I’d describe myself as politically “center-left” and I go on the streets against the far-right in my country… Not “left” enough for the lemmy community hexbear(.)net, I guess, which banned me for “facism”.
“Advertisement”: Go to hexbear(.)net if you want to be able to say “Death to Israel” or “The situation in Gaza is like the holocaust” without getting banned. No, you even get a lot of likes and no one will say anything against that. No one will share arguments against yours. Why? Because those people will instead get banned.
At least, I have an explanation now… There is no one arguing against what is posted there, because everyone who tries, is getting banned.
Israel is a settler state, so what’s wrong with the destruction of it? Israel is based on Ashkenazi supermacy ,which is a form of Jewish eurocentrism. Do you mind asking what has happened to the identity of Sephradic, Mizrahi and other independent groups?
Read this: Disillusioned with Israel, hundreds of Jews chose to return to India in the 1950s.
Also this: Israeli-Palestinian conflict fatality
You know… I think that the best that can be done at this point is: Solving this forever. It has been decades. Trying to destroy Israel is exactly the motto of Hamas and exactly the idea that hasn’t brought peace in the last decades and is also one of the reasons (not the only one) why the situation is terrible ATM.
There have been multiple attempts to attack Israel and the consequence was always death. Even more death outside of Israel.
IMO, the cycle needs to be broken. And IMO, this works only with government changes in both countries.
Holocaust does not defend the fact that Israel is a settler state. As an Indian from the erstwhile province of Madras, we have faced artificial famines and genocide from the British colonizers. High-level British officers and politicians who did injustice on Indians were killed brutally by the Indian leftists, including bombing and shootings, and they’re still worshiped to this day as heroes.
So, by that standard, it would be hypocritical of me to see Hamas as a terrorist group. Read about Subhash Chandra Bose, Udham Singh, Bhagat Singh and other socialists from India. I see nothing wrong with their goals. Although the socialists failed to liberate India, it set the message out there for the imperialists that this territory of undivided India is not a welcoming place for the settlers.
Holocaust??
BTW: I did not even argue against the settlements argument.
I think, the main difference between us is: I’m always thinking how a solution could look like. How to end this?
A solution works only with government changes in both countries and international pressure to get a 2-state-solution. That’s my point.
Yes it has, however, not all of the attempts at changing the situation were violent, most of the violence did come from Israel, but peaceful demonstrations and waiting didn’t help Gaza and Palestinians trapped in there. You know why?
Because Israel isn’t going anywhere, their government won’t just magically change their mind, so just sitting there praying that it will end someday – won’t help. That’s why a violent and armed response was given to Israel.
Saying:
Is implying that people need to give up and not fight for their freedom. People are dying slowly but steadily? Well if you fight your situation, then a lot more will die, so just sit there, relax and enjoy the view of your cities drowning in poverty, without electricity or enough food to get through the day.
If you really wanted this to end, you wouldn’t say:
Because it is not possible. It’s not a cycle of violence that needs to be broken, but the entire system that enables violence against another group of people. How can you break a cycle of violence that you DIDN’T START? How can YOU change when YOU are the victim?
This comment seems to be pro-peace and pacifistic, but it’s just a facade. In reality it defends the status quo of imperialistic and racist government having total control of the occupied land of another country, protecting their right to do anything they want with people living there because the alternative: