I didn’t want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I’m right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

  • original_ish_name
    3·
    8 months ago

    There’s a difference between genocide and flattening an invading nation to the ground

    • Devi@kbin.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      There’s really not. Killing every person in a country/region is the very definition of genocide. That’s a pretty awful position to hold.

          • original_ish_name
            2·
            8 months ago

            If Israel shows weakness, other countries will join the war against Israel (leading to more death)

            I said it wasn’t a pretty solution, but you can’t negotiate with terrorists. It’s the only way

                  • intensely_human
                    2·
                    8 months ago

                    Are you incapable of using multiple lenses to view a situation?

                    Do you think any death might result from showing weakness in the middle east?

                    It’s not about valuing other things over people. It’s about valuing the strategies that help people long term over the strategies that help them short term.