• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    I am getting really tired of people questioning our motives for why we consider directly facilitating a genocide against Palestinians with US made weapons, by highly trained military personnel who not only our military has trained with, but many of the US’s largest police departments have trained with, conducting the mass killing. I don’t claim to be perfect, I especially don’t claim to be knowledgeable about every humanitarian crisis unfolding right now that isn’t getting enough attention, but I don’t understand why any of that establishes permission to ignore the humanity of the Palestinian people.

    We are against genocide of the Palestinians because we are against genocide, especially when its done with the taxes paid by the citizens of our country in such a direct fashion that the president of the United States has a unique unilateral capacity to stop because of Israel’s reliance on not only literal U.S. arms and supplies but also diplomatic and monetary support. No other state in the world is more dependent upon the choices of where US defense money goes and where it doesn’t and yet… Biden seems to be behaving like this is some obscure remote conflict that he barely has any say over allllll the way over in the far off middle east

    (also if you aren’t from the U.S. but Britain or France or some other colonial power, same difference, insert your own countries politics here).