If I don’t clickbait the title people don’t click.

With the recent events happening in Gaza, I decided to first tackle this line of argument in my essay Zionism is antisemitism, and Palestine.

People were quick to say “yes Israel is bad, but Hamas…” (kidnapped 200 people, killed 1000, take your pick).

When you’re saying this, you’re actually saying that one israeli is worth 7 Palestinians. Read that again if you need to; it’s an ethnosupremacist position.

What is the logical conclusion of this argument? What is it supposed to achieve except convey empty platitudes and declaring to the world that you just don’t care enough to have any valuable input?

It’s fine not to care. I’m not your dad, I’m not going to try and change you.

But don’t declare it publicly. Don’t proudly say “well actually both sides are bad”. You don’t look smarter or wiser than anyone else who is taking a clear stance. You’re not taking the “middle ground”. Everyone who has taken sides and is trying to be productive about this (and not just the Gaza genocide, but really any situation where you can apply “both sides”) really doesn’t have time for this holier-than-thou bullshit.

Gaza “kidnapped” 200 settlers and that’s a war crime apparently. It’s not really, but whatever. Let’s say it is. Israel has killed 7000+ Palestinians in retaliation, now likely more than 10k as they cut off communications in Gaza last night.

Both sidesers: what’s your solution to this. If you say anything other than “I should not get involved” then you don’t actually believe both sides are bad and you are picking a side. It’s time you realize where you stand.

    • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      131·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t read your link, but in either case that is the old charter, when Hamas was a fledgling group without popular backing or input from the masses.

      Latest charter was released in 2017.

      1. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
      1. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.
    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      If Hamas is tolerant of Judaism, why are there no Jewish families in Gaza? Honest question, I’m not an expert on the situation, just trying to make sense of the facts.

      maybe because gaza is an open air prison that no one would move to willingly?

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
      81·
      1 year ago

      Honest question, I’m not an expert on the situation, just trying to make sense of the facts.

      Please. You and I both know that’s a lie. Don’t take me for an idiot in your first interaction with me.

      You don’t deserve a response, but maybe this will educate other people.

      I thought their charter was pretty vocal about not accepting Judaism

      Maybe get up to date lmao. Bro is citing something from 1988 as if the world hasn’t changed. Look at their 2017 charter instead.

      why are there no Jewish families in Gaza?

      Gaza was started as a refugee camp for Palestinians after the Nakba in 1948. Eventually they built a city there to try and get some semblance of normal life back. You’re not gonna bait me into saying there were Zionists living in Gaza until 2005 when Hamas drove the IOF out lmao. Too young, too naive.

      • AbsentBird
        24·
        1 year ago

        Please. You and I both know that’s a lie.

        Do I sound like an expert? I’m genuinely trying to understand. I haven’t kept up on the most recent charter, that was useful information, thank you.

        Gaza was started as a refugee camp for Palestinians after the Nakba in 1948…

        Haven’t people been living in Gaza for centuries? Maybe it was called something else before. Did the Jewish families leave in 1948?

        • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          91·
          1 year ago

          Haven’t people been living in Gaza for centuries? Maybe it was called something else before. Did the Jewish families leave in 1948?

          I didn’t agree with their initial hostility to you, but this sentence genuinely sounds like sealioning.

          You may educate yourself about Palestine. In 1948 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed, and Jewish families already living in Palestine were forced to either go with them if they supported their Arab compatriots, or stay and live in the stolen lands. Migration of mostly white mostly affluent people was fostered to “israel” by the west to cement this injustice.

          Gaza and West Bank are similar to reservations in NA, although much more violent (in the sense of the state’s violence). No one would willingly subject themselves to living there unless they had some connection to the land (Palestinians) and hoped to return to a vibrant and free Palestine.

        • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
          81·
          1 year ago

          I mean your attempt at concern trolling is pretty blatant. You don’t know much but you know Zionist propaganda, how does that happen!

          • AbsentBird
            1·
            1 year ago

            I live in the USA and watch the news. I’m trying to educate myself.