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War broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel, killing some 1,200 people and kidnapping 251. Of the 50 hostages remaining in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces have confirmed the deaths of 28.
GENOCIDE not war
Yeah, if it's a war only one side is fighting it. If it's a war, it's a war against humanity.
"hundreds".... Israeli society is as guilty as its leaders.
Hundreds, in a strongly propagandised society, where the killing of Palestinians has been a supposed ‘necessity’ since the founding of the nation…
These people are incredibly brave and morally strong to succeed in seeing the error of their government.
Still, hopefully more will join over time
"hundreds" in millions means Israeli society is as guilty as their leaders. I am not referring to these protesting - I am referring to these millions NOT protesting.
I can’t fault anyone for not being incredibly brave
...and my country, the US, is as guilty as Israel for providing unlimited backing for the Palestinian Genocide by providing money, political backing and the vast majority of weapons (with active training on how to use them).
This is a direct necessary end product of western/european colonialism working to sustain its violence and control, which does not absolve the majority of Israelis from embracing the Palestinian Genocide but it does provide context for why Israel and why jews in Israel would undertake the single most heinous crime against humanity yet of the 21st century.
Do not be fooled into a negative exceptionalism about jews or Israelis, this is a decades long project that could have worked in your country too if the circumstances were right and there was a hopelessly more powerful foreign power with an invested interest in bigotry and dehumanization of people in the place your family has always called home.
The rightwing of the west will lovingly embrace antisemitism with renewed vigor when the Palestinian Genocide finally becomes undeniable in the halls of power as a way to dodge their direct enthusiastic culpability in the genocide, we must be ready.