I’ll agree that it’s very complicated. But you also can’t frame it like Hezbollah are the good guys. There are no good guys here.
Israel has done some horrible shit, including shooting at kneecaps for fun, not just pushing Palestinians off their land, but then actually settling that land, and treating Palestinians as a lesser people in general. But that doesn’t just excuse constant shelling of Israel or the constant calls for genocide from either side. October 7th doesn’t excuse what Israel’s done in Gaza, and Gaza doesn’t excuse October 7th. This shit doesn’t just cancel out, like so many seem to want to believe.
** There is no good side in the middle east conflict. ** If you’re solely defending and excusing one because of the attacks of the other, you’re just as bad as they are. That’s the reason they’re in this mess; there’s enough people always looking for revenge for the last revenge.
It seems to me that the general internet consensus frames the losing side as the scrappy underdog that is justified in all their actions. Even if the people defending “the innocent” don’t believe that, guess how it’s going to be read by people in and near the conflict.
[UN] General Assembly resolution A/RES/38/17 (22/11/1983) stated that it “Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for their independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial domination, apartheid and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle”.
I and this baby I murdered with my bare hands are exactly moral equivalents to each other. I broke into this child’s house and murdered their entire family. That doesn’t justify them feebly striking me with their soft baby fists. Nor does that attack on me justify how I murdered this helpless child with an ice pick. There are no good guys here.
If you’re not condemning the helpless baby I murdered in terms as strong (or honestly more strong they are brown after all) terms as you condemn me, you’re exactly as evil as “the innocent” brown child I just watched choke on blood because I punctured their little baby lungs.
People always act like I’m the bad guy just because I murdered an entire family and stole their home, and just because I’m infinitely bigger and stronger than the little baby, and because the little baby can only put up a token resistance to me killing them and everyone related to them. Just because they’re the ‘underdog’?? They lost fair and square! It’s just so complicated! The baby kicked me in the crib with it’s little baby feet while I was getting ready to stab it with my ice pick and make it bleed to death! It’s a cycle of violence, not a genocide! I’m not a nazi! It’s complicated!
Oh, and completely intentionally attacking aid workers and literally starving Gaza is absolutely genocide. And I do wish the US would pull back on their support for Israel (outside of an attack from Iran or similar).
I’m absolutely fine with the US shooting down missiles from Iran. We don’t need to help Israel bomb Gaza. We absolutely could exert more control over Israel. But in the end, we don’t control Israel, and the US is largely not responsible for every action they take. I’m sure the US had absolutely no part in this pager scheme, even if I do think it’s a hell of a lot better than what Israel has done in Gaza.
If the social media consensus was the other way I’d be seen as attacking Israel. But let’s see these people defending Hezbollah say anything negative about them.
I’ll agree that it’s very complicated. But you also can’t frame it like Hezbollah are the good guys. There are no good guys here.
Israel has done some horrible shit, including shooting at kneecaps for fun, not just pushing Palestinians off their land, but then actually settling that land, and treating Palestinians as a lesser people in general. But that doesn’t just excuse constant shelling of Israel or the constant calls for genocide from either side. October 7th doesn’t excuse what Israel’s done in Gaza, and Gaza doesn’t excuse October 7th. This shit doesn’t just cancel out, like so many seem to want to believe.
** There is no good side in the middle east conflict. ** If you’re solely defending and excusing one because of the attacks of the other, you’re just as bad as they are. That’s the reason they’re in this mess; there’s enough people always looking for revenge for the last revenge.
It seems to me that the general internet consensus frames the losing side as the scrappy underdog that is justified in all their actions. Even if the people defending “the innocent” don’t believe that, guess how it’s going to be read by people in and near the conflict.
And to be 1000% clear: Israel deserved October 7; they deserve a thousand of them.
Yes it does. Just like every white person ever killed in a slave revolt. Just like every nazi killed in the Warsaw uprising.
And I count you among them.
Good luck with that, reporter: Palestinian right of armed resistance
most based moderator on the entire internet
I and this baby I murdered with my bare hands are exactly moral equivalents to each other. I broke into this child’s house and murdered their entire family. That doesn’t justify them feebly striking me with their soft baby fists. Nor does that attack on me justify how I murdered this helpless child with an ice pick. There are no good guys here.
If you’re not condemning the helpless baby I murdered in terms as strong (or honestly more strong they are brown after all) terms as you condemn me, you’re exactly as evil as “the innocent” brown child I just watched choke on blood because I punctured their little baby lungs.
People always act like I’m the bad guy just because I murdered an entire family and stole their home, and just because I’m infinitely bigger and stronger than the little baby, and because the little baby can only put up a token resistance to me killing them and everyone related to them. Just because they’re the ‘underdog’?? They lost fair and square! It’s just so complicated! The baby kicked me in the crib with it’s little baby feet while I was getting ready to stab it with my ice pick and make it bleed to death! It’s a cycle of violence, not a genocide! I’m not a nazi! It’s complicated!
Oh, and completely intentionally attacking aid workers and literally starving Gaza is absolutely genocide. And I do wish the US would pull back on their support for Israel (outside of an attack from Iran or similar).
I’m absolutely fine with the US shooting down missiles from Iran. We don’t need to help Israel bomb Gaza. We absolutely could exert more control over Israel. But in the end, we don’t control Israel, and the US is largely not responsible for every action they take. I’m sure the US had absolutely no part in this pager scheme, even if I do think it’s a hell of a lot better than what Israel has done in Gaza.
If the social media consensus was the other way I’d be seen as attacking Israel. But let’s see these people defending Hezbollah say anything negative about them.