Now We Have Your Attention
There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. The historic killing rate in this “conflict” has been fairly consistent at about 40:1.
None of this ever caused more than a raised eyebrow and a mild tut-tut from the western “liberal” Establishment. I can’t recall camera crews ever pursuing any zionist politicians down the street demanding that they use the word “condemn” of the latest Israeli atrocity.
The paroxysm of hatred in the political and media class, unleashed by a single day of the boot being on the other foot is instructive. It is particularly instructive in their near complete unanimity – what percentage of the discussion on broadcast TV or radio have you heard this last 48 hours given over to Palestinian or pro-Palestinian voices?
Yet it is very plain from social media that the public is by no means as unanimous in their support of Israel as are the political and media class.
But then the public are not bought and paid for.
Asymmetric warfare tends to be vile. Oppressed and colonised peoples don’t have the luxury of lining up soldiers in neatly pressed uniforms and polished boots, to face off against the opposing army in an equality of arms.
A colonised and oppressed people tends, given the chance, to mirror the atrocities perpetrated on them by their oppressor.
This of course feeds in, always, to the propaganda of the Imperialist. A paroxysm of resistance by the oppressed always ends up portrayed by the Imperialist as evidence of the bestiality of the colonised people and in itself justifying the “civilising mission” of the coloniser.
Thus the “Indian Mutiny” became a Victorian tale of rape and murder of British women and of the Black Hole of Calcutta. Thus the Mau Mau were evil butchers, and the IRA were terrorists, which is the modern term of art for those resisting evil and foreign rule.
The Israeli Ambassador to the UN yesterday described the Hamas fighters as “animal like”. This of course is not true. They are people, but people who have been crazed by unbearable levels of injustice and oppression.
I am extremely sorry for all those who die, as in all wars. I am sorry even for the deaths of individual Israeli soldiers, and more so for all the innocents who died and are now dying.
But I will not condemn Hamas.
For this I do not even need to delve into the backstory of Hamas’ initial sponsoring by Israel to split Fatah. They have grown well past that. I do not condemn Hamas because the resistance of the Palestinian people is a reflex response to their slow genocide.
Yes it is an inchoate and violent response. Of course I wish it did not have innocent victims.
The people I do condemn are the political class internationally who, with one voice, put out statements supporting “Israel’s right to self-defence”. A right they grant to the oppressor but deny to the oppressed.
Those are the people who need to be condemned.
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Many around the world continue to stand for Palestine:
JohnRawls wrote:What clown world do we live in when the leftists basically support an extreme religious organisation of the most vile and conservative type. At least I get the extreme rightists when they jerk of to the IRA because GUNs and RELIGION but left supporting Hamas? We live in a weird timeline. I mean any old school communist or socialist(Cold war) would consider Hamas prime Gulag material even if they were fighting the US. Which is basically what happened during the Cold War. A lot of regimes in the middle east just couldn't get any support from the USSR and USA because they were too weird even for USA/USSR proxy war standards.
Just because morons like you who are clearly brainwashed, or just, that racist to believe that the resistance in Palestine consists only of Hamas, is neither here or there. This thread itself began with the point of all resistance factions in Palestine joining forces, putting differences aside, to resist their decades-long oppresser...and naming themselves The Lion's Den. These factions include the Marxist-Leninist PFLP.
The news is all HAMAS HAMAS HAMAS because it might make sympathy for moronic Westerners more difficult to deny if the people resisting were simply called Palestinians. But those who've been paying attention to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians that began in the 1940s understand it is not just Hamas. In fact, Hamas was
spawned by the Israelis who preferred a religious org to counter the PLO, they've only been around for about 30 years while the genocide, ethnic-cleansing and brutal military occupation of Palestine has been around for much longer than Hamas.
Rancid wrote:Socialism makes anti-imperialism impossible.
Carrots wear pink die.
It seems we can all make nonsensical sentences up.
JohnRawls wrote:No clue. West Bank as I understand is mostly but not all controlled by FATAH and on paper they are secular, for negotiations and more peaceful than Gazas HAMAS.
The West Bank and East Jerusalem, which were what were meant to be Palestinian land, have been suffering a military occupation for over 5 decades, so it is Israel that controls all where Palestinians live, the Zionist boot has been on the Palestinian neck since European terrorist militias stole the country.
The Palestinian Authority is the face of the leadership in charge of the West Bank, but it is basically a sub-contractor for the Israeli government and military and lives under its dictates.
Gaza is a concentration camp of 2.3 million people that is controlled by Israel and blockaded from the world. Even that twat David Cameron referred to it honestly as "an open air prison". What we saw this weekend was a prisoner break-out.
And what did the Israelis expect after holding millions as prisoners for 16 years? A million children live amongst them.
And now the Zionists are doing what they've done a handful of times, carpet bombing the prison.
Saeko wrote:George Takei had this to say:
This guy thinks men can be women so his position on anything can be binned.
wat0n wrote:Also lol at @skinster getting wet over the massacre of Jews. Unsurprising, but shows her true colors.
Why do you keep calling them Jews when lots of Jews are with me in their defence of Palestinians and Palestine? Stop with your racism. I mean, I know you can't help that anyway since you support the ethnosupremacist state of Israel, but maybe try to be less obvious about it, if we're talking about "true colours".
Here's some of those Jews who defend Palestine's right to self-determination covering the prisoners' revolt:
As for my "true colours", I've made no secret about being in full support of the Palestinian people to live in freedom and dignity and away from the boot of the racist European settler-colony which has refused Palestinians peace since they stole their country.
Kudos for you trying the whole "yer racist!" thing though that Zionists still amusingly try. Gotta give you points for your effort
but you should know that that type of shite; accusing people like me as racists when you yourself are precisely that for supporting the apartheid colony just doesn't work. Do better!
This idea that Israel could continue to get away with its almost century-long and daily violence, murder with impunity, ongoing ethnic cleansing and lands and homes theft, was just, wishful thinking. People will resist sooner or later, I know I would if I was there and I bet you and everyone else who isn't a cuck would do the same if your lives were destroyed by Zionists the way Palestinians have been, with no end in sight. What we saw this weekend is unprecedented insofar as how Palestinians have resisted and it is one for the history books; they have decided that if they're going to die anyway, they might be able to get to pick how that happens.
Anyway...it looks like it might move towards a wider war if Hezbollah and Turkey get involved. The Iraqis and Yemenis have been talking about joining the fight too.. Saudis have (correctly) blamed the Israelis for what's happening. The only state in the region that has shown some support for the Zionist entity is the UAE, but otherwise, the Zionists are very lonely in the region.
Free Palestine.