#And Netanyahu is a fascist

[kat2107]

I've seen some posts recently and I feel it's necessary to say this again, as someone who has been following, protesting and agonizing over this for more than 20 years:

Supporting Israel's right to exist and supporting Israeli's rights to not be raped, murdered, tied to their children and being burned alive is NOT the same as supporting Netanyahu's fascists government.

Yes. These things happened. I have friends who were direct victims and luckily survived along with their 10-month-old.

These things have been happening for a long time.

BUT

Supporting Palestinian rights to not be incarcerated in a ghetto, being carpet bombed, to not be the victims of ethnic cleansing, to not have their children shot for being angry is NOT the same as supporting Hamas either.

And yes, these things happen, and they have been happening for a long time, according to my Palestinian friend, whose family is just trapped in Gaza.

Hamas and Netanyahu are cut from the same cloth. They need each other and there are good indication that they support each other to a certain point.

Read up on how both Hamas and Netanyahu came into power, who their supporters are. Who is against them.

I still remember a time when there was hope. When there seemed to be a realistic chance of peace, stability and freedom.

We do not hear much about the thousand upon thousands who protested Netanyahu in the last years because the western press shies away from anything even remotely criticizing Israel. We don't hear about those who oppose Hamas at all, because they have been killed long ago, or struggle too much to have the energy to protest.

The leader of Hamas lives in a plush apartment in Qatar. He said it was a good thing that Palestinian women and children died (because marketing, ya know).

A state is never just the ones whose faces you know.

It's the children, the people who just want to live.

And the moment, you deny them that right, you are wrong. No matter how just your cause.

Israel and Palestine are its children, too, and they DESERVE that support. Every support they can possibly get.

There is an orchestrated social media campaign going on at the moment, headed by Russia (surprise), to make Hamas look like the fighters for freedom and happiness that they definitely aren't. But the US having to help Israel diverts their attention from Ukraine, so fuck that.

You need to get your own history, you need to look at this with a neutral gaze, beyond the videos you see online, beyond the pictures and the things you get told. Do not believe the things you get told.

Go back 30 years. Read up on PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Yitzak Rabin (who btw. pushed through LGBT equality in the Israeli army, just as an aside) Read up on who murdered whom and how that led us to the situation today. (Look especially at what Netanyahu said about the Jewish religious fanatics that murdered Rabin)

Find out who the bad actors are in this and who really are the victims. You will realize very quickly that support for Israel or Gaza and Palestine is not the clear cut black and white issue it's made out to be.

And then ask yourselves if your really, REALLY want to be someone who is ok with the death and displacement of millions of civilians.

And how you can help the victims better in this.

Because no matter how just your cause, if that's the case, you are on the wrong side.

[nando161mando]

The context is late stage capitalism

[originalleftist]

Israeli police detainee hostages' relatives, bar them from attending anti-government protests.

It was never about the hostages for Bibi. It's always been about his own power, just like everything else.

[notaconservative]

I'm pretty sure every pro-biden blogger on here is an AIPAC/idf/israeli sponsored bot who just wants to make sure we don't elect someone who will stop genocide. What could bots designed for that purpose say that would be any more effective or different than what these people are saying?

[sybbi]

"If enough of us vote third party for president, we could actually GET somewhere with our policy goals!"

Baby girl you can't even get a majority of third party/independents in a single state legislature. In the past 30 years there have been seven independent/third party state governors, and of those, only three were genuinely independent. The rest either got elected as a R/D and switched mid-term when they alienated themselves from their state party, got elected as I and then switched to R/D during their terms (with some of them having served the R/D parties before), or served as proxy candidates with heavy backing and support from one of the major two parties. Even VERMONT, a relative stronghold for independent/third party candidates -- the place that brought you Bernie Sanders -- doesn't have a majority of third party candidates. And when I call them a stronghold, I mean they are the only state (I know of) that consistently elects (less than a handful of) Independent candidates to the state legislature; the place is still dominated by Ds and Rs.

"The highest power in the land can't actually be voted on so there's no reason to vote for the democrats"

Hey princess here are some high school civics question for you: How are Supreme Court judges nominated? :) By what process are they appointed? Who starts that process? :) Why is the Supreme Court considered reflective of who has won the presidency? :)

[thebonesofhoudini]

Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to burn in hell for all eternity. 🔥

[obikonans]

There’s so much to criticize the german government the isr*el dickriding but also handling of the russo ukrainian war and I’m not talking about the early weeks of the war I’m talking about promising Russian and Ukrai

nian deserters and conscientious objectors to be save here just to even think about sending back or not accepting them

Like 2022 the most emigrated were Ukrainians, and in 2023, Russian Federation was on 7th place on the list of nations where people emigrated to germany(is that how to word it)

And if I would talk about the government handling of Gaza this would get really long

[engagemythrusters]

the fact that you cant criticise a country or military without being penalised for it is... hm. how you say. quite fascist.

[breawycker]

The fact that war criminal Netanyahu was allowed to speak in front of Congress is proof that the US is a state sponsor of terrorism

[nando161mando]

What Ziofascists mean when they call enemies of Israeli settler colonialism "antisemites"

[alanshemper]

“I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area west of Jordan - and this is contrary to a Palestinian state.”

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

now shut the fuck up about a 'two state solution'

[notaconservative]

The context of my comment was: how do we stop the genocide if biden gets reelected, assassination? Because boycotts, protests, etc haven't been doing it. Reporting me to the FBI for wanting genocide to stop is... quite fascist. But remember, love always wins! Sometimes you just have to shut up and take it while love murders brown kids in your name. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@giggling-general

[agentfascinateur]

... the Israeli occupation forces have killed 364 health personnel since 7 October.

- Palestinian ministry of health

[freddyfreeman]

I don’t think I understood how truly evil the US is until just this month. My mom is a hardcore liberal democrat, and my dad fully assimilated. Even now, my mom defends Biden… I don’t believe there is any coming back from this.

[shadow13dickpistons]

Why Israel’s attack on Iranian consulate in Syria was a gamechanger | Israel | The Guardian

Good Lord, is Benjamin Netanyahu trying to get everyone killed?