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timeisacephalopod · 1 year ago

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Admittedly I don't know much about the Israel Palestine war but I keep seeing news articles that refer to it as the Israel Hamas war and no it is not. After all Israel has done it gets to be referred to by it's country name and not "terrorists who kill babies and children at the speed of light" but Palestine gets reduced to Hamas?

It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the struggle of the Palestinian people keeps getting reduced to the existence of Hamas, but at no point does the ongoing state violence of Israel define its existence when by all means it should when my understanding is that the creation of Israel was stealing land from Palestinians. Why is Israel's violence ignored while Palestine is defined by the admittedly shit group that only arose out of decades of occupation and imperialism? Those two things are not the same and ignoring Israel's violence to act like Hamas came from nowhere just to hurt the poor Israeli government who acts like they've done nothing wrong is ridiculous to me.

#winters ramblings #a Palestinian coworker gave me some emails to send off things to so ill be doing that later #but like it just BUGS me when people will over focus on the REACTION to state violence and never ONCE bring up state violence #AS violence at all. also what israel is doing reminds me a LOOOOOT of what canada has done to your indigenous populations #so yes hamas suck ive seen some shit but heres the deal. im not as concerned about how much HAMAS sucks #when the EXISTENCE of hanas is the result if DECADES of ISRAEL'S state violence. what were Palestinians meant to DO??#just allow their homes to be stolen their people to be killed and their resources extracted with NO fighting back ever??!?#i dont feel the need to focus on how shitty Hamas is when this reactionary group wouldnt exist without the extreme violence #from israel that RESULTED in a deeply problematic group fighting back against them #you CANNOT step on the necks of a whole nation of people and expect them to do NOTHING #and when what they do is deeply flawed and often hurtful am i supposed to just IGNORE everything that led up to Hamas #by pretending state violence isnt NEARLY as bad as traumatized people fighting back against their oppressors??#like NO- state violence should be FRONT AND CENTER LOOOONG before any reactionary response to that violence #which if you ask me may be a deeply flawed and problematic response but im not expecting the people of an occupied nation #to be giving their best political performance and acting like we SHOULD just SMACKS of respectability politics #shut the FUCK up about Hamas and LOOK at what israel has DONE to the Palestinian people and FREE PALESTINE DAMNIT

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