Israel Bombed My Home and Killed My Relatives. I’m Not Going to Be Silenced.
Israel Bombed My Home and Killed My Relatives. I’m Not Going to Be Silenced.
Palestinian feminist Mariam Abudaqa was on a speaking tour in France when Israel destroyed her home in Gaza. France’s government tried to expel her — but, Abudaqa tells Jacobin, she refuses to stop telling the truth about Israel’s crimes.
Is she going to talk about Hamas putting babies in ovens and baking them to death?
Are you trying to justify one atrocity with another atrocity? Do we need to play the game of who is more cruel here? Of the death toll? The video you sent says something about an holocaust in 2023. Well, I think we can count in this Holocaust the 8000 Palestinians killed, of which 2000+ kids and babies, neighbors of those he is crying for. Hospitals shelters, refuge camps bombed. 2M people threatened to death, to starving, incommunicated, ill with no more medical assistance. This Holocaust will only create more hatred and less respect for other's human lives. The same dehumanization of the enemy that Hamas has been fed after decades of apartheid, land occupantion, harassment, impune settlers burning houses and shooting farmers. Yet another impune western colonization process.
Moreover, Hamas has been used by Israel for decades to sabotage the process of creation of a Palestinian state, which, by the way, is part of the Oslo agreements and a consensus of a possible peaceful solution to the conflict. So, they go against this solution, financing a competing group that is against a laic state, and calls for an Islamic only state. Surpsrise, they eventually get to attack to a problematic scale, Israel plays the victim but then enters and destroys everything to the ground.
What do frigging cooked babies atrocities matter in this context? How many times would you need to hear "yes, it's inhuman, horrible", to be able to advance the conversation to acknowledge all the atrocities, injustice and violence without dehumanizing Arabs in general? Imagine that instead of Arabs, Israel army bombed, say, the German city of Dresden, killing thousands of civillians because it's a neonazi hotspot where international refugee centers are attacked. Well all white people are the same. Fuck them, right? It wouldn't even be comparable as those neonazis assholes can't play the role of the only armed resistance available for youngsters, that Hamas plays.
You've just described a war. People die, yes. But it's not Israel stuffing babies in ovens, cutting unborn out of their mother's, torturing and raping families in front of each other, and on. Sorry you're upset about Palestinians dying. It's a sad thing. But it's not going to stop Israel from defending themselves against a threat sworn to destroy them and all Jews.
By your assertion, Hamas is an Israel puppet and this is their masterpiece coup de gras? I'm not sure why any of that would excuse literal terrorism? People are responsible for their own actions. The ones who invaded Israel and brutalized their citizens, are responsible. If Israel was supporting terrorism, it sure seems like that would have been the time to do something about it. But even if they were, the terrorists are still responsible for their actions. They could have chosen not to attack, but they didn't. This is the consequence. Gaza is still standing, despite how eager you and others are to see Israel raze it to dust.
What do frigging cooked babies atrocities matter in this context?
It means everything when the purpose of the conversation is to demonize Israel and ignore the motivation for their actions. It speaks to a level of barbarism far beyond what Israel would ever do, and again, despite how people on this forum want Israel to appear.
Imagine that instead of Arabs, Israel army bombed, say, the German city of Dresden, killing thousands of civillians because it's a neonazi hotspot where international refugee centers are attacked. Well all white people are the same. Fuck them, right?
Is Dresden harboring terrorists?? It makes a pretty big fucking difference.
Where the fuck did you hear that shit from?
Probably not, seeing as none of her babies were put in an oven and baked to death
Are you talking about the shit that the news tell to you or are you going to investigate by yourself what is happening with the apartheid state?
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