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Sundial@lemm.ee 2 months agoYou know what? I am angry. I am very angry.
I’m angry that a colonial state hellbent on eradicating the native population not only exists but is defended and funded by the most powerful nations on earth. I’m angry that this state has shepherded the entire native population into the worlds biggest open-air prison in history. I’m angry that they have that entire population dehumanized to the point where everyday civilians go out of their war to harass, starve, attack, and even kill these people. I’m angry that for decades the military has been killing these people on a regular basis that makes the violence in America against Black people look minor. I’m angry that for decades the whole native population has been displaced all to appease some kind of religious regime that is based on cruelty and pain. I’m angry that this government has an acceptable civilian to enemy combatant kill ratio of 1000:1. I’m angry that several school busses of children get slaughtered everyday and the people capable of putting a stop to this just shrug their shoulders. I’m angry that this same state routinely executes journalists and aid workers to cover up their atrocious actions. I’m angry that this state routinely attacks their neighbors simply because they can. I’m angry that the man in charge of this state is someone who is afraid of letting go of power to save himself from retribution and instead proceeds to double down on the modern days most brutal war as well as sabotage peace talks. I’m angry that we literally know all this is happening and let it. Say what you want about the Germans in WWII but at least the majority didn’t know just how bad things were in those camps. We do.
But that’s not all that makes me angry. You know what else makes me angry?
You. People like you who just sit there and go on a thread calling this state for their BS and go “Hurr durr of course they’re going to retaliate! What did you expect?” People like you who are very clearly aware of what’s happening but choose to be morally correct when it suits you. People like you who choose to go on these threads in an attempt to de-rail the whole conversations for either some misguided sense of self-righteousness or because they’re paid to. People like you who want to sit there and claim that someone attacked this state based on what this state says even though this state has a proven track record of outright lying and manipulating the truth. So yeah, I’m more inclined to believe Hezbollah, who very rarely denies attacking Israel, if they do. I’m angry that I actually have several people like you replying to my comments regularly trying to deflect all of this and that I have to defend and justify my words. I’m angry that you didn’t even take a moment to say something like “Yeah I don’t condone what Israel is doing either but if Hezbollah did target children than I don’t condone that as well”. You could have just said that and we could have moved on. And I’m really angry that after all this you have the audacity to sit there and tell me that I don’t care about the truth. I do care, I care too much. That’s my problem. Yours is that you don’t care enough. If you did you would have acknowledged what we were really talking about in this thread and provided your input and moved on.
nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Well let me start by saying that your take on the conflict is, again, very one sided. It’s history and how we got to this point is a lot more nuanced. That is a different discussion than the initial one but of course related.
My take on that, in brief, comes down to both Arab nationalists/islamists and zionists/jews seeing around 1920 that it would eventually come to an armed conflict between the two religious sides, and both moving their mindset to remove the other from the territory. And it did come to an armed conflict, which one side won and the other lost.
But even then, there is a lot of nuance as there was and is a spectrum between extremists and people who want to live in peace. Over time, violence from both sides has shifted that spectrum. A lot of people seem to have forgotten that it was not always like this, but up until the first intifada, someone from Gaza could just go visit their friends in the Kibbutz next door.
And you can say that the blame for all this falls squarely on the zionists for slowly moving towards their goal, but I would counter that it also falls on the islamists: instead of a two-state solution, they chose to fight and lost. (Whether they were right to do this is yet another discussion.) But after they lost the military conflict(s), they then chose to never give up and continue to, as you say, antagonize Israel until the end of time. The friendly peaceful rocket attacks from Hezbollah are part of this. And the prospect of neverending violence has greatly shifted and hardened the mindset on the moderate Israelis as well, which spiralled into the current situation.
That’s because you (and a lot of other lemmings) expect these ‘converstations’ to be warm and simplistic, circlejerking how Israel is bad. Am I ‘derailing’ the conversation by stating the OP’s collage is idiotic? Their take that a strike cannot be called pre-emptive because they don’t like the side that did it is just very, very idiotic. And when I call people out for this idiocy, the argument shifts towards an even more idiotic one (this is where you come in): “Hezbollah never planned an attack, that’s an Israeli lie”. And when I point out that stupidity by refering to the chief of Hezbollah proudly proclaiming they executed an attack after they had planned it for a month, the conversation is derailed back towards the argument “why would you defend Israel?”.
I don’t defend Israel, I’m defending the truth about the events from Sunday. I worry that people like yourself think it’s ok to lie about clear facts because they (probably) think it will make the world better.