Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing
Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing

Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing

Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing
Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing
People who condemn Hamas need to reconcile with this:
Those people were once children who were traumatized by occupation. Maybe they saw their parents die. Maybe they saw their siblings die. Maybe it was their uncle or their best friends. Maybe they were buried under rubble for days and barely survived. Maybe they were shot at. Maybe they saw their homes destroyed.
And then they had to just keep living under occupation. Go through checkpoints, live in cramped conditions, ration their own food, and know that their life expectancy is 40.
Those are the people who attacked Israel. Can you even imagine the pain and terror and hate they must feel? Little traumas and humiliations every day of their lives, only differentiated by spikes of severe trauma when the IDF mows the lawn.
I'd have killed myself. These people are incredible for hanging on despite everything. How dare you judge them?
We create the next villains so we can sell more weapons! long $RTX
It's still fair to judge Hamas. Israel's response is 100% predictable and there's a good argument that the innocent people getting killed are because of Hama's actions. The attack on Israel achieved absolutely nothing for Gaza but total destruction and death for Palestinians. They knew this but didn't care.
I get where you're coming from but they've made their entire situation significantly worse for no gain other than over a thousand dead Israelis.
I honestly have no idea what the answer is for the people of Palestine but randomly murdering Israeli civilians when you know they're going to go fucking apeshit in response is plain stupid.
This attack might see Netanyahu ousted from the government, has completely collapsed the normalization process with the rest of the Arab States that was close to completion, and has proven that Israel's infamous defenses are not impenetrable and the settlers are not safe.
Read Wretched of the Earth by Fanon.
Settlers aren't civilians, and IDF veterans and reservists certainly aren't civilians.
Honestly, while I understand where your idealism is coming from I just find it extremely frustrating. You have no alternative, you have no solution, but you sneer down your nose at the actually existing struggle for liberation because it's too ugly and mean for your tastes.
Read history. Every struggle against settler-colonialism has been fought by people condemned as terrorists.
Historically, settler-colonial occupations are usually resolved with violence. Either resolved by the colonized people rising up against their oppressors... or the settlers genociding all of the occupied people until there's nothing but a few reservations of them left.
And, honestly, I think we have at most a decade before WW3 resets the entire board anyway so...
Likud's not very interested in resolving it nonviolently. Palestinians can't resolve the conflict peacefully in a unilateral manner.
So committing war crimes is the answer?
Both sides are terrorists, flat-out.
Yes both the USA and Israel agree terrorist states.
war crimes my ass, that only applies to the ebil terrorist people, while israel gets a slap on the wrist for committing a fucking holocaust
If she didn't struggle and scream he wouldn't hit her as hard. Is that what you think?
Don't forget a strong dose of propaganda and radicalisation towards violence, along with training in Iran. This wasn't exactly an emotional outburst from people pushed to the brink, it was a heavily coordinated strike planned months in advance.
This actually makes it all the more horrible, because it's quite clear from the outside that the strike would not achieve any of their objectives for the Palestinian people. It begs the question: who wanted this to happen, who encouraged them?
You say the strike would not achieve any of their objectives, but I challenge you to name a single alternative that would.
Hasn't the strike literally achieved their objectives? Everyone's talking about them (instead of Ukraine), the Arab world is uniting behind them, and the West is progressively alienating their friends in the Global South.
If Israel had just let things lie, the status quo would have continued and Israel could have kept encroaching on the West Bank and slowly suffocating the Gaza Strip with their blockade. Instead, people are literally turning their backs on the US at the UN, there are massive protests around the world, and the Palestinian struggle is now front and center.
The only way Israel can pull a victory out of this complete and categorical defeat is by annexing the Gaza Strip.