy war" is a fairy tale version of the "conflict" that americans parrot as fact because it's easier to believe that everyone in the middle east is superstitious to the point of bloodlust than the complicated truth that there are deeper historical reasons that implicate western imperial projects. Hamas is a religous organization, but the movement to liberate palestine -- of which they are merely the last remaining militant segment -- is and has been largely secular, and concerned not with fulfilling some scriptural destiny so much as securing for the people of palestine a dignified, safe, and free life which has been denied to them by the settler colonial ethnostate which begin slaughtering and imprisoning them in 1948 and has not stopped.
I say this in all love and understanding, but you do not have even a baseline understanding of the Israeli occupation of Palestine to begin to comment on it, and the explanations of it most readily available to you are only going to make you more confused and ignorant. As a starting point, I recommend the essay collection The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent ISBN 1-56584-914-0, or else the website https://electronicintifada.net/.
