• IlovePizza@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “Let them kill each other off” is a cold way to talk about a conflict where one side is a nuclear-armed state backed by the West, and the other is a stateless people under occupation. This isn’t a fair fight—it’s a military superpower bombing refugee camps, hospitals, and UN schools while starving 2 million civilians.

    You claim Palestinians would “chop heads off” Americans, but the U.S. has armed Israel for decades while it bulldozes homes, steals land, and locks millions in an open-air prison. If Palestinians hate American policy, can you blame them? Meanwhile, Israel gets billions in U.S. weapons while its politicians call for the “flattening of Gaza.” Who’s really the ally here?

    Yes, Hamas is brutal—but they didn’t appear out of nowhere. Decades of occupation, blockade, and apartheid radicalized people. That doesn’t justify Oct. 7, but ignoring the context is dishonest. Collective punishment—starving kids, bombing families—only creates more extremism.

    And spare me the Holocaust guilt-tripping. Using Jewish suffering to justify Palestinian suffering is grotesque. Many Holocaust survivors, like those in Jewish Voice for Peace, opposed Zionism. Israel’s government includes far-right ministers who praise settlers burning Palestinian villages—are they “defending Jews” or fueling genocide?

    The West props up Israel while pretending to care about “human rights.” If you’ve really been to the region, you’d know: this isn’t about “rooting for Jews or Arabs.” It’s about ending occupation, apartheid, and Western hypocrisy.

    • Hellsfire29@lemmy.world
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      When I said “let them kill each other off”, it was brutal. I know I went too far with that statement.

      But I agree with the occupation, and western hypocrisy. It’s sad to see , and it brings out the worst in humanity. Sometimes I think it’s just better to start over.

      I am aware that Israel has been moving against the Palestinian population for a while, and that created a vacuum, similar to Afghanistan and Iraq. Oct 7th attack may have been an offensive maneuver to thwart further Israeli attacks, but all it did was made it worse. Now Netanyahu is going to “exterminate all of the animals”.

      Either there needs to be intervention, by the west who usually causes such vacuums, or Israel will succeed. Cause if any other nation wages war on Israel, that’s going to be a problem too.

      We all live* on the same planet. Only habitable planet for light years. I’ve seen war and it’s not worth the price.

      Sometimes I just think our destruction is inevitable.