• dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If nothing else, this terrible unnecessary war has shown the West’s cognitive dissonance.

    Hardcore right wing people generally hate Jewish people, unless the Jewish people are fighting Muslim people, then it’s “Jewish people have the right to self-determination!”

    People on the left generally do not hate any specific ethnic group, however, we have a long history of criticizing Israel for their apartheid. Being met with the furor of everyone else calling us anti-semites is nothing new, but never has it come so forcefully from so many people all at once.

    Moderates in the center aren’t speaking out at all for fear of being called anti-semitic, maintaining international relations with a nuclear power, and secretly hoping that this takes attention away from the climate crisis so we can keep going business as usual in favor of the ruling class.

    More important than the cognitive dissonance though, is the fact that everyone in the West believes their opinion is the best and will solve everything.

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          Shout out to France and Germany, who casually banned peaceful demonstrations as if that’s a normal thing to do in a democracy.

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            11 months ago

            They banned groups giving out candy as a celebration of the Hamas attacks and kidnappings of Israelis and groups that openly support terrorist organisations like Hamas. Are you opposed to that? How do you think Germany should react to a group that’s openly anti-semitic?

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      Mariam went to visit her family in Gaza before Saturday’s surprise attack on Israel by Hamas.

      How dare she go visit her family.

      Didn’t they know not to be born as victims of Israeli crimes‽

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        11 months ago

        Gaza is in the grip of terrorists who abuse population as their shield and keep drawing fire on them. As long as they are in power and the population is unable to get rid of them this is not a place for a child to go and visit relatives. Who allowed that to happen?

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          If Israel found an attack from Hamas at this point as hard to imagine as they claim to, why in the world would we expect civilians to be better informed.

          Some people, obviously mistakenly, believed Hamas to have cooled down a little bit and to be genuinely interested in making the lives of civilians a little bit easier. The terrorist attacks of course illustrated forcefully that this was not the case, but it’s hard to blame civilians for being surprised by this when Mossad apparently had no way of seeing it coming either.

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            11 months ago

            It is not some new development that Hamas is a terrorist group that hides behind the population. It is also not new that they are not about to leave Gaza voluntarily so they will have to be forcefully removed at some point by someone. If you managed to get out of Gaza it is a grave mistake to go back there for a vacation. As long as it is a hideout for terrorists it will be a target of their victims.

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              Lol. You’re new to the conflict in the area?

              People that lose everything get radicalized and even if you manage to remove every single Hamas member from Gaza you’ll be back to the same situation in no time.

              There needs to be an international peace force in the area and both sides need to revisit if this stupid war is worth fighting.

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                11 months ago

                People that lose everything get radicalized

                If you think that’s a good excuse for violence, why doesn’t the same excuse apply for Israel and why it exists?

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    11 months ago

    and the voice of a british girl (i have nothing against her) seems to worth more than the victims. strange that you need a crying girl to measure a disaster when the victims are not white.

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        She’s British Palestinian, it makes sense that a British citizen strikes a chord with the British media.

        No it is not. I have litterally zero relation with the middle east, arabs and co but I am disgusted deep to my guts by this fucking genocide that we, moreover, are imposed to support!

        There’s not better demonstration of racism and nastiest