don’t rape, don’t carry out terrorism on innocent civilians
The right way was using the internet and global attention, which Palestine was doing, raising awareness of how they are suffering and gaining sympathy for it. They should’ve adopted more Western ideals, or maybe liberalism, encourage foreigners to come and stay. The West Bank and Gaza near Rafah were also doing decently well in terms of growth, labelling itself as a trendy tourist destination.
Unfortunately, Hamas decided that raping women and killing innocent civilians was a better method of resistance, even going so far as to film themselves carrying out the massacre and taking hostages – Which incurred the Israeli military and ended up with Gaza being turned to rubble. Sure, people are much more aware of Palestine now, but only the most radical of “progressives” think Israel can be defeated and that Palestine can do no wrong. These people are vocal minorities and hold no power.
The whole relationship between Israel and the US isn’t as buddy-buddy as people think it is. Israel previously attacked US forces and regularly threatens US personnel. No clue what goes on behind the scenes, but clearly Israel has something major on the US, or the US sees Israel as a base for Middle-East operations and considers the chaos that comes with it as a necessary sacrifice. Or maybe it’s both, or maybe it’s neither.
I’d say rather than Western ideals, they should support the human rights some Western ideals are based on. My biggest contentions with Islamist regimes are women’s and queer rights. Sure acceptance of queer people is a long road for such societies, but you can make sure that the government doesn’t persecute them and that the government even enforces non-discrimination regulations.
You don’t see why saying this about Gaza is patently absurd? They don’t have a functioning government. The whole place is nothing but rubble and families trying to find the bodies of their loved ones buried underneath that rubble. They’ve been subjected to 2 years of constant aerial bombardment, as if the previous decades of occupation, no access to clean water or any economic contact with the rest of the world wasn’t bad enough. It just strikes me as something one can only say if they don’t know anything about the situation at hand, and they only know that Gaza is a city and Palestine is a country.
Like seriously, they live in a concentration camp. Would you say anything like this about the inmates of Auschwitz? Oh no, some of them are misogynists! Oh no, some of them have backwards social views on queer people! Can you do something about the gas chambers first before you deal with those topics, though?
Gaza doesn’t have a functioning government, no. That’s one of the reasons why I hate Hamas, since they had time and resources to establish a functioning government and present themselves as such, but they actively refused to do so, instead seeking out militarism and oppression.
And yes, you can argue Israel was influencing Hamas, which in my opinion is even more reason why you shouldn’t be in support of them.
I’m also curious. Why do you think some parts of Gaza, before the recent conflict, had no supply of clean water? As you know, Israel, when it occupied Gaza, built extensive infrastructure since they planned on colonisation until the international community booted them out. So what happened to the water pipes? Israel couldn’t remove them per stipulation, so where did they go?
When universal human rights are denounced as “Western liberal ideals”, we know that you have no interest in an actual debate.
Those were Goat’s words. Goat said the following:
I’d say rather than Western ideals, they should support the human rights some Western ideals are based on. My biggest contentions with Islamist regimes are women’s and queer rights. Sure acceptance of queer people is a long road for such societies, but you can make sure that the government doesn’t persecute them and that the government even enforces non-discrimination regulations.
I considered saying human rights, but Israel doesn’t give a shit about those and seemingly no other power does either.
You don’t see why saying this about Gaza is patently absurd? They don’t have a functioning government. The whole place is nothing but rubble and families trying to find the bodies of their loved ones buried underneath that rubble. They’ve been subjected to 2 years of constant aerial bombardment, as if the previous decades of occupation, no access to clean water or any economic contact with the rest of the world wasn’t bad enough. It just strikes me as something one can only say if they don’t know anything about the situation at hand, and they only know that Gaza is a city and Palestine is a country.
Like seriously, they live in a concentration camp. Would you say anything like this about the inmates of Auschwitz? Oh no, some of them are misogynists! Oh no, some of them have backwards social views on queer people! Can you do something about the gas chambers first before you deal with those topics, though?
Gaza doesn’t have a functioning government, no. That’s one of the reasons why I hate Hamas, since they had time and resources to establish a functioning government and present themselves as such, but they actively refused to do so, instead seeking out militarism and oppression.
And yes, you can argue Israel was influencing Hamas, which in my opinion is even more reason why you shouldn’t be in support of them.
I’m also curious. Why do you think some parts of Gaza, before the recent conflict, had no supply of clean water? As you know, Israel, when it occupied Gaza, built extensive infrastructure since they planned on colonisation until the international community booted them out. So what happened to the water pipes? Israel couldn’t remove them per stipulation, so where did they go?
You can reply with your main alt, I won’t ban it.