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Yea but those are not his kind of Christians (evangelical Protestants).Armenians, Greeks, Palestinians, who gives a shit for those guys? Definitely not this americanist racist.

Israeli support for apartheid is not dependent on Hamas. Proof: the West Bank.

Any popular movement will never be monolithic. By it’s very nature as a popular movement it will contain all sorts. From fanatics and hardliners to opportunists, to idealists, to moderates, to people who had no other choice. So saying “Hamas is fighting for this or that” as if “this or that” is an immutable non-negotiable goal set in stone is ignoring the realities of armed struggle. If anyone is interested in peace, they would need to either completely annihilate Hamas, like Isis was, which the last year has shown is impossible, or more realistically to try to play on the internal dynamics of the factions, hoping to strengthen those that can make peace. For example, Marwan Bargouthi is ex-Fatah, but has worked with Hamas and the PFLP, and is more of a moderate than Sinwar ever was. If Israel was to release him, he could use his fighter credibility to push for peace.

It’s interesting that our first instinct is to think of cancelling. Cancelling is a way for us to assert that we are not “that”, to affirm our disgust for those people. It’s flushing the shit away, if you will.

Until you realize that it’s all shit, all the way down (cue in Ohio meme). The Greeks, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Aztecs, the Incas, the Arabs, the Malians, the Turks, the Babylonians, the Indians, the Europeans, …every civilization until, what, 200 years ago, was a slave owning society.

You can’t cancel all of human history, you can’t flush away the entire earth, even if ultimately, all soil is shit and rotting crap mixed with rocks.

We have to go beyond cancelling. Instead, we have to recon with the fact that we are somewhat woke on the shoulders of giant douchebags. We can’t cancel our history away, we have to sit with the shit and see what it means for us today. Instead of absolving the past, cancel it out of sight and think we’re done with it, we have to wrestle with its legacy.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

First Al-Jazeera, now Haaretz. Freedom of the press going strong in the apartheid state.

If you had grown up in the open air prison camp called Gaza, and wanted to fight for your country, you too would have joined Hamas or one of the smaller militant organizations (PFLP and the like). Think of the average US election discourse: you don’t vote whomever, you vote for who’s on the ballot, least evil and so on. Same logic applies: when your family is repeatedly traumatized and your country is occupied, you don’t join whatever organization western liberals imagine, you pick one of the existing ones and join the fight. Simple as.

Common practice in many places. Not the government per se, but various state organizations to from healthcare to infrastructure to administration etc.

Western Europeans after repeatedly denying Romania entry to the Schengen zone: “why would anti-European politicians be popular there?”.

Ps. My argument works even with alleged Russian interference baked in. Austrian and Dutch intransigence create the fertile ground for Russian arguments to catch.

Cool, so we can finally dispose the myth of Israel being a democracy, get over chasing the chimera of a two state solution, and crystallize the struggle to the simple, unambiguous goal of ending Jewish supremacy and the apartheid and establishing a democratic republic with equality and rights for everyone from the river to the sea. Cool.

Two scenarios for what happens TONIGHT.

Scenario 1, no ceasefire: the genocide continues, several Palestinians die tonight. The hostages remain hostages. No chance of release. They might get bombed by mistake even.

Scenario 2, no-deal ceasefire: genocide ends, no Palestinians die tonight. The hostages remain hostages. No chance of them being killed by mistake. A chance for a political settlement where they get released.

Do you see the fucking difference?

You keep only talking about 97 Israelis when tens of thousands of Palestinians are dead and countless other are maimed, injured, starved, disposessed. You obviously value those 97 lives more than any of that. Explain why.

Explain why Israeli lives matter more than Palestinian lives. Like, be precise.

Stop the genocide. Stop the killing of innocent civilians. Now.

Then, reach a deal for the hostages, like the ones Netanyahu has repeatedly shot down.

Then, end the occupation: get Israel the fuck out of Gaza, the fuck out of the West Bank, the fuck out of East Jerusalem, back to their 1967 borders.

Or, if you don’t think this is realistic (and it isn’t because with almost a million settlers, the Israeli right has destroyed the material conditions required for the 2 state solution) prefer cleaner solutions, end Jewish supremacy in Greater Israel (Israel+West Bank+Gaza+Golan+Shebaa). One state, one democracy, equal rights for everyone.

Persecute all war criminals, Israeli and Palestinian. Then run a truth and reconciliation process, with reparations.

Justice, right? Crazy, I know. Illogical shit.

Here’s the catch: without justice there will be no peace. Enjoy your endless cycle of violence.

It’s a fucking genocide. Stop the killing sort the hostages after.