This video is honestly heartbreaking. This old man couldn’t even get a piece of bread and the US is allowing this monstrous thing to happen to Gaza. Wtf.
My Jewish friends didn’t even want to defend this, they all didn’t want to defend Israel because of this. God bless that old man :(
You don’t get it, do you? I think ALL govenments are tyrannical and act like terrorists in the end. Violence is violence, and none of it is justified.
You think a government is going to just give up power, that it won’t take mass organization to challenge hegemonic powers and a new form of governance to deprogram the racist settler colonial ideology that is embedded into the Israeli populace? That’s incredibly unrealistic. What’s your plan to get there, then, and how does it help Palestinians?
Dogmatically denouncing all violence, when violence is the main tactic employed to enforce hegemony, is reactionary and counter productive. It only serves the status quo, to keep us where we are. It’s chauvinism.
I don’t have any plan, nor do I want to make one. I was merely making a point.
Then your point is a bad one. See my edit.
I wasn’t denouncing violence, I was denouncing bad men. There’s a difference. George Washington was just as much of a terrorist as Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yes you were???
Who is the “bad man” on the Hamas side that hasn’t already been martyred? If there is none, why do you denounce Gaza’s entire government but only one “bad man” when it comes to Israel? Is there any organization that would take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?
All of them are bad, because of their chauvinism.
So for Israel it’s just Netanyahu, but for the organized resistance against Israel, it’s the entire group? I don’t think you know what chauvinism really is, or why it’s bad. You also avoided my question:
Forgive me if I don’t believe you’re really motivated by being against governments or tyranny. If you’re not in favor of resistance, then what your argument essentially boils down to is “everyone does it, therefore it can’t be helped when the government I don’t want to criticize is doing it 100-fold with the help of powerful allies for the purpose of genocide, because that’s just what governments do”. The only thing it serves is soothing your conscience and lack of curiosity.
You care to comment, but you don’t care to learn anything that goes too hard against the state narrative. So you end up with shallow analysis and platitudes that reinforce the status quo, and you arrogantly assume that you or someone like you would know better than the people in the region who have spent their entire lives learning and resisting. This is in stark conflict with your supposed aversion to tyranny.
It is your responsibility to investigate before you speak. If I may, I would suggest you start here