"Palestine is the moral question of our time because the abuse of the Palestinians is the most glaring, in-your-face symptom of the imperial disease. You can see the effects of so many of the empire’s abusive dynamics in how this thing is playing out, from racism to colonialism to militarism to war profiteering to mass media propaganda to empire-building to government corruption to suppression of free speech to ecocide to the heartless, mindless, soul-eating nature of the capitalist system under which we all live.
But there’s more to it than that. The primary reason to place Palestine front and center as the moral issue of our time is because if we can’t sort out the morality of an active genocide backed by our own western governments, we’re not going to be able to sort out anything else. Stopping the Gaza holocaust and bringing justice to the Palestinians is the very first step toward a healthy civilization."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stopping-the-gaza-holocaust-is-the
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Why is this genocide so much worse than other genocides happening in other places around the world?
Because genocides like the one ongoing in Somalia aren't directly the result of an outside aggressor intentionally destroying the infrastructure needed to preserve and distribute food nor are they doing so with funding from Western powers to specifically do this.